A Brighter Summer Day
Sight and Sound Club | AAPI Heritage Month Director Edward Yang, a vanguard member of the Taiwan New Cinema movement, took five years to make this drama of youth in crisis, his only period film.
Spartacus
The Complete Kubrick Set in the first century BCE, this sweeping and subversive epic about the leader of a Roman slave rebellion has itself become something of an important historical event.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
A Touch of Lubitsch | Silent Tuesdays The orphaned Lady Margaret Windermere (May McAvoy) has married Lord Windermere (Bert Lytell) but still attracts suitors, including Lord Darlington (Ronald Colman).
Member Movie Night: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (35mm)
AAPI Heritage Month | Member Movie Night Director Wayne Wang followed his breakout indie hit Chan Is Missing with this family drama based in San Francisco. Real-life mother and daughter Kim Chew and Laureen Chew play widowed matriarch Mrs. Tam and her daughter Geraldine.
Sans Soleil & La Jetée
Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club | AAPI Heritage Month
Yi Yi (35mm)
Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club | AAPI Heritage Month Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, this intimate epic of family life is an exhilarating cornucopia of memorable characters.
Lolita (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick | The Centennial Club “How did they ever make a movie of LOLITA?” asked the posters promoting the film. Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel scared off directors and actors alike, but not Stanley Kubrick.
Matinee: M (35mm)
Sight and Sound by Decade | Sight and Sound Club In director Fritz Lang’s first sound film, a series of child murders in an unnamed German city causes the police to mistakenly crack down on the criminal underworld.
Original Technicolor Nitrate Print of Becky Sharp (1935) to Open Ninth Nitrate Picture Show at George Eastman Museum
AAPI Heritage Month
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Dryden Theatre features four films that highlight Asian culture, in the United States and beyond. Taiwan New Wave director Edward Yang placed two films on the 2022 Sight and Sound list: A Brighter Summer Day (May 16) and Yi Yi (May 23). In addition, the museum collection features two 35mm prints important to Asian-American cinema. Flower Drum Song (May 14), based on a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, featured a primarily Asian-American cast, the last major Hollywood film to do so for thirty years. This film inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, such as Wayne Wang, to bring their own stories and voices to the screen. He followed up his breakout indie hit Chan is Missing with the gentle family observational drama Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, which will be screening on May 21.
Dates and Titles:
May 14: Flower Drum Song (Henry Koster, US 1961, 133 min., 35mm)
May 16: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian, Edward Yang, Taiwan 1991, 237 min., DCP, Mandarin, Min Nan, and Shanghainese with English subtitles)
May 21: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (Wayne Wang, US 1985, 84 min., 35mm)
May 23: Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan/Japan 2000, 173 min., 35mm, Mandarin, Min Nan, Hokkien, Japanese, and French with English subtitles)
CANCELED: Garden Vibes: É.T.É
George Eastman Bike Tour
See Rochester in a new way. A nod to George Eastman’s own love of cycling, the George Eastman Bike Tour will take you to ten different locations related to the life and work of this pioneer of popular photography and famous Rochesterian.
In Focus: Lost Films Found
Curator’s Gallery tour of Life with Photographs
Spring Plant Sale
Aeolian Organ Concert performed by Steve Kelly
Flutist Laura Lentz with Beo String Quartet and Thomas Nanni, tabla
Performance Plus: Piano Four Hands
SOLD OUT: George Eastman Bike Tour
See Rochester in a new way. A nod to George Eastman’s own love of cycling, the George Eastman Bike Tour will take you to ten different locations related to the life and work of this pioneer of popular photography and famous Rochesterian.
Teen Talk with Lindsay McIntyre - Cancelled
