Calendar of Events
Events for December
Snow White (1916) on 35mm
Silent Tuesdays Thought lost for decades, the George Eastman Museum preserved this early adaptation of the nineteenth century fairy tale in the 1990s.
Terror of Mechagodzilla
The Enduring Legacy of Godzilla This fifteenth film in the Godzilla franchise, the last in the original Showa era, finds director Ishirô Honda returning to the franchise after seemingly retiring years earlier, disheartened by the kid-friendly direction the series had taken.
Torn Curtain (on 35mm)
Hitchcock 125 Hitchcock’s fiftieth film unfolds in the middle of Cold War espionage.
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock 125 Mark Cousins, director of the Story of Film series and The Eyes of Orson Welles, digs deep into Alfred Hitchcock’s life and career 125 years after his birth and 100 years after his first film premiered in the United Kingdom.
Da 5 Bloods
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee The last film in our Spike Lee series is his most recent, and one of his best. Lee returns to war, the same ground he trod in Miracle at St. Anna, and again he follows a platoon of Black soldiers on foreign soil.
The Act of Killing
The perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide are still publicly celebrated. Oppenheimer takes an extensive look at the lives of these men and asks them to recreate their killings in the form of cinema.
The End (Director In Person!)
Director Joshua Oppenhemier in Person! Decades after a series of events make the surface of the earth nearly uninhabitable, a wealthy family (Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George McKay) and their staff (Lennie James, Tim McInnerny, and Bronagh Gallagher) wile away their time in a luxurious underground bunker.
Going My Way
Make Mine Musicals | Holidays Crooner Bing Crosby stars as father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, the easygoing priest who comes from East St. Louis to New York City to bring St. Dominic’s Church out of the dumps.
Family Plot (on 35mm)
Hitchcock 125 In Hitchcock’s droll and delightful final film, Bruce Dern returned to work for the master of suspense (after having appeared in Marnie and two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour).
Going My Way
Holidays Crooner Bing Crosby stars as father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, the easygoing priest who comes from East St. Louis to New York City to bring St. Dominic’s Church out of the dumps.
Rome Express (on 16mm)
Silent Tuesdays Beyond Hitchcock, one of the best directors of British thrillers was Walter Forde.
Member Movie Night: July Rain (on 35mm)
Curator’s Choice When Lena decides that her fiancé is not the man she thought he was, the breakup causes her to reflect on her life and to wonder about the kind of world she and other members of her generation are set to inherit.
Scrooge (on 35mm)
Holidays No holiday season would be complete without an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s yuletide classic, and this is one of the best (released in the United States simply as A Christmas Carol).
Scrooge (on 35mm) - Matinee
Holidays No holiday season would be complete without an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s yuletide classic, and this is one of the best (released in the United States simply as A Christmas Carol).
Little Women (1994) - 35mm
Holidays at the Dryden Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War-era novel is brought to the screen in this fifth adaptation of the story. The March sisters, Jo (Winona Ryder), Meg (Trini Alvarado), Amy (Kirsten Dunst), and Beth (Claire Danes) live with their mother (Susan Sarandon) in Connecticut while the man of the house fights in the war.
The Matrix
The Matrix at 25 Computer programmer Thomas Anderson (hacker code: Neo) is contacted by a mysterious woman named Trinity who informs him he is in danger and that she knows he has been plagued by multiple references to The Matrix in his illicit online journeys.
Rochester International Children's Film Festival
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix at 25 The resurrected Neo and Trinity now run ops in The Matrix while also preparing for battle in the real world, stationed in the human haven of Zion.