Dryden Roundtable The presence of music in the cinema-going experience has been integral from the beginning, but it can often be overlooked when we are talking about film.

The Legacy of Cinemascope The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of a corporation thrown into chaos when an unknown employee begins to dredge up its ugly secrets.

The Legacy of Cinemascope | Sight & Sound Club Adapted by director Jean-Luc Godard from Alberto Moravia's novel, A Ghost at Noon, Contempt follows the collapse of a marriage amid the pitfalls of international moviemaking.

The Art of Music in the Movies

Not Cinemascope Based on the best-selling 1947 novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. — though the opening credits misname him “Ross Rockridge, Jr.” — Edward Dmytryk’s sweeping epic follows the trials and tribulations of a feisty Civil War-era Southern belle (Elizabeth Taylor) who ensnares Montgomery Clift by claiming she’s pregnant.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Ordinarily the tribulations of a pair of embattled siblings (Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman) faced with caring for their ailing, estranged father (Philip Bosco) is hardly the stuff of comedy. In the hands of writer-director Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills), however, their plight becomes a funny, deeply touching exploration of responsibility, guilt, and forgiveness.

The Legacy of Cinemascope How does one capture art, and the creation of art, with another art form? Henri-Georges Clouzot, director of Diabolique and The Wages of Fear, attempted to do so when he turned his camera in the direction of Pablo Picasso and created a classic romanticized portrait of the artistic process.

Music Mockumentaries A blueprint for musical films and music videos to follow, Richard Lester’s energetic slapstick musical set to hits like “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “I Should Have Known Better,” has the Fab Four as themselves, running and stumbling through a rambunctious world where they must get to London to perform on a TV show.

Special Event! Kenneth Branagh’s approach to William Shakespeare’s plays has always been a hybrid of styles - honoring the past while bringing a twentieth century method approach to the dialogue. A precocious twenty-seven while filming his first adaptation, he brought his approach to Henry V to the big screen.

Not Cinemascope The adaptation of the Broadway musical classic, an update of Romeo and Juliet, earned10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the two lovers who cross battle lines has captivated audiences for six decades.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Colette provide the voices for the title characters in the first feature film by Oscar-winning stop-motion animator Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet).

The Legacy of Cinemascope A disturbing exercise in psychological horror, as told from the point of view of a repressed English governess (Deborah Kerr) whose young charges may or may not be possessed by sinister spirits inhabiting their stately country home.

The Art of Music in the Movies Not long after reinvigorating the space opera and the adventure serial with screenplays for Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, writer-director Lawrence Kasdan did the same thing with the western.

The Legacy of Cinemascope This New Wave triumph tells the tale of two good friends, one French, Jim (Henri Serre), the other Austrian, Jules (Oskar Werner), their shared love for one woman, Jeanne Moreau, and what time and the Great War does to their relationship.

Sight & Sound Club Powell and Pressburger’s magical images are on full display in this film as David Niven plays an RAF pilot who, just after meeting the girl of his dreams (Kim Hunter), is killed in action. He then finds himself before a court in Heaven where he must plead his case in order to be returned to Earth.

The Art of Music in the Movies One of the finest westerns ever produced, Zinneman’s taut film plays out in real time. Will Kane (Gary Cooper) has just been married and is on the verge of resigning his position as marshal when he is told that Frank Miller, whom he sent to prison five years earlier, has received a pardon and is arriving on the noon train.

Make Mine Musicals | Member Movie Night A fictionalized biography of the famed fabelist, Danny Kaye stars as Hans Christian Andersen, whose career starts out on a sour note. Accused of being a distraction for schoolchildren who love his stories, Hans is banished from his hometown and travels to Copenhagen to find work as a cobbler.

Director in Person! | Dryden University Director and animator Emily Hubley will be in person to introduce her film The Toe Tactic. Starring Lily Rabe, the film follows the misadventures of a young woman who reconciles the grief for her dead father with her fundamental love of the world.

Dryden University His final feature film before his arrest in 2010, director Jafar Panahi turned his lens to the issue of soccer matches in Iran.