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 were meant to be seen. This series is made possible in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation and the Monroe County Office for the Aging.
The final film in the career of director William A. Wellman is curiously enough perhaps both his most and least personal film. Wellman based the film on his own experience in World War I, when he joined the French Foreign Legion and was assigned as the first American fighter pilot to help the French dogfight the Germans. But the studio interfered with production so much that Wellman, dismayed, quit the film business forever. In spite of all the hassle Lafayette Escadrille, starring Tab Hunter, William Wellman Jr., and a very young Clint Eastwood, is still clearly a labor of love, with protracted scenes of camaraderie and lovemaking as touching and precise as anything Wellman has shot in his illustrious filmmaking career.