Eric T. Kunsman: Felicific Calculus
Eric T. Kunsman's artistic practice focuses on the often-neglected towns of the American southwest as well as the tensions of struggling rustbelt cities throughout the northeastern United States.
Halloween Week at GEM
Join us the week before All Hallow's Eve as George Eastman's historic mansion is taken over by the spirits of the past.
Exhibition Preview: Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On
Be among the first to explore our newest exhibition in the main galleries, Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On.
Hair Love
In this captivating, Academy Award–winning animated digital short film, seven-year-old Zuri attempts to style her own hair while following an online video tutorial. Seeing that she needs help, her father Stephen comes to the rescue.
James Tylor: From an Untouched Landscape
Social Media Code of Conduct
Manhattan Madness | American Aristocracy
Silent Tuesdays Before he was a founding member of United Artists, and before he was the swashbuckler remembered for The Black Pirate (1926) and The Thief of Bagdad (1924), Douglas Fairbanks was an agile, adept leading man, capable of both humor and romance, as seen in these two films. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli
If...
Palme d’Or Winners of the 1960s This disturbing drama of repression and revolution at an English boarding school is director Lindsay Anderson's timely social satire on the student rebellion movements that were rocking the world (the film opened just months after the May 1968 French student uprisings).
Over the Limit
Polish Film Festival A nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama about the intense physical and mental labor put into a sport that thrives on its beautiful aesthetics.
Borderland
Rochester Premiere | The Polish Film Festival Returning to the Dryden for the third time, director Andreas Voigt brings his latest film, a follow-up, of sorts, to his 1992 film Borderland—A Charm. In this most recent film, he explores the lives of people living on or near the border between Germany and Poland.
Oklahoma!
Great American Songbook Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s classic musical is brought to the screen with Technicolor verve. The soundtrack is filled with memorable songs, including “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” and “I Cain’t Say No,” while the cast shines with performances by Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones, Eddie Albert, and Rod Steiger.
Forbidden Songs
Polish Film Festival Forbidden Songs was the first feature film released in Poland after World War II. Conceived and written by Ludwik Starski, a Polish-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, the film remarkably adopted the genre of light musical comedy to portray the diverse experiences of Warsaw's inhabitants during the period of Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945.
Melvin and Howard | Member Movie Night
Member Movie Night | Demme Comedies Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat), an employee at a Nevada magnesium plant, imagines he is destined for greater things. On his way home from work one night, he picks up an old man (Jason Robards) who has crashed his motorcycle riding through the desert.
Pal Joey
Great American Songbook Frank Sinatra is in proto–Rat Pack form as womanizing nightclub singer Joey Evans in this adaptation of the stage production, with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Stumbling into San Francisco after being run out of his last town for romancing the mayor’s underage daughter, Joey runs into old friend and bandleader Ned Galvin, who wrangles him a job at the Barbary Coast Club.
The Village Detective: a song cycle
Rochester Premiere During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film preserved at the bottom of the ocean near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where hydrogen sulfide, a volcanic gas, tends to preserve whatever is around it.
Saturday Afternoon | Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Silent Tuesdays The name of Harry Langdon is not well known outside of archivist and film historian circles. However, he was included as one of the four greatest silent comedians—alongside Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd—in James Agee’s 1949 essay “Comedy’s Greatest Era.”
Something Wild
Demme Comedies Charlie Riggs (Jeff Daniels) is an investment banker locked into his repetitive Manhattan lifestyle. In order to get a small thrill out of life, he leaves a diner without paying for his lunch. Outside, he’s confronted by Lulu (Melanie Griffith), who recognizes him as a “closet rebel” and offers him a ride back to work.
Union Pacific
Palme d’Or Bonus—the 1930s The only film to win the Palme d’Or in the 1930s (then called the “Grand Prix du Festival International du Film”) is this Cecil B. DeMille epic of railroads battling for supremacy in the 1860s.
Little Girl
FREE Admission | Transgender Awareness Week This moving documentary follows a few months in the life of young Sasha, struggling with the gender assigned to her at birth as a boy. In rural France, eight-year-old Sasha’s family (mother, father, three siblings) has recently accepted her gender identity.
Gun Crazy
Dalton Trumbo: Breaking the Blacklist The day after Dalton Trumbo appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, the opportunistic King Brothers, producers of Poverty Row films, gave him a call. The brothers and Trumbo all knew that, because of the situation Trumbo found himself in, the producers could get an excellent writer for only a fraction of what he would normally cost.
