Join us for a brand new, year-round series at the Ruth Sokolof! Every Saturday and Sunday at 11 am, we will screen a film considered historically, socially, culturally, or artistically essential viewing. These are movies you can’t miss on the big screen! Whether it's something you know and love or an unfamiliar piece of film history, join fellow film lovers to celebrate the wonderful world of cinema.
Film Featured in This Series:
Considered one of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo centers on a former San Francisco police detective (James Stewart) juggles wrestling with his personal demons as he becomes obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman (Kim Novak) he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Buy TicketsDirected by Elaine May and starring Cybill Shepherd and Charles Grodin, the film focuses on Grodin’s Lenny Cantrow, a newlywed man on his honeymoon who has second thoughts about his recent nuptials as falls in love with a different woman. This screening is a rare treat for audiences, as Film Streams has received one of the only prints available in the country courtesy of Bristol Myers Squibb and Elizabeth Purchell.
Nominated for 11 Oscars®, Billy Wilder’s black comedy film noir features Gloria Swanson in a career-defining performance as Norma Desmond, a former silent-film star who believes that she is perfectly poised for a return to the screen, much to the chagrin and horror of screenwriter Joe Gillis, played to perfection by William Holden.
From the brilliant mind of screenwriter and visionary director Vera Chytilova, this avant-garde blend of satire and psychological comedy is regarded as a milestone of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. Daisies tells the story of two young women engaging in pranks, challenging authoritarian patriarchy. The film was viewed as so revolutionary that it was banned from many theaters in its home country of Czechoslovakia shortly after its release.
Buy TicketsHailed as one of the greatest - if not the greatest - movies ever made time and time again since its release 83 years ago, Citizen Kane centers on a group of journalists dedicated to deciphering the dying words of enigmatic newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (played by director Orson Welles) as they explore and dissect his rags-to-riches rise to fame and fortune and his Icarian fall from power.
Directed by the legendary Agnès Varda, this stylistically enthralling film follows vagabond Mona on her journey across the French countryside as she explores the wine country of Languedoc-Roussillon. The film was a nominee and winner of numerous European accolades, including the Golden Lion and multiple César Awards.
