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    The Narrow Margin (1952)

    Main Library Auditorium

    Hardboiled detective Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) is assigned to protect a tough-as-nails gangster’s moll (Marie Windsor) from mobsters who want her silenced. On a train from Chicago to an L.A. grand jury, the flat-foot and the femme fatale fight like cat and dog. Fellow travelers include a woman and her son, several small-time crooks and […]

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    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

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    In pre-World War II London, a desperate middle-aged English governess, Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), has just been fired from her fourth job. She manages to finagle her way into a new assignment, but instead of a governess, she becomes entangled in the personal love life of a glamorous American entertainer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). Before […]

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    Our Man Flint (1966)

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    James Coburn stars as the dapper spy-extraordinaire, Derek Flint, a comic send-up of James Bond in Our Man Flint. Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage (Z.O.W.I.E.) calls upon ex-spy Flint to come out of retirement to save the human race from a group of deranged scientists with the customary plan to rule the world.

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    Pickup on South Street (1953)

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    On a New York subway, FBI agents are shadowing Candy (Jean Peters), a femme fatale who is delivering stolen government microfilm to her communist boyfriend. Pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) unwittingly filches the film and is out the door before the G-men realize what happened. Both the feds and the reds give chase as McCoy […]

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    Duel in the Sun (1946)

    Main Library Auditorium

    Duel in the Sun follows a young, orphaned Mestiza woman who experiences prejudice and forbidden love while living with her white relatives on a large Texas ranch. From 1946, this psychological Western film stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston and Lionel Barrymore.

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    Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

    Main Library Auditorium

    J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) is a Walter Winchell-like columnist who abuses his power as though he were, well, Walter Winchell. Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is a sycophantic press agent who is more than willing to do Hunsecker’s bidding, even if it means ruining a reputation or two. The real Winchell was outraged and tried […]

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    Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

    Main Library Auditorium

    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, […]

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    A Touch of Evil (1958)

    Main Library Auditorium

    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 […]

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    28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival

    Main Library Auditorium

    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 […]

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    28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival

    Main Library Auditorium

    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 […]

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