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!
THE BIRDS
ALFRED HITCHCOCK | USA | 1963 | 120 MIN | PG-13
August 25 | 7:30 PM | Film Center
A young couple’s budding romance is thwarted when birds begin violently attacking the residents of a small town in this seminal Hitchcock thriller.
SPARTACUS
STANLEY KUBRICK | USA | 1960 | 197 MIN | PG-13
September 15 | 7:00 PM | Film Center
The late, great Kirk Douglas delivered one of his most iconic performances in this innovative Roman epic from Stanley Kubrick.
PAST FILM ESSENTIALS SCREENINGS
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