Erika Alexander Mid-Career Retrospective
Join Erika, PFS, and some very special guests as we screen LA MISSION and AMERICAN FICTION, along with post-screening talkbacks, and favorite LIVING SINGLE episodes featuring live commentary.
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Pros and Cons: Shaggy Dogs
September: They may not be cons and their pro status is debatable at best, yet the shaggy dog detectives and their convoluted cases have remained an endearing force.
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CE N’EST PAS UN FILM: LEOS CARAX
September: Serving up a playful world of criminals, wannabes, and lovers, Leos Carax has emerged as one of the most original and daring directors in the world.
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Special Screenings
Limited engagements, Community Partnerships and Free Screenings, one-night-only presentations, and eventized screenings of everything from established classics to exciting new titles.
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After Hours
Bringing together the odd, eerie, thrilling, and downright weird, this is the home of cult classics.
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Lost in Animation
Monthly: New and old classics celebrating the wide range of power, emotion, and visual splendor that only anime can provide.
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Film Essentials
Monthly: Cinema’s greatest treasures as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen!
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PFS Young Friends Film Club
Monthly: Do you like scary (or other) movies? Join the Young Friends of Philadelphia Film Society an hour before each Film Club Screening for a mixer!
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Throwback Quizzo & Movie
Monthly: Put your movie and pop culture knowledge to the test with this pairing of irreverent trivia and nostalgic films.
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Echoes of the Land: Chronicles of West Africa
Monthly: Narratives that reflect West Africa’s cultural wealth, socio-political intricacies and interpersonal dynamics with unyielding authenticity.
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Philly Film Showcase
Monthly: A FREE screening and discussion series dedicated to work by up-and-coming local filmmakers of all ages, levels, and backgrounds.
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COMMUNITY SCREENINGS
Community Screenings are free events curated in partnership with Philadelphia arts and advocacy organizations.
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PFS MEMBER 50
Throughout 2024 we will reveal and screen PFS Members’ picks across our monthly programs and limited series.
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Past Series

Meet the Spielbergs: Steven Spielberg | Director Series – Poetry in Motion: Lee Chang-dong | Return of the Summer of Trilogies

Holiday Screenings | 20th Anniversary Series at the Drive-In | Blockbusters on 4K | Science on Screen | Classics | Michelle Yeoh Everywhere All At Once | Cannes I Get A Boo? | Philly’s Grace | Summer of Trilogies | AP Bio | Winter Weekends | Hogwarts Express | Made in USA | Non/Fiction | World View | Girl Uninterrupted | Women’s March | April Screws | It’s Alive! | Freedom! ’90s | Summer of Trilogies Strikes Back | Kosmos Yorgos | Spaghetti Shockers Part II | Sight and Sound 100 | Guilty Treasures | Naughty and Nice | The Beginning of the End | Black Cinema Weekend | Journey to Arrakis | And the Winner Is… | The American Vanguard | American Baadasssss| When Nora Met Meg | Coffy with Foxy | Merci, Agnès | Mischievous Maniacs | Pros and Cons: Heist | The Other Tarkovskys | PFS Goes Green! | Pros and Cons: Kidnapped | It’s Showtime, Fosse! | All About the Mother | Debut| Absolutely Almodóvar! | It’s a Queer World After All