acclaimed films over the last four decades, and his script cleverly incorporates filmmaking techniques into its storyline. In collaboration with sound mixer Dick Vorisek and sound editor Dan Sable, as well as such De Palma regulars as cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, film editor Paul Hirsch, and composer Pino Donaggio, the director creates a worthy successor to the great conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Brian De Palma. WITH: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz. 1981. 108 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated R. DCP.
Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou. 1960. 179 min. Italy/France. B&W. Italian. 4K DCP.
The Philadelphia Story Wed, May 22 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Actors Branch.
Philip Barry wrote his stage comedy The Philadelphia Story for Katharine Hepburn who helped produce the Broadway production. Its smash success reignited Hepburn’s career and led to director George Cukor’s popular film adaptation, with Hepburn reprising her role as socialite Tracy Lord, Cary Grant as her ex-husband, and James Stewart (in his Academy Award–winning performance) as a love-struck reporter. Donald Ogden Stewart won an Oscar for adapting the Barry play, and the film also earned nominations for Best Picture, Cukor’s direction, Hepburn’s performance, and Ruth Hussey’s role as a wisecracking magazine photographer. DIRECTED BY: George Cukor. WRITTEN BY: Donald Ogden Stewart. WITH: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey. 1940. 112 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP.
Dick Tracy Wed, May 8 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Visual Effects Branch.
Warren Beatty directed and stars in this comic strip adventure about the straight-arrow policeman and his run-ins with a variety of colorful hoodlums—played by a rogues’ gallery of actors in elaborate Academy Award–winning makeup including Supporting Actor nominee Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice, plus Madonna as Breathless Mahoney performing Stephen Sondheim’s Academy Award-winning “Sooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man).” The film’s startling primary color look is courtesy of nominated cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, costume designer Milena Canonero, and Academy Award–winning production designer Richard Sylbert, with veteran matte painter Harrison Ellenshaw contributing to the gorgeously stylized visual effects. DIRECTED BY: Warren Beatty. WRITTEN BY: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. WITH: Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo, William Forsythe. 1990. 110 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. DCP.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
American Graffiti in 4K Wed, May 29 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Casting Directors Branch. Free for Museum Members. George Lucas took a 180° turn from the stark sci- fi dystopia of THX 1138 (1971) with this delightful ensemble comedy about an eventful night in the life of newly minted high school graduates in 1962, which proved to be the year’s surprise smash hit. Lucas and casting directors Fred Roos and Mike Fenton assembled an ensemble of rising stars including Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, and an Academy Award–nominated Candy Clark. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay, and Film Editing. DIRECTED BY: George Lucas. WRITTEN BY: George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck. WITH: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charlie Martin Smith. 1973. 110 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG. 4K DCP.
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI)
Rocco and His Brothers ( Rocco e i suoi fratelli ) in 4K Wed, May 15 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Writers Branch. This epic melodrama from director Luchino Visconti helped to make an international star of French actor Alain Delon, cast as one of five sons of a poor rural Italian family whose fortunes fall even farther after a move to Milan. The screenplay was a collaboration between Visconti and four other writers including Suso Cecchi D’Amico—one of the first female screenwriters in Italian cinema and a key figure in the neorealist movement; her remarkable body of work includes such classics as Bicycle Thieves (1948), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), and The Leopard (1963). DIRECTED BY: Luchino Visconti. WRITTEN BY: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. STORY BY: Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vasco Pratolini. WITH: Alain Delon,
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