Senior Afternoon Cinema

A matinee series of outstanding repertory films programmed to appeal to senior moviegoers.

Good Morning Mar. 6, 2024 Presented on 35mm Legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu’s hilarious Technicolor reworking of his silent I Was Born, But . . . , Good Morning…
The 400 Blows Feb. 7, 2024 Presented on 35mm François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (in…
Little Fugitive Jan. 3, 2024 Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of American independent cinema, Little Fugitive is an utterly…
Rebecca Dec. 13, 2023 In Alfred Hitchcock’s Academy Award-winning adaption of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel, a timid young woman (Joan Fontaine) meets and…
Wuthering Heights Nov. 29, 2023 In this adaptation of Emily Brontë’s beloved Gothic novel set in 19th-century England, wealthy young Cathy Earnshaw (Merle Oberon) shares…
The Night of the Hunter Oct. 18, 2023 In Charles Laughton’s Southern Gothic masterpiece, Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) marries a gullible widow (Shelley Winters), whose young children…
Heaven Can Wait Sep. 12, 2023 In Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait, spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve (Don Ameche) dies and arrives at the entrance to…
To Be or Not to Be Aug. 10, 2023 Presented on 35mm In Ernst Lubitsch’s masterful WWII satire, thespian couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical…
Trouble in Paradise July 6, 2023 35mm Screening In this pre-code film by Ernst Lubitsch, notorious thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) and pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins) are partners…
The Philadelphia Story June 27, 2023 35mm Screening When a rich socialite’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn…
Charade June 8, 2023 35mm Screening In this Stanley Donen flick, romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman (Audrey Hepburn) is pursued by several…
Only Angels Have Wings May 30, 2023 At a remote South American port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots’ lives to…
North by Northwest May 16, 2023 35mm Screenings This Hitchcock classic features Cary Grant playing a New York City ad exec who goes on the run after being…
Hester Street Jan. 25, 2023 Gitl (Carol Kane, in her Academy Award nominated role) and her son arrive on the Lower East Side of New…
The Heiress Jan. 5, 2023 Presented on 35mm Catherine (Olivia de Havilland), a young woman who stands to inherit her father’s large fortune, falls in love when she…
Gosford Park Oct. 19, 2021 Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville), one of America’s most distinctive and prolific filmmakers, journeyed to England to create…
Sabrina Nov. 16, 2021 Chauffeur’s daughter Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face) comes home from two years in Paris and immediately catches the attention…
The Lady Eve Dec. 14, 2021 Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity) sizzles, Henry Fonda (The Wrong Man) bumbles, and Preston Sturges, directing his third feature, runs riot…
Reds Jan. 18, 2022 Hollywood icon Warren Beatty (The Parallax View, McCabe & Mrs. Miller) co-wrote, directed and starred in this film about the…
Stavisky Feb. 16, 2022 From money laundering to influence-peddling, casino gambling to dabbling in controversial politics, the life of Serge Alexandre (the late Jean-Paul…
Gypsy Mar. 15, 2022 Let this Broadway classic entertain you! By the time Gypsy Rose Lee became a 1930s burlesque headliner, she had come…
The Front Page Apr. 20, 2022 Based on the play of the same name by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which by 1974 had already been…
One, Two, Three May 19, 2022 In the fourth collaboration between director Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár’s one-act play, Egy, kettö…
The Fortune Cookie June 16, 2022 In The Fortune Cookie, the seventh collaboration between Wilder and Diamond, Jack Lemmon stars as Harry Hinkle, a pro sports…
Now, Voyager July 28, 2022 Academy Award winner Bette Davis (All About Eve, Dark Victory) stars with Paul Henreid (Casablanca) in one of the greatest…
All That Heaven Allows Aug. 24, 2022 Cary Scott (Oscar winner Jane Wyman, The Lost Weekend, The Blue Veil) is an upper-class widow who throws societal norms…
Love with the Proper Stranger Sep. 28, 2022 Two of Hollywood’s all-time favorite stars heat up the steamy streets of Manhattan in this tough and tender romance. Taken…
My Man Godfrey Oct. 24, 2022 When Irene, a madcap socialite (Carole Lombard), hires Godfrey, (William Powell), a man down on his luck during the Great…
Ball of Fire Nov. 30, 2022 When burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O’Shea (Barbara Stanwyck) goes on the run from the police who are seeking out her gangster…
What's Up, Doc? Dec. 21, 2022 Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal star in a screwball romantic comedy that races across San Francisco in What’s Up, Doc?…

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