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DOUBLE FEATURE Friday, October 16, 7 pm The Mark of Zorro | 1920 | 107 min. The Mark of Zorro | 1940 | 93 min. Author and historian Ted Widmer introduces the 1920 and 1940 films Harold Shapiro Marissa Doran Marissa Don Pollard Don Don Pollard Don that follow the story of the masked vigilante Zorro, a wealthy man who Racine Denis uses a secret identity to fight injustice against the poor. Join us for Pictured: Ted Widmer, Kati Marton, David Denby, Antonio Monda, Susan Lacy, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, Philip C. Bobbitt, Mary Owen, Ron Simon, Isabella Rossellini, this special program that focuses on the character that inspired future Thelma Schoonmaker, Ric Burns, Laurence Kardish, Edna Greene Medford, David W. Blight, Harold Holzer, Linda Greenhouse, Robert Post, Kenji Yoshino heroes, including—most notably—Gotham’s own Batman. 1920 (silent film): Directed by Fred Niblo. Starring , Marguerite Friday, December 4, 7 pm Friday, February 5, 7 pm De La Motte. 1940: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Starring Tyrone | 1957 | 103 min. Gloria | 1980 | 123 min. Power, Linda Darnell. Ron Simon, Senior Curator at the Paley Center for Media, and producer Laurence Kardish, former Senior Film Curator at MoMA, introduces Susan Lacy discuss this romantic comedy starring the action thriller in which a woman begrudgingly agrees to hide her Friday, October 23, 7 pm and as colleagues with conflicting views on the neighbors’ son from a mob hit squad. Directed by John Cassavetes. | 1945 | 111 min. computerization of a TV network’s research division. Directed by Walter Starring , Buck Henry. Author Kati Marton and film criticDavid Denby introduce the drama Lang. Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn. starring as a recently single mother who struggles to Friday, February 12, 7 pm support and please her spoiled daughter. Directed by . Friday, December 11, 7 pm Glory | 1989 | 122 min. Starring Joan Crawford, . The Shop Around the Corner | 1940 | 99 min. Historians Edna Greene Medford and David W. Blight, in In this romantic drama, two argumentative coworkers have no idea conversation with Harold Holzer, present this Civil War epic that Friday, November 6, 7 pm that they are also each other’s romantically involved pen pals. follows the first all-black regiment as they fight for racial equality The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | 100 min. Opening remarks by author Kati Marton and film criticDavid Denby. among their fellow Union Army officers as well as against the Filmmaker Antonio Monda and producer Susan Lacy present one Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Starring , Margaret Confederates. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Matthew of the first major film noirs, starring as a private eye Sullavan, Frank Morgan. Broderick, , . caught in the frantic search for a coveted falcon statuette. Directed by . Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor. Friday, December 18, 7 pm Friday, February 26, 7 pm The Flowers of St. Francis | 1950 | 87 min. The Lives of Others | 2006 | 137 min. Friday, November 13, 7 pm Actress Isabella Rossellini, in conversation with Academy Award- Linda Greenhouse, Lecturer at Yale Law School and Pulitzer Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | 160 min. winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, discusses her father’s Prize-winning writer, Robert Post, Dean of Yale Law School, and Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Alito and classic retelling of the story of St. Francis and the birth of the Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of constitutional scholar Philip C. Bobbitt present this courtroom classic Franciscans in nine vignettes. (Italian with English subtitles.) Directed Law, introduce the political thriller set in 1980s East Germany in in which a small-town lawyer must defend a man who claims temporary which an officer of the Stasi is asked to survey a famous theatrical insanity over the murder of his wife’s alleged assailant. Directed by Otto by . Starring Aldo Fabrizi, Gianfranco Bellini. couple suspected of anti-government writings. (German with English Preminger. Starring James Stewart, , . Friday, January 29, 7 pm subtitles.) Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch. Friday, November 27, 7 pm Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | 93 min. When a rogue general launches a nuclear attack on the U.S.S.R., It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | 130 min. the president and his war team must scramble to prevent doomsday. Donna Reed’s daughter Mary Owen and historian Ted Widmer Filmmaker Ric Burns introduces ’s iconic dark comedy celebrate the holiday season with one of the most enduring films of all Visit nyhistory.org/programs for information time. Jimmy Stewart stars as George Bailey, a man who finds meaning that satirizes the pervasive anxieties of Cold War America. Directed by on related Saturday breakfast programs. in his life on Christmas Eve. Directed by . Starring James Stanley Kubrick. Starring , George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden. Stewart, Donna Reed, .

For more details and the latest information on our featured films and speakers, please visit nyhistory.org/programs or call (212) 485-9205. Film Series Programmer: Dale Marsha Gregory, Presented at the Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 Vice President for Public Programs