Cinderella Liberty
In this overlooked gem from Hollywood’s 1970s heyday, Caan plays Baggs, a sailor marooned in Seattle on extended shore leave when his records are lost amid a ship transfer.
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Safety Last!
This Harold Lloyd classic, filmed on location in downtown Los Angeles, remains every bit as astonishing and thrilling as the day it was released. Screens September 17–30.
Soylent Green (introduced by Bill Nye)
On September 25, see Richard Fleischer’s iconic sci-fi thriller, one of the first ecologically minded films to envision the effects of climate change, introduced by legendary science educator Bill Nye.
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Mixing slapstick comedy with sepia-toned lensing by master DP László Kovács, and featuring committed performances by both the lead cast and a deep well of great character actors, Harry and Walter Go to New York remains a strange and inviting brew.
The Gambler
In a magnetic, psychologically rich performance, Caan plays Axel Freed, a college literature professor who teaches Dostoyevsky by day and echoes the author's antiheroic Gambler by night.
Sam and Friends
This program presents four of the fifteen surviving episodes of Sam and Friends, a five-minute, live television show created by Jim Henson and Jane Nebel (later Jane Henson) that aired daily on Washington, D.C.–based WRC-TV from 1955 to 1961.
Safety Last!
This Harold Lloyd classic, filmed on location in downtown Los Angeles, remains every bit as astonishing and thrilling as the day it was released. Screens September 17–30.
Queens at the Margins and in the Center: Films by Neha Gautam
Combining labor, migration and resistance, this community program on September 30 features screenings of new films by longtime Queens resident, community organizer, and filmmaker Neha Gautam.
Alien Nation
Bedecked in ’80s genre trappings yet motivated by allegory, Alien Nation situates a mismatched buddy cop story within a near-future Los Angeles inundated by 300,000 humanoid extraterrestrials.
