Weekend Classics

When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights.

It’s high-seas screwball comedy when a clueless heir (Henry Fonda) falls prey — twice — to a couple of gambling con artists posing as a father (Charles Coburn) and beautiful daughter (Barbara Stanwyck). But will she fall prey to him?

One of the most influential film noirs ever made, John Huston’s directorial debut feature stars Humphrey Bogart as the hard-boiled private investigator Sam Spade who falls in with a deadly band of thieves who’ll stop at nothing to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as the Maltese Falcon.

When a lead encyclopedist (Gary Cooper) ventures into the streets of New York in effort to bulk up a compendium of current slang, he finds the perfect study in an "astounding specimen" (Barbara Stanwyck), who uses the professor's domicile to hide out from her gangster boyfriend.

A Hollywood director sets out to explore life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from writer-director Preston Sturges.

A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert — the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance). This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version.

Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning dark dive into the world of FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and brilliant madman Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) was a cultural phenomenon and a remarkable blend of genre splatter and high-art refinement. The only worthy sequel to (and playing alongside) Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER: The Final Cut (Sep 30-Oct 4).