Producer Sam Spiegel (The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia) hired Orson Welles to both direct and star in this suspense thriller, written by Anthony Veiller and an uncredited John Huston. In one of ...

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 ...

Castle took a rare venture into period horror for this 19th century-set chiller about a baron who inhabits a remote castle in far-off Gorslava, and whose eerie mask hides a ghoulish mystery. Veteran ...

Penelope Spheeris returns to the punk scene she first documented in 1981 and finds new bands equally as inflammatory as their predecessors. The powerful final chapter in Spheeris’s Decline of Western ...

A new installment in our series moderated by Academy Award nominee Gary Yershon, in which we invite Academy Award-winning composers to talk about their work alongside a screening of the film for which ...

Special Collections include Graphic Arts, Manuscripts and Photographs. These materials are available to individuals with a research need. Access requires an appointment booked in advance, as well as a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Special guest: producer-director Joe Berlinger, in conversation with director Ondi Timoner (DIG!, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC). Presented as part of the Academy’s series spotlighting recent film festival ...

Welles directed himself and his estranged wife Rita Hayworth in this visually inventive noir classic. Welles plays Michael O’Hara, a young Irish sailor who becomes embroiled in a deadly romantic ...

Costume designers, like so many other great talents of the film industry, are often associated with one particular kind of film, but the Academy’s new Saturday series demonstrates the remarkable ...