Silent Tuesdays | WAMPAS Babies of 1926 In this late silent from director Frank Borzage, the Romantic poet of Golden-Age Hollywood filmmaking, Janet Gaynor plays Mary, a poor farm girl who falls in love with a WWI veteran (Charles Farrell) who's returned from the front unable to use his legs.

Mid-Century Comedies In her short but memorable career, Judy Holliday created few characters as memorable as the seemingly dumb blonde in this comedy. She's aptly named Billie Dawn, for she's about to awaken to a new day.

70 Years of Cinemascope | Member Movie Night In one of the best films of the 1950s, the subtle but powerful James Mason plays a middle-class schoolteacher who undergoes cortisone treatment after contracting a mysterious disease.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree In a powerful examination of society’s complicity to violence against women, Jodie Foster plays Sarah Tobias, a woman publicly raped by three men in a Washington honky-tonk.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree Martin Scorsese’s grim parable of isolation, despair, and violent redemption is without question a pivotal film in the history of American cinema — a brutal mix of realism and lyric dreaminess unique to post-Vietnam ’70s America that’s still powerfully relevant today.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree Jodie Foster’s directorial debut is this heartwarming story of a mother-child relationship. Dede Tate (Foster herself) has known for years that her son, Fred (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a genius. As a single, working mother without her own higher education, she seeks ways for Fred to shine academically while also trying to make friends and be a “normal” kid.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree Nell (Jodie Foster) has been living in the backwoods of North Carolina her entire life. When her mother’s body is discovered, local doctor Jerry Lovell (Liam Neeson) finds Nell, nearly feral and distrusting of outsiders.

RIT Best of Student Films 2023 Chosen by the faculty and staff of the Rochester Institute of Technology, these films represent the best of the student work from the 2022-2023 academic year from the School of Film and Animation.

Eastman Entertains | A Disney Centennial Julie Andrews won an Academy Award for her performance as that magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. Shot in Technicolor and combining live-action with animation, this charming musical is set in London during the progressive era and resolves many of the period’s social concerns—suffrage, class antagonisms, and child labor—in a manner possible only at Disney.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman is Wilson Joel, a man paralyzed by his wife’s suicide. With the discovery of an unopened lost suicide note, Wilson slips into a deep depression bent on repressing his emotions and expanding his addiction to huffing gasoline.

Silent Tuesdays “Swashbuckler” films began with Douglas Fairbanks’ 1920 The Mark Of Zorro, but the trend really took off with screen adaptations of rollicking adventure novels by Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), including The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, and perhaps most importantly Captain Blood: His Odyssey, of which Warner Bros.’ 1935 version launched Errol Flynn’s starring career.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree Based on the true story of Mohamedou Olud Slahi, and his New York Times bestselling memoir, Guantanamo Diary, this searing indictment of US military misconduct takes place almost exclusively at the infamous detention center.

Pops on Film Motown founder Berry Gordy got into film producing with this adaptation of Billie Holiday's autobiography, and brought Diana Ross with him. Ross plays Holliday with a fierce determination that garnered her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree Carl Sagan’s speculative fiction bestseller is adapted with Jodie Foster taking on the role of Ellie Arroway. Ellie’s long-term fascination with the endlessness of space leads to her becoming a brilliant astrophysicist and working with SETI (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), monitoring the cosmos for transmissions.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman 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.

Silent Tuesdays Universal Pictures made the most films of any major studio during the silent era, but later decided to destroy nearly all their silent prints and negatives to save on storage costs. However, some remarkable Universal silent films are unexpectedly reappearing in new restorations, such as this tale of a determined forty-ish woman factory owner (brilliantly played by stage legend Pauline Frederick) finding romance and facing realities with courage and wisdom.

Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree Meg and Sarah Altman (Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart) are a mother and daughter fighting for their lives during a home invasion in director David Fincher’s taut thriller.

Rochester Premiere | Director in Person Eight-year-old Yael is a bit adrift in her own world. A shy, private girl, she would rather write letters and listen to music than dance for her family and engage with the outside world. When she hears an advertisement for a pen that will give her a “wonderful life,” she decides to spend all her savings on this miracle pen, while an approaching typhoon threatens to make the outside world all too real.

Silent Tuesdays Of the famous Talmadge sisters, Norma Talmadge was the drama queen and Constance Talmadge the comedienne. (The youngest, Natalie, was Buster Keaton’s first wife and love interest in his Our Hospitality.) Constance’s talents emerged playing the spunky Mountain Girl in D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) and quirky romantic comedies showed her innate wit and vivacity best, often directed by Sidney Franklin (later famous for The Barretts of Wimpole Street and The Good Earth).

Make Mine Musicals Perhaps the high point in the career of one of the great Hollywood choreographers, The Gang’s All Here was Busby Berkeley’s first foray into color. And not just any color: glorious Technicolor!