Member Movie Night | Asian Americans in Hollywood: James Wong Howe William Holden takes his shirt off and an entire town swoons . Charismatic drifter Hal Carter (Holden) arrives in a small Kansas town, looking for his college roommate, Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson), and a job. Instead, he falls for Alan’s beautiful girlfriend, Madge (Kim Novak), and disrupts the lives of everyone he meets.

Noir ’47: The Year Darkness Came to LightFilm noir gets the A-list treatment with a big budget and legendary director Michael Curtiz. The twisty tale begins with a murder made to look like a suicide.

Masterpieces of Ukrainian Cinema Kira Muratova actively opposed the definition of a feminist director. Instead, she felt a tight connection with European filmmakers of her time, from the French New Wave to Aki Kaurismäki. Regarded by colleagues as one of the most remarkable Soviet filmmakers of her generation, Muratova was largely unknown by the audience until the Perestroika.

Symphonic Cinema Spielberg wrote and directed this remarkable picture—a gathering of greats, including celebrated French director François Truffaut in his only English-speaking role, Vilmos Zsigmond behind the camera, and John Williams providing the score. Presented in collaboration with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and their program “Symphonic Cinema,” May 19 and 21. Introduction by Charity Lofthouse, Assistant Professor of Music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Followed by a discussion between Lofthouse and Lester Friedman, author of Citizen Spielberg.

Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer When dying millionaire Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante) whispers the secret hiding place of his fortune to a group of star-studded passing motorists, it sets off a race to find the loot.

Asian Americans in Hollywood: James Wong Howe Ernest Hemingway’s seemingly simple story is brought vividly to the screen by director John Sturges, actor Spencer Tracy, and cinematographer James Wong Howe. Gorgeously shot in early Eastmancolor, the film seamlessly integrated new bluescreen technology, enabling the foreground and background to be captured separately, and earned Howe his seventh Academy Award nomination.

Make Mine Musicals | Judy @ 100 We kick off our Judy Garland centennial celebration, while also providing our monthly entry in the Make Mine Musicals series, with this wartime musical, which provided Judy with her first adult role. Post-film discussion with Michael Lasser.

Masterpieces of Ukrainian Cinema A truly international filmmaker, Sergei Parajanov is responsible for some of the best films in the history of three countries: Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine. Donations will be collected for ROC Maidan.

Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer Director Stanley Kramer’s multiple award-winning drama explores liberal beliefs by confronting them with a real-life situation. Among the socially prominent citizens of San Francisco are Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy), the publisher of a liberal newspaper, and his wife, Christina (Katharine Hepburn), the owner of a fashionable art gallery.

Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer | Judy @ 100 Stanley Kramer’s cinema of social consciousness turns its focus to the causes and effects of fascism. Kramer fictionalizes the Judges’ Trial of 1947, in which German judges and prosecutors were brought in front of a military tribunal for war crimes against their own country.

Masterpieces of Ukrainian Cinema This daring comedy about the misadventures of a “little man” and his camel in a country torn by the Civil War, was banned immediately upon completion as “a nasty lampoon” of the “great historical era” – for the Red Army, the White Army and other military forces of the time were portrayed with equal sarcasm. Donations will be collected for ROC Maidan.

Special Event | Director in Person! Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world bring together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive.