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Seven in 4K
In person: production designer Arthur Max, set decorator Clay Griffith
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Black Sunday in 35mm
John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, 1962) directed this epic international thriller based on the debut novel by Thomas Harris, creator of Hannibal Lecter. Robert Shaw, in a rare and welcome heroic leading role, is a world-weary Mossad agent on the trail of a Black September terrorist (Marthe Keller) and her unstable partner (Bruce Dern) planning an unthinkable crime on US soil.
John Williams’s score adds to the pulse-pounding excitement, and the screenplay by Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, and Ivan Moffat gives the characters on both sides of the conflict their due.
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The Hidden Room (aka Obsession)
A London psychiatrist (Robert Newton, Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) smuggles acid from work daily to a blitzed building, with the aim of killing and dissolving the body of his wife’s American lover (Phil Brown, best known as Uncle Owen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977). Featuring a stirring score by Italian composer Nino Rota (The Godfather, 1972), this slow-burn relationship drama turns into a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse once Scotland Yard sets its sights on the missing American. Feverishly directed by blacklisted, Oscar-nominated Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire, 1947), this story is truly where Kafka meets film noir.
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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back with Billy Dee Williams
In person: actor Billy Dee Williams
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
In this 1953 musical comedy adapted from Anita Loos’s searingly funny 1925 novella—which also spawned a now-lost silent film in 1928 and a smash Broadway production in 1949—showgirl Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) is resplendent in beautiful gowns, most notably in the pink satin dress designed by Travilla during the now-classic number “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Lorelei is seen throughout the picture in jewel tones and literal jewels, carefully selected to play up the lush Technicolor cinematography lensed by Harry J. Wild. Both effervescent and timeless, this witty gem showcases Monroe’s brilliant comic timing as well as her vocal chops. Premiering in the middle of the actress’s career and released the same year as Niagara and How to Marry a Millionaire, Howard Hawks’s film helped to plant Monroe in the hearts of the American public, making her one of the most famous people in the US.
The pink satin gown worn in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is on view in Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, located on Level 3 in the Rolex Gallery, beginning May 31, 2026.
Programmed and note by K.J. Relth-Miller.
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