There Will Be Blood
This presentation focuses on the interconnected lives of Eli Sunday and Daniel Plainview in California’s early 20th century. Daniel Plainview, a miner turned oilman is driven and will go to…
Phantom Thread
Reynolds Woodcock, the renowned British dressmaker, is set in 1950s London post-war. He and Cyril Manville, his sister, are the heart of British fashion. They have been dressing movie stars,…
Gangs of New York
The Five Points district, which is known in the early-1860s Lower Manhattan as “The Five Points”, has Bill Cutting as its supreme ruler. This area is rife with prostitution and…
Lincoln
As the American Civil War is moving inexorably towards its conclusion, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln attempts to pass the historic constitutional amendment that will ban slavery forever from the United…
The Last of the Mohicans
Uncas, Uncas’ father Chingachgook and Hawkeye, Uncas’ adopted half-white brother, are the last remaining members of an endangered Native American tribe. They live peacefully alongside British colonists. Hawkeye and Uncas…
In the Name of the Father
Gerry Conlon, a young Belfastian (Daniel Day Lewis) admitted that he was actually in London during the incident. Conlon also admitted that he was not an ideal citizen after committing…
The Age of Innocence
Newland Archer, society scion, is engaged to May Welland. But his orderly life becomes chaotic when May meets the unconventional cousin of May, the Countess Olenska. Newland is initially a…
A Room with a View
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter), and Charlotte Bartlett, her chaperone (Dame Maggie Smith), find themselves in Florence without views. Luckily for them, Mr. Emerson (Denholm Elliot) and his son George…
The Crucible
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover’s wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
The Bounty (1984)
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the…
The Boxer
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina…
Nine
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest movie endeavor. With only a week left before shooting…
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
1986. Jack Slavin, an engineer by trade, and his mid-teen daughter Rose Slavin live in virtual isolation on what was once a commune that Jack and a group of others…
My Beautiful Laundrette
Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses…
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Christy Brown is born with cerebral palsy to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs. Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a…