Huston’s third feature reteams much of the Maltese Falcon cast and crew, but it never actually crosses the Pacific—the locale changed from Pearl Harbor to Panama when the plot’s scenario became a reality before it could be filmed.

Arguably the director’s most popular film pairs Bogart and Katharine Hepburn as a crude Canadian skipper and the uptight missionary who helps him steer the titular vessel downriver to torpedo a German gunboat.

When Huston agreed to bring the incredibly successful Broadway adaptation of Harold Gray’s comic Little Orphan Annie to the screen, the result was one of his most expensive films, one of his only musicals, and the biggest hit of his late career.

Huston returns to his noir roots with another tale of unlikely partners, delivering what may well be the great American heist movie.

This 19th-century costumer about the U.S. Ambassador to Japan offers the twin pleasures of Huston’s still compositions, inspired by the setting, and John Wayne’s say-what? casting in the lead.

Screening added on January 8!

Called the first camp movie by no less than Roger Ebert, Beat the Devil offers a wry send-up of noir classics, taking special aim at Huston’s own Maltese Falcon (with Bogart and Peter Lorre spoofing their roles and Jennifer Jones stealing the show playing against type).

Commissioned by Dino De Laurentiis, Huston’s mammoth adaptation of the first half of the book of Genesis found the director summing up a career’s worth of thinking on the conflict between faith and doubt.

Producer Charles K. Feldman assembled a dream cast—Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, David Niven, Deborah Kerr—for this omnibus James Bond satire, now a cult classic. Huston, who also makes a brief appearance on-screen, directed one of the segments.

Cinema has few villains more odious, entitled, and self-possessed than Huston’s Noah Cross, a fat cat in 1930s L.A. in Polanski’s brilliant neo-noir.

Introduction by director of photography Fred Murphy on December 26!

Adapted from the magisterial final story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, Huston’s final film is one of the medium’s great swan songs, a work of quiet grandeur and impeccable grace.

Huston drew on his own boxing experience from his youth for this Stockton, California–set film about a handsome, mildly promising fighter and his older, alcoholic has-been mentor—one of the indisputable masterpieces of its director’s late career.

Jean-Paul Sartre was the original screenwriter on Huston’s fascinating, profoundly strange Sigmund Freud biopic, a sort of cross between a psychological drama and an expressionist horror movie, featuring a subtle, melancholic central performance by Montgomery Clift.

Star chemistry ignites Huston’s World War II drama of a rough-hewn marine (Robert Mitchum) and a novice nun (Deborah Kerr) marooned on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific.

Huston’s sophomore feature is a drama of two sisters, one good and one evil, with a high-voltage turn by Bette Davis and a powerful subplot indicting racism.

Bogart returns to reluctant hero mode as a former Army major held hostage by a gangster in a ramshackle Florida hotel. Lauren Bacall pairs with Bogie for the last time in this claustrophobic thriller.

Jean-Pierre Melville raved over Huston’s grim, fiercely sharp-witted Cold War–era spy thriller, in which a group of American intelligence agents travel undercover to Moscow under the leadership of a deposed officer.

Introduction by journalist/author Mark Harris at the 6:00pm screening.

Huston’s landmark study of psychologically scarred veterans was banned for decades by the Army, but now stands as a trenchant early depiction of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Screening with: Winning Your Wings (1942, 18m, 6:00pm screening only) and Independence (1976, 30m).

Huston’s final Western is an ambling, charming shaggy-dog story peppered with outbursts of violence, anchored by a performance by Paul Newman at the height of his powers, and buttressed by a stellar supporting cast including Ava Gardner, Stacy Keach, and John Huston himself.

This deft, elusive whodunit takes place in postwar Britain, but its logic of concealment, mystery, and deception suggests a 19th-century detective story. With guest appearances by Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and Burt Lancaster.

Huston reteamed with Paul Newman for this labyrinthine spy thriller scripted by the legendary action director Walter Hill: a nostalgic love letter from an aging filmmaker to a dying genre.

“The stuff that dreams are made of”: Huston’s directorial bow cemented Humphrey Bogart’s stardom in this quintessential noir tale of a priceless statuette and the dastardly parties pursuing it.

Huston had the biggest popular success of his late career with this rip-roaring adventure story, which teamed Sean Connery and Michael Caine as a pair of raffish, conquest-mad British imperialists.

