Anna Christie (1930)
With the famous promotion “Garbo Talks!”, Anna Christie, was Greta Garbo’s first “talkie” film.
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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Mao’s Last Dancer is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin. Cunxin was plucked from a poor Chinese village at the age of 11 by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, […]
A Touch of Evil (1958)
Mexican cop Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his new American wife (Janet Leigh) are crossing the border into California as Orson Welles executes a 3 1/2-minute continuous crane shot, one of the cinema’s most famous opening scenes. A bomb goes off and Vargas finds himself investigating the incident alongside American detective Hank Quinlan (Welles). Forget […]
28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival
Join cinephiles around the world for a unique event. 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents will gather for one reason… to view and vote on the Finalist Films eligible for the 2026 Oscars. Free and open to the public. Watch the trailer and learn more at manhattanshort.com Saturday, September 27, 2025 […]
28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival
Join cinephiles around the world for a unique event. 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents will gather for one reason… to view and vote on the Finalist Films eligible for the 2026 Oscars. Free and open to the public. Watch the trailer and learn more at manhattanshort.com Saturday, September 27, 2025 […]
28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival
Join cinephiles around the world for a unique event. 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents will gather for one reason… to view and vote on the Finalist Films eligible for the 2026 Oscars. Free and open to the public. Watch the trailer and learn more at manhattanshort.com Saturday, September 27, 2025 […]
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A socialite from Boston (Gene Tierney) meets a prominent novelist (Cornel Wilde) on a train heading for New Mexico. They get married and spend lots of time in the sunny outdoors. The film was shot in rich technicolor and earned cinematographer Leon Shamroy an Academy Award. A film noir in color? Ironically, the bright technicolor […]
Inherit the Wind (1960) based on the play Inherit the Wind (1955) by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
We're kicking off this season of From Page to Screen with Inherit the Wind—a powerful courtroom drama that felt especially timely to include, as 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the real-life Scopes "Monkey" Trial on which it’s based. Released in 1960 and directed by Stanley Kramer, the film dramatizes the clash between science and […]
The Red House (1947)
Both Edward G. Robinson and Dame Judith Anderson are on the list of The American Film Institute’s all-time best villains. They play a brother and sister who live on a farm and have an adopted teenage daughter. They also have a secret: a haunted house in their nearby woods. Other characters become involved in what […]
Catch-22 (1970) based on the book Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
Based on Joseph Heller’s landmark novel, Catch-22 is a darkly absurd take on the madness of war and military bureaucracy. Alan Arkin stars as Yossarian, a World War II bombardier caught in an impossible logic loop: to be declared insane and avoid combat, he must ask for relief—but asking proves his sanity. Director Mike Nichols […]
Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
In one of his most beloved feature films, Buster Keaton plays a young collegian reuniting with his father, a rough-and-tumble steamboat captain, who is mortified by his son's dandified ways. Pianist David Blazer performs his own colorful, improvised score on our Steinway grand piano to accompany the film. Founded in 2022, The Cleveland Silent Film […]
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1985, The Times of Harvey Milk tells the moving story of California’s first openly gay elected official through original interviews, archival footage and news reports. Join host Tom Stebel from the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland to learn more about the life of activist Harvey Milk […]