In Conversation: Zig Jackson
The Others (35mm)
Hispanic Heritage Month | Halloween In addition to being a part of the Hispanic Heritage Month series, The Others will also kick off our series of films celebrating Halloween this year.
Terra Em Transe (35mm)
Hispanic Heritage Month A self-professed statement about the quest for “justice and beauty,” wherein a famous poet named Paolo Martins is ruptured between his intellectual and political life.
Gilda (35mm)
Hispanic Heritage Month Few classics are as sexy or provocative as this showstopping combination of hard-boiled film noir and over-the-top melodrama.
Ghosts, Vampires, and Cult Classics Haunt at the Dryden Theatre this October
George Eastman Museum to host West Side Story screening and conversation with Rita Moreno
Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum
Cloudburst
ImageOut of the Archive This hilarious, foul-mouthed lesbian road movie co-stars Academy Award-winning actresses Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis, a crackerjack lesbian couple on the run from a nursing home.
The Future of Photography: Working in Rochester
What does it mean to be a photographer in today's rapidly evolving society? In this panel, Rochester photographers working widely across the field will share their experiences in the industry regionally—the work they create, the challenges they face, and the future they envision for themselves and for photography in general.
Peggy Ahwesh: The Night Sky
The Night Sky is a pair of experimental videos that evoke the sensation of being outside during the summertime, as the evening twilight fades into the darkness of night. Using time-lapse cinematography combined with long exposures, Ahwesh’s camera points skywards as illuminated terrestrial features emerge, shift, and recede against the vastness of space.
Invention for Destruction (35mm)
Stop Motion as an Artform Invention for Destruction, also known as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, is the most prominent film by Czechoslovakian special effects maestro Karel Zeman and was the most financially successful film the country ever produced.
The Wolf House
Stop Motion as an Artform Perhaps the most innovative usage of stop motion animation in the 2010s, The Wolf House creatively explores the disturbing true story of the Colonia Dignidad, a German cult in Chile that did the dirty work of brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Jeanette MacDonald: The Iron Butterfly
As film added sound in the late 1920s, employing musicians and singers became a very profitable way to capitalize on the new technology. One of the biggest stars of the new cinematic genre, the musical, was Jeanette MacDonald (1903–1965). On Broadway from the age of sixteen, she screen-tested for the actor Richard Dix, but was not allowed out of her stage contract. Ernst Lubitsch was going through old tests of stage actresses when he saw MacDonald and cast her in his first sound film, The Love Parade, which went on to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Over the next two decades, MacDonald appeared in 28 more films, including three that were nominated for Best Picture. The Dryden presents four of her best films in glorious 35mm prints from the museum’s collection.
Cannonball! (35mm)
Anomaly Film Festival Roger Corman’s New World Pictures distributed this cross-country car film produced by the Shaw Brothers, but shot in the United States. Based on the very real, but very illegal, Cannonball Run that began in 1971, the film is a wild car-lover’s chase and race with plenty of metal mangling and explosions to keep the biggest fan happy.
The World According to Garp (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love Based on John Irving’s best seller, this eagerly anticipated screen adaptation did not disappoint. Robin Williams is a standout in the role of T. S. Garp, a serious writer with serious issues. But it is the performances of relative newcomers Glenn Close and Rochester-born John Lithgow that steal the film.
Moonlighting (35mm)
Polish Film Festival | Polish Films from the Harvard Film Archive After his 1981 film, Hands Up!, was banned in his native Poland, writer/director Jerzy Skolimowski’s films produced in other countries took on themes of exile, alienation, and the struggles of the Polish diaspora.
Scream
Author and Syracuse University professor Kendall Phillips joins us to celebrate the release of the second edition of Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. One of the films Phillips focuses on in the book is Scream, the post-modern take on the slasher film directed by master Wes Craven in a world inundated with media on the form.
Interrogation (35mm)
Polish Film Festival Completed in 1982, Interrogation was deemed so upsetting to the Polish government of the time that it did not receive a theatrical release until 1989 and the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc.
