Same Old Story: Beauty and the Beast Noted playwright, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau brings his eclectic vision to the screen in this adaptation of the famed children's fable.

Movies That Make No Sense: The Cinema of Seijun Suzuki Goro Hanada (Joe Shishido), the third-ranked assassin in Japan, lands in Tokyo with his wife, Mami (Mariko Ogawa). Dodging ambushes on his way to the job he was hired for, he manages to dispatch the fourth-ranked assassin along with many others.

70 Years of Cinemascope | Marilyn in Technicolor Originally heralded the “Most Glamorous Entertainment of Your Lifetime,” this comedy set in midtown Manhattan was the first film completed in CinemaScope, but became the second released.

Same Old Story: Beauty and the Beast Perhaps the most famous film released by Walt Disney Pictures, this is the one that started it all - the music, the merchandise, the Broadway show. Songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman fill this animated version of the classic fairy tale that bridges the eras of hand-drawn animation and computer-generated graphics.

Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Based on Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel, which itself was based on direct reporting of the real-life violent slaughter of a well-to-do Kansas family for the sum of $40, this film was shot in a stark black and white that underscores the dispassion of the killers.

Music and the Movies | 70 Years of Cinemascope | Marilyn in Technicolor Nineteen Irving Berlin songs form the backdrop for this pre-war showbiz musical. Entertainment family The Five Donahues (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O’Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, and pop sensation Johnnie Ray) grow up on stage, performing across the country, until the children become old enough to attend boarding school.

Movies That Make No Sense: The Cinema of Seijun Suzuki In Satan’s Town, notorious murderer Ôba (Ichirô Sugai) breaks out of prison. His right-hand man, Hayasaki (Seizaburô Kawazu), attempts to earn some money for their escape to Hong Kong, but Ôba wants to take revenge on the policeman that arrested him first.

Same Old Story: Beauty and the Beast From celebrated Academy Award-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda comes a fantastical, heartfelt story of growing up in the age of social media.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Al Pacino may have won the Academy Award for his performance as Frank Slade, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, retired, but this was the film where most people took notice of Philip Seymour Hoffman for the first time.

Movies That Make No Sense: The Cinema of Seijun Suzuki Garish colors, a pulsating jazz score, Guys and Dolls sets, and a Western-style saloon brawl are mingled with an eccentric knack for abstraction.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Penetrating the mood of the disco era, P. T. Anderson’s breakout film follows Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) from his days as a petulant young dishwasher to an intrepid porn superstar in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, to his fall to rock bottom in the 1980s.

Hollywood Pairings As Nicholas Collini (Desi Arnaz) takes a new job as a civil engineer, his new bride Tacy (Lucille Ball) comes up with an idea to buy a trailer to travel around the United States to various work projects on which Nicky is employed, as well as to save money.

70 Years of Cinemascope | Marilyn in Technicolor Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this rugged western outdoor adventure/love story. Mitchum plays Matt Calder, just released from prison for defending a friend, in search of the son he left behind. He finds him in a mining tent city, where he has been left in the care of Kay (Monroe), an ambitious saloon singer.

Movies That Make No Sense: The Cinema of Seijun Suzuki The decidedly unsentimental education of a provincial factory worker, whose rape by two fellow villagers starts her on the road to sexual awareness and, finally, independence.

Breaking Barriers: The Films of Sidney Poitier Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee), a black preacher in apartheid South Africa, travels to Johannesburg to help his son, who is accused of murdering a white man. With the assistance of a clergyman (Sidney Poitier), Kumalo seeks to heal the wounds afflicting his family and the family of the murdered man.

Hollywood Pairings William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy comes to life in the first sound adaptation of any of his plays. In sixteenth century Padua, Baptista (Edwin Maxwell) has two daughters: Bianca (Dorothy Jordan) and Katherine (Mary Pickford). Bianca is in love with Hortensio (Geoffrey Wardwell), but Baptista will not allow the two to get married until Katherine is betrothed.