Rochester Premiere Raya (Maria Belkin) and Victor (Vladimir Friedman) built a shared career as the Soviet Union’s most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent themselves to find employment.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral Frame Johnson, “the man who cleaned up Kansas,” arrives in Tombstone ready to settle down and let someone else keep the peace. But the deliberate lawlessness of the Northrup brothers soon changes his mind and he agrees to wear the marshal’s badge.

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

Make Mine Musicals In The Big Broadcast, Crosby portrays a radio heartthrob whose perennial tardiness—caused by Sharon Lynn’s vampy Mona Lowe (a play on the tune ‘Moanin’ Low’)—leads a sponsor to pull the plug on the WADX station.” – Jennifer Rhee, UCLA

Finntastic!: New Films from Finland The legacy of Tove Jansson lives on in the characters of the Moomins, a fantastical family of hippo-like creatures that populated her children’s stories starting in 1945. Her life, however, was less fanciful, having lived through World War II. This biography picks up after the war when Tove (Alma Pöysti) is reveling in her new creative and social freedom.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral John Ford told of knowing Wyatt Earp in his early days in Hollywood, and yet, when it came time to tell the story of Earp’s shining moment at the O.K. Corral, Ford chose to take liberty with the story.

Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) is a Brooklyn-based graphic artist who relishes her freedom, particularly to date liberally. She is seeing three men: the sweet Jamie (Tommy Redmond Hicks), strapping model Greer (John Canada Terrell), and fast-talking bike messenger Mars Blackmon (Lee himself). The men become jealous, and the situation comes to a head when Nola is asked to see only one exclusively.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral Director John Sturges’s first recounting of the incidents at the O.K. Corral is the quintessential mid-century Hollywood version, complete with vivid Technicolor and re-teaming Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster for the first time in a decade.

Hitchcock 125 The Lodger is a suspenseful Jack-the-Ripper tale that features one of the master's most familiar themes: an innocent man unjustly accused.

Finntastic!: New Films from Finland 12-year-old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is caught between fantasy and reality. Her mother, a lifestyle influencer, puts the most positive spin on her family life while Tinja struggles at school and in her gymnastics routine, which her mother has been highlighting in her feed. Under immense pressure, Tinja finds solace in caring for an abandoned bird's egg she brings in from the forest.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral In the early 1990s, two competing star-studded Wyatt Earp projects were being undertaken by major Hollywood studios, with different tones and effects. Warner Bros.’s project was this epic contemplation of the dying West and its reflection in the Tombstone shootout.

Crashing into the ‘60s Alfie Elkin (Michael Caine) is an inveterate ladies’ man, spending his days as a chauffeur and his nights in the arms of beautiful women, regardless of their relationship status. He is ending a relationship with the married Siddie at the same time his girlfriend, Gilda, becomes pregnant.

Finntastic!: New Films from Finland This documentary about the world-renowned architect and designer Alvar Aalto follows his life and career from the 1920s to the end of his life. His work, along with that of his first wife, Aino, was characterized by Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art,” leading them to design not only the buildings themselves, but also the interiors, including surfaces, furniture, lamps, and glassware.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral James Garner returns to the role of Wyatt Earp twenty years after Hour of the Gun. This film, however, takes place in 1920s Hollywood when Earp was visiting film sets and stumbles into a murder mystery.

Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Lee surprised all with his highly anticipated second feature, which adds equal parts anger and absurdity to a familiar movie staple: the campus comedy.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral Disney’s entry in the great Wyatt Earp film wars was this adaptation, a straight-forward Western action thriller. The tale takes on a biblical import when, early in the film, a priest warns “Curly” Bill Brocius (Powers Boothe) to beware the “Fourth Horseman.”

Hitchcock 125 Boxer Bob Corby hires Jack Sander as his new sparring partner. But tensions rise when Jack’s wife, Mabel becomes smitten with the heavyweight champ.

Finntastic!: New Films from Finland This shorts program consists of six films, all directed by women, and curated by Otto Suuronen of the Finnish Film Foundation.

Same Old Story: The OK Corral | Crashing into the ‘60s | Member Movie Night Director John Sturges returns to the O.K. Corral for this reinvention a decade after Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Here, James Garner plays Wyatt Earp and Jason Robards plays Doc Holliday, and the film starts with the gunfight, exploring the aftermath of the famous incident.

Dryden Roundtable Kick off Awards Season with your own regional film critics! Founded in 2018 as a way to bring the disparate voices from the area together, the GWNYFCA is a collective of WNY film critics from in and around the Buffalo and Rochester metropolitan areas with an affinity for the cinematic art form.