Hollywood as Historian The controversial story of the Boston Archidocese’s cover-up of their priests’ criminality and the Boston Globe’s expose gets the Oscar-worthy treatment in this all-star drama. Robby Robinson (Michael Keaton) heads the “Spotlight” team at the Globe, a small group of investigative journalists that take months to research and publish.

Hollywood as Historian Based on the New Republic scandal of the late-1990s, Hayden Christensen plays Stephen Glass, the youngest reporter on the magazine’s staff, and seemingly a star on the rise. Glass draws the attention of the editorial staff when elements of his story on young Republicans are unable to be verified.

Hollywood as Historian | Saturday Matinees George Clooney directs and co-stars in this captivating story of legendary newsman Edward R. Morrow (David Strathairn), focusing on the exposé by Morrow and his CBS television staff—defended by CBS—that helped lead to the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

George Award Winners: Roger Corman Director Roger Corman’s iconic horror comedy will leaf you laughing in the aisles. Clumsy florist assistant Seymour Krelboined (Jonathan Haze) is on the verge of getting fired again when he reveals that he has been cross-pollinating a venus fly trap with a butterwort.

George Award Winners: James Wong Howe | AAPI Heritage Month A charming, radiant Kim Novak plays Gillian, a genuine but good witch, who casts a spell on oblivious publisher Shepard (James Stewart) to make him leave his fiancée and fall in love with her.

Lose YourselfBefore the blockbuster hits of Arrival and Dune, director Denis Villeneuve began his English-language career with this surreal thriller starring two Jake Gyllenhaals.

100 Years of Mel Brooks Brooks' second feature is set in Russia shortly after the Bolshevik uprising, where a hapless clerk (Oliver!'s Ron Moody) and his treacherous companions (Frank Langella & Dom DeLuise) search the country for twelve chairs, one of which contains a fortune in hidden jewels.

Reality Frictions Reality Frictions explores the intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood, highlighting moments when images, people or events from the real world intrude on the cinematic one.

George Award Winners: James Wong Howe | AAPI Heritage MonthThe third Hollywood adaptation of the classic Mark Twain novel (and the first in glorious Technicolor!) sees the mischievous boy going through all his iconic pranks: the ingenious fence-whitewashing episode, the courting of Becky Thatcher, rafting down the Mississippi river, attending his own funeral, saving the local drunk from the gallows, and finally a daring escape through a gorgeously designed cave.

Reality Frictions The observer effect in psychology suggests that the simple act of observation by an outside person can unintentionally change the way people act and react to situations. Director Theo Anthony (whose Rat Film screened at the Dryden in 2018) takes this idea further by exploring how the observer can purposely influence the way an interaction is perceived, particularly when that interaction is recorded.

Special Event For the fifth year in a row, the Dryden presents the best films created by students of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) School of Film and Animation, as chosen by their professors.

George Award Winners: James Wong Howe | AAPI Heritage Month James Wong Howe provides the amazing camerawork for one of cinema's most complex, terrifying works of science fiction. A mysterious organization gives a middle-aged man a new lease on life: thanks to a staged death and the wonders of plastic surgery, the stodgy businessman metamorphoses into sexy artist Rock Hudson.

Dryden Roundtables For the first time ever, students of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation are curating a series at the Dryden! Based on an exercise in class, the students have been tasked with choosing a film based on the theme “Lose Yourself,” observe the steps to obtain a print and clear rights, write the text for the screening, provide an introduction for the film, and participate in a post-screening discussion afterward.

James Card's First Programs | Silent Spring While natural light provided the best illumination for early motion picture stock, and Edison constructed his Black Maria studio to take advantage of this, filmmakers soon decided that the constraints of shooting on sets limited the types of stories they could tell, so some decided to move their crews outdoors.

Lose Yourself Director Robert Altman famously described the concept for 3 Women, his idiosyncratic follow-up to 1976’s contentious Buffalo Bill and the Indians, as coming to him in a dream.

Lose Yourself Tennessee Williams’ 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play emerged on the silver screen in this bold adaptation. Fittingly directed by stage actor-turned director Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire places complex and flawed characters in a cramped apartment in 1930s New Orleans.

Rochester Premiere Romanian provocateur Radu Jude last screened a film at the Dryden only three months ago, with his AI-infested exploration of Dracula. Filmed nearly concurrently, with common cast and crew members, Kontinental ‘25 is Jude reverting to an earlier time in his career, likely his most straightforward narrative feature in a decade, with Scarred Hearts.

Silent Spring With the new exhibition Edward Steichen and the Garden now open in the galleries, enjoy this celebration of both at The Dryden.