January 30:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

With screenwriter/playwright/stage director Joe Gilford, son of Jack Gilford, one of the film’s stars. In ancient Rome, a slave named Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The film also stars Phil Silvers and Buster Keaton (in his last film role).

February 6:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A 197-minute reconstructed version with Cinema Shorthand Society curator John Chasse. An all-star cast made up of film, television, and the stage’s greatest comedians are on the hunt for $350,000 in stolen cash under the watchful eye of police captain Spencer Tracy.

February 20:

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

With Edge Media Network film journalist and playwright/screenwriter Frank Avella.

What many consider to be the definitive screwball comedy features Cary Grant as a paleontologist maneuvering through a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress (Katharine Hepburn) and a leopard named Baby

February 27:

Young Frankenstein (1974)

With Steven Whitty returning.

Mel Brooks presents this parody of the classic horror film genre, with co-writer Gene Wilder as Frederick Frankenstein, Madeline Kahn as his fiancé, Teri Garr as his assistant, Marty Feldman as his servant, and Peter Boyle as his creation. 

March 6:

Some Like It Hot (1956)

With an appearance by local film critic Stephen Whitty. The movie judged by the American Film Institute in 2000 to be the funniest film ever made? Two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape gangsters they witnessed committing a crime. The film also stars Marilyn Monroe.

March 13:

Buck Privates (1941)

With film historian, comics & animation writer Paul Castiglia. Paul has contributed commentary to the recently released newly restored Season 1 of “The Abbott and Costello Show” DVD and Blu-Ray collections.  Jersey boys Bud Abbott (Asbury Park) and Lou Costello (Paterson) were launched into the comedy stratosphere with their roles in their first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The Andrews Sisters and Nat Pendelton co-star.