Join Senior Director of Special Events Allen Buell and Head of Library and Archives Ken Fox for a preview of the nearly 600 recordings the museum staff is digitizing as part of the IMLS-funded project Diamond Voices: 75 Years of Public Programming at the George Eastman Museum. Allen has been employed by the museum for 44 of those years, and eager to share his behind-the-scenes memories of the George Eastman Awards. The diamond voices of Audrey Hepburn, Julia Roberts, and Jodie Foster are all on the guest list.

Native American Cinematic Heritage Before creating Reservation Dogs and The Lowdown, Sterlin Harjo wrote and directed this drama of post-incarcertation reintegration.

Special Events John Barrymore delivers spectacular and chilling performances as both title characters in this superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel.

Silent Tuesdays Many silent filmmakers turned to Shakespeare for source material, transforming the Bard’s verbal poetry and drama into visual equivalents, but none more unusually than this project spearheaded by the legendary Danish actress Asta Nielsen.

Native American Cinematic Heritage Powwow People is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as outside observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow itself, inviting dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film.

Rochester Premiere While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne-Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen.

November Nitrate Weekend In the midst of a 1789 voyage to the West Indies, master’s mate of the HMS Bounty Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) rebels against the sadistic Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton). The most breathtaking and expensive film of 1935 was based on historical incident, but the combination of spectacular seascapes, shipboard intrigue, and Gable’s and Laughton’s battle for control make for a timeless story that will never be topped.

November Nitrate Weekend A fresh-faced farm girl goes to Hollywood and becomes a star, but her rise to the top is accompanied by heartbreak and tragedy.