Coming Home Again
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Directors Director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club, Smoke) returns with this story based on a 1995 New Yorker personal essay by Chang-rae Lee. An intimate film about generational separation and healing, the film continues to return to food and its preparation (all prepared for the film by acclaimed Korean-American chef Corey Lee).
Borderline
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists Paul Robeson dominates the screen in this silent drama of infidelity and interracial romance.
Cabin in the Sky
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists Presented in a gorgeous sepia-toned print, this film follows Petunia Jackson (Ethel Waters) as she tries to convince her husband, Joe (Eddie “Rochester” Anderson), to stop gambling and lead a good life.
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists Stationed in France, young American soldier Turner (Harry Baird) is given a promotion and three-day pass, which he decides to spend in Paris. His wanderings lead him to a nightclub, where he meets Miriam (Nicole Berger), a white French shop clerk, and a romance blossoms.
Shaft
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists Already an established photographer, musician, and writer, Gordon Parks turned to filmmaking in the late 1960s. Parks’s photographic eye New York City without adornment while Isaac Hayes’s unforgettable score propels the on-screen action, resulting in Hayes becoming the first Black composer to receive an Academy Award. Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about? You’re damn right.
A Soldier’s Story
In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists Denzel Washington’s breakout supporting role in this film brought him the first of eight Academy Award nominations. Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Charles Fuller, the film looks at hatred within and beyond a US Army base in Louisiana in 1944.
Talk to Me
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists The importance of radio in the 1960s and ’70s is explored in this biographical film about famous Washington, DC, disc jockey Petey Greene (Don Cheadle).
This Is the Life
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists The Good Life Health Food Centre is not a name that would immediately inspire thoughts as fertile ground for a musical revolution, but their weekly hip-hop open mic nights are now the stuff of legend. This documentary, Ava DuVernay’s first feature film, is a loving look back at a place and time that can never be duplicated.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
FREE SCREENING | In Solidarity: Spotlighting Black Film Artists Co-writer Jimmie Fails stars as a version of himself in this debut film from director Joe Talbot. A story of gentrification and the idea of American legacy, this sensitive film deals with the fringes of society and the terrible cost of displacement.
George Eastman Bike Tour
See Rochester in a new way. A nod to George Eastman’s own love of cycling, the George Eastman Bike Tour will take you to ten different locations related to the life and work of this pioneer of popular photography and famous Rochesterian.
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Concert
The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester concludes its 44th season with a concert in the West Garden. The program will feature classical music inspired by the movie-themed tablescapes on view in Eastman Entertains: At the Movies.
Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Concert
SOLD OUTThe Society for Chamber Music in Rochester concludes its 44th season with a concert in the West Garden. The program will feature classical music inspired by the movie-themed tablescapes on view in Eastman Entertains: At the Movies.
Joan Crawford Home Movies
Joan Crawford’s home movies, held in the George Eastman Museum collection, offer a different perspective on the Hollywood icon. Joan Crawford was first and foremost a public personality; her very name had been selected through a fan contest at MGM’s behest when the young star, born Lucille LeSueur, was fast on the rise. The private Joan Crawford fought as hard to create a normal family life as she did to establish her career. She forged her own path and to that end became a single parent, eventually adopting and raising four children.
Like many parents, she picked up a 16mm camera and began...
First Date
Rochester Premiere Alternately violent and hilarious, this feature from first-time filmmakers Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp manages to shift tones wildly while ratcheting up a propulsive plot. With shades of early Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino, the madcap crime comedy is updated for the social media age.
The Wizard of Oz
Eastman Entertains | Judy, Judy, Judy (Garland) If ever a film was meant to be seen on the big screen, this is it. Now a cultural icon, this adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novel was one of the first films to be named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
First Date
Rochester Premiere Alternately violent and hilarious, this feature from first-time filmmakers Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp manages to shift tones wildly while ratcheting up a propulsive plot. With shades of early Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino, the madcap crime comedy is updated for the social media age.
All Light, Everywhere
Rochester Premiere The observer effect in psychology suggests that the simple act of observation by an outside person can unintentionally change the way people act and react to situations. Recipient of the special jury award for Nonfiction Experimentation at Sundance 2021.
Bringing Up Baby | Member Movie Night
MEMBER MOVIE NIGHT|Cary, Cary, Cary (Grant) In the mother of all screwball comedies, Cary Grant stars as a stuffy paleontologist who knows more about dinosaurs than he does about the modern woman. GEM members admitted for free. Only members may attend this screening. Your entire party must be present before being seated.
Bringing Up Baby
Cary, Cary, Cary (Grant) In the mother of all screwball comedies, Cary Grant stars as a stuffy paleontologist who knows more about dinosaurs than he does about the modern woman.
Notorious
Noir '46 In one of Hitchcock’s crowning achievements, the master of suspense utilizes all of his technical and storytelling acumen in the realization of this gripping thriller.
