Currently On Sale On Sale: 2011 Archive On Sale: 2010 Archive Film Foundation Beggars of Life The Big Country The Big Sky Bonjour Tristesse The Boy with... Faces How Green... Letter from... The Music Room Night of the Hunter Once Upon a Time... Pandora and... Paths of Glory The River Saboteur Senso Seven Men from Now Sweet Sweetback's... Satoshi Kon SE: Jerzy Skolimowski SE: Mario Monicelli SE: The Fighter Spanish Cinema Now SE: Dave Brubeck Chabrol & Penn Freedom Riders Suso Cecchi D'Amico SE: Rambling Boy Cannon Films Canon IN: Joyce Chopra FCS: I Love You PM Smita Patil FCS: Cisco Pike Stanley Donen SE: Jessie Maple's Will Scary Movies 4 Mountainfilm IN: 11/4/08 IN: Chekhov for Children SE: Tiny Furniture Nathalie Baye SE: Desperately... SE: John Hughes John Hughes Latinbeat 2010 20th Century Fox FC Double Feature SE: Hip Hop Eric Rohmer IN: The Last Survivor FC: Summer Meltdown FCS: Animal Kingdom GS: Vanishing... SE: Airplane Isabel Sarli Ken Russell GS: Climate Refugees SE: You Don't Know... 21st Century Ltd. Clint Eastwood FC: Chandler NY Asian FF Human Rights Watch IN: No Tomorrow New Italian Cinema Agnes Jaoui Comedy Marathon IN: Orgasm Inc Muslim/Bombay SE: A Star Is Born Gr. Scr.: Fowl Play Lebanese Cinema Chopin FCS: Red Dawn They Came to Play Swedish Cinema Bahman Ghobadi NYAFF 2010 Chaplains Under Fire ND/NF Classics French Plastic Rendez-Vous Anne Bancroft The Winner Is... NY! Film Comment Selects SE: Rise Up SE: A Prophet Hungarian Cinema FCS: Jonathan Demme IN: Prodigal Sons FCS: Andy Warhol... Polish Cinema The Good The Bad... DOC 2010 NY Jewish Film Festival Jeff Bridges Chopin on Camera Brazilian Horror Louis Malle On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT		20 Years of Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation December 26 - January 2 Established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese, The Film Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history by providing substantial annual support for preservation and restoration projects at major film archives. Since its inception, the foundation has been instrumental in raising awareness of the urgent need for film preservation and has helped to save more than 500 films. On the occasion of the Foundation’s 20th anniversary, we present a selection of these beautifully restored treats, ranging from early animation and classics of the silent screen to masterpieces from the Golden Ages of Hollywood and world cinema. Thanks to: Academy Film Archive, Margaret Bodde and Allison Niedermeier/The Film Foundation, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, MGM, Museum of Modern Art, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Repertory, 20th Century Fox, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Save with a Three-Film Pass! $27 General Public/ $21 Students & Seniors / $18 Members Buy online now >>		Calendar >> Admission $12 General Public $9 Students $8 Seniors $7 Members Weekday Matinees* $9 General Public $7 Students $6 Seniors $5 Members *Only screenings Mon-Fri before 6pm. Tickets and passes are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office. Certain restrictions apply. VISITOR INFO >>
			Beggars of Life William Wellman, USA, 1928; 100m Live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin! The incomparable Louise Brooks stars in Wellman’s well-crafted thriller, which gives a straightforward look at 1920s hobo life. Restored by George Eastman House with funding provided by The Film Foundation. A Golden Silents presentation.Read more...		Buy Tickets Wed Dec 29: 6:30
			The Big Country William Wyler, USA, 1958; 165m Epic poetry in massive motion, Wyler’s bold Western stars Gregory Peck as an Easterner caught in a range war between his betrothed’s father and a rival (Burl Ives). Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Dec 26: 5 Thu Dec 30: 1
			The Big Sky Howard Hawks, USA, 1952; 140m A magnificently shot adventure upriver, Hawks’s curious RKO Western stars frontiersman Kirk Douglas, Arthur Hunnicutt (Oscar-nominated as grumpy old Uncle Zeb), and Dewey Martin. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Dec 26: 12:30
			Bonjour Tristesse Otto Preminger, USA, 1958; 94m In Preminger’s stunning adaptation, pre-Breathless Jean Seberg plays a bored, capricious French girl who coasts through life with her beloved, spineless playboy father (David Niven). SCREENING WITH: Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, USA, 1965; 3m) An ecstatic hot-rod love song about a boy and his car. Read more...		Buy Tickets Tue Dec 28: 4 Thu Dec 30: 6:15
