Families

  • Leave Her to Heaven

    Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder.“Mo

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  • The Man on the Flying Trapeze

    Another of the beleaguered family men that were by this time a Fields trademark, Ambrose Wolfinger lives in quiet misery, oppressed by his second wife and her good-for-nothing relations.

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  • Way Out West

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  • It's a Gift

    Harold Bissonette is trying to shave, performing a complicated and dangerous dance around his obliviously preening daughter in front of the bathroom mirror. "You want me to cut my throat?" he mutters. Family life could drive him to it.

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  • The Bank Dick

    The Bank Dick is the culmination of Fields's studies of small-town American morality, in which he puts the ax in axioms of wealth through hard work, happiness through wealth, and propriety through Protestantism.

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  • Laurel & Hardy Shorts

    This program is the culmination of BAM/PFA Family Day: bring the whole family to sing with the T Sisters, drink lemonade and eat ice cream, and customize bowler hats and costumes for a Laurel & Hardy–themed parade before the movie!

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  • Hiroshima mon amour

    “A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time.”—Criterion

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  • The Tales of Hoffmann

    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s followup to their enormously successful ballet film The Red Shoes was this visually splendid tour-de-force: lush color, outrageous effects, Offenbach’s magnificent score, and impressive dancing highlight the three connected tales of a p

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  • Georges Méliès Shorts

    “Cinema will perhaps have to wait centuries more before finding another genius whose childlike soul will, like Méliès, make light of its phantasmagorias.”—Henri Langlois

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  • The Strange Case of Angelica

    One of the final films from the long career of director Manoel de Oliveira (whose films BAM/PFA showcased in 2008) tells the story of a metaphysical passion that defies reason.

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