New Directions: Recent Acquisitions
Flower City Arts Center: Studio 678 Photo Club
Gregory Halpern: Picturing Place
Virginia L. Montgomery: Dream Metamorphosis
The Killer
Rochester Premiere David Fincher’s latest film stars Michael Fassbender as a lonely, unnamed professional hitman whose life and routine is disrupted when an assassination attempt goes wrong.
Dutch Connection Coffee Talk 2/17/24
An in-depth look into the making of the Annual Dutch Connection bulb display.
Dutch Connection Coffee Talk 2/24/24
An in-depth look into the making of the Annual Dutch Connection bulb display.
[SOLD OUT] Valentine's Day Brunch & Film 2024
Past Lives
GWNYFCA Winner The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s choice for Best Film of the Year, Best Breakthrough Director, and Best Original Screenplay (both Celine Song), Past Lives makes a triumphant return to the big screen in Rochester.
Member Movie Night | One, Two, Three
Crashing into the ‘60s James Cagney, in his last onscreen appearance for twenty years, plays an ambitious Coca-Cola executive stationed in West Berlin. Hoping to win a promotion to the London branch, he agrees to chaperone the boss's carousing daughter (Pamela Tiffin) who secretly marries an East German communist (Horst Bucholz).
The Europeans
Merchant-Ivory in Love In the 1850s, near Boston, two unexpected guests arrive at the home of William Wentworth (Wesley Addy). Eugenia (Lee Remick) and Felix (Tim Woodward) are his niece and nephew through his half-sister. He allows them to stay in an adjacent house on the property, but is suspicious of their intentions.
Luce
The Emergence of Kelvin Harrison, Jr. Luce Edgar (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) is a star high school student and athlete, the proud son of his adoptive white parents, Peter and Amy (Tim Roth and Naomi Watts). When Amy is called into a parent-teacher conference with Luce’s history teacher, Harriet (Octavia Spencer), she finds that Luce has written a paper calling for violence to combat colonialism.
Champagne
Hitchcock 125 Feigning bankruptcy, a wealthy champagne magnate tries to teach his impetuous flapper daughter a lesson, forcing her into a working-class life.
Games People Play
Finntastic!: New Films from Finland Frequently compared to The Big Chill, this film finds a group of friends getting together after a decade and discovering that their past is not what they thought it was.
Exploring Animation: Celebrating Animation in our Community and Collection
Maurice
Merchant-Ivory in Love Cambridge, early 20th century. Two college students, Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive (Hugh Grant), develop a close friendship that rapidly evolves into love. Succumbing to the pressures of British society, they are forced to keep their relationship a secret—taking a toll on both their lives.
Do the Right Thing
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee The publicity surrounding the release of this movie milestone divided commentators about whether it offered insight or added agit-prop to the ongoing race relations debate. What was ignored amid all the hoopla were the many pleasures of the film, from its free-form style to its vivid characterizations to its first-rate cinematography by Ernest Dickerson.
Waves
The Emergence of Kelvin Harrison, Jr. Tyler Williams (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) is a popular senior on the high school wrestling team in a Florida suburb. He has been competing through a partial ligament tear in his shoulder and covering it up with his father’s (Sterling K. Brown) painkillers.
Good News
Make Mine Musicals A remake of the 1930 pre-Code musical screened last July, which itself was based on a 1927 stage show of the same name. Pat McClellan (Patricia Marshall) causes quite a stir with her arrival on the Tait College campus. Sorority sister Connie Lane (June Allyson), however, sees through her French-speaking pretensions and is disgusted by her vanity.
The African Queen
Valentine’s Day John Huston’s adventurous drama The African Queen—co-scripted by ace film critic James Agee and beautifully shot on location by the legendary Jack Cardiff—is the first and only pairing of two of Hollywood’s most iconic and independent stars, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.