Repeat Performance • Member Bonus
It’s time for our December member bonus episode and this month, the members voted to add a holiday film to our film noir series, landing on the Repeat Performance, where a woman is given the chance to relive a year and see if she can fix the mistakes she made.
Night and the City
We return to our Film Noir series with Jules Dassin’s Night and the City, following Richard Widmark’s desperate American hustler as he schemes and double-crosses his way through London’s seedy wrestling underworld.
The Gold Rush
We wrap up our journey through the last 100 years of film and our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with Charlie Chaplin’s fun film The Gold Rush.
Seven Chances
We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with a fantastic dose of comedy following a man who has to marry by 7pm in order to get his inheritance. It’s Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances.
The Phantom of the Opera
We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with the movie with possibly the most confusing history of releases, Rupert Julian’s adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic novel “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Member Bonus
The members voted and decided that for this month, we should discuss Fred Niblo’s silent classic, the 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which holds its ground against Heston’s version for sure—particularly in the chariot race.
The Big Parade
We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with King Vidor’s The Big Parade, a groundbreaking WWI epic that shocked 1925 audiences with its intimate portrait of soldiers’ lives before confronting the brutal realities of modern warfare.
Battleship Potemkin
We kick off our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series, looking at amazing films that are having their 100th birthday this year, and we’re starting it off with a big one: Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin!
Sunset Blvd.
We wrap up our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with another big one, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., with a meta and timeless performance from Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond.
Caged
We continue our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series, celebrating the five great actresses nominated this year. We’re digging into John Cromwell’s Caged, starring Eleanor Parker.