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Produced by Oklahoma film legend Gray Frederickson, Francis Ford Coppola's eye-popping and profoundly influential update of the classical Hollywood musical follows a bickering Las Vegas couple who split up on the 4th of July and spend the evening exploring other romantic possibilities. One From the Heart screens in a new director-supervised 4K restoration.
In a series of meticulously crafted and often darkly funny vignettes, this Cannes highlight details ordinary Iranians' attempts to navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by social authorities, from schoolteachers to government bureaucrats. Terrestrial Verses screens as part of Museum Films' ongoing Art-House Expanded series.
Commissioned by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in honor of its centennial, the tenth film in master Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang's experimental Walker series features Tsai’s frequent collaborator Lee Kang-sheng (Goodbye, Dragon Inn) as a barefoot, red-robed monk on a meditative journey across Washington, D.C. Screening in a special one-night presentation as part of Museum Films' Art-House Expanded series.
Edith Head won a pair of Costume Design Oscars at the 23rd Academy Awards held in 1951, one for the black-and-white drama All About Eve, and another for Cecil B. DeMille's lavish, technicolor biblical extravaganza, which stars Victor Mature as Old Testament strongman Samson, and Hedy Lamarr as the fiery seductress Delilah.  Â
Nominated for a record-setting 14 Oscars at the 23rd Academy Awards, where Edith Head won two trophies for black-and-white and color costume design, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's iconic showbiz drama stars Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, an up-and-coming ingĂ©nue who infiltrates the professional and romantic inner circle of aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis).  Â
Regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning fusion of noir, dark comedy, and tragic character study stars William Holden as a washed-up screenwriter who enters into a deadly relationship with an aging silent film actress (Gloria Swanson) desperate for a comeback.Â