Sitemap - 2025 - Cognitive Film Society

Wicked: For Good, 2025 - ★★

All These Women, 1964 - ★★½

The Devil's Eye, 1960 - ★★★½

The Mastermind, 2025 - ★★★½

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, 1988 - ★★★★

Top Films of 2025

The Truman Show, 1998 - ★★★★★

A New Romantic Cinema Defined 2025

Night of the Juggler, 1980 - ★★★★

Criterion Channel Challenge 2026

Susan Slept Here, 1954 - ★★★

Avatar: Fire and Ash, 2025 - ★★★½

Marty Supreme, 2025 - ★★★★½

It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946 - ★★★★★

Scrooged, 1988 - ★★★½

The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992 - ★★★★★

Top 25 "First Watches" of 2025

Therefore Let Us Be Kind: Top 10 First Watches of 2025

Fanny and Alexander, 1984 - ★★★★★

Bell, Book and Candle, 1958 - ★★★½

Holiday Affair, 1949 - ★★★½

Avatar: The Way of Water, 2022 - ★★★★

The Seventh Seal, 1957 - ★★★★★

After the Hunt, 2025 - ★★★½

The Virgin Spring, 1960 - ★★★★½

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, 2025 - ★★★½

The Silence, 1963 - ★★★½

Hokuriku Proxy War, 1977 - ★★★★½

Winter Light, 1963 - ★★★★½

The Shop Around the Corner, 1940 - ★★★★★

Through a Glass Darkly, 1961 - ★★★★½

Fårö Document 1979, 1979 - ★★★★

Fårö Document, 1970 - ★★★★

The Passion of Anna, 1969 - ★★★½

The Soft Knife

Gilda, 1946 - ★★★★½

The Goonies, 1985 - ★★★★

Shame, 1968 - ★★★★

Cops vs. Thugs, 1975 - ★★★★

Jay Kelly, 2025 - ★★★½

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, 2006 - ★★★★★

Hour of the Wolf, 1968 - ★★★★

Zootopia 2, 2025 - ★★★★

From the Life of the Marionettes, 1980 - ★★★★

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, 1989 - ★★★★½

Gilda: The Cognitive Film Society's First Annual Gala

The Nutty Professor, 1996 - ★★★★

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1987 - ★★★½

F1, 2025 - ★★★★

The Apartment, 1960 - ★★★★★

Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986 - ★★★★★

Pieces of April, 2003 - ★★★★

A Lesson in Love, 1954 - ★★★★

The Brothers McMullen, 1995 - ★★★½

Saraband, 2003 - ★★★★½

Dreams, 1955 - ★★★½

Scenes from a Marriage, 1973 - ★★★★★

Geese and the New Rock Moment

The Lost One, 1951 - ★★★½

Summer Interlude, 1951 - ★★★★

The Big Heat, 1953 - ★★★★

Modern Loneliness is a Crisis of the Soul

Riefenstahl, 2024 - ★★★★

To Joy (1950) - ★★★

To Joy, 1950 - ★★★

Wild Strawberries, 1957 - ★★★★★

A Ship to India, 1947 - ★★★½

Crisis, 1946 - ★★★½

Not Guilty, 1947 - ★★★½

Framed, 1947 - ★★★½

Edgar Allan Poe, Proto-Noir Master: Rescored at the Morgan

Paths of Glory, 1957 - ★★★★½

Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955 - ★★★★★

Intimidation, 1960 - ★★★★½

Popeye, 1980 - ★★★★

NoirVember Begins: Detour and the Jazz of Despair

October 2025 - First Time Watches

Bugonia, 2025 - ★★★★

I Married a Witch, 1942 - ★★★★

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, 1966 - ★★★★★

Noir-Vember 2025

The Golden Child, 1986 - ★★★

Noir-Vember Begins Sunday: Detour, Gilda, and What's Next for the Cognitive Film Society

