Join New York Times best-selling author, film scholar and historian, and resident film curator Marc Eliot for the Art of Film featuring the greatest films ever released, presented the way they were meant to be seen on the Giant Screen.
This Art of Film cycle, Eliot brings his biographies to the big screen, with a selection of films based on his New York Times best-sellers, and the actors he wrote them on. Join us for a virtual pre-film introduction and a full post-film discussion by Marc Eliot at every screening.
Mr. Eliot will be available after screenings from January 18, 2024 to January 21, 2024 to chat and sign copies of his books.
FULL FILM SCHEDULE
Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 To Catch a Thief
"[…] it remains a twinkling, innuendo-laden pleasure, with Grant, Kelly and the French Riviera vying for your attention."
-Times (UK)
Thursday, January 18, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Vertigo
"Vertigo routinely places in the Top 10 in critics' and viewers' polls of the greatest movies ever made."
-NY Times
Friday, January 19, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Special Dinner and a Movie experience! GET TICKETS HERE
Howard Hawks' 1952 Monkey Business
"Monkey Business ranks with the best works of the American cinema."
- Chicago Reader
Saturday, January 20, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
John Guillermin's 1974 The Towering Inferno
"The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made, a personal and professional triumph for producer Irwin Allen."
-Variety
Sunday, January 21, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
SPECIAL SHOWING!
Justine Triet's 2019
Sibyl
(French)
Sunday, January 21, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Robert Mulligan's 1963 Love With the Proper Stranger
"Excellent performances from Wood and McQueen, and vivid location shooting in New York's Little Italy."
-Time Out
Friday, January 26, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, January 28, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Dennis Hopper's 1969 Easy Rider
"Ninety-four minutes of what it is to swing, to watch, to be fond, to hold opinions, and to get killed in America at this moment."
-New Yorker
Friday, February 2, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 4, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Mike Nichols' 1971 Carnal Knowledge
"In addition to being the toughest comedy since Little Murders, and the most imaginative comedy since Catch 22, Carnal Knowledge represents a nearly ideal collaboration of directorial and writing talents."
- New York Times
Friday, February 9, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 11, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
James Bridges' 1979 China Syndrome
"A terrific thriller that incidentally raises the most unsettling questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are."
- Chicago Sun Times
Friday, February 16, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Saturday, February 17, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Robert Zemekis' 1984 Romancing the Stone
"The script is sharp and funny, the direction sure-footed on both the comedy and action fronts, and the whole thing adds up to rather more concerted fun than Indiana Jones' […] escapade in the Temple of Doom."
- Time Out
Friday, February 23, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 25, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sergio Leone's 1964 A Fistful of Dollars
"Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre."
- TIME Magazine
Friday, March 1, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, March 3, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Clint Eastwood's 1992 Unforgiven
"This dark, melancholic film is a reminder-never more necessary than now-of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world."
- Chicago Tribune
Friday, March 8, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, March 10, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
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Sponsored by Kathy and Harry Puterbaugh, Drs. Darrel and Jane Gumm, Nancy Snowden, Film Society.