Screening

Warren Beatty’s big-budget, color-drenched adaptation of Chester Gould’s classic mid-century comic strip is a visual delight from start to finish, featuring lovingly detailed noir photography by Vittorio Storaro.

Sondheim’s only foray into screenwriting is this delightful, complexly woven comic-tinged mystery, co-written with his friend Anthony Perkins.

In one of Akerman’s greatest films, a celebrated Belgian filmmaker tours cities in West Germany, Belgium, and France with her work, and passes through anonymous, depopulated spaces like a ghost.

Adapting Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s off-Broadway play based on Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother Aurelia, Akerman delivers a spare reflection on the inextricable ties binding mother and daughter.

Undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made, Chantal Akerman’s singular avant-garde epic screens April 29 and May 8.

Built around a series of conversations in person and online between the filmmaker and her mother, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, No Home Movie is both diaristic and avant-garde, a meditation on family relations, memory, and death in the modern world.

Dashiell Hammett’s hit novel—about retired private detective Nick, reluctantly pulled back into service, with the help of his keenly perceptive wife, Nora—was adapted into the comic mystery of 1930s Hollywood, kicking off a successful movie franchise to boot.

Working with Martin Ritt, one of his favorite directors, Paul Newman plays a hell-raising cowboy with a pink Cadillac who doesn’t get along with his moralistic rancher father. It perhaps Newman’s greatest and most psychologically complex movie of the 1960s.

On May 20 and 21, see David O. Selznick's production of Anthony Hope's popular late 19th-century novel—one of James Wong Howe’s proudest achievements.

One of six collaborations between director Frank Borzage and ace screenwriter Sonya Levien, After Tomorrow united them with James Wong Howe, whose photography brings a sense of moody, stylized drama to this pre-Code, depression-addled love story.

Michael Mann's epic yet minutely observed crime drama, among the greatest works of 1990s Hollywood, screens June 5 on 35mm.

Vincent Sherman’s gritty musical melodrama stars Ida Lupino as Helen, a woman hell-bent on escaping poverty by pushing her sister into marriage with a showman and stage stardom.

A riveting and twisty thriller set in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Fritz Lang’s film is loosely based on the real-life assassination of Reinhard Heydrich—”The Hangman of Prague”—and adapted from a story by Bertolt Brecht.

On May 29, Mann’s revival of the trendy 1980s TV series he helped create, a doubling down on the original’s themes of confused identity, extra-national criminality, and undercover blues.

In this masterful psychological western, Director Raoul Walsh and cinematographer James Wong Howe fill the open landscape of the Southwest with an oppressive dread, while the shadowy interiors hint at the domestic disarray at the heart of the drama.

James Wong Howe’s first directorial feature dramatizes the formation of the Harlem Globetrotters, and features Sidney Poitier: 5/28 & 6/5.

A return to the lonely intimacy of the director’s earlier features (Thief, Manhunter), the film is a brooding study in disconnection and inhumanity, traced across a weblike urban landscape. Here, a taxi’s dim interior light reveals characters trapped within their own delusions.

Michael Mann's epic yet minutely observed crime drama, among the greatest works of 1990s Hollywood, screens June 5 on 35mm.