Labor Film Series | Rochester Premiere “Don’t let Mickey Mouse become a rat.” Dorothy Parker’s slogan from the 1941 strike by Disney animators applies to the ongoing struggle of Disney’s cast and crew workers for increased wages: “Magic Doesn’t Pay the Bills."

Labor Film Series Often overlooked amidst his samurai films and historic epics, Kurosawa’s humanist films of the 1940s and ‘50s remain among his best, and Ikiru is his finest hour.

Dryden University What’s so funny about mutually assured destruction? A lot, it turns out. In director Stanley Kubrick’s triumphant black comedy, a frantic group of U.S. political and military leaders must deescalate a possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

Silent Tuesdays | The Sight & Sound Club Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive, The General.

Sight & Sound Club An anarchic, absurdist farce that follows two young women on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously.

The Art of Music in the Movies Erich Korngold composed music for this film, interpolating music by Wagner, Beethoven, Schubert, and Haydn. Music teacher Christine (Bette Davis) fell in love with cellist Karel (Paul Henreid) during the war, but assumed he had died in the conflict.

Dryden University The Arbor traces the tormented life and legacy of British playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Silent Tuesdays The Fox Film Corporation quickly reunited director Borzage with stars Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in a bid to repeat the popular and critical acclaim of Seventh Heaven.

Sight & Sound Club Director Wong Kar-Wai’s breakout film in the United States, In the Mood for Love is a film of longing — for love, for acceptance, for peace. One of the most breathtakingly beautiful films put to celluloid, Wong’s tale of unfulfilled relationships echoes throughout the years.

The Art of Music in Movies Rod Steiger delivers an Oscar-nominated performance as Sol Nazerman, an emotionally numbed Holocaust survivor now a pawnbroker in New York's Spanish Harlem.

Labor Film Series | Rochester Premiere 1.5 million Chileans revolted in 2019 against the constitution, injustices and privatized pension system imposed during the Pinochet dictatorship. Filmmaker Guzmán, who had documented the CIA-inspired coup that deposed Salvador Allende’s socialist government (The Battle of Chile, 1976 /1979) returned to his country to record this struggle, told through interviews with women participants.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman received his third Oscar nomination for his sensitive portrayal of a kindly priest accused by a pair of nuns (Meryl Streep, Amy Adams) of molesting the son of an African American parishioner (Viola Davis) in the 1960s Bronx.

Silent Tuesdays Milton Sills stars with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as a father and son in this carnival drama.

Make Mine Musicals Frank Sinatra and Doris Day team up in this romantic drama with songs by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, and Johnny Mercer.

The Art of Music in Movies Sigourney Weaver proves herself a courageous warrior as her working-class spaceship crew steadily fall prey to a terrifyingly unpredictable creature in Scott’s futuristic spin on the haunted house film and the first in a hugely successful franchise series, known also for one of the most memorable taglines: “In space no one can hear you scream.”

Labor Film Series “I treat men the exact way they’ve always treated women.” That is the formula for success in both business and intimacy proudly declared by Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton), a woman who skillfully takes over command of her father’s auto manufacturing company in this pre-code gem, and male underlings beware!

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman In Philip Seymour Hoffman’s lone film directorial effort, he takes on the title role of Jack, a lonely New York City limo driver. Jack works for his uncle at the limo company, but is looking to strike out on his own, applying for a job at the Transportation Authority.