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Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
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Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
On 1/22, we begin our Qiu Jiongjiong retrospective with these two playful and entertaining short documentaries, introduced by guest curator Shelly Kraicer.
On 1/20, we kick off our Snubbed series with Howard Hawks’s unqualified noir masterpiece, starring Bogart as Philip Marlowe, a private detective hired to investigate a series of troubles plaguing an affluent family.
On January 22, see Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
This moody and electrifying thriller with Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray, master of the fifties melodrama about troubled masculinity, is among Hollywood’s darkest character studies.
Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
Screening on 1/27, as part of Science on Screen, one of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2022, set on the legendary Sable Island, known for its herd of wild horses, unparalleled population of grey seals, and shipwrecks.
See Douglas Sirk's Technicolor melodrama masterpiece on 1/27 & 2/5.
Qiu’s remarkable debut is an experimental black-and-white documentary portrait of his father.
This moody and electrifying thriller with Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray, master of the fifties melodrama about troubled masculinity, is among Hollywood’s darkest character studies.
On January 28, artist sTo Len will be in conversation with Assistant Curator of Public Programs Tiffany Joy Butler to discuss his artistic practice of remixing DSNY’s media archives and his residency at the New York Department of Sanitation.
This vibrant portrait of trans performer ‘Bilan de Linphel’ (birth name Fan Qihui) is both intimate and exhilaratingly expansive.
Dir. Leo McCarey. 1937, 92 mins. 35mm. With Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter. When McCarey won the Best Director Oscar in 1937 for his sparkling screwball comedy The Awful Truth, he stood ...