Dryden Roundtable: From the Camera Neg
Dryden Roundtable Not all rare prints are nitrate! There are many prints in our collection that derive directly from the original printing negative, one generation away from the stock that was in the camera at the time it was captured.
90 Second Newberry Film Festival
Sanctuary, women's Renaissance quartet
Local women's quartet Sanctuary will perform an hour-long concert of Renaissance music in the Conservatory of the historic mansion.
Lands and Legends in Song
A vocal recital with music by Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Robert and Clara Schumann and others.
Iris Winds
Music for wind quintet by Claude Debussy, Carl Nielsen, and Valerie Coleman
Pass Us the Mic: We’ve Got Something to Say
A rare nitrate film screening of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) ushers in the 8th Nitrate Picture Show
Mary Ellen Bute: Rhythms in Light
Photography
ONLINE WORKSHOP—Analog Academy, presented by Eastman Museum x CineStill
Ready to start shooting and developing film at home? Join Eastman Museum's Historic Process Specialist Nick Brandreth and CineStill’s Customer Solutions Manager Andre Domingues for a month-long workshop.
Joe Blackburn, Aeolian pipe organ
Between 3 and 4 p.m., resident organist Joe Blackburn will play a selection of music on the Aeolian pipe organ in the Conservatory.
Joe Blackburn, Aeolian pipe organ
Between 3 and 4 p.m., resident organist Joe Blackburn will play a selection of music on the Aeolian pipe organ in the Conservatory.
Joe Blackburn, Aeolian pipe organ
Between 3 and 4 p.m., resident organist Joe Blackburn will play a selection of music on the Aeolian pipe organ in the Conservatory.
Eastman School of Music Centennial Organ Performance with James Kealey and Daniel Minnick
James Kealey and Daniel Minnick will perform an hour-long concert on the Aeolian pipe organ in George Eastman's mansion.
Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer
Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer
11 Films on Screen
“[Stanley Kramer was] one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on-screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world.” – Steven Spielberg
Producer/director Stanley Kramer made his name as a director of “message films,” works that examined and challenged notions of society and the problems it faced. From the beginning of his career, Kramer worked outside of the studio system, forming his own production company. This allowed him to work cheaply by renting space instead of owning it, and without studio control. As a producer, he tackled prejudice (Cyrano de Bergerac), social responsibility (High Noon), disaffected youth (The Wild One), and authoritarianism (The Caine Mutiny). Moving into the director’s chair allowed him to have a more direct hand on the narrative as he examined racism (The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), evolution vs. creationism (Inherit the Wind), and the threat of nuclear war (On the Beach).
These critiques of American society earned Kramer some enemies in the studio system and often prompted demonstrations. He was misunderstood the world over, as he received a three-minute ovation in the Soviet Union in 1970, presumably for being anti-American. To this he responded, “When a film of mine criticizes some aspect of American life, it is not an anti-American gesture. On the contrary, it is an affirmation of the American ideal because it reminds us that only in a democratic country like America would I have the right to do so.” In the introduction to his autobiography A Mad Mad Mad Mad World: A Life in Hollywood, Kramer set out his filmmaking vision: “I learned early to make the movies that I wanted, the way I wanted. I tried to produce challenging pictures, dramatic pictures, treating subjects that seemed important: socially, psychologically, historically… I tried to make pictures that would last about issues that would not go away. The degree to which I succeeded, I will let the audiences decide.” The Academy Awards seemed to side with Kramer as his films garnered 80 nominations throughout his career, and won 16 awards. This spring at the Dryden, you can see eleven of his films and decide for yourself.
March 5: Cyrano de Bergerac (Michael Gordon, 1950)
March 12: High Noon (Fred Zinneman, 1952)
March 19: The Wild One (Laslo Benedek, 1953)
March 26: The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954)
April 2: The Pride and the Passion (Stanley Kramer, 1957)
April 9: The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer, 1958)
April 16: On the Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959)
April 23: Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960)
May 14: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963)
May 21: Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961)
Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art
The works presented in this exhibition showcase different ways that photographers see, depict, or manipulate the concept of space. All of the works are recent gifts to the George Eastman Museum collection, which the museum actively expands through donations and purchases.
Operation Breadbasket
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Rochester Premiere Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protest widespread discrimination.
