ONLINE WORKSHOP—Salt and Albumen Printing
Learn the two most popular printing processes of the nineteenth century: salt and albumen.
Gallery Obscura - Studio 678 Photo Club
On March 4, the George Eastman Museum will open a new exhibition space. The Gallery Obscura will feature exhibitions created or presented in collaboration with community organizations and school and youth programs, projects focused on Greater Rochester, and exhibitions from the museum’s collections that are thematically related to community events or that support other museum initiatives and programming. The inaugural exhibition in the Gallery Obscura is being produced in partnership with Flower City Arts Center featuring 678 Photo Club in 2021 and 2022.
Desperate
Noir ’47: The Year Darkness came to Light Director Anthony Mann is probably best known for his 1950s westerns, often starring James Stewart, that explore themes found in film noir. In the 1940s, however, he worked within the genre itself and played with the idea of the hero who inadvertently becomes involved in a crime. Mann’s flair for dramatic lighting brings menace to the film, particularly in conjunction with Burr’s vile crime lord.
Flesh and the Devil
Brown/ Garbo Director Clarence Brown’s first film with Greta Garbo, Flesh and the Devil, is considered one of the great silent romances. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
T-Men
Noir ’47: The Year Darkness Came to Light Treasury men Dennis O’Brien and Tony Genaro (Dennis O’Keefe and Alfred Ryder) go undercover in the mean streets of Detroit to track down the head of a counterfeiting ring. The combination of procedural and low-key lighting elicits comparisons to He Walked by Night and The Street with No Name that would be released the following year. Post-screening discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.
The Clock
Judy @ 100 Small-town soldier Joe Allen (Robert Walker) meets Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) on a 48-hour leave in crowded Penn Station when she trips over his foot, breaking the heel off one of her shoes. The Clock serves as Garland’s first dramatic role, breaking her away from the string of MGM musicals she had done previously.
Summer Stock
Judy@100 Jane Falbury (Judy Garland) is a farmer who receives a surprise visit from her actress sister Abigail (Gloria DeHaven) and Abigail’s theater troupe. Summer Stock was Garland’s final film for MGM and her last onscreen pairing with Gene Kelly.
Big
Eastman Entertains While trying to impress his crush, twelve-year-old Josh Baskin is told he is too short for a carnival ride called the Super Loops. Disgruntled, he inserts a coin into an antique fortune-teller machine called Zoltar and makes a wish to be “big.”
A Woman of Affairs
Brown/ Garbo Based on Michael Arlen’s 1924 best-selling novel The Green Hat, A Woman of Affairs, the film follows childhood friends Diana Merrick (Greta Garbo), Neville (John Gilbert), and David (Johnny Mack Brown), as they rise through the ranks of the British aristocracy. The film had to break all connections from the book—considered too daring in the United States for 1925—including changing the name of the film and renaming all the characters. Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Make Mine Musicals 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. Post-screening discussion with Michael Lasser.
Presenting Lily Mars
Presenting Lily Mars Judy Garland is Lily Mars, a small-town Indiana ingenue who comes from a large family and dreams of performing on the stage. When Broadway producer John Thornaway (Van Heflin) comes to town, he dismisses Lily out of hand, which leads to Lily concocting harebrained schemes to secure an audition.
Jerry Maguire
The New Classics They had us at “hello.” Cameron Crowe’s iconic romance stars Tom Cruise as a sports agent whose world is turned upside down when one of his clients is injured. Loaded with memorable lines and iconic moments, the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and provided Cuba Gooding, Jr. with the Best Supporting Actor trophy and an equally iconic onstage moment.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Eastman Entertains Adapted from the 1870 Jules Verne novel of the same name, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea follows the story of expeditioners Professor Aronnax (Paul Lukas) and his assistant, Conseil (Peter Lorre), who are attempting to track a sea monster that is ravaging the ships sailing in the Pacific Ocean.
The Throwaways—Filmmaker in Person!
Juneteenth Free Screenings | Rochester Premiere A personal exploration of the devastating impact of police brutality and mass incarceration on the Black community, The Throwaways is the story of homeless filmmaker and ex-felon Ira McKinley as he documents his struggle to bring positive changes to his community in inner-city Albany.
Amazing Grace
Juneteenth Free Screenings Amazing Grace follows Aretha Franklin as she records her 1972 live gospel album of the same name at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Accompanied by the Southern California Community Choir, directed by Alexander Hamilton, as well as James Cleveland, Cornell Dupree, Bernard Purdie, Chuck Rainer, and Poncho Morales, Franklin plays to a primarily African American audience.
Anna Christie
Brown/ Garbo Chris Christofferson (George F. Marion), the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge in New York, receives a letter from his estranged twenty-year-old daughter, Anna “Christie” Christofferson (Greta Garbo). Anna Christie is Greta Garbo’s first sound film.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Curator’s Choice Though often overshadowed by Darling (1965), Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Marathon Man (1975), Sunday, Bloody Sunday may be John Schlesinger’s greatest masterpiece, and it is certainly his most personal work. The non-conventional love triangle shown in the film was rather shocking for 1971. But the true subject matter of Sunday Bloody Sunday is the unresolvable complexity of any human relationships.
Mad God
Rochester Premiere A lone soldier descends through a post-apocalyptic landscape into a nightmarish underworld inhabited by creatures great and small, all of them hostile. His mission is unknown. Special effects maestro Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park) created this (mostly) stop-motion animated fever dream over a thirty year period.
Secrets & Lies
The New Classics Director Mike Leigh is well known for working extensively with actors and developing their characters and arcs in rehearsal to create distinctive narratives of the British working class. He reached one of his many career peaks with Secrets & Lies. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a London optometrist, decides to trace her family history after the death of her adoptive mother.