Film Screenings

The Complete Antoine Doinel Stolen Kisses is a feature-length follow-up on Truffaut’s Doinel character. Doinel is now a young adult who is still struggling to find a lover or a viable future. Throughout Stolen Kisses, Doinel works a series of odd jobs, most memorably and humorously as a private detective, and makes embarrassingly relatable fumbles in every single one. He’s obsessive in his search for a woman who will receive his adoration and chases infatuation rather than love.

Rochester Premiere The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhang-ke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides.

Rochester Premiere Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Wu Ke-Xi) and Didi (Haipeng Xu) navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood.

Summer Chills 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, distinctly Cronenbergian excrescences that soon appear on their skin.

Happy Birthday, James Cagney! At the onset of World War II, George M. Cohan (James Cagney), known as “the man who invented Broadway,” comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical, I’d Rather Be Right.

The Complete Kubrick Adapted from a novel by Gustav Hasford, Stanley Kubrick’s stunning war movie takes us from a nightmarish Marine training session on Parris Island to the hell of Vietnam.

The Complete Antoine Doinel If Truffaut’s first Antoine Doinel films begin as somewhat nostalgic ventures into childhood and young adulthood, then Bed & Board represents the moment where the films stop being ventures into Truffaut’s past and actually begin to muddle in Truffaut’s present.

Make Mine Musicals Jane Falbury (Judy Garland) is a small-town farmer who receives a surprise visit from her actress sister, Abigail (Gloria DeHaven), and Abigail’s theater troupe.

The Art of Music in the Movies A tragic love story of the most epic proportions, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s film helped spark the larger-than-life monster movie tradition.

Summer Chills Director Guillermo Del Toro returns to his gothic roots with this tale of hauntings, both of the spectral nature and that of family history.

Roundtable discussion Three of Indian cinema’s biggest stars—Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Salman Khan—are all turning sixty this year. They are not related to each other, but each is part of an extended family working in the Indian film industry.

The Complete Kubrick | Summer Chills Stanley Kubrick’s final directorial effort was released twelve years after his previous film and four months after his death. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 Traumnovelle (or Dream Story), Kubrick waited until he had a real-life couple that could commit to his demanding production schedule to make the film.

Two by Alex Ross Perry | Rochester Premiere In 1999 influential indie rock band Pavement broke up due to the stresses of touring and living up to competing expectations.

As VHS became the dominant home video format in the early 1980s and consumer demand for new and classic films grew, the need for a space where people could rent the still-expensive-to-purchase tapes created an opening for the proliferation of the video store.

The Khans of Bollywood Music! Romance! Drama! Suspense! The greatest box office triumph in the history of Indian cinema at the time of its release is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Bollywood in its most popular and beloved form.