Rochester Premiere Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the beloved Cinema Paradiso, turns his camera on his longtime collaborator Ennio Morricone in a moving and comprehensive profile of the composer.

Special Screening Academy Award-winning independent animator Faith Hubley would have celebrated her 100th birthday in 2024. In partnership with her husband, John, then on her own, and finally with her daughter, Emily, Hubley created extraordinary works of abstract imagery and nonlinear stories, many drawing on themes of mythology and indigenous art.

Women on the Sight and Sound List> “Maya Deren was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. She was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet lecturer, writer, and photographer. The function of film, Deren, believer, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving."

Crashing into the 60s The film that kick-started the spaghetti western genre and announced the arrival of Clint Eastwood as a major international star, Leone's over-the-top, explosive remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo is as stylistically innovative as it is compelling.

Crashing into the 60s Clint Eastwood’s impossibly cool gunslinger returns in this sequel to A Fistful of Dollars that places him in opposition to Mortimer, a determined bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef), and Indio, a reckless bandit (Gian Maria Volonte), in a tense moral triangle with greed and revenge at its center.

Crashing into the 60s Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach are the title triumvirate: double-crossing rivals in a Civil War-era odyssey for a treasure of gold. One of the most entertaining (and violent) Western epics ever conceived, Leone’s final chapter in his “Dollars” trilogy has been magnificently restored to its original Italian running time.

A Tribute to Robert Gottlieb A rare sound film preservation, this film was the last for legendary silent actress Norma Talmadge, finding it difficult to make the transition. In this pre-Code historical drama, Talmadge takes on the role of Madame Du Barry, infamous French courtesan to King Louis XV.

Make Mine Musicals Somewhere between a loose remake of The Broadway Melody and a wartime musical, Two Girls and a Sailor provided starring roles to June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven for the first time. They star as a sister song-and-dance team who open up a servicemen’s canteen filled with big-name musical acts.

Hitchcock 125 A pair of train travelers (Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood) befriend an elderly English governess, then undertake a search for her when she goes missing. However, none of the other passengers claim to have seen the diminutive old woman at all, and all evidence of her existence has disappeared.

Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Malcolm X presents its titular hero less as an icon or symbol than as a man capable of great change as he navigates through a racially turbulent America, and it is the film's willingness to present all sides of his character that makes it so persuasive as biography.

Rochester Premiere Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with his first film in five years, after 2018’s The Wild Pear Tree. Facing a harsh winter against the mountains in northeastern Turkey, Samet (Deniz Celiloglu) returns from the holiday to the small-town teaching job he has held for the mandated four years before he can request a transfer to Istanbul.

The Eclipse | Arthurian Films | 35mm Print Mark Twain's novel about a 20th-century New England blacksmith who wakes up in King Arthur's Camelot is given the big-production treatment in this lavish Technicolor adaptation that stars Bing Crosby, William Bendix, and Rhonda Fleming.

Arthurian Films | 35mm Print Loosely based on Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th-century Le Morte d’Arthur, M-G-M’s first Cinemascope epic focuses on Arthur (Mel Ferrer), Lancelot (Robert Taylor), Guinevere (Ava Gardner), and the illicit love between the latter.

Crashing into the ‘60s | Arthurian Films This was one of the first instances of what would later prove a winning formula for Disney: take a well-known fable, fairy tale, or story (in this case the legend of King Arthur) and treat it with ample modern touches to appeal to the funny bone.

Arthurian Films | 35mm Print In 1975, British comedy troupe Monty Python created what must surely be regarded as one of the funniest and strangest movies ever made. The mere mention of its title can send large groups of people into paroxysms of laughter and endless quoting of dialogue.

Members Only. Wondering what’s upstairs or beneath the historic house? Find out at this members only tour of the third floor, fourth-floor attic, and basement.

The day before the big ceremony, film critics Adam Lubitow, Matthew Passantino, and David Palmer once again join Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case to go over the nominees, complain about who was passed over, and highlight some of their favorite nominations.