January 24, 2026
CLEOPATRA (1963) – AFI Movie Club
A lavish and utterly massive spectacle that fills the screen with pomp and circumstance worthy of Egypt’s queen, CLEOPATRA (1963) features an all-star cast that includes Richard Burton, Rex Harrison and, in the title role, the incomparable Elizabeth Taylor – recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award and named by AFI among the greatest screen...
June 22, 2025
MEAN STREETS (1973) – AFI Movie Club
Noted by critics as one of the first films to portray Italian-American culture from the point of view of someone who had experienced it daily – and described by The Village Voice at the time as “a piece of urban ethnography, a realist rendering of a subculture that had never been shown on screen in...
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