Barrymore Family Album The only extant complete silent film starring Ethel Barrymore, The White Raven is a rollicking out-and-out sensation piece. Nan Baldwin (Barrymore), the daughter of a former Wall Street broker who was ruined by his partner, supports herself by singing in an Alaskan saloon under the name "The White Raven."

Noir ’47 In Joan Crawford’s second film titled Possessed, she plays a woman caught up in a series of affairs and tragedies. Stay after the film for a post-screening discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.

The Legend of Orpheus Set in contemporary Paris, the film is based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Film is preceded by a performance from Jeffrey Thompson, tenor, and Deborah Fox, theorbo.

The New Classics Emily Watson gives an astonishing performance as Bess McNeill, a devout, naive young woman who marries a worldly, non-religious oil rig worker, Jan (Stellan Skarsgård), despite opposition from her Scottish Calvinist community. Bess has difficulty living without Jan when he is away on the oil platform so she prays for his immediate return.

It’s a Disaster!: Spectacle Before CGI Producer Irwin Allen’s cycle of disaster films reached its peak in 1974 with The Towering Inferno. The tallest building in the world, the 137-story Glass Tower in San Francisco is about to open to the public when chief architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) discovers that the electrical engineer, Roger Simmons (Richard Chamberlain), has used substandard wiring to save money.

Rochester Premiere Director Clio Barnard (The Arbor) sets her latest dramedy in the city of Bradford in the North of England. Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a Bengal-British Muslim, a DJ, and a property manager that gets along well with his tenants. He lives with his estranged wife while keeping up the facade of a happy marriage.

Noir ’47 This twisty noir focuses on Steven Kenet (Robert Taylor), a bomber pilot who returns home and follows his wife to the home of her boss. Stay after the screening for a discussion with Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case.

The Legend of Orpheus | The New Classics In this retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set during the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, gains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man, Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), who speaks English but says he cannot remember his name.

The New Classics A biography of pornographer Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, was bound to be controversial. Indeed, multiple protests claimed the film glorifies the industry, but director Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) insisted he saw Flynt as a defender of his constitutional rights first, and a pervert second.

It’s a Disaster!: Spectacle Before CGI Notable for its incredible practical effects, The Poseidon Adventure is a classic tale of a disastrous inverted cruise. Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman lead a cast of stars through a watery labyrinth as they struggle to escape their ship, which has been flipped upside down by a freak wave and corporate incompetence.

Make Mine Musicals A bittersweet look back and a satirical postwar commentary, Donen and Kelly’s musical goodbye to MGM was conceived as a loose sequel to On the Town. Stay after the film for a post-screening discussion with Michael Lasser.

The Legend of Orpheus Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet opens with a who's who of French acting royalty (including Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli, and frequent Resnais muse Sabine Azéma) being summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament. Film screening preceded by a performance from Boel Gidholm, violin, Christopher Haritatos, cello, and Deborah Fox, theorbo.

The New Classics Set in Arkansas, the film tells the story of a man named Kal Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) who has an intellectual disability and is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover with a sling blade when he was 12 years old.

It’s a Disaster!: Spectacle Before CGI Charlton Heston leads a cast that includes Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Genevieve Bujold, and Richard Roundtree in this look at the potential effects of a major earthquake on Los Angeles. Heston is Stewart Graff, a construction engineer in an unhappy marriage to his boss’s daughter.

Barrymore Family Album MGM publicity boasted “more stars than there are in the heavens,” and with Grand Hotel they proved it. At a time when it was customary to have only one or two big stars in a film, producer Irving Thalberg took a chance and cast five early 1930s megastars into a single production.

Rochester Premiere Together, Unidentified and Miracle (screening August 25) make up the first two-thirds of an uncompleted, loose trilogy. Both deal with a small town in Romania, overlapping characters, and the dramatic, sometimes shocking, lengths they will go to to achieve their goals.

Rochester Premiere Together, Unidentified (screening August 24) and Miracle make up the first two-thirds of an uncompleted, loose trilogy. Both deal with a small town in Romania, overlapping characters, and the dramatic, sometimes shocking, lengths they will go to to achieve their goals.

The New Classics In Verona Beach, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival business empires. The animosity of the older generation is felt by their younger relatives. A gunfight between Montagues led by Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin, and the Capulets led by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, creates chaos in the city.