The House on Trubnaya (35mm)
Silent Spring | Boris Barnet
New exhibition by artist Erica Baum presents poetry of word and image at the George Eastman Museum
George Eastman Museum to Host 90-Second Newbery Film Festival to Encourage Reading and Media Literacy Among Youth
Paper Prints in Motion
Press Room
Bell, Book, and Candle (35mm) - Free for Members!
George Award Winners: James Wong Howe | AAPI Heritage Month | Free for Members 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.
Spring Plant Sale
Sundance Sunset: Remembering Robert Redford
With the death of Robert Redford in September, 2025, the film community lost an artist who had an indelible effect on the art and commerce of the medium. His acting career alone would have been remarkable, appearing in 50 films over a sixty-year span, including four Best Picture nominees. But his only Oscar was earned for his introduction behind the camera, as the director of Ordinary People. Over another four decades, Redford produced and directed films of thoughtful insight. And yet, his most lasting impact may be felt through his founding and nurturing of the Sundance Film Festival in 1978, and its associated programs, providing a spotlight and fostering for independent filmmaking. A collaboration between The Dryden Theatre and The Little Theatre, this fourteen-film retrospective recognizes just some of the highlights of this storied career.
Dates and Titles:
February 14: The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack, US 1973, 118 min., DCP)
February 28: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969, 110 min., 35mm) - Little Theatre
March 7: Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, US 1967, 106 min., DCP)
March 13: Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, US 1985, 161 min., DCP) - Little Theatre
March 20: The Candidate (Michael Ritchie, US 1972, 110 min., 35mm)
March 21: Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, US 1975, 117 min., 35mm)
March 27: The Hot Rock (Peter Yates, US 1972, 101 min., DCP)
March 28: Ordinary People (Robert Redford, US 1980, 124 min., DCP)
April 1: The Natural (Barry Levinson, US 1984, 138 min., DCP)
April 11: Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, US 1972, 108 min., DCP)
April 17: The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973, 129 min., DCP) - Little Theatre
April 18: The Electric Horseman (Sydney Pollack, US 1979, 121 min., 35mm)
April 24: A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford, US 1992, 123 min., 35mm)
April 25: Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson, US 1992, 126 min., DCP)
The Japanese Paper Film Project
AAPI Heritage Month Screenings In the 1930s, several Japanese companies produced films made on paper (“kami firumu”) instead of celluloid. The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves the surviving movies and promotes scholarship about these films. From 1932 to 1938, two Japanese companies dominated the paper film market. Most well-known are REFCY, based in Tokyo, and Katei Toki (“Home Talkie”), based in Osaka.
Historic Landscape
Hollywood as Historian
Collaborating once again with honors students from St. John Fisher University, Hollywood as Historian, as a class, seeks to focus on the fascinating ideological role that Hollywood in particular has played in shaping our vision of ourselves as Americans. As a film series, we narrow the focus to films about journalism, in which the participants on screen are, themselves, writing “the first rough draft of history,” as Washington Post publisher Philip L. Graham said in a 1963 speech to Newsweek correspondents. His widow, Kay Graham, is at the center of the opening film as she and her staff debate the merits of publishing the Pentagon Papers in The Post. From there, we move through modern history, exploring cover-ups and scandals through the fourth estate, and through film.
Dates and Titles:
March 25: Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, US 2005, 93 min., 35mm)
April 8: The Post (Steven Spielberg, US 2017, 116 min., DCP)
April 15: Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, US 2005, 94 min., DCP)
April 22: Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, US 2015, 129 min., DCP)
Street Scene (35mm)
George Award Winners: King Vidor Upon its release, Street Scene was criticized for its realism, with one reviewer noting that “It’s too fiercely true to life — the sort of life that’s found in the tenements”. Indeed, Street Scene captures the unbiased reality of the intersections of those skirting poverty in Great Depression-era New York City, in the particularly raw way that only pre-codes were able to achieve.
Garden Vibes: Guabaza
Garden Vibes: Kahlil Kwame Bell
Garden Vibes
We are excited to announce our Garden Vibes concert series lineup this summer! Bring your blanket or lawn chair, pack a picnic or stop at Open Face or one of the food trucks, and enjoy a night of fun on our east lawn. Cash Bar! Sorry, no BYOB due to New York State liquor laws.
Gates open at 5 p.m.; Concerts begins at 6 p.m.
No rain date. Look to the website and social media for cancellation information.
Garden Vibes: Mosaic Foundation
George Eastman Museum Announces Major 2025 Acquisition of Over 900 Photographic Works
Score (DCP)
Lose Yourself If you took Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, softened it, candy-coated it, and thrust it into the devil-may-care post-sexual revolution era, you would get Radley Metzger’s Score. Metzger’s films have been described as the champagne of erotic cinema, and you’ll be unlikely to find an X-rated film, which is classier and breezier than this 1974 softcore masterpiece.
Jesus Christ Superstar (DCP): Ted Neeley Farewell Tour
Special Event Ted Neeley, iconic actor and star of Norman Jewison's classic 1973 film Jesus Christ Superstar, will visit the Dryden Theatre at the historic George Eastman Museum for a special screening of a remastered version of the film. His visit is part of the nationwide Ted Neeley Farewell Tour.
Historic Gardens Now Open for the Season at George Eastman Museum
