Calendar of Events

Silent Tuesdays. One of James Card’s particular treasures that he brought to George Eastman House—and in fact was the very last film he saw in the Dryden Theatre—was this exquisitely conceived silent version of Edmond Rostand’s play. Director Augusto Genina inventively visualizes Rostand’s characters and poetry...

Birth of Body Horror: Early Works of David Cronenberg. Something’s gone terribly wrong at the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics, where, through intense psychological role playing Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) has been encouraging troubled clients to manifest their repressed emotions and desires as fleshy...

Ingrid Bergman: From Rochester with Love. Aristocrat Ingrid Bergman weds stableman Joseph Cotten with unforeseen results in Hitchcock’s excursion into the costume drama. Misunderstood and underappreciated on its release, Under Capricorn was later hailed by French New Wave critics as one of the finest...

Ingrid Bergman: From Rochester with Love. The most vital of a series of films Ingrid Bergman made with then-husband Rossellini, Journey to Italy is a breathtaking cinematic trip through Italy and a masterpiece of happenstance experience leading to epiphany, with detached couple Bergman and George...

Senior Matinee. Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October. Beginning this March, our senior matinee screenings are fully incorporated into our regular film calendar. Cinematic classics from the George Eastman House collection will be presented in 35mm, the way they were originally screened and...

Silent Tuesdays. John H. Collins is one of the great “What if . . . ?” figures of American cinema, a brilliantly creative filmmaker who went from being a costume department assistant to a major director within four short years before dying at the age of 31 in the 1918 influenza pandemic. Founding film curator James Card...

Five Faces of New York in the 1970s. Greetings was Brian De Palma’s first great cinematic statement. It appeared on the eve of this country’s most turbulent decade since the American Civil War, and in advance of the efforts of an ostensibly “new” Hollywood to render the boundless energies of the counterculture into commodity...

Museum Treasures. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart was conceived as a documentary about the making of what became Wilco’s most popular album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but this film became a classic David and Goliath story where artistic integrity triumphs over crass commercial interests in every way possible...

Sunday Matinee. This gorgeously evocative amalgam of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, German Expressionism, and Depression-era drama is a unique masterpiece in the history of cinema. At its core is Robert Mitchum’s terrifying performance as Preacher Harry Powell, a serial killing wolf in sheep’s clothing who relentlessly hounds...

Silent Tuesdays. Acclaimed German director F. W. Murnau’s (Nosferatu, The Last Laugh) first Hollywood film elicited extraordinary praise from the critics . . . 

Five Faces of New York in the 1970s. Featuring what may be the most relentless and exciting car chase in cinema history, The French Connection is based on the true story of two New York cops, played by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider . . .

Birth of Body Horror: Early Works of David Cronenberg. The result of a scientific experiment gone awry, “scanners” have the ability to read thoughts, control others through brain waves and cause heads to explode . . .

Ingrid Bergman: From Rochester with Love. Jean Renoir’s classic romantic comedy of intertwining love and the shrewd power of desire, set during the tumultuous political and social turmoil of turn-of-the-century France . . .

ImageOut of the Archives. Two men of very different backgrounds and ideologies are forced to share a cell in a South American jail . . .

Five Faces of New York in the 1970s. “One cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt’s eye for detail, his unpretentiousness . . ."

Ingrid Bergman: From Rochester with Love. This fine romantic drama features Ingrid Bergman as Libby Meredith, a wealthy New York socialite who moves with her husband Roger (Fritz Weaver) to a cabin in rural Tennessee . . .

Senior Matinee. Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October. Beginning this March, our senior matinee screenings are fully incorporated into our regular film calendar. Cinematic classics from the George Eastman House collection will be presented in 35mm, the way...

Member Movie Night/Silent Tuesdays. A classic of Swedish cinema, directed by grandmaster Victor Sjöström (The Phantom Carriage, The Wind). The film, based on the 1911 play by Jóhann Sigurjónsson . . .

Birth of Body Horror: Early Works of David Cronenberg. When sleazy, opportunistic producer of sensationalist television Max Renn (James Woods) is shown an intercepted signal of a mysterious show being broadcast from Malaysia . . .

Five Faces of New York in the 1970s. Woody Allen’s most critically acclaimed movie is a love letter to his hometown set to the romantic music of George Gershwin and photographed in glorious black & white Panavision by Gordon Willis . . .