What is "gag"? Gag moves. Gag is visceral. Gag catches in the throat. A laugh. A retch. A joke. A bind. Pleasure and pain. Both noun and verb, gag provokes strong feelings. And, in the hands of artists, it offers a means of grappling with contemporary experience in a tragicomic mode.
Young Romance
Silent Tuesdays This breezy, wonderful romantic comedy marks the screen debut of Broadway actress Edith Taliaferro, and is the only of her three films to still exist today. Romance magazine–obsessed Nellie Nolan (Taliaferro) reads a story about a young American who pretends to be a duke and wins the love of a royal princess. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
Film Shooting Demo, Presented by Eastman Museum × CineStill
Want to get the most out of your roll of film? Then join us as we team up with CineStill for this FREE online workshop covering the basics of shooting and exposing film.
The Long Night
Noir ’47: The Year Darkness Came to Light A loose remake of Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève, Anatole Litvak’s American version follows Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), a discharged veteran holed up in his top-floor apartment after seemingly killing the magician Maximilian the Great (Vincent Price). Post-screening discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Eco-Anxiety Following up his 2006 Academy Award–winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Vice President Al Gore serves as the focal point for this update.
ONLINE WORKSHOP—Digital Negative Making for Alternative & Historic Process Printing
Learn how to reproduce the effects of a variety of your favorite historic and alternative printing processes such as carbon, salt, and platinum using negatives made with your inkjet printer.
The Last Laugh
Labor Film Series The enduring masterpiece from director F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise) is an artful fusion of evocative German Expressionism and gritty social realism. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
Museum Day—Free Admission
The Eastman Museum will be open for free, in the spirit of Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day. Experience the exhibitions Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone, Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, and the newest installation in the Collection Gallery. Explore hands-on activities in the Discovery Room throughout the day and enjoy guided tours of the mansion and Collection Gallery.
Member Movie Night | Hangover Square
Dryden University | Member Movie Night Plagued by mysterious blackouts resulting from loud noises, serious composer George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) is working on a concerto when he wakes up in another part of town. Introduction by Eric Grode, Director of the Goldring Arts Journalism and Communications School at Syracuse University. Followed by a Q&A with Grode and Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.
Jan Kolar, cello, and Meng Zhou, piano
Cellist Jan Kolar and pianist Meng Zhou will perform an hour-long concert in the Living Room.