TAG: 35mm

Vincente Minnelli’s phenomenally directed and acted tale of rootlessness in post–World War II starring Frank Sinatra, introduced by Jake Perlin and Michael Koresky as part of a series celebrating the new series about Wes Anderson’s inspirations for Asteroid City.

Billy Wilder’s acid satire of the American media is a joltingly grim drama about a former big-city newspaper reporter named Chuck Tatum (a ferocious Kirk Douglas) who wields his lack of ethics with cynical glee.

With its singular mix of Hollywood melodrama and ragged seventies authenticity, this film remains a crucial film to understanding the complexity and diversity of Scorsese’s filmography.

This absorbing, intensely physical drama set at a rundown motel in the Mojave Desert is based on the play by Sam Shepard, also stars as a rodeo stunt rider trying to convince his ex-girlfriend (Kim Basinger) that they should rekindle their flame.

John Sturges’s lean-and-mean CinemaScope color noir featuring a beguiling Spencer Tracy as a no-nonsense man investigating a suspected killing in a tiny California desert town plays 6/10 on 35mm.

One of the best films produced during Hollywood’s brief embrace of Technicolor 3-D, Roy Ward Baker’s sunbaked potboiler finds Robert Ryan in the role of Donald, a callous millionaire stranded in the Mojave Desert with a broken right leg.

Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson have been devoted fans of groundbreaking documentarians Albert and David Maysles for their entire careers together. This program features three Maysles films that evoke the period or locations depicted in Asteroid City.

This pivotal 1950s monster movie influenced generations of genre films, including the Godzilla franchise, with its tremendous stop-motion special effects created by the legendary Ray Harryhausen. 

See Clive Barker’s genre-defining horror classic as part of our Disreputable Cinema series, followed by a book signing with Preston Fassel, author of the new novel Beasts of 42nd Street.

See Clive Barker’s genre-defining horror classic as part of our Disreputable Cinema series, followed by a book signing with Preston Fassel, author of the new novel Beasts of 42nd Street.