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Using the British Film Institute’s Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time List (revised in 2022), the American Film Institute’s Top 100 American Films of All Time list (revised in 2007), and the Toronto International Film Festival’s Canada’s All-time Top Ten List (revised 2015), we will be showing some of the most celebrate films.

Starting in January, we will begin with one film from the 1930s, and each month we will move up one decade. See how the history of film has evolved over time and discover, or revisit, some classics of cinema.

January 22: A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Marx Brothers take on high society in this classic comedy. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance. Voted #85 out of the 100 best movies of all time by the American Film Institute. (Film is in black and white)

February 19: Grapes of Wrath (1940)
In this enduring classic, a family of sharecroppers travels westward, driven from their Oklahoma farm by drought, failed crops, and mechanization. But the golden dream of California also fails them. Hungry and exploited, the Joad family and the other displaced families of the Great Depression struggle to survive. An exhilarating story of faith and pride, John Steinbeck's classic has become a motion picture legend.Voted #23 out of the 100 best movies of all time by the American Film Institute. (Film is in black and white)

March 19: The Sound of Music (1965)
Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she became old enough discovered that it wasn't at all what she thought. Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house of a retired naval captain, named Captain Von Trapp, to care for his children. Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to care for seven 'rowdy' children. The children have run off countless governesses. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to change their attitudes. Set against the backdrop of Nazi occupation of Vienna, Maria teaches the children to sing, and through her, music is brought back into the hearts and home of the Von Trapp family. Voted #40 out of the 100 best movies of all time by the American Film Institute.

April 23: The French Connection (1971)
Based on the exploits of cop Eddie Egan, who cracked a $32 million heroin exchange, this searing portrait of brutal narcotics detective Popeye Doyle won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart, The French Connection is bolstered by stellar performances by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, not to mention William Friedkin's thrilling production. Voted #93 out of the 100 best movies of all time by the American Film Institute.

May 21: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Arkleaves you breathless. Its spirit is straight from the days of those thrilling matinee classics. Harrison Ford is the swashbuckling hero, Indiana Jones, who, with his spunky girlfriend, must battle foes of every shape, size and description to keep the mysterious Lost Ark of the Covenant out of Hitler's hands. Voted #66 out of the 100 best movies of all time by the American Film Institute

June 18: Goodfellas (1990)
Based on Nicholas Pilegg's best-selling book "Wiseguys" and spanning thirty years of Mafia life, this is the story of a young boy, who dreams of becoming a member of the wiseguys. After fulfilling that dream and after much terror and murder, he turns against the men who made him. Considered one of Martin Scorsese’s finest films. Voted #92 out of the 100 best movies of all time by the American Film Institute

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