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Everybody's Sweetheart - 35mm Preservation Print
A Tribute to Robert Gottlieb Everybody’s Sweetheart represents the final film appearance of “baby vamp” Olive Thomas after a very short career, a marriage to Jack Pickford, and a mysterious death in Paris. After starring as The Flapper earlier in the year, Thomas takes on a rural role here.
Notorious - 35mm print
Hitchcock 125 In one of Hitchcock’s crowning achievements, the master of suspense utilizes all of his technical and storytelling acumen in the realization of this gripping thriller. A young woman (Ingrid Bergman) is recruited by the government to spy on a group of Nazis, while her contact (Cary Grant) must put duty before love to save her life.
The Miracle Worker - 35mm Print
Crashing into the ‘60s Few changes were made from William Gibson's play on blind, deaf Helen Keller (Patty Duke) and her remarkable teacher, Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft). Yet director Arthur Penn's interpretation is a high point in cinematic style, using framing to indicate the relationship of the characters in that moment, and often circling the two of them as if a cinematic referee.
The Unknown - World Premiere - 35mm Preservation!
World Premiere Lon Chaney stars as circus sideshow act Alonzo the Armless, who performs all of life’s functions with his feet, including throwing knives at willing beauty Nanon (Joan Crawford), who is the daughter of the circus owner. Nanon is disgusted at the touch of a man, so she befriends Alonzo, who poses no such threat. Alonzo pines for Nanon, but must compete with circus strong man Malabar (Norman Kerry), who Alonzo sabotages when he can.
The Brink of Life - 35mm Print
Crashing into the 60s Bergman's intense, almost documentary-like study of three women in a maternity ward is heightened by three remarkable performances from Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson and the late Ingrid Thulin.
North By Northwest - 35mm Print
Hitchcock 125 | The Sight & Sound Club Hitchcock’s final word on the chase film is also one of the most entertaining classics of all time. Classic sequence follows classic sequence, all smoothly piloted by Ernest Lehman’s clever, tightly dialogued script: the abduction at the Plaza, the train ride, the crop duster, the auction, the escape over Lincoln’s nose at Mount Rushmore.
Crooklyn - 35mm print
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Five years after burning down Brooklyn in the ferocious conclusion to Do the Right Thing, Lee returns for a gentler, semi-autobiographical account of life in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood circa 1973 as seen through the eyes of a young girl (Zelda Harris) and her four raucous brothers raised by a jazz musician father and a strong-willed mother.
Lawrence of Arabia
Crashing into the 60s Peter O’Toole, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, and Omar Sharif star in the epic film of a lifetime. As seen on the sprawling big screen, director Lean’s action-packed depiction of the shrouded and legendary life of T. E. Lawrence (O’Toole) features some of the most sweeping and majestic views of the desert and war on film.
The Docks of New York - Vintage 35mm Print
From the Camera Neg One of the first films preserved at the Eastman House (in 1950), original director of the Film Department James Card considered this to be “the film where director Josef von Sternberg reaches the apotheosis of his mysterious handling of the close-up. . . . The sustained rhythm of the film supports its dreamlike quality . . . the characters . . . undulate with surreal grace.”
Vertigo - 35mm Print
Hitchcock 125 | The Sight & Sound Club In Hitchcock’s most personal film, a retired San Francisco detective (James Stewart) is hired to follow the wife (Kim Novak) of a former school chum. Slowly, inexorably, he becomes obsessed with his charge, but both are haunted by their own personal ghosts.
Pennies from Heaven - 16mm Print
Make Mine Musicals Ex-con Larry Poole (Bing Crosby) is on a mission: he has made a promise to a dying man to deliver a letter to the Smith family in New Jersey. The family, orphaned Patsy (Edith Fellows) and her grandfather (Donald Meek), are barely getting by, and concerned social worker Susan Sprague (Madge Evans) wants to place Patsy in an orphanage.
The Peasants
Rochester Premiere Building off the techniques they used to create Loving Vincent in 2017, married filmmakers D.K. and Hugh Welchman adapt Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize-winning novel to the big screen.
The Crowd - Vintage 16mm Print
From the Camera Neg In one of the most moving statements about the perils of the American Dream, an eager young man seeks fame and fortune in New York. But he must ultimately reconcile his fantasies of success with the reality of his daily life as a faceless employee for a large business.
Psycho
Hitchcock 125 | Crashing into the 60s | The Sight and Sound Club Disenchanted with her life, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) picks up and disappears, only to find herself stuck in a dead end at the Bates Motel and checks into the Bates Motel for a destiny-changing shower; a scene that also forever altered the expectations of moviegoers.
Clockers
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a clocker, a low-level drug dealer who works around the clock. He is also an emergency case whose allies are indistinguishable from his enemies, especially the two who hold his fate in their hands: a paternal but vicious boss (Delroy Lindo) who offers to advance Strike's "career" if he eliminates the competition; and Harvey Keitel as a twenty-year veteran cop determined to nail the both of them.
Revenge - Vintage 35mm Print
From the Camera Neg Director Edwin Carewe and Mexican superstar Dolores Del Rio re-team for the sixth time in this romantic drama. Here, Del Rio plays Rascha, the wild daughter of Costa (James Marcus), the Gypsy bear tamer, who swears revenge on Jorga (LeRoy Mason), her father's enemy, when he cuts off her braids.
New Directions: Recent Acquisitions photography exhibition opens at the George Eastman Museum