Film Essentials
FILM ESSENTIALS
With Film Essentials at the Philadelphia Film Center, PFS is giving audiences the chance to experience some of cinema’s greatest treasures as they were meant to be seen: on the biggest screen in Center City!
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
SERGEI M EISENSTEIN | RUSSIA | 1925 | 69 MIN
June 4 | 5:30 PM /// June 8 | 7:00 PM
An integral contribution to development of cinema as an artform, Sergei’s Eisenstein’s silent drama refuses subtly as it chronicles the insurrection led by the crew of a Russian battleship against its own officers and the chaos that follows.
THE 400 BLOWS
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT | FRANCE | 1974 | 99 MIN
June 25 | 3:30 PM /// June 29 | 7:00 PM
The harrowing anti-war masterpiece finds a young Belarusian boy joining the resistance against an unstoppable rampaging Nazi force in this unforgettable and surreal foray into the darkness of man.
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