Northern Arizona University and the Sedona International Film Festival are partnering to present The Classics, a monthly classic film series.

NAU/SIFF Classics will be curated and hosted by School of Communication Professor Emeritus Paul Helford.

The series will continue on Thursday, April 16 with “The Way We Were” — from 1973 — directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.

Streisand and Redford star together for the only time in the American Film Institute’s sixth greatest love story of all time. Spanning the 1930s to 1950, she’s a fervent Jewish activist and he’s an easy-going WASP writer on a collision course with McCarthyism and the Blacklist.

“The Way We Were” was the third of seven collaborations between director Pollack and Redford. Screened as our tribute to the Sundance Kid.

Paul Helford will introduce the film, provide historical and artistic context, and lead a discussion following the movie.

A lifelong film lover Helford has taught and written about films for over 50 years. As a television station manager and award-winning producer, he produced and hosted a weekly classic TV film show. He’s taught high school and college film classes. At NAU he started the film program major in 2006 and has co-directed and co-hosted the NAU College of Arts and Letters film series since 2004.

“The Way We Were” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Thursday, April 16 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.