Series Site
Friday, February 6 – Thursday, February 26
A festival of over 50 movies, including films by Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joan Micklin Silver, King Vidor, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Lois Weber, Hal Ashby, Elia Kazan, Sergio Leone, Shirley Clarke, John Huston, D.W. Griffith, William Wyler, Leon Ichaso, Robert Wise, Raoul Walsh, Jules Dassin, Preston Sturges, Sean Baker, and many others.
The series spans over 100 years of American moviemaking, from silents made by D.W. Griffith, Raoul Walsh and pioneering woman director Lois Weber in the teens and comedies by Chaplin, Keaton and Harold Lloyd in the 1920s, up through movies by Coppola, Scorsese and Sergio Leone, and more recently by Ronald Bronstein and Sean Baker.