Films
All About Eve, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
A masterclass in filmmaking.
The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese (1978)
A monumental music documentary.
The film is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2mg9Ij1cRU
This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner (1984)
A must for all musicians and comedy lovers.
The list was created before the tragic loss of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. We would like to take this opportunity to recommend exploring the rest of his catalogue, a body of work that defined genres.
Music
The playlists are updated with every new feature, and we are always looking to expand our list. We invite you to share your recommendations for 2026.
Writer - John Patrick Shanley
A playwright, screenwriter, and director, whose work spans both film and theatre.
One pick for 2025: Four Dogs and a Bone (1993), a play about the film industry.
Artists Talks
Film at Lincoln Center YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@filmlinc
One pick for 2025: Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, and more on One Battle After Another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0mySGpH4w
The 92nd Street Y, New York YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@92ndStreetY
One pick for 2025: The Third Gilmore Girl: Kelly Bishop with Lauren Graham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2HVMNIu54
A Poem
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Essentials
Paper and pen
A walk in the park
Coffee and a conversation
Snapshots by Rachel Bard