Movies subject
to change
GREAT COURSES
Taiga Drama
Wednesdays at 3:00pm & repeated Fridays at 10:30am, Screening Room
Fridays at 3:00pm, Screening Room
Saturday, April 1
2:00pm, Screening Room
My Reputation (94 min.) Recently widowed Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) grapples with the choice of a
new suitor: She's attracted to Major Scott Landis, but wants the stability offered by Frank Everett. 1946
Saturday, April 1
7:30pm, Auditorium
Loving (123 min.) This absorbing drama depicts the 1958 arrest and imprisonment of Richard and Mildred Loving for
violating Virginia's law against interracial marriage. 2016
Sunday, April 2
5:00pm, Auditorium
Horowitz in Moscow (104 min.) Legendary Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz returned to his native country for the
first time in more than six decades to deliver the recital captured in this performance. 1986
Monday, April 3
11:00am, Screening Room
Birders: The Central Park Effect (60 min.) New York's Central Park holds a magical attraction for diehard bird
watchers such as the diverse group of locals featured in this documentary. 2012
Tuesday, April 4
1:30pm, Screening Room SUBTITLES
Elizabeth (124 min.) This Oscar-winning treatise on absolute power and its human toll sees fledgling queen Elizabeth
I (Cate Blanchett) sacrificing happiness for her own safety and placing her trust in her stealthy "spymaster," Sir
Francis Walsingham. 1998
Saturday, April 8
2:00pm, Screening Room
River of No Return (91 min.) Marilyn Monroe never looked more radiant than in this Western potboiler in which
Robert Mitchum rescues her and husband Rory Calhoun from an out-of-control river raft. To show his appreciation,
Calhoun steals Mitchum's horse, abandoning them both to hostile Indians. 1954
Saturday, April 8
7:30pm, Auditorium
Fences (139 min.) Working as a trash collector in 1950s Pittsburgh, Troy Maxson struggles to raise his family while
trying to transcend the bitter experience of being a talented baseball player denied the opportunity to play in the
majors because of his race. 2016
Monday, April 10
11:00am, Screening Room
American Experience: Coney Island (70 min.) From the world's first roller coaster to freak shows, amazing displays of
modern machinery, hot dogs and more, "American Experience" chronicles Coney Island's rich history through
newsreel footage, archival photography and interviews. 2000
Tuesday, April 11
1:30pm, Screening Room SUBTITLES
My Favorite Season (122 min.) A mother's illness brings her dysfunctional family together in this critically acclaimed
foreign-language drama from director André Téchiné. 1993
Saturday, April 15
2:00pm, Screening Room
Summertime (100 min.) Dreams of romance for American spinster Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn) become a
reality when she meets a handsome but married antiques dealer (Rossano Brazzi) while vacationing in Venice. 1955
Saturday, April 15
7:30pm, Auditorium
Patriots Day (130 min.) In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark
Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the
bombers before they strike again. 2016
Movies subject
to change
Sunday, April 16
5:00pm, Auditorium
Jazz Icons: Duke Ellington: Live in '58 (80 min.) American legend Duke Ellington and his big band (featuring Clark Terry,
Johnny Hodges and Ray Nance) swing in this performance recorded live in Holland. 1958
Monday, April 17
11:00am, Screening Room
Chimpanzee (78 min.) This Disneynature film follows an orphaned chimp named Oscar on his quest to find a home. In
the end, he finds a new family in the unlikeliest of places. 2012
Tuesday, April 18
1:30pm, Screening Room SUBTITLES
Queen Margot (159 min.) To cement a partnership between Protestants and Catholics in France, Margot de Valois
agrees to an arranged marriage to Henri of Navarre. Although she's a staunch supporter of Henri, she is not a loyal wife
and takes up with a Protestant lover. During the St. Bartholomew's Night Massacre, she helps her lover escape, setting
off a chain of events that alters their lives and the course of history. 1994
Saturday, April 22
2:00pm, Screening Room
Walk, Don’t Run (113 min.) When an English businessman (Cary Grant, in his final film performance) arrives in Tokyo,
the influx of tourists for the upcoming Olympic Games makes it almost impossible to find lodging. He smooth-talks his
way into sharing an apartment with a beautiful British woman (Samantha Eggar) and soon finds himself playing cupid
for her and an American Olympic athlete (Jim Hutton). 1966
Saturday, April 22
7:30pm, Auditorium
Meet Me in St. Louis (113 min.) Judy Garland stars as Esther Smith, who just can't ignore the boy next door (Tom
Drake), in director Vincente Minnelli's musical masterpiece about the trials and tribulations of a tight-knit family living
in St. Louis on the eve of the 1904 World's Fair. 1944
Monday, April 24
11:00am, Screening Room
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (78 min.) One million crimson-winged flamingos battle for survival across
the breathtaking backdrop of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. 2008
Tuesday, April 25
1:30pm, Screening Room SUBTITLES
Life is Beautiful (117 min.) A Jewish Italian waiter named Guido is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, along with his
wife and their young son. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their
imprisonment is an elaborate game. 1997
Saturday, April 29
2:00pm, Screening Room
The Little Foxes (116 imn.) Conniving, turn-of-the-century, Southern aristocrat Regina Giddens values nothing more
than wealth and social position. When she and her two brothers scheme mercilessly to make a fortune on a new
cotton mill, Regina lets nothing stand in her way. 1941
Saturday, April 29
7:30pm, Auditorium
Hidden Figures (127 min.) The incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in
history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. 2016
Sunday, April 30
4:00pm, Auditorium
SUNDAY AT THE OPERA: Tosca (127 min.) Virtuoso tenor Plácido Domingo sings and Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts the
orchestra in this stylish production of Giacomo Puccini's dramatic opus recorded at New York City's famed
Metropolitan Opera. 1985