(Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1968, 138 min., 35mm)

The story of man’s technological progress is told in a breathtaking series of sequences that takes us from a prehistoric encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence, to a showdown with supercomputer H.A.L. 9000, to a dazzling journey in unexplored outer space. Bold, cerebral, and ultimately moving, 2001 demands to be seen on a big screen. The Dryden’s newly installed sound system will provide the perfect venue to hear this classic’s brilliant sound design and eclectic music score.

(Robinson Devor, US 2007, 80 min., Digital Projection)

Kenneth Pinyan, a Seattle airline engineer, died in 2005 after his colon was perforated during a sexual encounter with a stallion. A subsequent police investigation uncovered an underground bestiality club that shared video over the Internet and some of its members provide interviews for this fascinating new documentary. Eschewing the traditional aesthetics of tabloid television and easy jokes, director Devor’s serious and impressionistic style offers illumination upon an extremely taboo subject. No one under 18 admitted.

(Charles Chaplin, US 1931, 86 min., 35mm)

A Little Tramp (Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower girl, convinces her that he is a handsome millionaire, and provides her with the funds for a sight-restoring operation. Side-splittingly funny yet deeply poignant, Chaplin’s supreme achievement is routinely selected as one of the ten greatest films of all time. In telling his “comedy romance in pantomine,” its creator audaciously flew in the face of the sound era by not including a single word of spoken dialogue. New 35mm print!

(Charles Chaplin, US 1940, 128 min., 35mm)

In one of the screen’s great lampoons of totalitarianism, Charlie Chaplin plays the twin roles of Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a poor Jewish barber who’s mistaken for Hynkel. Released only one year before America entered WWII, this is the first film in which Chaplin ever spoke and he makes the most of it, concluding his comic masterpiece with a heartfelt plea for sanity and world peace. New 35mm print!

(Douglas Sirk, US 1956, 84 min., 35mm)

Sirk, cinema’s poet laureate of upper-middle-class American angst in the 1950s, examines the unhappy marriage of toy manufacturer Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray) and his wife, Marion (Joan Bennett). When Groves accidentally meets up with old flame Norma (Barbara Stanwyck), he’s provided with the temporary illusion that happiness is still possible. This beautiful melodrama marked the fourth and final pairing of Double Indemnity stars MacMurray and Stanwyck.