Les Misérables, 2012 - ★

Gabriel Over the White House, 1933 - ★★★★

Son of Dracula, 1943 - ★★★

The War of the Romantics

Interview with the Vampire, 1994 - ★★★½

Underexposed Halloween Party 2025

Time Out of Mind, 1947 - ★★★

“Art” and the Mirror We Didn’t Ask For

Tommy Boy, 1995 - ★★★★

The Invisible Man, 1933 - ★★★★

Manhattan, 1979 - ★★★★★

Before Sunset, 2004 - ★★★★★

Cloud, 2024 - ★★★★

The Mask and the Mirror

Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 1977 - ★★★★

The First Wives Club, 1996 - ★★★★

Love and Death, 1975 - ★★★½

63rd New York Film Festival (2025)

New Romantic Cinema

New Romantic Cinema Has Arrived in America

Something's Gotta Give, 2003 - ★★★★

Is This Thing On?, 2025 - ★★★½

No Other Choice, 2025 - ★★★★½

A Private Life, 2025 - ★★★½

Magnolia, 1999 - ★★★★★

Peking Opera Blues, 1986 - ★★★★

The Brutalist, 2024 - ★★★★½

Sirius, 1942 - ★★★½

Nouvelle Vague, 2025 - ★★★★

Blue Moon, 2025 - ★★★★½

Kavalier & Clay’s One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½

"NOIR-VEMBER": DETOUR AND THE JAZZ OF DESPAIR

Superman (2025)-★★★★

Senso, 1954 - ★★★★

Oldboy, 2003 - ★★★★★

From the Heart: Dudamel and Lim's American Statement

Cognitive Frames: In the Room

The Leopard, 1963 - ★★★★

The Matrix, 1999 - ★★★★½

California Split, 1974 - ★★★★

Are We Alone?

Brazil, 1985 - ★★★★½

The Trouble with Windows

Gosford Park, 2001 - ★★★★½

Reality Bites, 1994 - ★★★½

Shane, 1953 - ★★★★

The Desperate Hours, 1955 - ★★★★

Pulp Fiction, 1994 - ★★★★★

Unbreakable, 2000 - ★★★★★

Key Largo, 1948 - ★★★★½

A Night of Comics, Anime, and Cinema

The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro, 2025 - ★★★★★

Ne Zha 2, 2025 - ★★★★½

A Man on His Knees, 1979 - ★★★½

Ghost in the Shell, 1995 - ★★★★½

Saturday Night Fever, 1977 - ★★★★★

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990 - ★★★★

A Comic Shop Owner's Perspective on Superhero Cinema's Past and Future

Materialists, 2025 - ★★★★

The Bride from Hades, 1968 - ★★★★½

Highest 2 Lowest, 2025 - ★★★½

High and Low, 1963 - ★★★★★

On the Waterfront, 1954 - ★★★★½

The Big Sleep, 1946 - ★★★★½

Face/Off, 1997 - ★★★★

Ghost in the Shell Arrives August 21 + A Cognitive Film Society Update

Weapons, 2025 - ★★★★

Sorcerer, 1977 ★★★★½

Fashion’s Architecture of Reinvention: Alexandra Byrne’s Sustainable Romanticism

Performing for the Machine: Eddington, Middlemarch, and Political Theater

Unforgiven, 1992 - ★★★★★

Night Moves, 1975 - ★★★★½

A Comic Collector's Definitive Post-Endgame MCU Film Rankings

The Snow Woman, 1968 - ★★★★

For Your Consideration, 2006 - ★★★½

We Still Kill the Old Way, 1967 - ★★★½

Tattooed Life, 1965 - ★★★

The Fantastic Four: First Steps, 2025 - ★★★

What's the Story, L.A.?

L.A. Story, 1991 - ★★★½

Eddington, 2025 - ★★★★½

Cruel Gun Story, 1964 - ★★★★

Antoine and Colette, 1962 - ★★★★★

The 400 Blows, 1959 - ★★★★½

The Legend, 1993 - ★★★½

The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk, 1993 - ★★★½

The Last Romantic: Josef Von Sternberg and the Architecture of Sound

Superman, 2025 - ★★★½

Heavy Wool, Light Silk: The Costume Language of Escape in “Pennies from Heaven”

