The Art of Music in the Movies In the wilds of Brazil in the 18th century, Jesuit missionary Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) fights to protect native Indians from being exterminated or sold into slavery by the colonizing Portuguese.
Labor Film Series On the streets of Glasgow one early May morning in 2021, a Home Office van quietly pulls up to a residential building, with officials sent to arrest two individuals for alleged immigration violations. Word of the raid goes out almost immediately, and students, neighbors, members of the local mosque and others rush to the area in response.
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.
Silent Tuesdays | James Card's First Programs Films depicting robbery, murder, and kidnapping were wildly popular in early cinema, to the point where social reformers decried the cinema as a breeding ground for moral depravity. At the same time, the urgency of crime stories and their often semi-documentary quality pushed cinema towards greater rhythmic pacing, scenic realism, and dramatic flair.
Latin Film Series Capitalizing on the immense popularity of I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz teamed up for this very funny big screen color feature about a honeymoon vacation from hell.
The Art of Music in the Movies This deliciously nasty neo-noir from a book by Jim Thompson (with beginning narration from producer Martin Scorsese) is counterpointed by Elmer Bernstein’s bright score.
Labor Film Series Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Mori (for his 1989 documentary Building Bombs), turns his lens to the challenges facing labor organizers in an increasingly corporatized world.
Adventures of Lassie In her final film, Jeanette MacDonald plays Helen Lorfield Winter, a widowed concert singer who loses her son in an accident, but who escapes embitterment when she encounters a charming orphan boy and his trusty canine companion, Lassie.
Michael Douglas’s Bad Day The psychological thriller that made Glenn Close a household name centers on marital infidelity with dangerous consequences. Michael Douglas plays Dan Gallagher, a successful lawyer who has a weekend affair with an intriguing woman named Alex (Glenn Close) while his family is out of town.
Silent Tuesdays | Latin Cinematic Heritage The most expensive spectacle of its time, this film tells the familiar story of Judah Ben-Hur (matinee idol Ramon Novarro) in the early days of Christianity. His wealthy family is persecuted for their faith by the Romans, including Judah’s childhood friend Messala.
Labor Film Series On the fifteenth anniversary of the premiere of the Newsies stage show, this is the film musical that started it all. Detailing the historic newsboys’ strike of 1899, newsies are required to buy the papers from the publisher before flooding the streets to sell them to the public.
Michael Douglas’s Bad Day Scripted by Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge) and starring Michael Douglas, Verhoeven’s glossy pulp shocker stands as the ne plus ultra of the ’80s/’90s erotic thriller. It was also one of the most controversial — and successful — Hollywood movies of the 1990s.
Silent Tuesdays The same year they collaborated on the definitive silent version of Huckleberry Finn, director William Desmond Taylor, writer Julia Crawford Ivers, and star Lewis Sargent re-team for this social drama about welfare, politics, and familial love.
Latin Cinematic Heritage Luis Valdez adapts his own stage production (the first Latin-American play on Broadway) into this striking film version. Edward James Olmos reprises his role from the stage as “El Pachuco,” the narrator of the film and the conscience of Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez, also reprising his role).
Latin Cinematic Heritage Legendary Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia returns as Gomez, the patriarch of the Addams family. After being reunited with his brother Fester (Christopher Lloyd), Gomez and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) have a third child. They hire a nanny, Debbie (Joan Cusack), to care for the child and to keep his older siblings, Wednesday and Puggsly (Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman, respectively) from trying to murder him.
Latin Cinematic Heritage The cinema of Fellini is marked by a passion for life often revealed in the glowing face of the director’s wife, Giulietta Masina, who stars here in one of his finest films. Masina is Gelsomina, a pantomime artist in the spirit of Chaplin, who, being sold to strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), serves as his dutiful assistant and eventually develops a genuine affection for the brute.
