Special Screenings | Piano Fundraiser The spectacle of spectacles. Not only a great cast, but the great director of spectacles himself Cecil B. DeMille guides this great story he liked so much that he filmed it twice. DeMille’s earliest epic production, this version, instead of being content with one story or one time period, starts with the Biblical Exodus story and moves to modern times (1923) with another story of good and evil, temptation and redemption, with a moral.

Lose Yourself Few directors in the history of world cinema have so masterfully bridged the gap between the visceral energy of the action genre and the contemplative depth of classical art as King Hu. A multifaceted director who frequently produced, edited, and designed his own sets and costumes, Hu transformed the wuxia (martial arts) film from a studio-bound commodity into a vehicle for existential inquiry and Buddhist transcendence.

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Guardian angels left to watch over West Berlin after the Second World War listen to the thoughts and dreams of its citizens from the city’s rooftops.

100 Years of Mel Brooks Mel Brooks’s third feature, and his first box-office blockbuster, turns the western upside down and inside out. Scheming politician Hedley (not Hedy!) Lamarr (Harvey Korman) appoints a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) to the small town of Rock Ridge in order to drive the people away.

Rochester Premiere Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations.

100 Years of Mel Brooks Mel Funn (Brooks), a washed-up Hollywood director, announces his plans to make a contemporary silent movie. With the help of collaborators Dom Bell (Dom DeLuise) and Marty Eggs (Marty Feldman), Mel sets out to recruit a top-notch cast (Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, Paul Newman, Marcel Marceau and Anne Bancroft) in order to secure funding for his magnum opus.

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) | The Sight & Sound Club Bergman’s once and future muses star together in this psychological drama examining the nature of identity. A young actress, Elisabet (Liv Ullmann), has suddenly stopped moving and speaking, leading to a stay in a hospital.

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Private moments are hard to come by in post-war Czechoslovakia. Whether it’s the recitation of a poem, a philosophical conversation, the playing of a saxophone, or a simple flirtation, all are looked on with suspicion by the government and its agents.

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) | The Sight & Sound Club Director Dreyer explores multiple issues of faith through a family on the Danish highlands in 1925.

Rochester Premiere Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature, Plan 75, generated a lot of discussion around the Dryden when it screened in 2023. Her follow-up is a tender, often unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl.

Lose Yourself Based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name, Trainspotting follows a group of heroin addict friends in late 1980s Edinburgh. Dissatisfied with the way drug addiction has taken over his life, Mark "Rent Boy" Renton (Ewan McGregor), attempts to “Choose Life” and get clean.

100 Years of Mel Brooks Mel Brooks’s third feature, and his first box-office blockbuster, turns the western upside down and inside out. Scheming politician Hedley (not Hedy!) Lamarr (Harvey Korman) appoints a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) to the small town of Rock Ridge in order to drive the people away.

Lose Yourself Fumiko, a mother of two and wife to an unfaithful husband, attempts to balance domestic responsibility with her work as a poet. Just as her writing career takes off, she divorces her husband and is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Lose Yourself Peter Lorre stars in this cult noir as a Hungarian who takes the slow boat to Manhattan in search of a better life, only to almost immediately have his face horribly disfigured in a tenement fire.

100 Years of Mel Brooks From the masterful comic mind of Brooks comes the original film farce that inspired the smash Broadway musical.

Boris Barnet The use of sound in motion pictures was never as daring and experimental as in the early 1930s: there were no rules to break and no stereotypes to follow. Still, Boris Barnet’s The Outskirts stood out.

100 Years of Mel Brooks From the masterful comic mind of Brooks comes the original film farce that inspired the smash Broadway musical.