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Weekend Essentials Winter-Spring 2026

Ruth Sokolof Jan 10 – Mar 29

Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 11 am to celebrate the wonderful world of cinema. From cinematic landmarks to cult classics to overlooked gems, these are movies you can't miss on the big screen!

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Jan 10, 11, 17 & 18

Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be set the stage for such audacious comedies as Dr. Strangelove, The Producers and Inglorious Bastards. Even today it seems shocking that, in 1942, Ernst Lubitsch satirized occupied Warsaw.

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Ace in the Hole (1951)

Jan 24, 25, 31 & Feb 1

Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

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Black Orpheus (1959)

Feb 7, 8, 14 & 15

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Black Orpheus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century streets of Carnival.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Feb 21, 22, 28 & Mar 1

Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood.

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Beau Travail (1999)

Mar 7, 8, 14 & 15

Claire Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.

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City of God (2002)

Mar 21, 22, 28 & 29

City of God took social concerns and expressed them in the language of the MTV, rap and disco cultures familiar to young people of the same age as its protagonists. Its power depended on its credibility, enhanced by the performances of amateurs with unknown faces.

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