A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Designed as a three-channel installation, this cinematic version of Elena Dorfman’s debut film takes a deep dive into the hidden history of Albanian film. The Albanians established their Kinostudio with the help of the Russians, and went on to produce more than three hundred feature films and thousands of newsreels and documentaries — all of which were state sponsored and censored.
Training Camp In one of his supreme comic masterpieces, the great Harold Lloyd tries anything to be the most popular man on campus, including becoming a tackling dummy for the school football team.
America in Space Based on the true story of NASA’s aborted third trip to the moon, the film follows Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) as an explosion in an oxygen tank puts the mission at risk.
Training Camp Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (Burt Reynolds) has made a lot of mistakes in his life. After getting banned from the NFL for shaving points, he steals his lover’s car, leads police on a chase, and dumps the car in the ocean, earning him eighteen months in state prison.
America in Space Based on the true story of NASA’s aborted third trip to the moon, the film follows Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) as an explosion in an oxygen tank puts the mission at risk.
100 Years of Mel Brooks One of Brooks’s most quotable films, this Star Wars send-up takes on the mega-franchise, American politics, and Hollywood itself.
Special Event Ted Neeley, iconic actor and star of Norman Jewison's classic 1973 film Jesus Christ Superstar, will visit the Dryden Theatre at the historic George Eastman Museum for a special screening of a remastered version of the film. His visit is part of the nationwide Ted Neeley Farewell Tour.
Paul and Phil The feature debut of acclaimed young writer/director Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) is a brilliantly acted character study about the relationship between a professional gambler and his younger protege.
Paul and Phil In a bold career move, Adam Sandler ditches his funny-guy persona to play Barry Egan, a lonely, repressed owner of a plunger and novelty-item wholesale company. Prone to fits of rage and social awkwardness, Barry’s life begins to turn around upon meeting Lena (Emily Watson), a friend of his sister’s.
Paul and Phil Paul Thomas Anderson’s mesmerizing survey of America’s bruised post-World War II psyche stands as one of the finest films of 2012 for many reasons: the dreamy cinematography; the exquisite production design; and Joaquin Phoenix’s startling, Oscar-nominated turn as Freddie Quell, a psychologically damaged vet who falls under the sway of charismatic cult leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Paul and Phil Penetrating the mood of the disco era, P. T. Anderson’s breakout film follows Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) from his days as a petulant young dishwasher to an intrepid porn superstar in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, to his fall to rock bottom in the 1980s.
Paul and Phil Paul Thomas Anderson’s third feature concerns twenty-four hours in the lives of a varied lot of Los Angelenos. Two dying fathers work to mend broken ties with their estranged children, while two whiz kids, one grown and one young, struggle with the pressures of their intellects.
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Between 2013 and 2023, the Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production.
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Now that we’re strangers we can start all over again at the beginning.” Estranged couple Alex and Katherine (George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman) are investigating an Italian property they inherited from Alex’s uncle.
The Art of Music in the Movies Florida lawyer Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) is assailed by a fearsome voice from his past, Max Cady, a man he'd once put away. Mitchum plays Cady as a creature completely molded of evil, death in a Hawaiian shirt.
A Summer Trip Through Europe(an Cinema) Largely considered Antonioni’s breakthrough masterpiece, L’Avventura marked the director’s transition into his trademark deliberate pacing and careful composition. Based on a story written by Antonioni, the film chronicles the search for a woman whose disappearance leads to an illicit romance between her lover and her best friend.
Adventures of Lassie The ultimate boy-and-his-dog movie—and the first in the warmest, fuzziest film franchise of all time—stars young Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough, an impoverished Yorkshire lad who must sell off his best friend, a Rough Collie named Lassie (beautifully played by legendary canine star Pal), when his family falls upon hard times.
Training Camp Football is everything to the town of Dillon, Texas. At the center of this is the high school football team and its coach, Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton). The entire town shows up for games on Friday nights, with expectations that the team will make it to the state championship, providing pride for the town and long-lasting memories for the players.
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Usually, it began like this…” Jacques Rivette’s recursive, surreal, haunted house film plays with narrative in ways never before seen on-screen, and in the process influenced dozens of filmmakers, from David Lynch to Richard Linklater and Olivier Assayas.
The Art of Music in the Movies With almost no dialogue for its first forty minutes, and only 862 total words of dialogue in the film, Wall-E depends nearly entirely on its score and soundscape. Thomas Newman’s score helps to develop the relationship between Wall-E, a trash-compacting droid abandoned on a desolate Earth, and EVE, an advanced probe droid sent to the planet to scan for signs of life.