			The Boy with Green Hair Joseph Losey, 1948, USA; 82m Losey’s subversively antiwar debut about a war orphan (Dean Stockwell), rejected because of his hair, retains its satiric sting and ultimate faith in America. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Jan 2: 4:30
			Faces John Cassavetes, 1968, USA; 130m Nominated for three Academy Awards, Cassavetes’ bracing cinema verité marital drama follows an aging businessman and his wife into the night after divorce is broached. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Jan 1: 6:30 Sun Jan 2: 2:00
			How Green Was My Valley John Ford, 1941, USA; 118m Ford’s magnificent portrait of 50 years in the life of a Welsh coal-mining village unfolds through the eyes of the youngest son (Roddy McDowell) of a large family. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Jan 1: 2:00
			Letter from an Unknown Woman Max Ophüls, USA, 1948; 86m Set in Vienna, Ophüls’s exquisitely refined Stefan Zweig adaptation begins with a concert pianist the night before a duel. With Joan Fontaine as the unknown one. SCREENING WITH: Don Quixote (Ub Iwerks, USA, 1934; 8m) A raucous, freewheeling Cervantes adaptation from an early genius of animation. In ComiColor! Read more...		Buy Tickets Wed Dec 29: 1 Fri Dec 31: 8:30
			The Music Room (Jalsaghar) Satyajit Ray, India, 1958; 100m One of the greatest films in the history of Indian cinema, Ray’s tale observes a turn-of-the-century aristocrat as he spends his dwindling fortune on lavish concerts. Read more...		Buy Tickets Mon Dec 27: 6 Fri Dec 31: 4:10
			The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton, USA, 1955; 93m In this gorgeous and haunting must-see classic, Robert Mitchum plays a psychotic criminal in parson’s garb snooping for hidden cash around his former cellmate’s kids. Read more...		Buy Tickets Mon Dec 27: 4 Wed Dec 29: 8:30
			Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone, Italy/USA, 1968; 165m Beautifully restored, Leone’s greatest spaghetti Western—a big, bold story of vengeance, betrayal, and greed—stars Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Dec 26: 8:15 Fri Dec 31: 1
			Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Albert Lewin, UK, 1951; 122m James Mason is the ageless Dutchman, opposite impetuous Ava Gardner, in this peak of high Fifties romanticism, shot with unearthly beauty by the late Jack Cardiff. Read more...		Buy Tickets Tue Dec 28: 8:30 Wed Dec 29: 3
			Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick, 1957, USA; 87m The scathing portrayal of war and honor in the French Army during WWI stars a ferocious Kirk Douglas, an inimitable Timothy Carey, and a villainous Adolphe Menjou. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Jan 1: 4:30 Sun Jan 2: 8:30
			The River Jean Renoir, France/India/USA, 1951; 99m Set in colonial India, Renoir’s glorious first color film captures the perilous transition from girlhood to adolescence in an extended family, from Rumer Godden’s autobiographical novel. Read more...		Buy Tickets Mon Dec 27: 8 Thu Dec 30: 4:10
			Saboteur Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1942; 108m Carrying the urgency of wartime, Hitchcock’s transcontinental couple-on-the-run comic thriller seems to grow in excitement and invention with each passing year. Co-written by Dorothy Parker! Read more...		Buy Tickets Tue Dec 28: 1:45 Fri Dec 31: 6:15
			Senso Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1954; 118m Dazzling with its creative use of color, Visconti’s chronicle of a forbidden affair (Alida Valli and Farley Granger) during Italy’s war of independence is one of the greatest historical films ever made. Read more...		Buy Tickets Mon Dec 27: 1:30 Tue Dec 28: 6 Thu Dec 30: 8:15
			Seven Men from Now Budd Boetticher, USA, 1956; 78m Relentless Randolph Scott tracks down seven outlaws (including Lee Marvin) to avenge his wife’s murder, in this gripping kick-off to the famed Boetticher-Scott partnership. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Dec 26: 3:15
			Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles, 1971, USA; 97m 40th Anniversary screening with Melvin Van Peebles in person! In this ground-breaking independent production, stud Sweetback (Van Peebles) fights back against the Man after witnessing police brutality and goes on the run. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Jan 1: 9:00 Sun Jan 2: 6:15