From Rochester, With Love Louis Calhern is likely best remembered as Cary Grant’s nasty boss in Notorious, or the money behind the heist in The Asphalt Jungle, but he was also a company player in the Cukor-Kondolf troupe in Rochester in the 1920s, and received his only Academy Award nomination for his role in this biographical drama.

The Centennial Club Director Sam Peckinpah would have turned 100 in February, so the Dryden is resurrecting four of his best films to honor the occasion.

Sight & Sound by Decade | The Sight & Sound Club Hans Christian Andersen’s tale is just the starting point for this imaginative and moving classic— a landmark in the histories of both dance and cinema.

Sight & Sound by Decade | The Sight & Sound Club | Saturday Matinees! Hans Christian Andersen’s tale is just the starting point for this imaginative and moving classic— a landmark in the histories of both dance and cinema. An ambitious and obsessive dancer (the luminous Moira Shearer) falls under the spell of a tyrannical impresario (Anton Walbrook) and soon must choose between ballet and her love for a burgeoning composer (Marius Goring).

The Complete Kubrick | The Centennial Club What’s so funny about mutually assured destruction? A lot, it turns out. In director Stanley Kubrick’s triumphant black comedy, a frantic group of US political and military leaders must deescalate a possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

From Rochester, With Love Frank Morgan is still rightfully best-known as the one and only Wizard of Oz, but he was also an actor in the Cukor-Kondolf stage company in Rochester, NY in the 1920s, and received his only Academy Award nomination for this film, playing “The Pirate,” a wandering soul with a dark past who sells firewood for the small amount of money he saves.

The Centennial Club Unreformed bank robber Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) asks his wife, Carol (Ali McGraw) to contact crooked businessman Jack Beynon (Ben Johnson) to spring him from jail early, in exchange for pulling a job.

The Complete Kubrick | The Sight & Sound Club The George Eastman Museum is proud to show a brand-new 35mm print (roadshow version) of Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi masterwork, complete with the music meant to be heard before the film’s beginning and during the intermission.

From Rochester, With Love William Wyler’s adaptation of a Somerset Maugham short story opens with a bang—six of them, to be exact, all from the gun Bette Davis has just used to kill the man she claims made an unwelcome advance.

Make Mine Musicals Straddling the line between pre-Code and the rest of history, this delightful backstage musical gives us multimillionaire Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert) who is dedicated to raising American morals by eliminating questionable entertainment and the people who create it.

From Rochester, With Love Labeled “box office poison” in 1938, primarily for being a non-conformist, Katharine Hepburn returned to the stage in a play written by Rochester-born Philip Barry to showcase the actress’s strengths: The Philadelphia Story.

From Rochester, With Love | Saturday Matinees! Labeled “box office poison” in 1938, primarily for being a non-conformist, Katharine Hepburn returned to the stage in a play written by Rochester-born Philip Barry to showcase the actress’s strengths: The Philadelphia Story. Before the production even opened on Broadway, Hepburn had purchased the film rights (with the help of her then-partner Howard Hughes) and shopped it around Hollywood.

The Complete Kubrick Half a century after its release, Kubrick’s most successful film at the box office is still his most controversial. Set in an ultra-violent future where the only thing more frightening than the roving youth gangs is the therapy used to “cure” them, this startling adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel has lost none of its power to outrage and disturb.

Sight & Sound by Decade | The Sight & Sound Club | The Complete Antoine Doinel The film that heralded in the ground-breaking French New Wave movement, The 400 Blows is a deeply personal and poetic depiction of childhood.

The Centennial Club In one of Peckinpah's best westerns, Kris Kristofferson is Billy the Kid, the fiery gunslinger who parts ways with his companion-turned-lawman, Pat Garrett (James Coburn).

From Rochester, With Love | The Centennial Club | Member Movie Night By the age of 12, British-born Elizabeth Taylor was under contract to MGM and had already appeared in several popular films, but it was this wonderful girl-and-her-gelding adventure that made her a major star.

From Rochester, With Love Joe Simon, creator of Captain America along with Jack Kirby, was born in Rochester, NY in 1913. Though he left for Syracuse and eventually New York City after graduating from Franklin High School, we still claim him as one of our own.