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!

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DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
Though many have tried, no filmmaker has captured the bureaucratic absurdity of a world on the edge of destruction and the eclectic buffoons that hold humanity’s future in their bumbling grips than this grade A masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick.
Director: STANLEY KUBRICK
Runtime: 95 min
Saturday, Sept. 7 | 1:00 PM & Sunday, Sept. 8 | 3:30 PM
Genre
Comedy
Category
Film Essentials
PFS Member 50
Release
1964
THE TREE OF LIFE
Haunted by whispers of those passed, Terrence Malick’s grand, singular foray into the spiritual and metaphysical follows a lost soul recounting his early childhood in 1950s Texas.
Director: TERRENCE MALICK
Runtime: 139 min
Theater: Film Society Center
Sunday, Sept. 8 | 3:00 PM & Sunday, Sept. 15 | 3:00 PM
Genre
DRAMA
Category
Film Essentials
PFS Members 50
Formats
4K
Release
2011

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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 | HarakiriI | Network | The Social Network | Tampopo | Dog Day Afternoon