The final film for stars Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and Huston’s lone collaboration with Arthur Miller, is a tough, ambiguous morality play about a principled divorcée torn between her love for an aging cowboy and her attachment to the natural world he wants to control.

A prolific adaptor of literature, Huston set one of his greatest personal challenges in adapting Herman Melville’s canonical tale of obsession, with a Gregory Peck as the vengeance-seeking Captain Ahab.

Due to a damaged print, the first nine minutes of the film will be digitally projected.

A vibrant foray into the bohemian districts of late-19th-century Paris and the titular cabaret as habituated by diminutive artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, and Ava Gardner lead the near-flawless cast of Huston’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play about a reverend thrown out his parish for sexual misconduct and sent into exile as a tour guide in Mexico.

Huston’s career took one of its most dramatic left turns with this sci-fi-inflected horror film about a psychiatrist embroiled in a sinister murder plot.

Unfortunately, Anjelica Huston will no longer be in person at this screening.

Anjelica Huston won an Oscar for her sly, scene-stealing work in her father’s penultimate film, about the romantic entanglements of a New York hit man, which has the irreverent spunk of a debut and the reflective, generous voice of a swan song.

Under Huston’s direction, Stephen Crane’s Civil War novel, about a callow Yankee who flees his company during battle and is haunted by feelings of cowardice, becomes a memorable coming-of-age tale that’s epic in feel, despite running just over an hour.

“Overflowing with gothic atmosphere, Reflections in a Golden Eye circles around the stoic, marble-mouthed Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando). He silently pines for a mysterious young soldier (Robert Forster, in his first major role) who has secrets of his own, like a penchant for naked horseback riding and a peculiar fixation with the negligee of the Major’s wife, Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor).

The first color film by Huston (narrated by the director) juxtaposes combat footage of the Aleutian campaign with scenes depicting the tedium of army life. Screening with: The Battle of San Pietro (1945, 32m).

Never one to choose easy projects, Huston took on Romain Gary’s treatise on the sanctity of wild animals, blending action and philosophy in this chronicle of an environmentalist’s crusade to preserve the lives of elephants in French Equatorial Africa.

Taking a turn for the picaresque, Huston made this fleet-footed, sharply observed, and consistently underrated adventure story adapted from the fanciful death-row autobiography of Scottish rogue David Haggart.

One of Huston’s oddest screen appearances found him starring—alongside Shelley Winters (!) and Henry Fonda (!!)—in this gloriously goofy creature feature, produced one year after Jaws by veteran horror director Ovidio G. Assonitis.

Huston’s fingerprints are all over Paul Thomas Anderson’s parable of self-determinism carried to baleful extremes, with a central performance, modeled on Huston’s speaking voice, that captures both his magnetism and his unfathomability.

A decisive portrait of avarice and a bona fide American classic, Huston’s adaptation of B. Traven’s novel earned him Oscars as both writer and director, and a supporting actor trophy for his dad Walter as one of the film’s three rapacious gold miners.

This shattering adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s dense modernist novel is one of the most sensitive and well-observed depictions of alcoholism in film history, anchored by Albert Finney’s towering lead performance.

Huston hoped to make a frank statement on racial prejudice in America with this saga of a frontier family and their adopted Indian daughter; though it fell short of his expectations, it remains a sober and intelligent film with fine performances.

In Huston’s must-be-seen-to-be-believed mash-up of the sports movie and the POW escape thriller, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow share the screen with a star-studded lineup of international soccer stars, headlined by the legendary Pelé.

Two lovers act out a brief, doomed romance while their world comes apart around them in Huston’s oblique 14th-century take on the “make love not war” generation.

Among the grittiest, most offbeat films of Huston’s studio period, We Were Strangers depicts in documentary-like fashion a band of Cuban revolutionaries, led by an American expat (John Garfield) and a revenge-seeking girl (Jennifer Jones).

On both sides of the camera, Clint Eastwood limns one of his most complex creations: John Wilson, a dauntless filmmaker (based on Huston) who ventures into Africa as much to test his masculinity as to get a great film in the can.

Brad Dourif gives the performance of his career as a proselytizing atheist in Huston’s indelible, hilarious, and deeply challenging adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s debut novel.