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 ...
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 ...
“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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With an exhibition featuring material from the Stevens Family collection The Academy celebrates the recent donations by the Stevens family to the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive ...
Special guests include filmmakers Charlie Ahearn, Frank Mouris, Jeanne Liotta, Bill Morrison, and Lisa Crafts; and archivists/preservationists Pamela Vizner (BB Optics), Heather Linville (Academy Film ...
New York Restoration Premiere, introduced by Jack Hill and hosted by indie-horror filmmaker William Lustig. Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, this cult classic marked the solo ...
This twisty heist thriller in the vein of '70s classics like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Dog Day Afternoon is Lee's most commercially successful film to date. Denzel Washington, working ...
One of Welles’s most sheerly entertaining efforts, Touch of Evil is a sordid noir of gray morality and striking black-and-white images, photographed by Douglas Sirk regular Russell Metty, set to the ...
Bring your family photos and join the fun! The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) is a project developed by Documentary Branch member Thomas Allen Harris. It is deeply rooted in the quest for ...