George Eastman Award Ceremony & Gala
Jodie Foster will accept the George Eastman Award, the museum’s highest honor in motion pictures, at a ceremony in the Dryden Theatre, followed by a gala in the museum and historic mansion.
The Five Point Performance Company
The Five Point Performance Company is an intensive dance and vocal show choir performing locally and in Walt Disney World. The company spans a variety of age groups who all enjoy the privilege of sharing their talented gifts with audiences and will be performing selections from Broadway show tunes.
The Main Street Players Performance Company
The Main Street Players Performance Company is an adult group of local artists and professionals who enjoy the privilege of sharing their talented gifts with audiences and will be performing selections from various show tunes.
Jodie Foster to Receive George Eastman Award
Storytime Stroller Tour
A playful story time tour geared to children ages 4 and under (older children are welcome).
Exhibition Preview: Gillian Laub: Southern Rites
Be among the first to explore our newest exhibition in the main galleries, Gillian Laub: Southern Rites.
The Silence of the Lambs with introduction by Jodie Foster [Sold Out]
Jodie Foster in Person! | Jodie Foster: George Eastman Award Honoree The George Eastman Award Ceremony and Gala is sold out; however, we are pleased to announce an additional opportunity to see Jodie Foster at the museum.
Tol'able David
Silent Tuesdays David Kinemon (Richard Barthelmess) grows up as the younger son on a tenant farm near the border between Virginia and West Virginia. After meeting Esther (Gladys Hulette) on a neighboring farm, he is smitten and longs to do something to make her proud and woo her.
A Mighty Wind
Music Mockumentaries When folk music producing icon Irving Steinbloom passes away, his son Jonathan decides to mount a reunion concert to be televised on public television.
MEMBER MOVIE NIGHT | The Big Trail
Not Cinemascope | Member Movie Night John Wayne plays Breck Coleman, a scout who pledges to lead a wagon train from Mississippi over the Oregon Trail to the northwest. The journey is dangerous, as the settlers experience a Buffalo hunt, ford a river, and endure both a snowstorm and a precipitous mountain pass.
Plan 75
Rochester Premiere Set in a potential near future, Japan’s government realizes that its rapidly-aging population is a growing problem and ratifies a striking solution: Plan 75. The plan offers all residents seventy-five and older free euthanasia and end-of-life planning along with a financial incentive.
Owning Mahowny
A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Based on the true story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny, a bank manager with a gambling problem.
Miss Lulu Bett
Silent Tuesdays
Footlight Parade
Make Mine Musicals Reunited with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, Footlight Parade is Busby Berkeley’s third musical at Warner Bros., following 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933.
Forbidden Planet
70 Years of Cinemascope In this loose sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero becomes Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), who rules the planet Altair IV along with his daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), and their mechanical Caliban, Robby the Robot.
Charlie Wilson's War
A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) is a Texas congressman in the early 1980s who is more interested in tangible benefits of his position than actually doing the work of governing.
Ride Lonesome
70 Years of Cinemascope Randolph Scott is bounty hunter Ben Brigade, escorting Billy John (James Best) to town to be tried for murder, but taking his time. What he really wants is for Billy John’s brother, Frank (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up to them so that he can seek revenge for his wife’s murder.
The Girl Can't Help It
70 Years of Cinemascope Press agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) is hurting from his break-up with former girlfriend and client Julie London (playing herself) and finds solace in the bottom of a bottle when gangster “Fats” Murdock (Edmond O’Brien) enlists him to promote his lover, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), to a pop star in just six weeks.
The Bat Whispers
Not Cinemascope Following a bank robbery, a group of people gather in the house of the bank president, two of whom believe the money from the robbery is hidden there. When a mysterious figure in a cape appears, leaving shadows that look like a bat, the occupants start to meet nefarious ends, and it’s up to Detective Anderson (Chester Morris) to uncover the culprit and solve the mystery.