30th Tokyo International Film Festival

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Drama
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Action

This spectacle towers over Hollywood’s history, outstripping Ben Hur (1959) in terms of power, passion, and beauty.

Director: Fred Niblo

10/28 15:30-
11/03 15:30-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Beggars of Life

Drama
Romance
Youth Drama

Wellman directed this heart-touching film the same year as Wings (1928). A girl flees police after killing in self-defense.

Director: William A. Wellman

10/29 16:00-
11/03 11:00-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Queen Kelly

Drama
Romance
Youth Drama

This restoration of Stroheim’s unfinished film stars Gloria Swanson, who co-produced and added an ending.

Director: Erich von Stroheim

10/28 11:45-
10/31 19:00-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Grand Hotel

Drama

Co-starring five historically influential MGM superstars, this classic has been the model for subsequent all-star movies.

Director: Edmund Goulding

11/02 15:00-
11/05 12:30-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Mutiny on the Bounty

Drama

Based on a real-life mutiny in 1789, the crew of a British Navy ship revolt against their tyrannical captain.

Director: Frank Lloyd

11/01 15:00-
11/04 15:30-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

A Day at the Races

Comedy

A veterinarian posing as a doctor and his friends try to keep a sanatorium running in this 1937 Marx Brothers comedy classic.

Director: Sam Wood

11/01 19:00-
11/05 16:00-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Born to Be Bad

Drama
Romance
Suspense

Joan Fontaine casts off her innocent image to play an ambitious country girl who comes to the big city in this melodrama.

Director: Nicholas Ray

10/31 15:00-
11/04 12:30-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum

Film Treasures from George Eastman Museum

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Drama
Romance
Suspense

A beautiful woman, who men are willing to kill and die for, falls in love with a mysterious ship’s captain.

Director: Albert Lewin

10/29 12:00-
11/02 19:00-

Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum