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George Eastman Museum to celebrate Home Movie Day, a free worldwide event on March 22

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Rochester, N.Y., March 13, 2025—
On March 22 the George Eastman Museum will present Home Movie Day, bringing this free, worldwide event to Rochester, New York. Home Movie Day invites the public to see and share their own home movies with an audience from their community. The community is invited to bring their films and videos to screen or just come to experience the vast array of fascinating amateur movies from the Rochester area. “George Eastman had the vision to produce smaller gauge motion picture formats to make filmmaking accessible for amateurs,” said Gordon Nelson, assistant curator, Digital Collection and Home Movie
Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, New York, estab. 1892), The Kodascope giving an indoor movie entertainment. Transparency, gelatin on glass. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company.

George Eastman Museum to Host 90-Second Newbery Film Festival to Encourage Reading and Media Literacy Among Youth

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Rochester, N.Y., March 18, 2025—
On Saturday, April 5 from 2 to 4 p.m., join representatives from the George Eastman Museum, Writers & Books, and KidsOutAndAbout.com in the Dryden Theatre for the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, a program of short films by children and teens. The 90-Second Newbery Film Festivalis an annual video contest in which young readers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery award-winning books. Creative takes are encouraged: think Charlotte's Webas a horror movie, or The Tale of Despereauxas a musical. For fourteen years, the festival has screened the best kid-made movies annually

The Dryden Theatre and The Little Theatre Come Together to Honor Legendary Director David Lynch

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Rochester, N.Y., March 20, 2025—
With the passing of David Lynch in January, modern cinema lost one of its enigmatic masters. Over a career of forty-five years, Lynch touched the worlds of television, film, music, and more. To honor his life and celebrate his work, the Dryden Theatre and The Little Theatre are collaborating to bring some of Lynch’s iconic, groundbreaking work to downtown Rochester cinemas in the best way possible—on the big screen. Screenings Schedule Eraserhead (David Lynch, US 1977, 89 min, 35mm) Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dryden Theatre Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, US/France 2001, 147 min

George Eastman Museum to Present Conversation with Renowned Artist Liz Deschenes

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Rochester, N.Y., March 25, 2025—
With her exhibition Frames per Second (Silent) as a focus, Liz Deschenes will be in conversation with Phil Taylor, associate curator at the George Eastman Museum, on Wednesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre. The discussion will include the development of the exhibition, the threads of Deschenes' practice that it brings together, and how the artist conceives of her ongoing investigations of the histories of photography and film. Working with photographic media and their histories, Liz Deschenes deconstructs conventional photographic and cinematic systems with a mixture of devotion and
Liz Deschenes (American, b. 1966). Exhibition view, Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent), George Eastman Museum, 2025. © the artist, courtesy Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Emanuela Campoli, Paris and Milan; and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Hitchcock Through the Ages

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Throughout our extensive retrospective on Alfred Hitchcock in celebration of the 125th anniversary of his birth last year, we saw many of the films he directed, both in Great Britain and the United States. There were, however, films that were not included for various reasons. For the second year in a row, Deborah Sutherland is teaching her course “Hitchcock Through the Ages” at St. John Fisher University, and for the second year in a row, the students from the Honors program in that class will participate in the presentation of four Hitchcock films at the Dryden Theatre, interacting with local film professors and our own staff. Each film will be introduced by students in the class and followed by a post-screening discussion with students, Sutherland, Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case, and a special guest. Focusing on three different decades in Hitchcock’s career, deeper readings of each film reveals connections between his works and his filmmaking techniques.
 

City Symphonies: 1939-1993

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City Symphonies | Silent Tuesdays While most popular in the silent era, City Symphonies still exist today. These six films show how new filmmaking abilities, such as color (Abstract in Concrete) and sound (The City) demonstrate new ways to capture the qualities and possibilities of a city, while the films of Peter Hutton throw back to the earliest days of such films.

Paths of Glory

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The Complete Kubrick Adapted from the true story by Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory is the harrowing tale of a French general (Adolphe Menjou) who orders his men on a suicide mission and a colonel's (Kirk Douglas) struggle to maintain his men's and his own sanity amid the slaughter of trench warfare.

M (35mm)

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Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club In director Fritz Lang’s first sound film, a series of child murders in an unnamed German city causes the police to mistakenly crack down on the criminal underworld.