Dryden Roundtable Our current film series, “From Rochester, With Love” focuses on bringing films starring, directed by, or written by artists from Rochester. Whether they were born here, lived here, studied here, or worked here, there is an impressive list of filmmakers that Rochester can claim as their own, from the silent period to those still working today.

Rochester Premiere Shortlisted for the Academy Award in the Best International Feature category, this new Italian film follows a town, and the Graziadel family, in the waning years of World War II in the Italian Alps. Filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, the mountains provide the physical and emotional backdrop for this singular portrait of a sprawling family.

Recent Acquisitions | To Collect and Project Queen Elizabeth I’s rise to power and early rule in a fractured England is dramatized in this lush production. Loyalty is split along religious lines when Catholic Queen Mary I dies in 1558, leaving her half-sister, Protestant Elizabeth, as the heir to the throne.

Rochester Premiere Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether we truly have autonomy over our throughs, or if our brains will inevitable become infused with mind-controlling technology in the not-so-distant future.

For the third year in a row, members of the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association will join Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case live on stage to preview the following day’s Academy Awards ceremony.

Oscar Counter-Programming Among the films that will never be nominated for an Oscar is this zany silent-film throwback that took the cult movie world by storm over the last two years.

Silent Tuesdays A stylized silent “film poem” about the creation of a collective farm and the conflicts between the poor peasants and wealthy landowners in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

From Rochester, With Love This first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was written by Rochester-born Michael Kanin, along with Ring Lardner, Jr. Tess Harding and Sam Craig (Hepburn and Tracy) are rival journalists at the same New York newspaper — she in politics and he in sports.

Teresa Wright Davis plays Regina, the strong-willed sister of two businessmen in turn-of-the-century Alabama on the verge of closing a deal that will make them all rich.

Henry Fonda for President | Saturday Matinees! Hitchcock based this gripping, often overlooked thriller on the true story of an unassuming bass player whose life becomes a nightmare after he’s misidentified as a hold-up man.

The Centennial Club | From Rochester, With Love After witnessing her aunt’s murder, young Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to Italy to study opera and put that horrible night out of her memory...