Academy Award–winner, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Cal alum Gregory Peck stands tall in these eight films from his illustrious career. An iconic figure of the forties, fifties, and beyond, Peck was known for his reserve, integrity, and rich, honeyed voice. Our series highlights his versatility as an actor and includes <i>Pork Chop Hill</i>, <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>, <i>Roman Holiday</i>, and <i>Duel in the Sun</i>, among others.

As a tribute to Ken Russell, the flamboyant and provocative British filmmaker who died last year at age eighty-four, we screen <i>Gothic</i>, his extravagantly excessive 1986 tale of the birth of <i>Frankenstein</i>.

A treasury of over forty trailers culled from the PFA Collection.

Film editor Curtiss Clayton takes us <b>Behind the Scenes</b> of the art and craft of cinema with an illustrated talk and the screening of three of the more than thirty films he has edited: Gus Van Sant’s <i>To Die For</i> (1995); <i>Rick</i> (2003), starring Bill Pullman, which Clayton also directed; and <i>Maladies</i>, the not-yet-released feature from Carter, starring James Franco.

In this second round of <b>One-Two Punch,</b> several great pulp contenders duke it out for supremacy: Dorothy B. Hughes (<i>In a Lonely Place</i>, <i>Fallen Sparrow</i>), Mickey Spillane (<i>My Gun is Quick</i>, <i>The Girl Hunters</i>), and Elmore Leonard (<i>Stick</i>, <i>Valdez is Coming</i>). Get a seat ringside and prepare to be knocked out.

Local filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky—whose exhilarating 16mm silent films relish in the possibilities of image making—joins us for three evenings of special screenings of his work. Our series kicks off on June 10, with New York–based curator Mark McElhatten joining Dorksy in conversation following a screening of Dorsky’s most recent films. “A formalist with a brimming, elegiac soul, Dorsky will gently rock your attitude toward cinematic landscape”(Paul Arthur).

We present two films by British director Peter Greenaway that explore Rembrandt’s most famous painting, <i>The Night Watch</i>. <i>Rembrandt’s J’Accuse</i> purports to explain the mysteries hidden in plain sight in the painting, revealing a Golden Age murder mystery, while <i>Nightwatching</i> combines a fictional foray into the life and loves of the Dutch master with the mysterious conditions surrounding the commissioning of the group portrait.

A rare opportunity to see three Czech New Wave classics in 35mm: Vera Chytilov&aacute;’s surrealist comedy <i>Daisies</i> (1966) and inventive masterwork <i>Fruit of Paradise</i> (1970), and Jaromil Jires’s cult classic <i>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders </i>(1969).