Symphony for a Massacre, 1963 - ★★★

Near Orouët, 1971 - ★★★★★

This Is Spinal Tap, 1984 - ★★★★½

Adieu Philippine, 1962 - ★★★★

Top 25 New Watches of 2025

Mississippi Mermaid, 1969 - ★★★½

High Society, 1956 - ★★★★½

Moneyball, 2011 - ★★★★½

F1, 2025 - ★★★★

F1 The Movie, 2025 - ★★★★

Carriage to Vienna, 1966 - ★★★★½

Black Gravel, 1961 - ★★★★

The Landlord, 1970 - ★★★★

So Long, Stooge, 1983 - ★★★★

Kill the Referee, 1984 - ★★★★

Tokyo Story: Time, Place, and the Weight of Memory

Agent Trouble, 1987 - ★★★½

Bandits of Orgosolo, 1961 - ★★★½

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection, 1963 - ★★★½

Planet of the Vampires, 1965 - ★★★

Working Girl, 1988 - ★★★★

Materialists, 2025 - ★★★½

Beyond Madea & Molly: Unmasking the Stereotypes in Black Women's Portrayals

Tony Arzenta, 1973 - ★★★½

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida, 2025 - ★★★½

RoboCop, 1987 - ★★★★

L'Eclisse, 1962 - ★★★★★

L'Avventura, 1960 - ★★★★★

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 - ★★★★½

Falling Down, 1993 - ★★★½

Falling Down, 1993 - ★★★½

The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★★½

The One-Armed Swordsman, 1967 - ★★★★½

Looking Through Rear Window: Foster Hirsch on American Cinema's Greatest Era

Spaceballs, 1987 - ★★★½

Happy Gilmore, 1996 - ★★★½

Black Bag, 2025 - ★★★★

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 2025 - ★★★½

Karate Kid: Legends, 2025 - ★★★½

Cinema Culture is alive and well on Long Island

Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★

Risky Business, 1983 - ★★★★

Manon of the Spring, 1986 - ★★★★★

Jean de Florette, 1986 - ★★★★½

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, 2011 - ★★★½

Mission: Impossible III, 2006 - ★★

The Metropolitan Opera: Salome, 2025 - ★★★★★

Mission: Impossible II, 2000 - ★★½

$10,000 for a Massacre, 1967 - ★★★½

Titanic, 1997 - ★★★★★

A Story Written with Water, 1965 - ★★★★½

Mission: Impossible, 1996 - ★★★★

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, 2023 - ★★★½

Hewlett-Woodmere's 4 Favorite Films

The Aristocrats! Comedy as a Revolutionary Act

Battles Without Honor and Humanity, 1973 - ★★★★

Thunderbolts*, 2025 - ★★★½

Total Recall, 1990 - ★★★½

Eighteen Years in Prison, 1967 - ★★★½

Come See Us at Arts Below Sunrise!

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2016 - ★★★★

The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro, 2025 - ★★★★½

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, 2005 - ★★★★½

Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza, 1966 - ★★★½

Goodbye & Amen, 1977 - ★★★

Fascination, 1979 - ★★★½

Pride & Prejudice, 2005 - ★★★★

Sinners, 2025 - ★★★★½

Party Girl, 1995 - ★★★½

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization, 1985 - ★★★★

Messiah of Evil, 1974 - ★★★★

Visible Secret, 2001 - ★★★½

Should We Pull the Plug When Our Creations Start Thinking?

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991 - ★★★★★

Yojimbo, 1961 - ★★★★

The Ten Commandments, 1956 - ★★★★★

The Sting of Death, 1990 - ★★★½

The Dead Mother, 1993 - ★★★★

Thieves Like Us, 1974 - ★★★★½

From Egypt to Warsaw: A Cinematic Haggadah

The Bride Wore Black, 1968 - ★★★★½

Miami Blues, 1990 - ★★★½

Merry-Go-Round, 1923 - ★★★½

The Working Class Goes to Heaven, 1971 - ★★★★½

When will we stop fighting?

