Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Centennial Club A rich Mexican warlord offers one million dollars for the head of Alfredo Garcia, the man who's impregnated his daughter. Alongside the vicious band of bounty hunters that's unleashed is Bennie (the great Warren Oates, commanding in a rare lead performance), a barkeep and piano player who also sets his sights on Garcia's skull and a hefty reward...
Educational Shorts Program
Teaching films, industrial films, and short documentaries have been around in 35mm, 28mm, and 16mm for over a century, but they hit their peak when schools would regularly bring 16mm projectors into the classroom to complement instruction with audio-visual components.
Room 237
The Complete Kubrick | Summer Chills After the commercial failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick took on a more commercial project: an adaptation of a bestselling thriller by Stephen King, whose Carrie had delivered major box office a few years earlier.
Stolen Kisses (35mm) + Antoine and Colette (35mm)
The Complete Antoine Doinel Stolen Kisses is a feature-length follow-up on Truffaut’s Doinel character. Doinel is now a young adult who is still struggling to find a lover or a viable future. Throughout Stolen Kisses, Doinel works a series of odd jobs, most memorably and humorously as a private detective, and makes embarrassingly relatable fumbles in every single one. He’s obsessive in his search for a woman who will receive his adoration and chases infatuation rather than love.
Blue Sun Palace
Rochester Premiere Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Wu Ke-Xi) and Didi (Haipeng Xu) navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood.
The Brood
Summer Chills Something’s gone terribly wrong at the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics, where, through intense psychological role-playing Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) has been encouraging troubled clients to manifest their repressed emotions and desires as fleshy, distinctly Cronenbergian excrescences that soon appear on their skin.
Yankee Doodle Dandy (35mm)
Happy Birthday, James Cagney! At the onset of World War II, George M. Cohan (James Cagney), known as “the man who invented Broadway,” comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical, I’d Rather Be Right.
Full Metal Jacket (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick Adapted from a novel by Gustav Hasford, Stanley Kubrick’s stunning war movie takes us from a nightmarish Marine training session on Parris Island to the hell of Vietnam.