Noir '47 Montgomery stars as a mysterious drifter who arrives in a New Mexico border town, seemingly intent on blackmailing a local gangster. Amidst the dizzying carnival backdrop, Wanda Hendrix appears as a mystical young woman who tries to redeem our hero.

The Story of Film Thai filmmaker Weeresethakul’s eighth feature film is the story of Jenjira (Jenjira Pongpas), a volunteer nurse at a temporary clinic set up in an abandoned school.

Dryden University A director of photography on more than fifty films, Kirsten Johnson has been around the world and interacted with people from Bosnian shepherds to Nigerian midwives to Jacques Derrida. In Cameraperson, Johnson takes footage from many of her previous projects to form something between a documentary, an autobiography, and an ethical inquiry.

Silent Tuesdays This early comedy features Louise Brooks and Evelyn Brent as the dueling Walsh sisters: Brent’s Mame is bookish and considerate, while Brooks’s Janie is a heartbreaking flapper whose morals extend so low as to snag her sister’s betrothed.

Make Mine Musicals This war-time musical romance teams Rita Hayworth and Paul Bowman as a showgirl and RAF pilot, respectively. Framed by the story of a journalist arriving in London to recount the legend of the Music Box Theatre, which never missed a performance during World War II, the film follows American songstress Rosalind Bruce (Hayworth) and her interaction with the troupe.

The Story of Film Scarlett Johansson plays a mysterious figure trolling the streets of Glasgow, seducing men and bringing them back to an abandoned house for her own purposes. This masterpiece of existential science fiction journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial—or something in between.

The Story of Film Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first shuttle mission orbiting the earth. While on a routine space walk, she and Commander Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) are stranded in their space suits when debris from a Russian satellite explosion impacts their shuttle and the space station

Dryden University Tampopo is a mouth-watering, oddball comedy about the similarities between sex and eating. What little plot there is centers on two truckdrivers who reveal to Tampopo, the mousy proprietress of a rundown noodle shop, the secrets behind making and serving the best noodles.

MEMBER MOVIE NIGHT | Silent Tuesdays Ingeborg Holm is an excellent example of the social realist movement in Sweden at the time. Sven Holm (Aron Lindgren) opens a grocery store and life is good for his wife, Ingeborg (Hilda Borgström) and their three children. But when Sven becomes sick and dies, Ingeborg tries to keep the store herself.

The Story of Film One of the best comedies of the last decade, Booksmart recounts a single night in the lives of best friends Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) during their last week of high school.

Silent Tuesdays At the outbreak of the Civil War, Milt Shanks (Barrymore), a farmer in a small Illinois town, is requested by President Lincoln to infiltrate the Copperheads, a secret organization in sympathy with the South, in order to dismantle them from within.

Silent Tuesdays Charley Chase, often overlooked in comparison to other silent comedians, was an extremely successful and productive actor and director in his own right, appearing in more than 150 silent shorts and directing another 125 or so.

The Story of Film The title refers to a speech military dictator Ion Antonescu gave at the council of ministers in the summer of 1941. In the film, a young director (Ioana Iacob) is asked to stage a public performance relating to Romanian history. When she chooses to re-enact the massacre of thousands of Jews at the hands of the Romanian military, she encounters resistance from the current government.

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Silent Tuesdays Our silent film series always ends with an early sound film to demonstrate the changes in the industry. Here, Helen Morgan plays Kitty Darling, a burlesque star with dreams of Broadway.

Member Movie Night | Noir ‘47 | Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Nominated for Best Picture of the year, this Edward Dmytryk film is the apex of the best year of film noir. Fronted by three “Bobs” - Roberts Mitchum, Ryan, and Young - it is the story of a murder among post-war servicemen.

Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Gregory Peck stars as Philip Green, a journalist transplanted from California to New York assigned a series for his new magazine on the subject of anti-Semitism. He struggles with how to approach the topic until he decides to pass himself off as Jewish.

Noir ‘47: The Year Darkness Came to Light Ronald Colman won an Oscar for his portrayal of a stage actor who can no longer differentiate between the real and the theatrical.

The Story of Film The fourth entry in director George Miller’s Mad Max saga made a huge splash upon its release, receiving ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and garnering fans around the world.

Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Nominated for five Academy Awards and often referenced as the greatest adaptation of a Dickens novel, Great Expectations is the first of two David Lean would respectfully adapt.