George Eastman House receives digital laboratory from Eastman Kodak Company
George Eastman House receives digital laboratory from Eastman Kodak Company
King Kong (35mm)
The Art of Music in the Movies A tragic love story of the most epic proportions, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s film helped spark the larger-than-life monster movie tradition.
Crimson Peak (35mm)
Summer Chills Director Guillermo Del Toro returns to his gothic roots with this tale of hauntings, both of the spectral nature and that of family history.
Eyes Wide Shut (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick | Summer Chills Stanley Kubrick’s final directorial effort was released twelve years after his previous film and four months after his death. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 Traumnovelle (or Dream Story), Kubrick waited until he had a real-life couple that could commit to his demanding production schedule to make the film.
The Complete Antoine Doinel
Autobiographical fiction is commonplace in literature but this approach’s potential for cinema is largely unexplored, with François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel cycle as one of its few exemplars. The famous critic-turned-filmmaker helped kick off the French New Wave movement with The 400 Blows, a sensitive and personal film about a young boy named Antoine Doinel as a delinquent without any guiding adults in his life. He went on to make four other films over twenty years, featuring his stand-in, Doinel, always played by the brilliant Jean-Pierre Léaud, as he navigates adulthood. As he matures, Doinel is relatable and clumsy in his attempts to woo suitors (Antoine and Colette) and hold down jobs (Stolen Kisses). Yet, this cycle of films goes even further, past simply being autobiographical, as the final two films (Bed and Board, Lovers on the Run) become deeply intertextual and surprisingly postmodern in how they blur the lines among the identities of Truffaut, Doinel, Léaud, and even other fictional characters played by Léaud in other films. Each film is fascinating in their own right, but as a whole they make for a singular cinematic experience.
Titles and Dates:
June 24: The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959, 100 min., 35mm)
July 8: Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1962/68, 122 min., 35mm)
July 22: Bed & Board (François Truffaut, 1970, 100 min., 35mm)
August 5: Love on the Run (François Truffaut, 1979, 94 min., 35mm)
George Eastman Museum to Host Free Admission Day in Celebration of 75th Anniversary
Dryden Theatre - Cloned
Alex Ross Perry Comes to the Dryden
Join us for two screenings of new films by indie film director, Alex Ross Perry.
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History of the George Eastman Museum
Dry Collodion Plates in Yucatan, Mexico
In this five-day workshop, sessions will include preparing 8x10” dry collodion glass plate negatives in the comfort of an air-conditioned darkroom in Mérida and shooting in the field. This rare mid-nineteenth-century negative process allows the preparation of plates months in advance of shooting and does not require a portable darkroom as is needed with the wet collodion process.
A History of Photography
The George Eastman House photography collection is among the best and most comprehensive in the world. With holdings that include objects ranging in date from the announcement of the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day, the collection represents the full history of photography. Works by renowned masters of the medium exist side-by-side with vernacular and scientific photographs.
