The Pink Panther
The Art of Music in Movies The first installment in the successful comedy series introduces Peter Sellers as clumsy French Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Sellers is violently funny playing the detective who is too senseless to realize that his wife (Capucine) is carrying on with the man he is chasing: a jewelry thief known as “The Phantom” (David Niven).
King Creole
Not Cinemascope Elvis Presley is a nightclub singer (who croons “Hard-Headed Woman” and “Trouble,” among others) dragged into the criminal underworld.
Synecdoche, New York
A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Idiosyncratic screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) directorial debut is a mind-bending meta-drama marked by ingenious visual puns, linguistic tropes, and a general delight in language, both cinematic and spoken.
The Pebble and the Penguin
The Art of Music in Movies The final film from Don Bluth Entertainment has the director finding inspiration in the mating rituals of the Adélie penguins of Antarctica. Following their long-held tradition, Hubie (Martin Short), a shy and clumsy penguin, wants to find a pebble to present to Marina (Annie Golden) so that they can be mated.
Good News
Make Mine Musicals This pre-Code musical was based on a 1927 stage show of the same name and remade in 1947. Tom Marlowe (Stanley Smith) is the Tait College football star. He would rather hang out with Connie Lane (Mary Lawlor) and do the Varsity Drag than focus on his studies, which threatens his status for the big game.
Sleeping Beauty
Not Cinemascope | A Disney Centennial After the beautiful Princess Aurora is born into royalty, everyone gathers to celebrate, including three good fairies, and an evil one, Maleficent, who curses the young princess and announces that she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die before sunset on her sixteenth birthday.
R.M.N.
Rochester Premiere A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid the boy of the unresolved fears that have taken hold of him.
MEMBER MOVIE NIGHT | The Joker is Wild
Frank Being Frank In this little-seen biography, Sinatra plays entertainer Joe E. Lewis. A successful Chicago nightclub singer in the 1920s, Lewis angers his mobster boss when he signs with another club for higher pay and a recording contract.
George Eastman's Birthday Celebration
Pride at the Eastman
(SOLD OUT) George Eastman: The Ultimate Entertainer [New Date]
Members Only. NEW DATE! As part of Member Appreciation Week, join George Eastman Legacy Curator, Kathy Connor as she highlights artifacts such as dinner record books, invitations, music programs, menus and recipes used by George Eastman at many of his parties
Upstairs/Downstairs Tour - 2023 [Sold Out]
Members Only. Wondering what’s upstairs or beneath the historic house? Find out at this members only tour of the third floor, fourth-floor attic, and basement.
All That Jazz
Special Event! Veteran director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Sweet Charity, Cabaret) broke convention with a film that mixes genres and brings the classic musical into the hospital (or vice versa).
Southern Rites Documentary Film
George Eastman Museum to host community forum to request funding for the Rock Garden's Grape Arbor project
Thinking and Learning about Civil Rights & DEAI with Picture Books
Gillian Laub’s Southern Rites exhibition comes to the George Eastman Museum
Resistance and Rescue: Denmark and the Holocaust exhibition opens at the George Eastman Museum
Garden Vibes Concert Series returns to the George Eastman Museum this summer
George Eastman Museum honors Jodie Foster with the George Eastman Award