It’s a Wonderful Life (35mm)
Holidays This classic holiday film was a box office bust in its initial release. It is only through the film’s enduring message and its millions of fans throughout the world that It’s a Wonderful Life has become a cherished piece of our holiday traditions.
Valley of the Giants (35mm)
Silent Tuesdays Real-life husband-and-wife Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon play scions of rival lumber barons in this dramatic adventure story. When Bryce Cardigan (Sills) returns home to find his father blinded and the family business in trouble, he devises a plan to build his own railroad to compete with the Pennington business.
George Eastman Museum Receives Agha Jani Kashmiri Archive
It’s a Wonderful Life (35mm) with John Kuri
Holidays | Presentation by John Kuri This classic holiday film was a box office bust in its initial release. It is only through the film’s enduring message and its millions of fans throughout the world that It’s a Wonderful Life has become a cherished piece of our holiday traditions.
Aeolian pipe organ concert with Joe Blackburn
An hourlong concert during which Joe Blackburn will play a selection of music on George Eastman's historical Aeolian pipe organ.
Aeolian pipe organ concert with Joe Blackburn
An hourlong concert during which Joe Blackburn will play a selection of music on George Eastman's historical Aeolian pipe organ.
The Best Man
From Rochester, With Love Rochester’s School of the Arts graduate Taye Diggs stars in this romantic dramedy about an emerging author trying to hide a secret from his past while acting as best man for his college friend. Harper’s (Diggs) first novel, Unfinished Business, has been selected for Oprah’s book club, ensuring a successful launch.
A Christmas Carol
Holidays Hollywood’s first big-budget version of the Dickens classic features Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge in his most-remembered role.
Matinee: It’s a Wonderful Life
Holidays This classic holiday film was a box office bust in its initial release. It is only through the film’s enduring message and its millions of fans throughout the world that It’s a Wonderful Life has become a cherished piece of our holiday traditions.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (35mm)
The Centennial Club In the late nineteenth century Pacific Northwest, John McCabe (Warren Beatty) enters a growing mining community hoping to achieve the American Dream collaborating with whorehouse Madame Constance Miller (Julie Christie).
Matinee: A Christmas Carol
Holidays Hollywood’s first big-budget version of the Dickens classic features Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge in his most-remembered role.
Nashville
Robert Altman at 100 Thought by many to be the director’s masterpiece and hailed as the “best film of 1975” by both Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin, Altman’s musical epic offers revealing glances into the inner workings of both the American electoral process and the recording industry.
In Glorious Technicolor
Founded in 1915, the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation transformed cinema forever with its revolutionary color process. George Eastman House marks this important centennial with the landmark exhibition In Glorious Technicolor, on view January 24 through April 26 in the special exhibition galleries.
From its humble beginnings as a small team of Boston-based research engineers, Technicolor rapidly grew into an essential part of the American film industry, fundamentally shaping the aesthetic, cultural, and industrial nature of cinema. Despite success in the laboratory and in small-scale...
In the Garden
Since its invention in the nineteenth century, photography has been used to document plant life and humans’ relationship to nature. Early photographic processes required vast amounts of light during exposure, and subjects were often posed in gardens flooded with sunlight. Both scientists and artists have recorded the beauty of plant structures, watching fiddlehead ferns unfurl and observing flowers as they bloom and decay. For amateur photographers, a photograph could capture a prizewinning flower or the image of a loved one among the splendor of the garden.
George Eastman House holds a unique...
Photography and America’s National Parks
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the National Park Service, the George Eastman Museum presents Photography and America’s National Parks, an exhibition exploring the role of photography in the development of the agency and in shaping our perception and understanding of these landscapes.
From Yosemite being set aside as publicly held land in 1864 to Pinnacles National Park as the most recent addition in 2013, the lands that make up America's national parks have been interpreted and enjoyed through photographs for more than 150 years. Spanning the 1860s to the present, this...
