Movies that Make No Sense: The Cinema of Seijun Suzuki In the early 1980s, Suzuki began creating what would come to be known as the Taishō trilogy, three films united by theme, style, and the Taishō period in Japan (1912–1926). Based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi, this middle film of the trilogy follows a playwright drawn to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost.

The New Classics The “best friend” of the title is sports reporter Michael O’Neal (Dermot Mulroney), who had an agreement with New York food critic Julianne Potter (George Eastman Award recipient Julia Roberts) that they would marry each other at the age of 28 if they hadn’t found anyone else.

Breaking Barriers: The Films of Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier earned his lone Academy Award for his performance in this film. Poitier portrays Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker heading West when his car overheats. The closest source of water is a convent run by German nuns who were gifted the land after the war.

Hollywood PairingsIn a debtor’s prison in the slums of Calais, the former Lady Hamilton narrates the story of her life to her skeptical fellow inmates. In a series of flashbacks, Emma (Vivien Leigh) describes herself when she was younger and was the muse for several artists, including George Romney and Joshua Reynolds.

A Disney Centennial As a young animator, Walt Disney started making short films for his own company and then for Universal. His “Alice” series featured a combination of animation and live-action with a human Alice interacting with her animated cat, Julius, and having adventures.

Breaking Barriers: The Films of Sidney Poitier Still rowdy after all these years, Richard Brooks’s raucous drama about a war vet-turned-teacher (Glenn Ford) who fights a new kind of battle in the classroom opens with a blast — specifically, “Rock Around the Clock” — and never lets up.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman A unique and clever take on the “films about filmmaking” genre, David Mamet’s absurdist comedy concerns the troubled production of a fictional film, The Old Mill. Plagued by setbacks, director Walt Price (William H. Macy) presses on after the company is kicked out of their New Hampshire location following a controversy with the film’s star.

Breaking Barriers: The Films of Sidney Poitier Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), an engineer by trade, has been turned down by firms all over Great Britain. He takes a job as a teacher at the North Quay Secondary School in London’s tough East End, until a position becomes available. Warned about the behavior of the students, Thackeray retains his calm demeanor and attempts to set his own ground rules by treating the students as adults and demanding mutual respect.

Hollywood Pairings Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) follows her husband with a gun in Manhattan one day, suspecting he is having an affair with another woman. In a passionate rage, she fires wildly around the room, one of the bullets hitting her husband in the shoulder while leaving his lover unscathed.

Make Mine Musicals The shy Clarence (Frank Sinatra) and the cocky Joe (Gene Kelly) are sailors on shore leave in Hollywood, where they try to aid the career of an aspiring young singer (Kathryn Grayson) while fighting for her affections.

Breaking Barriers: The Films of Sidney Poitier | Hollywood Pairings Sidney Poitier’s screen debut comes in this fiery crime drama fueled by racial tensions. When Johnny and Ray Biddle (Dick Paxton and Richard Widmark) are both shot while attempting a robbery, they are brought to the county hospital where the hospital’s first Black doctor, Luther Brooks (Poitier) tends to their wounds.

Breaking Barriers: The Films of Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier is the man they call Mister Tibbs in Norman Jewison's landmark film about crime and racism in America's South.

Hollywood Pairings In the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri, the Bridge family must grapple with changing morals and values of the 1930s and 1940s.

Curator’s Choice Originally rated X by the Motion Picture Association of America, this US release version only earned an R rating when twelve minutes of the original film were removed. The first film in Visconti’s loose “German Trilogy” (followed by Death in Venice and Ludwig) centers on the family of Baron Joachim von Essenbeck (Albrecht Schoenhals), a traditional German aristocrat opposed to the rise of the Nazi party.

Join Lilyan Jones, Boyer Cataloger as she discusses the Preserving and Improving Access to the Boyer Collection project. Including over 10,000 objects, the collection is one of the foundational collections of the museum’s holdings.

In conjunction with the exhibition Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles, Adam Ekberg will present an artist talk in the Dryden Theatre. Following his talk, visitors are welcome to visit his exhibition in the Project Gallery.

Rochester Premiere In 2010, Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi received a twenty-year ban from making films from the Islamic Revolutionary Court. On house arrest, Panahi has nevertheless been surreptitiously making films since then, distributing them at foreign festivals and winning awards.

Performance by the locally based Five Points Performance Company. The company spans a wide variety of age groups who enjoy the privilege of sharing their talented gifts with audiences . They will be performing a variety of Broadway show tunes. 

An hour long concert of organ music performed by Joe Blackburn who will play Eastman's original Aeolian Pipe organ and speak a bit about its history and its restoration.