“Worked with Billy Wilder, who paces constantly, has over-extravagant ideas, but is stimulating. He has humor – a kind of humor that sparks with mine.” - excerpt from Charles Brackett’s diary (1936) ...

In the performance that would define his career, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a onetime prizefighter now resigned to backbreaking work as a longshoreman on docks ruled by a ruthless union boss ...

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In a tumble-down Memphis hotel run by rock ‘n roll royal Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (with bellboy Cinqué Lee, brother of Spike Lee, in tow) three stories unfold: a pair of Elvis-obsessed Japanese tourists ...

Lee won a Student Academy Award for this hour-long film, which he made as his master’s thesis for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Monty Ross (who would go on to co-produce several of Lee’s features, ...

Producer Sam Spiegel (The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia) hired Orson Welles to both direct and star in this suspense thriller, written by Anthony Veiller and an uncredited John Huston. In one of ...

This event is SOLD OUT. There will be a STAND-BY line at the west doors (closest to Almont Dr.) with STAND-BY numbers given out starting at approximately 5:30 pm. The number of STAND-BY tickets ...

A program of lectures, panels and hands-on workshops that will introduce students of the Information Studies field, collectors, scholars, filmmakers, cinephiles and the general public to aspects of ...

Charlie Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character was once the most widely recognized figure in the entire world. Discover the first-ever filmed images of the Tramp as film historian and preservationist ...

Animation historian and Oscar-winning animation director John Canemaker pays tribute to two masters of animation in a three-part event celebrating the groundbreaking and immortal work of Winsor McCay ...

Preceded by the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), with a post-screening dessert reception. Hosted by Academy President John Bailey and Oscar-nominated production designer Jeannine Oppewall. In ...

Penelope Spheeris returns to the punk scene she first documented in 1981 and finds new bands equally as inflammatory as their predecessors. The powerful final chapter in Spheeris’s Decline of Western ...