Each month, we will move through film history and watch a film from a different decade that we believe to be important to film history. Join us as we travel through time and continue to keep these films alive.
Bringing Up Baby Screening & Discussion
The screwiest of screwballs, Howard Hawks’s Bringing Up Baby is a delight and a riot. Starring gruesome twosome Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, the film provides a space for their full charms and comedic prowesses to bloom. Hijinks abound as they deal with dinosaur bones, women’s negligee, a leopard who loves singing, and most of all each other. Your sides and cheeks will hurt after from hootin and hollerin.
Selected Shorts of Early Cinema
To kick off a new year of Film School, we’re heading all the way back to cinema’s roots. This month we offer a small selection of shorts from early cinema, focused on comedy and surrealism. Come watch then discuss how cinema has changed and how it has stayed the same. Program to be announced soon!
35 Shots of Rum
Claire Denis’s quietly moving portrait of a father and daughter whose lives begin to diverge. Set in Paris, the film captures the tenderness of routine and the ache of change. Screening followed by a group discussion.
The Player
Robert Altman’s dark Hollywood satire about a studio exec caught in a murder and a system that rewards it. Our pick for the 1990s — movies about movies, and the mess behind them.
Where is the Friend’s House?
Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)
Abbas Kiarostami’s tender, quietly powerful film follows a boy’s determined search for his classmate’s home after accidentally taking his notebook. What begins as a simple errand unfolds into a moving portrait of childhood, responsibility, and the small acts of care that shape community.
Join us for a screening and discussion of this landmark work of Iranian cinema.
Fox and His Friends
Our pick for the ’70s is Fox and His Friends, Fassbinder’s first overtly gay film and a sharp look at class, love, and exploitation. It follows a working-class man who wins the lottery and is drawn into the world of the wealthy, where power and affection become intertwined.
The screening will be followed by a group discussion.
Doors at 6:30.
Alphaville
Our pick for the 1960s: Godard goes sci-fi in this cool, cryptic noir where love is outlawed and logic runs the city. Shot in real Paris but set in a dystopian future, Alphaville is part detective story, part philosophical fever dream, and all style. Followed by a group discussion.
Pickpocket
We’re moving into the 1950s with Pickpocket — Robert Bresson’s minimalist masterpiece and one of the most quietly influential films of the 20th century. A major inspiration for Taxi Driver, Pickpocket follows a young man’s descent into crime with stark realism and spiritual intensity. With its focus on hands, isolation, and grace, Bresson strips cinema down to its barest elements — and somehow makes something transcendent. A beautiful, haunting portrait of alienation and the flicker of redemption.
The Philadelphia Story
Moving through film history, we now turn to one of the defining films of 1940s cinema — The Philadelphia Story. Discussion after the film!
City Lights Screening
To begin our journey through film history, we first turn to one of the most iconic faces of 1930s cinema — Charlie Chaplin.