Calendar of Events

Dryden Kids. A young American boy is transformed into a mouse when he stumbles upon a secret witches’ convention at a grand English hotel . . .

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...

This recently rediscovered Japanese silent evokes both the tense urban gunplay of an early Hollywood gangster movie and the dark fatalism of later film noir.

Five Faces of New York in the 1970s. “Hutton’s sketchbook of mid-1970s New York, edited in three parts over twelve years, is a chronicle of indelible impressions and an act of urban archeology . . ."

Birth of Body Horror: Early Works of David Cronenberg. Will they never learn? Playing god triggers the apocalypse once again, when scientists implanting patients with “helpful” parasites . . .

Rochester Labor Film Series. Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power, and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists . . .

A special Halloween double feature presentation. This frenetic, punk-rock nightmare centers on one asshole of a roommate . . .

Polish Film Festival. Jerzy Hoffman’s Oscar-nominated 1974 epic Deluge has recently been restored and reconstructed under Hoffman’s supervision . . .

Polish Film Festival. Zanussi’s groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of an aspiring young scientist, Franciszek, who wishes to study physics in order to “know things for sure, unequivocally.”

Museum Treasures. Seemingly destined to a rosy future made of fancy dresses and evenings out with Paris high society, Rose suddenly realizes the harshness of life when her bankrupt father dies and her fiancé leaves her . . .

Rochester Premiere. The discovery of a bone and a gun sends a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend . . .

Rochester Premiere. Winner of multiple 2014 Cannes Film Festival Awards (including the coveted Critics’ Week Grand Prix), The Tribe is an undeniably original and intense feature . . .

Dryden Kids. Have you ever tried to pay off a mortgage on a shoe? Witness the attempts of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in this classic comedy in which they play Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum, two bumbling inhabitants of Toyland. When the nasty Barnaby threatens the livelihood of pretty Little Bo Peep, it’s Dee...

Silent Tuesdays. At a challenging time of segregation in the fall of 1913, a virtuoso cast of black performers led by famed Caribbean American entertainer Bert Williams (1874–1922) gathered in the Bronx to make a feature-length motion picture. After more than an hour of film was shot, the project was abandoned by its...

Here and Elsewhere. “It is necessary to stop making movies on politics, to stop making political movies, and to begin making political movies politically,” declared Jean-Luc Godard as part of the Dziga-Vertov Group, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist filmmaking collective he spearheaded with Jean-Pierre Gorin between...

Stations of the Cross. Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot tableaux that parallel Christ’s journey to his crucifixion, Stations of the Cross is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen’s struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the...

The renowned Alloy Orchestra will perform the live musical accompaniment, creating a cinematic experience not to be missed!

Silent Tuesdays/Museum Treasures These stunning German silents will be presented with live piano accompaniment! Members admitted free!

Here and Elsewhere. On May Day, 1975, celebrated documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio, Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, and film editor Mary Lampson recorded interviews . . .