Rochester is a cinema-rich city. No other city this size has a five-screen art-house theater and a repertory theater in addition to the commercial theaters in the area. This is in part due to the generosity and legacy of George Eastman and the Eastman Kodak Co., but is also due to the long list of filmmakers who were born, worked, or studied in Rochester, in addition to those who visited often and called the city a second home. From director George Melford, actor Norman Kerry, and actress Louise Brooks in the silent period, to musician Cab Calloway, writers Garson and Michael Kanin in Hollywood’s golden years, to more recent actors such as John Lithgow and Taye Diggs, Rochester has produced an impressive list of artists who have contributed to the art of cinema. This year, the Dryden Theatre will bring films featuring many of these artists to the big screen, opening up chapters of this city you may never have known.
Dates and Titles:
January 14: The Sheik (George Melford, 1921, 86 min., 35mm)
February 1 (2 p.m.): Dryden Roundtable: From Rochester, With Love (featuring Jim Memmott, Nora Brown, Philip Carli, and Jared Case)
February 4: Sweet Alyssum (Colin Campbell, 1915, 59 min., 35mm)
February 15: Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954, 113 min., 35mm)
March 6: Woman of the Year (George Stevens, 1942, 114 min., DCP)
March 8: Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944, 114 min., DCP)
March 11: The Lone Wolf Returns (Ralph Ince, US 1926, 70 min., 35mm)
March 13: Intermezzo
March 14: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948, 126 min., 35mm)
March 15: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942, 102 min., 35mm)
March 20: Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian, 1957, 117 min., DCP)
March 28: The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood, 1942, 128 min., 35mm)
March 29 (2 p.m.): The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood, 1942, 128 min., 35mm)
April 3: Pat and Mike (George Cukor, 1952, 95 min., DCP)
Events in this Series
Casablanca (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman shine as star-crossed lovers in their most iconic roles.
Silk Stockings
Make Mine Musicals In this musical remake of Ninotchka, Fred Astaire takes on the role of Steve Canfield, an American film producer who wants Russian composer Peter Ilyitch Boroff to score his next film.
The Pride of the Yankees (35mm)
Teresa Wright | From Rochester, With Love A moving biopic of legendary Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig — the left-handed player who rose to the top of the sport, only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable illness.
Matinee: The Pride of the Yankees (35mm)
Teresa Wright | From Rochester, With Love A moving biopic of legendary Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig — the left-handed player who rose to the top of the sport, only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable illness.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love There is no more perfect study of avarice gone to obsession and paranoia than Huston's story of a threesome — Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Huston's father Walter — hunting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, where they come face-to-face with bandits, federales, and their own basest instincts.
Intermezzo (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love Concert violinist Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard) is a man dedicated to two things: his music and his family. That is until he hears the beautiful, talented pianist Anita Hoffman (Ingrid Bergman), his daughter’s music teacher.
The Lone Wolf Returns (35mm)
Silent Tuesdays Bert Lytell is Michael Lanyard, “The Lone Wolf,” a gentleman burglar created by Louis Joseph Vance in a series of novels. Lytell became a minor film star with this role and turned in four more films as The Lone Wolf through 1930.
Woman of the Year
From Rochester, With Love This first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was written by Rochester-born Michael Kanin, along with Ring Lardner, Jr. Tess Harding and Sam Craig (Hepburn and Tracy) are rival journalists at the same New York newspaper — she in politics and he in sports.