Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Silent Tuesdays Chimmie Fadden Out West, was Cecil B. DeMille’s follow up to his very successful film version of Chimmie Fadden (1915). Both films starred Victor Moore—probably best known to modern audiences as the destitute father from Make Way for Tomorrow—as the loveable Bowery hooligan, Chimmie Fadden.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Curator's Choice Imagine five mechanical pianos mounted on five carts and driven by five donkeys riding through the Alpes. Add a gang of robbers who communicate by playing musical instruments, an evil tightrope walker, and a full orchestra in bowling hats.
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Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Holidays Charles Dickens’s beloved classic goes “Gonzo” with this charming adaptation from Brian Henson, Jim Henson’s son. Gonzo plays the author and narrator of the tale, with Michael Caine perfectly cast as everyone’s favorite miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge.
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Friday, December 8, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman It’s 1959, and author and socialite Truman Capote travels to Kansas to research a book on the murder of a family and the story of the murderer’s capture. It isn’t long, however, before Capote becomes close with one of the accused, Perry Smith.
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Saturday, December 9, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Rochester Premiere In 1915, 14-year-old Arshaluys Mardiganian was an Armenian living in Turkey, part of a large family. When the Ottoman Empire began their systematic genocide of the Armenian people, she was forced to march across the Syrian Desert and her family was torn apart.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Silent Tuesdays This night of Douglas Fairbanks and Allan Dwan films begins with The Good Bad Man, in which Fairbanks plays the cheerful and aimless outlaw “Passin’ Through,” whose holdups include robbing a train conductor of his ticket puncher and stealing food from the town store only to give it to a friendless orphan.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Noirvember Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas team up for the first time as former bootlegging partners fighting for the love of Lizabeth Scott. Returning from jail after fourteen years, Lancaster is surprised to find that Douglas is a legitimate businessman now who owns the nightclub where Scott sings.
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Thursday, December 14, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Holidays Charles Dickens’s immortal classic comes to life in this musical adaptation with songs and music by Leslie Bricusse, who had recently done the same for the enormously popular Doctor Dolittle (1967). Albert Finney stars as the eponymous Ebenezer Scrooge, a cruel employer and misanthrope who would rather not have to deal with the Christmas holiday at all, and begrudges his sole employee the one day off.
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Friday, December 15, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Rochester Premiere “Film is dead!” was the mantra that accompanied the dawn of digital cinema. But was it really true? For those who worked with film, it was clear that the digital experience and film simply weren’t the same thing. A decade ago, projectionist and filmmaker Rob Murphy decided to engage the debate with this film, asking the people who would really know: his fellow projectionists.
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Saturday, December 16, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Special Screening On the bleeding edge of the American independent cinema boom of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan remains a leading example of what can be done with a low budget and a surplus of inspiration and determination.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Japanese Ātohausu Cinema | Encore Screening Blurring the line between fiction and reality, writer-director Ryûtarô Ninomiya casts himself as a character named Ryûtarô Ninomiya. This character, a listless worker at an auto junkyard, wanders through life as a creature of unwelcome habit.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Make Mine Musicals | Holidays Rita Hayworth returns to the screen, this time as a goddess. Upset by a new Broadway musical that mocks Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore (Hayworth) comes down to Earth in the form of showgirl Kitty Templeton and lands a part in the show.
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Thursday, December 21, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Holidays The most successful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel about a mother raising four daughters alone during the Civil War is peerless family entertainment. The superb cast includes Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett.
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Friday, December 22, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Holidays Charles Dickens’s beloved classic goes “Gonzo” with this charming adaptation from Brian Henson, Jim Henson’s son. Gonzo plays the author and narrator of the tale, with Michael Caine perfectly cast as everyone’s favorite miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge.
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Saturday, December 23, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Holidays This color VistaVision update of Holiday Inn stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as World War II veterans who find a career in show business. Bing is all work, but Danny wants him to settle down.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Japanese Ātohausu Cinema | Encore Screening Four siblings meet in a restaurant to catch up. From there, they each unveil their own story, directed by a different filmmaker.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
The “Before” Trilogy Boy meets girl. Boy asks girl to get off the train with him in Vienna for one night that will change both of their lives. This is the simple premise of director Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, his follow-up to Dazed and Confused.
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Thursday, December 28, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Enjoy a free screening of the 2023 Rochester International Children's Film Festival (RICFF). The RICFF was founded in 2006, and showcases award-winning short films.
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Thursday, December 28, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
The “Before” Trilogy Set nine years later, Jesse is now a successful novelist and is touring Europe with his new book, This Time, based on his experiences with Céline in Vienna. During his last stop in a Paris bookstore, Céline walks in and the two reconnect.
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Friday, December 29, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
The “Before” Trilogy Now married with their own children, Jesse and Céline are on vacation in Greece, seemingly far from their problems. When Jesse takes his teenage son to the airport for a return flight to the United States, doubts surface about the decisions he has made in his life, leading him to this long-distance relationship with his son.
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