In the performance that would define his career, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a onetime prizefighter now resigned to backbreaking work as a longshoreman on docks ruled by a ruthless union boss ...

A program of lectures, panels and hands-on workshops that will introduce students of the Information Studies field, collectors, scholars, filmmakers, cinephiles and the general public to aspects of ...

Featuring a cast and crew reunion with writer-director John Waters, cast members Ricki Lake, Deborah Harry, Mink Stole, Clayton Prince, Pia Zadora and Colleen Fitzpatrick. Hosted by Oscar-winning ...

Lee won a Student Academy Award for this hour-long film, which he made as his master’s thesis for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Monty Ross (who would go on to co-produce several of Lee’s features, ...

Charlie Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character was once the most widely recognized figure in the entire world. Discover the first-ever filmed images of the Tramp as film historian and preservationist ...

The eighth in our series, curated by Academy Award nominee Gary Yershon, in which composers recall the creation of an Oscar-nominated score. At the height of his fame, suave silent film star George ...

Artist, poet and groundbreaking filmmaker Sergei Parajanov’s1968 masterpiece is a kaleidoscopic biography of the 18th century Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova. This dazzling epic is as far from a ...

A masterpiece from the golden age of world cinema, Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds is set on the last day of World War II and the first day of peace – and between them, a night that changes ...

The Academy and The New York Times present a special screening of an Academy Film Archive print of Network. This scathing satire of network television riveted audiences in 1976, produced one of the ...

Renowned editor, sound designer and three-time Oscar-winner Walter Murch will present a survey of sound in film in the second of our series of Timeline events, exploring the first known examples of ...

Academy Film Scholar Jan-Christopher Horak will give a presentation on his forthcoming book Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design, examining the career of one of the most accomplished designers in ...

Presented in conjunction with the "Icons of Animation" exhibit at the Society of Acclaimed artists Bill Plympton and Peter de Sève will present a series of film clips of their work and participate in ...