As part of our ongoing commitment to bring all 100 of the Greatest Films of All Time (as determined by Sight and Sound magazine’s poll published in 2022) to the screen at the Dryden, we are tackling this year’s crop with one film from each decade, from the 1930s to the 2000s. From around the world and across cinematic history, these films represent the highest in cinematic artistic achievement. Also keep an eye out for the three Stanley Kubrick films that made the list as well, since they will be screening on Saturdays.
Dates and Titles:
May 9: Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973, 85 min., 35mm)
May 15: M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, Fritz Lang, Germany 1931, 99 min., 35mm, German with English subtitles)
May 16: 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: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, France 1983, 100 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
May 23: Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan/Japan 2000, 173 min., 35mm, Mandarin, Min Nan, Hokkien, Japanese, and French with English subtitles)
Events in this Series
A Brighter Summer Day
Sight and Sound Club | AAPI Heritage Month Director Edward Yang, a vanguard member of the Taiwan New Cinema movement, took five years to make this drama of youth in crisis, his only period film.
Sans Soleil & La Jetée
Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club | AAPI Heritage Month
Yi Yi (35mm)
Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club | AAPI Heritage Month Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, this intimate epic of family life is an exhilarating cornucopia of memorable characters.
Touki Bouki (35mm)
Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club Mory and Anta, two lovers on the run, perform different schemes in hopes of raising money to flee Senegal to an idealized France