The Ear, 1970 - ★★★★

Black Tight Killers, 1966 - ★★★½

Star Trek's Secret Bohemian Origins

Tony Manero, 2008 - ★★★★½

The Last of the Mohicans, 1992 - ★★★½

Golem, 1979 - ★★★★

The Long Kiss Goodnight, 1996 - ★★★★½

Ikarie XB 1, 1963 - ★★★★½

A Generation, 1955 - ★★★★½

Ciao! Escape the Ordinary in Italian Cinema

Decalogue VIII, 1989 - ★★★★½

The Valley of the Bees, 1968 - ★★★½

Decalogue VII, 1989 - ★★★½

Flow, 2024 - ★★★★½

Il Sorpasso, 1962 - ★★★★★

Love and Larceny, 1960 - ★★★★

The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio, 2025 - ★★★★½

O.C. and Stiggs, 1987 - ★★★½

How to Kill a Judge, 1975 - ★★★½

Decalogue VI, 1989 - ★★★★★

Arthur, 1981 - ★★★★

The Case Is Closed, Forget It, 1971 - ★★★★½

A Demon's Embrace

Introducing Cognitive Frames

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005 - ★★★½

Decalogue V, 1989 - ★★★★½

Amadeus, 1984 - ★★★½

Decalogue IV, 1989 - ★★★½

The Lower Depths, 1936 - ★★★★

Decalogue III, 1989 - ★★★½

Sean Baker's Cri de Couer

Burning, 2018 - ★★★★★

The Day of the Owl, 1968 - ★★★½

Decalogue II, 1989 - ★★★★½

Sympathy for the Underdog, 1971 - ★★★★½

Lights Out in Europe, 1940 - ★★★★½

Crisis, 1939 - ★★★★★

Decalogue I, 1989 - ★★★★½

Cabaret, 1972 - ★★★★½

A Woman Kills, 1968 - ★★★★

The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001 - ★★★★★

Conclave, 2024 - ★★½

Falling in Love, 1984 - ★★★½

Twisters, 2024 - ★★

Top Films of 2024*

Uptown/Downtown: Jewish Life in New York Cinema*

"Ghost in the Shell" (1995) on the Big Screen

Our Inaugural Screening: Rear Window

Il Posto, 1961 - ★★★★

Cognitive Film Society Screenings

Upcoming Screenings at the Gold Theater

A Moment of Romance, 1990 - ★★★★

T.R. Baskin, 1971 - ★★★★

Fill 'er Up with Super, 1976 - ★★★

Raising Victor Vargas, 2002 - ★★★★½

Captain America: Brave New World, 2025 - ★★

Sea of Love, 1989 - ★★★★

Chilly Scenes of Winter, 1979 - ★★★½

The Widower, 1959 - ★★★★

Little Solange, 2021 - ★★★★

Nosferatu, 2024 - ★★★½

The Wolberg Family, 2009 - ★★★★½

Elegant Beast, 1962 - ★★★★

Young Guns, 1988 - ★★★

Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 - ★★★★

Slap the Monster on Page One, 1972 - ★★★★

The Master and Margarita, 2023 - ★★★★½

The Master and Margarita, 2024 - ★★★★½

Allonsanfan, 1974 - ★★★★

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance, 1963 - ★★★★½

Emilia Pérez, 2024 - ★★★½

Natalie and Elliot’s 4 favorites

Ninja, A Band of Assassins, 1962 - ★★★★

The Remains of the Day, 1993 - ★★★★

Wild at Heart, 1990 - ★★★★½

The Nutty Professor, 1963 - ★★★★★

Experiment in Terror, 1962 - ★★★★½

Big Time Gambling Boss, 1968 - ★★★★½

Welcome to the Cognitive Film Society

Misunderstood, 1966 - ★★★★½

Le Combat dans l’île, 1962 - ★★★★

Madame Bovary, 1991 - ★★★★½

Inspector Lavardin, 1986 - ★★★★

Cop au Vin, 1985 - ★★★★

The Day the Earth Froze, 1959 - ★★★★½

The Social Network, 2010 - ★★★★★

Hare Ribbin', 1944 - ★★★★★

What's Cookin' Doc?, 1944 - ★★★

Baseball Bugs, 1946 - ★★★★½

Hair-Raising Hare, 1946 - ★★★★★

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears, 1944 - ★★★★

The Searchers, 1956 - ★★★★★

Funny Girl, 1968 - ★★★★½

The Coming of Sin, 1978 - ★★★½

The Swindle, 1997 - ★★★★

Desire, 1936 - ★★★★

A Man Called Hero, 1999 - ★★★

The Flower of Evil, 2003 - ★★★★½