Japanese Ātohausu Cinema | Rochester Premiere A police interrogation scene gives way to rehearsals and re-stagings of the events and relationships that led to the crime.

Labor Film Series Reporting from a society divided by caste and gender, a fearless group of women journalists all from the Dalit (“untouchables”) caste, maintain India’s only women-led news outlet, Khabar Lahariya ( meaning “Waves of News”).

Silent Tuesdays The first of three 1927 collaborations between Polish-born star Pola Negri and Finnish-born director Mauritz Stiller, Hotel Imperial is based on the 1917 Hungarian play of the same name.

The Sight and Sound Club One of the most original, sensuous, and beautiful films of the 1990s, this loose version of Melville's novella transposes the sea-bound story to a group of French Foreign Legionnaires in the East African outpost of Djibouti.

Japanese Ātohausu Cinema | Rochester Premiere Blurring the line between fiction and reality, writer-director Ryûtarô Ninomiya casts himself as a character named Ryûtarô Ninomiya. This character, a listless worker at an auto junkyard, wanders through life as a creature of unwelcome habit.

Labor Film Series | Rochester Premiere The year 1945 was pivotal in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Thomas Anderson’s mesmerizing survey of America’s bruised post-World War II psyche stands as one of the finest films of 2012 for many reasons: the dreamy cinematography; the exquisite production design; and Joaquin Phoenix’s startling, Oscar-nominated turn as Freddie Quell, a psychologically damaged vet who falls under the sway of charismatic cult leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Make Mine Musicals French actress Leslie Caron followed her sensational film debut in An American in Paris with this charming little story about an orphan named Lili who joins a carnival and becomes infatuated with an amiable, though somewhat roguish, magician.

The Sight and Sound Club | Spooky Season Writer-director Jordan Peele’s stunning debut film is this race-inflected horror film.

Labor Film Series | Member Movie Night Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day, adapted the original screenplay for Ikiru (which kicked off this series) and transposed it to 1953 London.

Silent Tuesdays | Spooky Season Paul Leni came from Germany to work for Universal in 1927 and was essentially the founder of the studio’s reputation for horror films, starting with this iconic adaptation of John Willard’s hugely popular “old dark house” play The Cat and the Canary (which, surprisingly, still gets an occasional outing on the stage even today).

Curator's Choice Even a mini retrospective of Elem Klimov (1933 – 2003) can demonstrate the phenomenal versatility of this provocative filmmaker. Taken at face value, his feature-length debut, Welcome, or No Trespassing, is a delightful children’s comedy, and, as such, remains one of the most beloved films in the former USSR.

Curator's Choice A teenaged boy in Nazi occupied Belarus flees his own destroyed village and falls in with a band of partisans, discovering firsthand the brutal ordeals suffered by peasants.