Film Essentials
FILM ESSENTIALS
With Film Essentials at the Philadelphia Film Society, PFS gives audiences the chance to experience some of cinema’s greatest treasures as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen!
HARAKIRI
MASAKI KOBAYASHI | JAPAN | 1962 | 133 MIN | NR | JAPANESE
April 4 | 7:00 PM /// April 27 | 12:00 PM
Masaka Kobayashi’s masterpiece is an unparalleled, exquisite exploration of honor amidst corruption when a lone samurai wishes to commit the ultimate fatal rite at the feet of an unscrupulous lord in feudal Japan.
NETWORK
SIDNEY LUMET | USA | 1976 | 121 MIN | R | ENGLISH
May 5 | 3:30 PM /// May 9 | 7:30 PM
Sidney Lumet and a legendary cast lead a sharp and shockingly poignant satire about a struggling broadcast news network’s new strategy. Emboldened by a morbid threat from Peter Finch’s mad as hell news anchor, they will win the ratings war by any means necessary.
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
DAVID FINCHER | USA | 2010 | 120 MIN | PG-13 | ENGLISH
May 22 | 7:00 PM /// May 25 | 4:00 PM
Propelled by an ingenious RASHOMON-lite framing device, David Fincher’s bulletproof masterpiece is the rare studio film of the 21st century that captures each artistic contributor firing on all cylinders to create a generation-defining, yet timeless tale about a boy that changed the world…for better or worse.
TAMPOPO
JÛZÔ ITAMI | JAPAN | 1985 | 114 MIN | NR | JAPANESE
June 11 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM /// June 15 | 3:30 PM /// June 16 | 6:00 PM
One of the most coveted gonzo gourmet films ever created celebrates the broth we love to slurp; when a Japanese cafe owner’s quest for noodle supremacy is served steaming hot with an interspersed mix of foodies’ unadulterated and most peculiar methods of fulfilling their carnal or carnivorous appetite, all for our pleasure.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON
SIDNEY LUMET | USA | 1975 | 125 MIN | R | ENGLISH
June 25 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM /// June 29 | 1:00 & 6:30 PM
On one sweat-drenched summer afternoon Al Pacino delivered the performance of a lifetime — a desperate man’s bank robbery attempt escalates into a hostage crisis, ripping through the veneer of 1970s New York and exposing the city’s boiling socioeconomic tensions.
PAST FILM ESSENTIALS SCREENINGS
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY | A CLOCKWORK ORANGE | IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE | SHAFT | CITIZEN KANE | JULES AND JIM | RASHOMON | CABARET | CITY LIGHTS | PULP FICTION | JAWS | 8½ | REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE | ENTER THE DRAGON | THE RED SHOES | EVE’S BAYOU | MALCOLM X | THE BIRDS | SPARTACUS | FANNY AND ALEXANDER in 4K | THE WIZARD OF OZ on 35MM | THE PIANO in 4K | STRANGER ON A TRAIN on 35MM | THE RULES OF THE GAME on 35MM | ALL THAT JAZZ | EASY RIDER in 4K | SEVEN SAMURAI on 35MM | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | BRAZIL: DIRECTOR’S CUT | ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST in 4K | THE THIRD MAN in 4K | KILLER OF SHEEP |THELMA & LOUISE | FRANKENSTEIN | DRACULA | DAISIES | THE DISCREET CHARMS OF THE BOURGEOISIE | THE GRAPES OF WRATH | THE LAST WALTZ | SHADOW OF A DOUBT | COME AND SEE | DUCK SOUP | CASABLANCA | THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T | PARIS, TEXAS | RAN | KING KONG | BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN | THE 400 BLOWS | BICYCLE THIEVES | BREATHLESS | PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE | BEAU TRAVAIL | CITIZEN KANE | CINEMA PARADISO | PEEPING TOM | WATERMELON MAN | THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT | MOONSTRUCK | THE SEVENTH SEAL