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!
CITIZEN KANE
ORSON WELLES | USA | 1941 | 119 MIN | PG | 4K
December 6 | 7:00 PM /// December 9 | 3:00 PM
Birthing a new cinematic landscape filled with wondrous flair, Orson Welles steers his transformative directorial debut with an audaciousness fit for his subject: the thinly-veiled life of media mogul Charles Foster Kane aka William Randolph Hearst.
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