Longtime Vanity Fair editor-writer Matt Tyrnauer takes on haute couture icon Valentino, a man whose fabulous gowns have graced the bodies of the world’s most glamorous women for nearly five decades. The film was shot over two years—in Paris, Rome, London, NYC, Gstaad, and aboard…[read more]

Spend July 4th weekend with Billy and Captain America. After they close a big drug deal (with Phil Spector!), hippie bikers Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper travel from somewhere out west to New Orleans, the promised land of the Mardi Gras. Their trek across a divided ’60s America brings them in…[read more]

Longtime Vanity Fair editor-writer Matt Tyrnauer takes on haute couture icon Valentino, a man whose fabulous gowns have graced the bodies of the world’s most glamorous women for nearly five decades. The film was shot over two years—in Paris, Rome, London, NYC, Gstaad, and aboard…[read more]

Spend July 4th weekend with Billy and Captain America. After they close a big drug deal (with Phil Spector!), hippie bikers Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper travel from somewhere out west to New Orleans, the promised land of the Mardi Gras. Their trek across a divided ’60s America brings them in…[read more]

A wandering samurai-for-hire (Toshiro Mifune in his quintessential role) takes advantage of a rivalry between two equally bad warring clans. Kurosawa’s action-packed swordplay epic owes a debt to American Westerns, and Yojimbo in turn inspired Sergio Leone’s…[read more]

Marilyn Monroe stars as two of the screen’s definitive femmes fatales. First, Richard Widmark dallies with a beautiful but unbalanced babysitter (Monroe), and has to think fast in order to save the family she is threatening to kill. Then, in the Technicolor noir Niagara, a young…[read more]

Dustin Hoffman plays out-of-work NYC actor Michael Dorsey, who, tired of rejection, transforms himself into actress Dorothy Michaels and is immediately cast on a hit soap opera. A drag comedy worthy of Some Like it Hot, its brilliant cast includes Oscar®-winner Jessica Lange…[read more]

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are held hostage in a small hotel in the Florida Keys by gangster Edward G. Robinson. This taut thriller, an adaptation of a popular play by Maxwell Anderson, was the fourth of six collaborations between Huston and Bogart. Claire Trevor won a Best Supporting Actress…[read more]

Discharged from Russia’s Navy, young Asa returns to his nomadic community in Southern Kazakhstan. Obliged to be married, Asa sets his sights on the unobtainable Tulpan, who rejects Asa because of his big ears. Not one to be deterred from his goals, Asa, with the help of his eccentric pal Boni, sets out…[read more]

Discharged from Russia’s Navy, young Asa returns to his nomadic community in Southern Kazakhstan. Obliged to be married, Asa sets his sights on the unobtainable Tulpan, who rejects Asa because of his big ears. Not one to be deterred from his goals, Asa, with the help of his eccentric pal Boni, sets out…[read more]

Don’t judge a book by its cover or a ronin by his rags. Towering Toshiro Mifune wanders into town in this sequel to Yojimbo, showing us once again the meaning of bushido—the way of the samurai warrior. Among all the balletic bloodletting, there’s a little modern-day existentialism in there…[read more]

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend—or so coos Marilyn Monroe in one of her most enduring roles as a showgirl who heads for Paris with her earthy friend (Jane Russell) in order to lure any available millionaire down the aisle. The Joseph Fields-Anita Loos stage original gets the Hollywood treatment…[read more]

An “all-stops-out star performance”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. Jessica Lange stars as a top attorney who defends her Hungarian father (an also excellent Armin Mueller-Stahl) when he’s charged with participating in Nazi war atrocities. Director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing) delivers…[read more]

Renowned visual artist Steve McQueen’s first feature chronicles the final six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands, the Irish prisoner who underwent a devastating hunger strike in 1981 to protest the repression of the British government. McQueen’s future as a major filmmaker is assured with this…[read more]

Renowned visual artist Steve McQueen’s first feature chronicles the final six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands, the Irish prisoner who underwent a devastating hunger strike in 1981 to protest the repression of the British government. McQueen’s future as a major filmmaker is assured with this…[read more]

In one of the classiest thrillers of the ’60s, six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are…[read more]

This thoroughly enjoyable comedy about three women attempting to wed wealthy husbands is not only a fine showcase for the talents of stars Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable, but it is also the first film shot in CinemaScope® (The Robe was released first)…[read more]

In her second Oscar®-winning performance, Jessica Lange plays the mentally unbalanced wife of an Army officer (Tommy Lee Jones) whose antics have forced her and the family to move from one military base to another. Released three years after his death, director Tony Richardson’s last film plays out in a…[read more]

In an unnamed country, a scientist (Yves Montand) speaking out against use of the atomic bomb finds himself the target of right-wing government-backed extremists. Based on the real-life, successful government conspiracy in director Costa-Gavras’s native Greece, this taut political thriller still…[read more]

