United Artists

The Film Forum’s monthlong tribute to United Artists ends Thursday, May 1, on a fittingly high note, with Charles Chaplin’s two finest films, City Lights (1931), with Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherill, Harry Myers and Hank Mann, showing at 1, 4:40 and 8:20, and Modern Times (1936), with Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin and Stanley “Tiny” Sandford, at 2:30, 6:30 and 10:10.  read more »

Film Forum’s monthlong tribute to United Artists’ 90th anniversary is nearing its home stretch. On Thursday, April 17, there will be an action-filled double bill of Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire and Yaphet Kotto (at 1, 5:10 and 9:20), and Jules Dassin’s Topkapi (1964), with Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff and Despo Diamantidou (at 2:55 and 7:05).  read more »