Upcoming Events
Past Features
2024
The Ides of March
Under The Tuscan Sun
No Country for Old Men
The Dark Crystal
IKE: Countdown to D-Day
The Crucible
The Quiet American
2023
Little Big Man
Some Like It Hot
The Big Easy
Hidden Figures
Stand by Me
The Music Man
Catch Me If You Can
Hopscotch
White Nights
Green Book
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Muppet Christmas Carol
2022
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Black Panther
Dirty Dancing
Black Narcissus
All About Eve
Sully
1776
Yankee Doodle Dandy
River of No Return
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Best Years of Our Lives
Elf
2021
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Vincente Minnelli’s Home from the Hill
Han Suyin’s Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin & Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck
Gilda featuring Rita Hayworth
Rob Marshall’s Chicago
From Here to Eternity
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
The Swimmer
Funny Face
Alamo Bay
Herman Hoffman’s Forbidden Planet
The Children’s Hour
2020
The Pied Piper
Moonlight
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Mervyn LeRoy’s Quo Vadis
Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait
Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse
Nicholas Meyer’s The Day After
Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire
John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate
Cole Porter’s Can-Can
Walt Disney’s Old Yeller
2019
- The Bucket List
- The Flying Dutchman
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Learning Tree
- Imitation of Life
- All That Heaven Allows
- Pillow Talk
- Compulsion
- Hidden Figures
- Running Brave
- Shanghai Express
- The Savage Innocents
2018
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- White Dog
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce
- Breaking Away
- Atlantic City
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- Elmer Gantry
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Repulsion
- Grumpy Old Men
- Grumpier Old Men
2017
- Brian’s Song
- Two for the Road
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Being There
- The Railway Man
- You’ve Got Mail
- Shane
- The Shooting Party
- The Innocents
- When Harry Met Sally
- Out of Africa
2016
- The Pink Panther
- Lost Battalion
- 12 O’Clock High
- Apollo 13
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- The Return of the Pink Panther
- The Wizard of Oz
- Strictly Ballroom
- Doc Hollywood
- The Blind Side
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- A Christmas Story
2015
- Erin Brockovich
- Steel Magnolias
- Mister Holland’s Opus
- American Beauty
- The Graduate
- Rain Man
- Confederate States of America (CSA)
- Ride with the Devil
- In Her Shoes
- Picnic
- Splendor in the Grass
- Home Alone
Foreign Language Films
2024
Zulu
Bread and Tulips
The Rules of the Game: La regle du jue
Good Bye Lenin
Nowhere In Africa: Nirgendro in Afrika
Amelie
The Scarlet Pimpernel
2023
Elevator to the Gallows
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Lovejoy: The Firefly Cage (Season 1, Episode 1)
and Smoke Your Nose (Season 3, Episode 9)
The Professor and the Madman
Hollywood Chinese
The Artist
Run Lola Run
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Spirited Away
Hope and Glory
Murder on the Orient Express
Slumdog Millionaire
The King’s Speech
2022
Aftershock
Life of Pi
Pandora’s Box
The Nun
Cuckoo
Waking Ned Devine
The Great War of Archimedes
Squadron 303
Russian Ark
Farewell My Concubine
Like Water for Chocolate
Joyeux Noel
2021
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Oedipus Rex
Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love
Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman
Louis Malle’s Viva Maria!
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s La Verite
Two Women
Minari (Korean, 2020)
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool)
Antonioni’s Blow-Up
Hester Street
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris
Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou & Los Olvidados
2020
The Seventh Seal
Manilla in the Claws of Light
The Emigrants
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine
Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita
Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless
Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika
Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall
Jean Renoir’s French Cancan (with special guest Lawrence-to-Broadway actor Dylan Paul Hilpman)
Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja
2019
- The Bad Sleep Well (Japan)
- High and Low (Japan)
- Seven Samurai (Japan)
- Death in Venice (Italy)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons (Germany)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Germany)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (Germany)
- The Trial (France)
- Mephisto (Germany)
- Let the Right One In (Sweden)
- * Chinese double-bill: Broken Blossoms and The Toll of the Sea (silent films, USA)
- Force Majeure (Sweden)
2018
- Purple Noon (France)
- Rocco and His Brothers (Italy)
- Leviathan (Russia)
- Mr. Klein (France)
- The Band’s Visit (Egypt/Israel)
- The Leopard (Italy)
- Shall We Dance? (Japan)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden)
- Tristana (Mexico)
- The Tenant (France)
- Indochine (France)
- A Christmas Tale (France)
2017
- The Bridge (Germany)
- The Lunchbox (India)
- The 400 Blows (France)
- Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan)
- Forbidden Games (France)
- Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
- Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
- Tampopo (Japan)
- Fanny & Alexander (Sweden)
- The Exterminating Angel (Spain)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (France)
- Babette’s Feast (France)
2016
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France)
- The House of Flying Daggers (China)
- Teorema (Italy)
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Soviet Union)
- Wings of Desire (Germany)
- La Nuit de Varennes (France)
- The Music Room (India)
- Umberto D. (Italy)
- Wild Strawberries (Sweden)
- Diabolique (France)
- Santa Sangre (Chile)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japan)
2015
- Sundays and Cybele (Greece)
- The Conformist (Italy)
- Knife in the Water (Poland)
- Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico)
- The Tin Drum (Germany)
- The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan)
- The Sheep Has Five Legs (France)
- Never on Sunday (Greece)
- The Burmese Harp (Japan)
- My Life as a Dog (Sweden)
- The Russian Ark (Russia)
- Joyeux Noel (France, Germany, England)
2014
- A Man and a Woman (France)
- Rashomon (Japan)
- La Strada (Italy)
- All About My Mother (Spain)
- Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia)
- Z (Greece)
- The Lives of Others (Germany)
- The Hairdresser’s Husband (France)
- Autumn Sonata (Sweden)
- The Official Story (Argentina)
- Black Orpheus (Brazil)
Documentary Films
2024
The Settlers
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
20 Days To Mariupol
Godard Cinema
Grand Canyon
Thomas Jefferson (Biography)
On the Basis of Sex
2023
Winged Migration
I Am Not Your Negro
Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Hollywood Chinese
Truman
The Ornament of the World
Titanic’s Final Mystery
Seasons
Birders: The Central Park Effect
2022
Michael Wood’s The Story of China (Parts 5 & 6)
Tigers in Siberia and in Las Vegas (with Siegfried & Roy)
Sandra Day O’Connor: The First
Seven Worlds One Planet
The Haunted History of Halloween
Lion
2021
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Talal Derki’s Of Fathers and Sons
John Caird’s Twin Spirits
Marlene Dietrich family footage plus “An Evening with Marlene Dietrich”
Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas
The Divine Bette Midler
Divine Madness: A National Treasure Chest
Araya
Leni Riefenstahl’s 1936 Olympia (Part 2: Festival of Beauty)
David Hockney: A Bigger Splash
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
Human Flow
James Fox’s I Know What I Saw
Juvenile Justice
2020
The Cats of Mirikitani
Life in the Doghouse
Thrilla in Manilla
Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (at the Adams Alumni Center)
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Federico Fellini’s Roma
Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad
To Be of Service: Veterans with PTSD and Their Service Dogs
White Light, Black Rain: The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer
Oliver Stone’s Putin Interviews (Parts 3 & 4)
Forbidden City USA: Inside San Francisco’s Chinatown, and Behind the Burly Q
Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man
2019
- For All Mankind (USA)
- When the Levees Broke (USA)
- Triumph of the Will (Germany)
- Food, Inc. and The Biggest Little Farm (USA)
- Nanook of the North and Nanook Revisited (USA)
Special Screenings
2023
60 Minutes Presentation: Paul R. Ehrlich
2022
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Hollywood on China 1: The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Hollywood on China 2: Oil for the Lamps of China
Hollywood on China 3: The Good Earth
Hollywood on China 4: 55 Days at Peking
Hollywood on China 5: The Last Emperor
Insurrection Special: What Is Democracy?
Martin Luther King Day Special: All In: The Fight for Democracy
Valentine’s Day Special: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Before Roe v. Wade #1: Johnny Belinda
Before Roe v. Wade #2: Story of Women
Before Roe v. Wade #3: Blue Denim
Before Roe v. Wade #4: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Wartime Special: Is Paris Burning?
2021
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves
Rudolf Besier’s 1930 play The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman
Julius Caesar, the Donmar Warehouse production directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Renee Tajima’s documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”
The Mask of Fu Manchu with Boris Karloff
Charlie Chan at the Opera with Warner Oland
Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford
Melville’s Billy Budd
D-Day Special: The Longest Day
Father’s Day Special: The Father
Bastille Day Special: Les Miserables in Concert (2010)
National Senior Citizens Day: Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
Woodstock Special: The Three-Day Festival (Days 2 & 3 only)
9/11 Special: Dvorak’s Requiem
Afghan Festival #1: The Breadwinner
Afghan Festival #2: The Kite Runner
Afghan Festival #3: The Patience Stone
Afghan Festival #4: Baran
District 9
Great Books: Film adaptation of The Little Prince
Drama Study: Film adaptation of A Moon for the Misbegotten
Great Books: Film adaptation of Capote’s A Christmas Memory
Auntie Mame
2020
Due to the pandemic Paul Lim delivered the following programs via his personal Zoom account
Halloween Special
The Fly (1958 version, with Vincent Price)
Christmas Eve Special