The Sight and Sound Club
100 Films on Screen
For the last seventy years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine has published a list of The Greatest Films of All Time compiled by critics. The poll is conducted once every ten years. When the newest list was published in December of 2022, the Dryden Theatre had screened forty-one of the titles in the previous five years, and sixty-three of them in the previous decade since the last list was released. There were only eight films that had never been screened in the theater. We think we can do better. In an effort to enrich our audience fully by the time the next list is published in 2032, we endeavor to bring you each and every title on the 2022 list to prepare you for the next one. A checklist is available at the box office so that you can track your own progress through the years!
Dates and Titles:
April 1, 2023: Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936, 87 min.)
May 6, 2023: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976, 114 min.)
July 14, 2023: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968, 165 min.)
August 9, 2023: Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, 102 min.)
August 30, 2023: A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946, 104 min.)
September 5, 2023: The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, 1926, 67 min.)
September 6, 2023: Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Vera Chytilová, 1966, 74 min.)
September 13, 2023: In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wah, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, 98 min.)
October 4, 2023: Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970, 102 min.)
October 11, 2023: The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, 93 min.)
October 18, 2023: Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, 92 min.)
October 26, 2023: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017, 104 min.)
February 9, 2024: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989, 120 min.)
March 1, 2024: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975, 202 min.)
March 6, 2024: Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991, 113 min.)
March 13, 2024: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, Celine Sciamma, 2019, 122 min.)
March 20, 2024: Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
April 10, 2024: North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, 136 min.)
April 17, 2024: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 128 min.)
April 24, 2024: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, 109 min.)
September 25, 2024: News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976, 85 min., DCP)
September 28, 2024: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 112 min., 35mm)
Events in this Series
News From Home
The Sight & Sound Club At the age of twenty-one, Chantal Akerman moved from Belgium to New York City, shooting film, taking petty jobs, and making connections with independent filmmakers. Over that two year period, her loving but manipulative mother sent her numerous letters that connected her to home.
Rear Window (On 35mm)
Hitchcock 125 | The Sight & Sound Club James Stewart gives one of his career-defining performances in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most suspenseful films and what the Master would call his “most cinematic.”
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.
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.
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.
Maya Deren Shorts Program
Women on the Sight and Sound List> “Maya Deren was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. She was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet lecturer, writer, and photographer. The function of film, Deren, believer, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving."
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Women on the Sight and Sound List In 1760 Brittany, France, an artist named Marianne (Noémie Merlant) was commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a young woman who had just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom.