Safety Last!
This Harold Lloyd classic, filmed on location in downtown Los Angeles, remains every bit as astonishing and thrilling as the day it was released. Screens September 17–30.
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Games
One of Curtis Harrington’s most successful films and a hidden highlight of Caan’s early career.
Us
With this terrifying and intensely symbolic film, which cleverly evokes the DuBoisian concept of “double-consciousness,” Jordan Peele cemented his status as the premier horror director of contemporary Hollywood.
The Story of Film: A New Generation
A decade after his synoptic inquiry into 20th-century cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, film historian Mark Cousins returns with a hopeful tale of cinematic innovation at the frontiers of our young century. Playing 9/9–9/23!
El Dorado
For his penultimate film, Howard Hawks recruited longtime collaborator John Wayne to star as a wizened gunslinger who teams up with an alcoholic sheriff (Robert Mitchum), to defend a town against a greedy rancher and his hired guns. Not only does Hawks give a young James Caan his first major Hollywood role, he’s also given a star entrance.
The Godfather
On September 16 and 18, the granddaddy of contemporary crime films screens as part of the Caan Film Festival.
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”
This ingeniously conceived film is by one of contemporary Europe's most distinctive creators.
The Story of Film: A New Generation
A decade after his synoptic inquiry into 20th-century cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, film historian Mark Cousins returns with a hopeful tale of cinematic innovation at the frontiers of our young century. Playing 9/9–9/23!
The Gambler
In a magnetic, psychologically rich performance, Caan plays Axel Freed, a college literature professor who teaches Dostoyevsky by day and echoes the author's antiheroic Gambler by night.
Bulletproof
On September 23, Todd Chandler’s breakthrough documentary is a slow-burn cinematic meditation on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States. With director in person.
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Mixing slapstick comedy with sepia-toned lensing by master DP László Kovács, and featuring committed performances by both the lead cast and a deep well of great character actors, Harry and Walter Go to New York remains a strange and inviting brew.
Celebrating Jim Henson’s Birthday with “Sam and Friends”
To commemorate Jim Henson’s birthday, on September 24, join us for the launch of the new book Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson’s First Television Show, written by Craig Shemin.