For the last seventy years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine has published a list of the one hundred “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 in our lobby 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)
May 9, 2025: Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973, 85 min., 35mm)
May 15, 2025: M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, Fritz Lang, Germany 1931, 99 min., 35mm, German with English subtitles)
May 16, 2025: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian, Taiwan 1991, Edward Yang, 237 min., DCP, Mandarin, Min Nan, and Shangaiese with English subtitles)
May 22, 2025: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, France 1983, 100 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
May 23, 2025: Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan/Japan 2000, 173 min., 35mm, Mandarin, Min Nan, Hokkien, Japanese, and French with English subtitles)
May 24, 2025 (2 p.m.): M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, Fritz Lang, Germany 1931, 99 min., 35mm, German with English subtitles)
June 5, 2025: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK 1948, 135 min., 35mm)
June 7, 2025 (2 p.m.): The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK 1948, 135 min., 35mm)
June 14, 2025: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
June 24, 2025: The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups, France, 1959, 99 min., 35mm, French with English subtitles)
June 28, 2025: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
September 16, 2025: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
December 31, 2025: The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
January 2, 2026: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, US 1980, 146 min., 35mm)
January 3, 2026 (2PM): The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
June 9, 2026: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
June 10, 2026: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
June 24, 2026: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
August 12, 2026: Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
August 14, 2026: L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
August 18, 2026: Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
August 21, 2026: Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
August 25, 2026: The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973)
September 12, 2026: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany 1927, 148 min., DCP)
Events in this Series
Metropolis (DCP)
Schweigen! | The Sight and Sound Club Director Fritz Lang’s prescient vision of an urban world in disarray has been digitally restored to its original premiere length. With this science fiction epic, Lang brought to the screen one of the most ambitious and iconic movies ever made.
The Spirit of the Beehive (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it.
Cleo from 5 to 7 (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Unfolding almost in real time, this masterpiece from the “godmother” of the French nouvelle vague, and one of cinema’s greatest innovators follows a young woman in the liminal space between vitality and mortality.
Celine and Julie Go Boating (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Usually, it began like this…” Jacques Rivette’s recursive, surreal, haunted house film plays with narrative in ways never before seen on-screen, and in the process influenced dozens of filmmakers, from David Lynch to Richard Linklater and Olivier Assayas.
L’Avventura (35mm)
A Summer Trip Through Europe(an Cinema) Largely considered Antonioni’s breakthrough masterpiece, L’Avventura marked the director’s transition into his trademark deliberate pacing and careful composition. Based on a story written by Antonioni, the film chronicles the search for a woman whose disappearance leads to an illicit romance between her lover and her best friend.
Journey to Italy (35mm) - Free for Members!
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Now that we’re strangers we can start all over again at the beginning.” Estranged couple Alex and Katherine (George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman) are investigating an Italian property they inherited from Alex’s uncle.