In their decrepit East Hampton Mansion overrun with cats and raccoons, Edith Bouvier Beale (Jessica Lange) and her daughter “Little Edie” (Drew Barrymore), cousins to Jacqueline Onassis, lead a reclusive and eccentric lifestyle. Told with humor and compassion, this dramatization of the Maysles…[read more]

One of our most honored and acclaimed actresses, two-time Academy Award®-winner Jessica Lange is also the accomplished photographer behind the recently published volume 50 Photographs. This evening will include clips of Lange’s motion picture work, a look at her bold and…[read more]

In an unnamed country, a scientist (Yves Montand) speaking out against use of the atomic bomb finds himself the target of right-wing government-backed extremists. Based on the real-life, successful government conspiracy in director Costa-Gavras’s native Greece, this taut political thriller still…[read more]

This lighthearted, playful, romantic casino caper flick was the first in a series of stylish films noir made by French director Melville in tribute to the classic American genre of the ’40s and ’50s. Here, the influence is clearly Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, as Bob, an old gambler and…[read more]

While it will always be remembered primarily for its famous shot of Marilyn Monroe’s billowing skirt, this story of a man (Tom Ewell) driven to the furthest limits of resistance by Monroe’s seductive sexpot is also among director Wilder’s most provocative comedies….[read more]

Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus provides the basis for MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Taymor’s (Frida, Across the Universe) visually delirious first feature. Anthony Hopkins is the title character, a general who returns victorious to Rome with Tamora, Queen of the Goths…[read more]

Eight years before he made Army of Shadows, masterful director Melville made this more contemplative, erotically charged drama also set during the German occupation of France. Legendary Gallic actor Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as the title character, the young and handsome confessor to…[read more]

Eight years before he made Army of Shadows, masterful director Melville made this more contemplative, erotically charged drama also set during the German occupation of France. Legendary Gallic actor Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as the title character, the young and handsome confessor to…[read more]

In Lerner and Loewe’s classic, an erudite professor attempts to transform a lowly flower girl into a lady of distinction. Audrey Hepburn is Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison is Henry Higgins in this beloved multi-Oscar®-winning musical adaptation of Shaw’s Pygmalion. One of the most…[read more]

Screen icon Carole Lombard stars in a pair of racy features from a brief period of relaxed censorship in Hollywood. First, Lombard is a secretary who doesn’t know she’s in for a surprise when she plans to marry the layabout heir to a soap fortune. Rochester’s own Louise Brooks co-stars! Then, in the lush…[read more]

In Taipei, laconic young watch vendor Hsiao-kang (director Tsai’s frequent collaborator Lee Kang-Sheng) is beset on one side by the fragile emotions of his recently widowed mother and on the other by his longing for a woman, Shiang-chyi, who just left for Paris. Shuttling effortlessly between two…[read more]

Monroe co-stars in a rugged outdoor adventure/love story as a woman searching for her missing husband with the help of barrel-chested Robert Mitchum. Their perilous journey on a river raft takes great advantage of a then-new widescreen frame. “One of the first films to discover the potential of…[read more]

The screwiest of screwball comedies features Carole Lombard as a dizzy blonde who hires tramp William Powell as butler to her equally loopy family of socialites. The upside-down situation of a bum imparting lessons in manners, ethics and discipline is the perfect material for the sterling cast, particularly the…[read more]

Clive Owen shot to stardom in the role of Jack, a struggling author who, looking to make ends meet, takes on a job as a casino croupier in London. When a femme fatale (Alex Kingston) asks him to be the inside man for a casino heist, Jack thinks the odds look good for pulling it off, but he doesn’t know the…[read more]

In the days leading up to the 2008 stock market crash and presidential election, a not-inexpensive Manhattan prostitute (played by adult film star Sasha Grey) offers her clients companionship and conversation—a “girlfriend experience”—as well as sex. The latest feature from one of America’s most acclaimed and…[read more]

In the days leading up to the 2008 stock market crash and presidential election, a not-inexpensive Manhattan prostitute (played by adult film star Sasha Grey) offers her clients companionship and conversation—a “girlfriend experience”—as well as sex. The latest feature from one of America’s most acclaimed and…[read more]

In the first of these two pre-code gems recently preserved in new prints by Eastman House, Joan Crawford leaves small-town Pennsylvania for the bright lights of NYC, where she meets and falls in love with Clark Gable, a successful and wealthy married lawyer. Gable is separated and has his heart set on political…[read more]

Hsiao-kang and Shiang-chyi, the separated lovers of What Time Is it There? are reunited in Taipei, but there are new complications: Hsiao-kang has become a star of pornographic movies and the city is facing a serious water shortage which has caused the price of watermelons to skyrocket…[read more]

William Inge’s play about a rodeo cowboy (Don Murray) who falls in love with a saloon singer (Marilyn Monroe) is brought to the big screen in color and CinemaScope®. “Cast again as a platonic sexpot, [Monroe] once again transcends her role”—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader…[read more]

A runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) joins forces with a tough-talking newspaper man (Clark Gable) in a Capra classic that set a new standard for screwball comedies and swept up the top five Oscars®: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay…[read more]

Sigourney Weaver proves herself a courageous she-warrior as her working-class spaceship crew (including Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Hurt) steadily fall prey to a terrifyingly unpredictable creature in Scott’s futuristic spin on the haunted house film and the first in a hugely successful franchise series…[read more]

On the 40th anniversary of the legendary weekend, relive the communal experience that was Woodstock, the most famous outdoor rock festival ever held. See and hear Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, and many more. The 1970 Oscar®-winner is shown here in…[read more]

On the 40th anniversary of the legendary weekend, relive the communal experience that was Woodstock, the most famous outdoor rock festival ever held. See and hear Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, and many more. The 1970 Oscar®-winner is shown here in…[read more]

An extravagantly designed and positively loopy pre-code musical, Madam Satan is legendary director DeMille’s moralistic yet lighthearted story of infidelity among the filthy rich. A wife (Kay Johnson) tries to lure her husband (Reginald Denny) away from his trashy showgirl mistress…[read more]

In what is largely considered his first masterpiece, Fellini drew upon his adolescence to tell the story of five aimless young men (or vitelloni) who slowly come to realize what their melancholy futures hold. From American Graffiti to Diner to GoodFellas, Fellini…[read more]

Often considered the pinnacle of Wilder’s career for its subversively sexual cleverness and outrageous slapstick, this delightful transvestite romp features the inexorable blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe as a love-seeking alcoholic singer. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon also provide memorable…[read more]

Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne), the daughter of the leading family of a small town, uses a pen name to write sexy novels which awake the morbid curiosity of her fellow citizens. Unmasked by a big-city playboy (Melvyn Douglas), she is happy to return the favor when she realizes that he has secrets, too. Dunne and…[read more]

The latest from Ceylan, Turkey’s pre-eminent filmmaker (Climates, Distant) is a tense suspense piece involving family dysfunction, marital infidelity, and a political cover-up. When a wealthy politician causes a hit-and-run accident, he persuades his driver to take the fall and go…[read more]

In one of the forgotten treasures of the French nouvelle vague, the great Jean-Louis Trintingant stars as the wealthy son of an industrialist whose hidden identity is as a militant assassin for an underground right-wing army. When the crypto-fascist’s wife (Romy Schneider) begins to suspect something is awry…[read more]

In one of the forgotten treasures of the French nouvelle vague, the great Jean-Louis Trintingant stars as the wealthy son of an industrialist whose hidden identity is as a militant assassin for an underground right-wing army. When the crypto-fascist’s wife (Romy Schneider) begins to suspect something is awry…[read more]

The latest from Ceylan, Turkey’s pre-eminent filmmaker (Climates, Distant) is a tense suspense piece involving family dysfunction, marital infidelity, and a political cover-up. When a wealthy politician causes a hit-and-run accident, he persuades his driver to take the fall and go…[read more]

In perhaps the most spectacular of his late-period spectacles, Fellini serves a buffet of grotesque carnival excess. Loosely adapted from Petronious’s lurid ancient-Rome farrago, Fellini Satyricon freely follows the alternatingly bloody and randy adventures of the young poet Encolpius (Martin Potter)…[read more]

The Misfits brought together three legendary performers: Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Marilyn Monroe, in a story of lonely, modern-day cowboys and the woman who loves them. Arthur Miller’s screenplay, Russell Metty’s somber black-and-white images, and final performances…[read more]

Shuffle off to Buffalo! Warner Bros.’ classic depression-era musical is as sassy as it is toe-tapping. Ruby Keeler is the young chorine who gets her big Broadway break when diva Bebe Daniels twists her ankle. Warner Baxter, Dick Powell, and a pre-Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers are also in the cast and the much-imitated…[read more]

Vincent Price plays the menacing Professor Henry Jarrod, in a role that would solidify his reputation as the creepiest man in Hollywood. With everything from cancan girls to rubber paddleballs to Charles Bronson’s noggin’ finding their way into the audience, House of Wax, takes full advantage…[read more]

Certainly the classiest 3-D feature ever made, Dial M stars Ray Milland as a calculating husband plotting the demise of his rich, unfaithful wife (played with precision by Grace Kelly). Hitchcock’s subtle yet effective use of the third dimension is only one of the many pleasures to be found in this tale of…[read more]

In the first of these 3-D Westerns all recently preserved in dual-system prints by Sony Pictures, the legend of Jesse James is given the “comin’ at ya” treatment. In The Nebraskan,, six disparate characters hole up in an isolated outpost while hordes of Sioux try to pick them off. Then, colonial George…[read more]

In the first of this pair of rediscovered 3-D B-movies, film noir regulars Edmond O’Brien and Audrey Totter star in the story of a gangster who gets amnesia after having experimental brain surgery to cure his criminal tendencies—then his old gang wants to know where he stashed the loot. In the…[read more]