Labor Film Series Recounting the experience of women garment workers in Bangladesh, the film describes their efforts to form a union that will protect their rights.

Barrymore Family Album This 40th anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s most successful film is enhanced by the expertise of Lester Friedman, author of Citizen Spielberg, and Charity Lofthouse, professor of music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. After the screening, the two will talk about the iconic film and its equally iconic John Williams score. 

Silent Tuesdays The Eastman Theatre in downtown Rochester opened on September 4, 1922, with a screening of this Victorian adventure classic. A century later, the Dryden Theatre presents the best surviving film element of this title with live piano accompaniment. 

Noir ’47: The Year Darkness Came to Light Deviant miscreants collide in this dark two-hander starring film noir veterans Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney. Violent drifter Sam Wilde (Tierney) discovers that Reno boarding house owner Laury Palmer (Isabel Jewell) was just romancing him to make her boyfriend Danny (Tony Barrett) jealous. Post-screening discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.

Rochester Premiere Drive-ins have been around for nearly 90 years. Though their popularity has waned and hundreds have closed around the country, the COVID-19 pandemic provided a brief boost to these classic cinema venues. Post-screening Q&A with Dwight and Leigh Grimm, owners of the Greenville Drive-in 32 in Greenville, NY, featured in the film.

Dryden University The year is 1947 and A-list cartoon actor Roger Rabbit has been framed for murder. His boss has been killed, his wife blackmailed, and the future of his beloved Toontown placed in jeopardy. Introduction by Sidney Rosenzweig, faculty at SUNY Brockport. Followed by a Q&A with Rosenzweig and Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.

Silent Tuesdays This breezy, wonderful romantic comedy marks the screen debut of Broadway actress Edith Taliaferro, and is the only of her three films to still exist today. Romance magazine–obsessed Nellie Nolan (Taliaferro) reads a story about a young American who pretends to be a duke and wins the love of a royal princess. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.

Noir ’47: The Year Darkness Came to Light A loose remake of Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève, Anatole Litvak’s American version follows Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), a discharged veteran holed up in his top-floor apartment after seemingly killing the magician Maximilian the Great (Vincent Price). Post-screening discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.

Eco-Anxiety Following up his 2006 Academy Award–winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Vice President Al Gore serves as the focal point for this update.

Labor Film Series The enduring masterpiece from director F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise) is an artful fusion of evocative German Expressionism and gritty social realism. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.

Dryden University | Member Movie Night Plagued by mysterious blackouts resulting from loud noises, serious composer George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) is working on a concerto when he wakes up in another part of town. Introduction by Eric Grode, Director of the Goldring Arts Journalism and Communications School at Syracuse University. Followed by a Q&A with Grode and Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.

Silent Tuesdays Robert Strickland (Sydney Ainsworth), the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney cross-examines Strickland's wife and questions his daughter Doris, exposing evidence sufficient to call for a verdict of not guilty from eleven of the jury—but one juror is still holding out. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.

Curator's Choice | MEMBER MOVIE NIGHT Not only is The Life of Death of Colonel Blimp sometimes considered the greatest British film ever made, but it is also among the most loved ones – the two characteristics that do not often coincide. A blend of war epic, romance, and satire, it is, among other things, a strong social and political statement.

Labor Film Series In a small town in Serbia, day laborer Nikola is ordered to give up his two children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Introduction by Vincent Serravallo, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dryden University Jóhann Jóhannsson’s musical score for Arrival is integral to the film’s theme of communication and transports the audience with otherworldly, atmospheric sensations. He layered multiple tracks of piano drones with human voices to produce eerie, unsettling pieces of music.

Silent Tuesdays Cinema’s first matinee idol Francis X. Bushman plays Miles Anstruther, a colonel in the British Imperial Army who has fallen in love with Muriel Mannering (Marguerite Snow). But Mannering has been promised to his close friend and fellow soldier Christopher Bingham (William Clifford). When both men are assigned to serve in South Africa, they must survive the battle to determine who wins the hand of Muriel. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.

Make Mine Musicals The last in a loose series bearing the Broadway Melody title, this film once again finds artists striving for success on the Great White Way. Featuring songs by the unparalleled Cole Porter, the film follows Johnny Brett (Fred Astaire) and King Shaw (George Murphy) as an aspiring dance team that is separated when Murphy is mistakenly given the starring role in a Broadway show. Post-screening discussion with Michael Lasser.