Nitrate Picture Show: Blind Date With Nitrate
2026 Nitrate Picture Show
Nitrate Picture Show: Nitrate Shorts
2026 Nitrate Picture Show
Nitrate Picture Show: Unter den Brücken...
2026 Nitrate Picture Show Unter den Brücken..., a tale of two disenchanted coal-barge workers, who both fall in love with a young woman of “questionable virtue,” gracefully balances heavy naturalism and lyrical comedy. It was shot almost entirely on location on various rivers and canals in and around Berlin.
Nitrate Picture Show: Why Change Your Wife?
The 2026 Nitrate Picture Show By the time she appeared in Why Change Your Wife?, Gloria Swanson was one of the biggest stars in the world, thanks largely to the three films she and director Cecil B. DeMille previously made together: Don’t Change Your Husband; For Better, For Worse; and the jaw-dropping Male and Female.
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Nitrate Picture Show: Midnight
2026 Nitrate Picture Show In Hollywood Director, David Chierichetti’s 1973 biography of Mitchell Leisen, the author posits that the filmmaker and his filmography have been nearly forgotten. Leisen had once been quite successful: after a brief stint as an actor, he designed costumes and sets for Cecil B. DeMille before moving on to direct more than forty films of his own.
New Exhibition Explores How Kodak’s Pioneering Lambda Network Transformed LGBTQ Inclusion in the Workplace
George Eastman Museum Announces Listening Sessions Regarding Photography Access
Session 9 (35mm)
Lose Yourself Facing his company’s financial ruin, hazmat expert Gordo (Peter Mullan) agrees to take on a rush job stripping asbestos from the decaying walls of a condemned mental health facility.
100 Years of Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks, one of the most influential comedians of the twentieth century will celebrate his 100th birthday this June. He began his career after World War II as a drummer and pianist in the resorts and nightclubs in the Catskills when he filled in for a sick comedian by doing stand-up and impressions. He began writing for television and the stage in the 1950s, and by the late 1960s had graduated to writing film scripts, including his first, The Producers (1967). The success of this film led to a long career writing, producing, acting, and directing, often riffing on films and film genres that he loved through his long association with cinema. This summer, to help Brooks celebrate his centennial, the Dryden Theatre will screen seven of his best directorial efforts that spoof westerns, horror films, silent movies, Alfred Hitchcock, and science fiction.
Dates and Titles:
May 23: The Producers (Mel Brooks, US 1967, 88 min., DCP)
May 30 (2 p.m.): The Producers (Mel Brooks, US 1967, 88 min., DCP)
May 30: The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks, US 1970, 94 min., 35mm)
June 13: Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, US 1974, 93 min., 35mm)
June 20 (2 p.m.): Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, US 1974, 93 min., 35mm)
June 20: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, US 1974, 106 min., DCP)
June 27 (2 p.m.): Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, US 1974, 106 min., 35mm)
June 27: Silent Movie (Mel Brooks, US 1976, 87 min., 35mm)
July 11: High Anxiety (Mel Brooks, US 1977, 94 min., 35mm)
July 25: Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, US 1987, 96 min., 35mm)
Eternity and a Day (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) An elderly poet in Greece, alone and near death, takes comfort in memories of a happier time and the companionship of a young Albanian refugee.
First Man (DCP)
America in Space Ryan Gosling plays the legendary Neil Armstrong in this adaptation of the James Hansen biography, directed by Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash, Babylon).
Matinee: The Right Stuff (35mm)
America in Space Thrilling, comedic, and epic, writer-director Philip Kaufman adapts Tom Wolfe’s docu-drama novel about the Mercury program, NASA’s first steps toward space flight.
High Anxiety (35mm)
100 Years of Mel Brooks Comedic genius Brooks plays Dr. Thorndyke, the new administrator for the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous.
Apollo 13 (35mm)
America in Space Based on the true story of NASA’s aborted third trip to the moon, the film follows Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) as an explosion in an oxygen tank puts the mission at risk.
Matinee: Apollo 13 (35mm)
America in Space Based on the true story of NASA’s aborted third trip to the moon, the film follows Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) as an explosion in an oxygen tank puts the mission at risk.
Spaceballs (35mm)
100 Years of Mel Brooks One of Brooks’s most quotable films, this Star Wars send-up takes on the mega-franchise, American politics, and Hollywood itself.
