In our final film, Owen Wilson plays Gil Pender, a screenwriter struggling to find inspiration for his first novel. While vacationing in Paris with his wife and her family, Gil becomes nostalgic for the Jazz Age, café society, and the city’s role as inspiration for artistic and literary masterpieces. Each night, as he goes on a midnight walk, Gil is transported to the Paris he fantasizes about, meeting a familiar cast of characters (including Ernest Hemingway and Salvador Dalí) along the way.

The second installment of our series, Pollock traces the tumultuous life and career of Jackson Pollock. This film not only focuses on Pollock’s emergence as a major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement, but emphasizes the role his wife, Lee Krasner (an artist in her own right) played in nurturing his career and catapulting him into fame.

On Saturday, September 21, we’re kicking the season off with The Da Vinci Code. Based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown, the film finds American symbologist and professor Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) at the center of a murder investigation. Eluding capture, Langdon uses the strange cipher found on the victim’s body to embark on a quest for the Holy Grail. As the journey wears on, new clues and revelations emerge, rewriting history in the process.

In our final film in the series, Pierce Brosnan stars as Thomas Crown, a billionaire who stages an elaborate heist to steal Monet’s San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As the investigation into the theft of this priceless artwork ensues, Crown and insurance investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) find themselves falling for each other.

Set against the backdrop of World War II, this film chronicles the exciting story of how the titular Army unit covertly recovered artistic masterpieces and other culturally significant items across Europe. After the screening, enjoy a Q&A!