Currently On Sale On Sale: 2008 Archive SE: Sinatra... SE: Puccini.... Manny Farber IN: Be Like Others YFF: Slumdog... MET Live: Dr Atomic Gr. Scr.: Panel Gr. Scr.: Farming... NYC Opera: Ivan... FCS: Changeling YFF: The man who... FCS: Che! Jon Jost Andrzej Wajda IN: Ice People MET Live: Salome Avant-Garde Oshima YFF: Sonetaula MET Live: Gala FCS: The Other Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands Latinbeat 08 Charlton Heston FCS: Captain Ahab Robert Gavaldón Never Apologize Revolutionary Romantic YFF: L.I.E. IN: Judge & General FCS: The Deal Kawakita Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel Dominique Delouche SE: Four Hands GS: The Cat and... YFF: American Teen Slovenian Cinema SE: Magic Lantern William Holden SE: Jazz on a... Satoshi Kon IN: Critical Condition HRW Collection Human Rights Watch Gr. Scr.: Biùtiful... New Italian Cinema YFF: Judy Berlin Israel @ 60 Charles Boyer Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä Jennifer Jones SE: Robert Frank SE: Jerry Schatzberg SE: Joachim Trier 1968: Intl. Perspective Romanian Cinema Met: La Fille du Régiment SE: Ned Rorem GS: The Kid Brother YFF: Le Boucher Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop... IN: Phyllis and Harold NYAFF 2008 SE: Dreams... SE: On the Street Met: La Bohème ND/NF Classics 2008 Gr. Scr.: Garbage... Met: Tristan und Isolde Thorold Dickinson Program Overview Arsenal Stadium Mystery Gaslight The High Command Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer Men of Two Worlds Next of Kin The Prime Minister The Queen of Spades Secret People Thorold Dickinson Shorts Met: Peter Grimes Infernal Machines Rendez-Vous 2008 Green Screens: Flow:... Met: Manon Lescaut YFF: Harold and Maude Film Comment Selects IN: From the Ground Up SE: Two Laws GS: Chang: A Story... Envisioning Russia YFF: The Ice Storm NYJFF 2008 Celebrate Alex Corti NYJFF JM Screens Met: Macbeth SE: City of Men DOC 2008 Met: Hänsel and Gretel On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

The Prime Minister Series: Thorold Dickinson’s World of Cinema Director: Thorold Dickinson, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 1941, Runtime: 94 Dickinson was not happy with this film, a “biography” of Benjamin Disraeli with a special emphasis on his confrontation with Bismarck’s Germany, and a less successful piece of propaganda than Next of Kin. The film came to him as a package, and he accepted it in the spirit of a contract director taking on a new assignment. Nonetheless, The Prime Minister is a vigorous and engaging film, and it contains greatness: John Gielgud’s performance in the title role is a thing of beauty. It was one of Gielgud’s rare screen performances during this period (his appearances in film were spotty until the late ‘60s), and his Disraeli is funny, touchingly awkward, and, of course, movingly eloquent: that magical voice, likened by Molly Haskell to “a trumpet muffled in silk” is in its full glory. It should be said that Diana Wynyard is wonderful as the great PM’s wife, and the scenes between the two of them are the high point of this lively period piece.

Buy Tickets Sun Mar 23: 2 Tue Mar 25: 3:15