Silent Tuesdays
An autumn tradition at the Dryden Theatre, Silent Tuesdays is a survey of some of the best films in early cinema history: all with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli. This year’s selection runs from 1913 to the early 1930s, and features the familiar faces of Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Bebe Daniels, William Powell, Lillian Gish, W.C. Fields, and Louise Brooks, as well as directors such as Carl-Theodor Dreyer, William Wellman, Howard Hawks, Victor Sjöström, and William Wyler. Experience dramas and comedies, romances and westerns—not to mention a special Halloween film featuring Rochester-born Norman Kerry! This is the way to see a silent film: On the big screen with live music!
Dates and Titles:
September 2: Wings (William A. Wellman, US 1927, 144 min., 35mm)
September 9: Feel My Pulse (Gregory La Cava, US 1928, 63 min., 35mm)
September 16: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Le passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer, France 1928, 114 min., 35mm)
September 23: The Cradle Snatchers (Howard Hawks, US 1927, 59 min., 35mm)
September 30: Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, US 1922, 78 min., DCP)
October 7: The Wind (Victor Sjöström, US 1928, 95 min., 35mm)
October 21: Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama, Yakov Protazanov, Russia 1916, 68 min., 35mm)
October 30: The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, US 1925, 93 min., DCP)
November 1 (2 p.m.): The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, US 1925, 93 min., DCP)
November 4: Silk Stockings (Wesley Ruggles, US 1927, 70 min., 16mm)
November 18: It’s the Old Army Game (A. Edward Sutherland, US 1926, 77 min., 35mm)
November 25: L’Enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret, France 1913, 124 min., 35mm)
December 2: Hell’s Heroes (William Wyler, US 1929, 68 min., 35mm)
December 9: Valley of the Giants (Charles Brabin, US 1927, 70 min., 35mm)
December 16: Dynamite (Cecil B. DeMille, US 1929, 123 min., 35mm)
The Sight and Sound Club
As part of our ongoing commitment to bring all 100 of the Greatest Films of All Time (as determined by Sight and Sound magazine’s poll published in 2022) to the screen at the Dryden, we are tackling this year’s crop with one film from each decade, from the 1930s to the 2000s. From around the world and across cinematic history, these films represent the highest in cinematic artistic achievement. Also keep an eye out for the three Stanley Kubrick films that made the list as well, since they will be screening on Saturdays.
Dates and Titles:
May 9: Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973, 85 min., 35mm)
May 15: M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, Fritz Lang, Germany 1931, 99 min., 35mm, German with English subtitles)
May 16: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian, Taiwan 1991, Edward Yang, 237 min., DCP, Mandarin, Min Nan, and Shangaiese with English subtitles)
May 22: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, France 1983, 100 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
May 23: Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan/Japan 2000, 173 min., 35mm, Mandarin, Min Nan, Hokkien, Japanese, and French with English subtitles)
May 24 (2 p.m.): M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, Fritz Lang, Germany 1931, 99 min., 35mm, German with English subtitles)
June 5: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK 1948, 135 min., 35mm)
June 7 (2 p.m.): The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK 1948, 135 min., 35mm)
June 24: The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups, France, 1959, 99 min., 35mm, French with English subtitles)
Back to the Future @ 40
Aided by stolen plutonium, a tricked-out DeLorean, and the ingenious flux capacitor, Marty McFly took his first trip back to 1955 forty years ago. As a result, he flew into the hearts of the American public, ruling the top of the box office for nearly three months. The brainchild of partners Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, the science fiction adventure comedy perfectly blended ‘80s style and ‘50s nostalgia into the story of a young man who has to save his life by saving his parents’ marriage. Unprecedented in Hollywood production, the pair followed up their success by shooting two sequels back-to-back and released them within six months of each other in the next five years. This year, between Christmas and New Year’s, The Dryden is celebrating this iconic trilogy on 35mm film, including two chances to see the original on the big screen. It’s heavy!
Dates and Titles:
December 26: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, US 1985, 116 min., 35mm)
December 27 (2 p.m.): Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, US 1985, 116 min., 35mm)
December 27: Back to the Future, Part II (Robert Zemeckis, US 1989, 108 min., 35mm)
December 30: Back to the Future, Part III (Robert Zemeckis, US 1990, 118 min., 35mm
