Monster

Kore-eda Hirokazu‘s film Monster premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, winning best screenplay (for Yuji Sakamoto). A critically acclaimed Japanese master, Kore-eda previously won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with Shoplifters (2018) and returned to the competition last year with Broker, which earned best actor (for Song Kang-ho).

Titanic: The Musical

In the final hours of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and ‘the unsinkable ship’ slowly sank.  It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th Century.  Fifteen hundred seventeen men, women, and children lost their lives.

One Day on Earth

One Day on Earth is the first film made in every country of the world on the same day. We see both the challenges and hopes of humanity from a diverse group of volunteer filmmakers assembled by a participatory media experiment. The world is greatly interconnected, enormous, perilous, and wonderful.  A documentary that captures the same 24-hour period throughout every country in the world.

The Dead

John Huston, 1987
PG; 87 minutes
 
A festive holiday dinner in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century leads to epiphanies for a married couple. At the home of his spinster aunts, the socially maladroit Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann) and his reserved wife, Gretta (Anjelica Huston), reflect on their marriage, Gretta's memories of her first love, and what it means both to live and to love. Director John Huston's final film is a faithful adaptation of the James Joyce short story.

Auntie Mame

Morton DaCosta, 1958
143 minutes
 
Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick (Jan Handzlik/Roger Smith) after his wealthy father dies. Dwight Babcock (Fred Clark), Patrick's assigned executor, objects to Mame's unconventional way of living and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

How to Marry a Millionaire

Jean Negulesco, 1953
95 minutes
 
Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey, and Pola Debevoise (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe) are three women on a mission: they all want to marry a millionaire. To accomplish this task, they move into a fancy New York City apartment and begin courting the city's elite. They have no problem meeting rich men, but unfortunately most of them turn out to be creeps or cons. Eventually they must decide: is a life of luxury more important to them than finding true love?

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders, 1987
PG-13; 128 minutes; German with English subtitles
 
Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population and providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed, but never interacting with them. When one of the angels falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist, he longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds—with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk (playing himself)—that it might be possible for him to take human form.