April 5, 2025
GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) – AFI Movie Club
Directed by AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Martin Scorsese and edited by his longtime collaborator, AFI Honorary Degree recipient Thelma Schoonmaker, GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD in 2002, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale,...
April 4, 2025
THE HUSTLER (1961) – AFI Movie Club
Directed by Robert Rossen, with editing by AFI Honorary Degree recipient Dede Allen and starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason as small-town pool sharks, THE HUSTLER (1961) was named by the American Film Institute among the greatest sports movies of all time. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about THE HUSTLER. Have Get The...
April 3, 2025
MEMENTO (2001) – AFI Movie Club
The first of seven collaborations between director Christopher Nolan and cinematographer – and AFI Alum – Wally Pfister (AFI Class of 1988), MEMENTO (2001) was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2001, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, ”MEMENTO...
April 2, 2025
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) – AFI Movie Club
Appearing on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest films of all time as well as among the art form’s greatest thrillers, director John Frankenheimer’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) stars screen legend – and AFI Honorary Degree recipient – Angela Lansbury in a chilling role that earned her a place among AFI’s accounting of...
March 31, 2025
THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) – AFI Movie Club
In addition to John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the titular duo, THE BLUES BROTHERS’ (1980) “mission from God” connects them with a cavalcade of high-wattage cameos, including James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Carrie Fisher, Twiggy, Chaka Khan and AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Steven Spielberg – who makes an uncredited...
March 29, 2025
THE GOOD SHEPHERD (2006) – AFI Movie Club
Marshalling an all-star cast led by Matt Damon, AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Robert De Niro stepped behind the camera to produce and direct THE GOOD SHEPHERD (2006) – photographed by AFI Alum Robert Richardson (AFI Class of 1979) and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, who served among the founding Trustees of AFI in...
March 27, 2025
PATTON (1970) – AFI Movie Club
Starring George C. Scott in a career-defining performance as the title role, PATTON (1970) first appeared on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest American films in 1998 – with Scott’s portrayal of General George Patton earning a place on AFI’s list of cinema’s great screen heroes. The film was directed by the great...
March 24, 2025
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) – AFI Movie Club
Named by the American Film Institute as one of cinema’s greatest screen heroes, James Bond proved once again that “nobody does it better” in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) – the 10th theatrical outing of the deadly and debonair secret agent, and the third with Roger Moore wielding the license to kill as 007....
March 22, 2025
THE HEIRESS (1949) – AFI Movie Club
A romantic drama featuring the luminous and legendary Olivia de Havilland transforming into the unlikely role of a woman both plain and shy, THE HEIRESS (1949) is directed and produced by AFI Life Achievement Award honoree William Wyler. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about THE HEIRESS. Have Get The Picture delivered to your...
March 21, 2025
THE LADY EVE (1941) – AFI Movie Club
A classic Preston Sturges screwball comedy, THE LADY EVE (1941) stars AFI Life Achievement Award honorees Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda as a con woman and a hapless heir to a brewery fortune (respectively), who fall in love while on an ocean liner. The film is ranked by the American Film Institute among the greatest romances and comedies of all...
March 20, 2025
AVATAR (2009) – AFI Movie Club
An immersive interplanetary trip to the intoxicating alien world of Pandora, director James Cameron’s AVATAR (2009) was a cultural phenomenon brought to the screen by armies of innovative artists – among whom were two graduates of the AFI Conservatory, supervising art director Todd Cherniawsky (AFI Class of 1993) and visual effects producer Maricel Pargulayan (AFI...
March 19, 2025
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) – AFI Movie Club
Adapting Homer’s epic, Joel and Ethan Coel brought “The Odyssey” to 1930s Mississippi in O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) – featuring an all-star cast of players that includes John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, Michael Badalucco, John Goodman, Holly Hunter and, as the film’s “man of constant sorrow” and front man for the...
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