One of Oscar Micheaux’s only surviving films follows Eve Mason from Alabama to the American Northwest after learning of the death of her grandfather and that she has inherited land from his former homestead.

Richard E. Norman’s silent melodrama, produced at Norman’s Film Manufacturing Company in Jacksonville, Florida, gave a showcase to Laurence Criner, a veteran of the Lafayette Players, a prestigious Black theater troupe based in Harlem. Screens 2/8 and 2/15.

Nearly every shot in Orson Welles’s exquisite, richly cynical adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about a turn-of-the-century family unwilling to change with the times pushed the cinematic medium into new expressive territory. Screens 2/8 and 2/9.

One of Oscar Micheaux’s only surviving films follows Eve Mason from Alabama to the American Northwest after learning of the death of her grandfather and that she has inherited land from his former homestead.

Nearly every shot in Orson Welles’s exquisite, richly cynical adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about a turn-of-the-century family unwilling to change with the times pushed the cinematic medium into new expressive territory. Screens 2/8 and 2/9.

As the ostensible villain of Delmer Daves’s western classic, the outlaw Ben Wade who is being guarded and brought to justice by civilian rancher Dan Evans (Oscar-winner Van Heflin), Glenn Ford keeps peeling back layers of humanity, even as the two men enact a tense cat-and-mouse game.

From an Oscar-winning script by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a deeply moving meditation on romantic love and the fragility of the human consciousness. Screens 2/14 and 2/15.

Taylor Hackford’s rousing, hit romantic melodrama starring Richard Gere and Debra Winger screens 2/14 and 2/16.