70 Years of Cinemascope Based on, and using the music of, Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera of Carmen, this Cinemascope marvel is the perfect showcase for its all-Black cast, including Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, and Diahann Carroll.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman 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.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Women Directors of Color Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s groundbreaking novel, the film follows young Meg Murry as she travels space and time to rescue her missing father.

Make Mine Musicals Rita Hayworths’ first color musical, she is the Cover Girl of the title in her only pairing with the legendary Gene Kelly.

Pops on Film Just in time for the RPO’s Pops concert performances Decades: Back to the 80s on April 7 and 8, the Dryden features the biggest dance film of the decade.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Women Directors of Color Inspired by Johann Zoffany’s 18th century painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Elizabeth Murray, director Amma Assante fills in the details of this fascinating life, lived over two centuries ago.

An hour long performance by the Kilbourn Quartet. The members of this group are all students at the Eastman School of Music and will be performing chamber music for strings by Tchaikovsky and Brahms.

An hour long organ concert performed by Joseph Egon Pechenik. Joseph is a fifteen year old musician and composer from Buffalo, NY.

Rochester Premiere Saint-Omer, Northern France. A woman stands trial for the murder of her fifteen-month-old baby, having abandoned it to the tides in a coastal village. Meanwhile, a young novelist going through her own life changes travels to cover the trial.

Rochester Premiere Master Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda traveled to South Korea to make this film with Parasite breakout star Song Kang-ho, Doona Bae (whom he had worked with on Air Doll thirteen years earlier), and K-pop superstar IU (Ji-eun Lee).

Born in Mexico, José Ramón Gil Samaniego and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a teenager to escape the Mexican Revolution. He was acting on film within a decade and adopted the screen name Ramon Novarro at the suggestion of director Rex Ingram, with whom he worked seven times.

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.

Mid-Century Comedies While his work had always addressed the plight of the downtrodden in contemporary America, Chaplin’s satiric knives were at their sharpest for this masterpiece, his last “silent.” Chaplin directed, starred in, and scored this story of a factory worker who literally gets ground through the gears of his workplace.

Mid-Century Comedies George and Marion Kerby (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett) are bank owners who live for fun and excitement. Their friend and fellow member of the board of directors, Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), is hen-pecked and boring. The Kerby’s fun and excitement leads to a fatal car crash that leaves them walking the earth in limbo.

70 Years of Cinemascope Wagon train driver Will Lockhart (James Stewart) rides from Laramie, Wyoming to the small town of Coronado with a load of supplies. He also carries with him a secret that has brought him to the town.

Rochester Premiere Martin Ward is a cove fisherman without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Banned at Sundance for being “disagreeable,” Todd Solondz’s most successful film follows three sisters and the conflicts that mark their suburban lives.