Švankmajer. After a stranger hands him an unusual map, an ordinary man (famed Czech actor Peter Čepek) enters an occult world filled with actors, alchemists and demons. Švankmajer’s retelling of the Faust legend… [read more]

’70s Cops. Better known as a music producer, Guercio’s only feature film is a knockout. Arizona motorcycle cop “Big” John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) wants off the road and into homicide, but the corrupt… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! As life continues around her, a spoiled Upper West Side teenager (Anna Paquin) drowns in grief and guilt after she’s involved in a terrible bus accident. Lonergan’s long-awaited follow-up to… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! As life continues around her, a spoiled Upper West Side teenager (Anna Paquin) drowns in grief and guilt after she’s involved in a terrible bus accident. Lonergan’s long-awaited follow-up to… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment… [read more]

A Trilogy of Trilogies. As stowaways on an ocean liner, the Marx Brothers run afoul of the First Officer, avoiding capture by posing as barbers, puppets, the ship’s captain, and a series of Maurice Chevaliers… [read more]

Švankmajer. Members Movie Night! Švankmajer’s (mostly) live-action feature follows six men and women as they indulge their most secret desires. To call their proclivities bizarre is an understatement: one dresses as a giant rooster… [read more]

’70s Cops. Lumet’s no-nonsense direction turned the shocking true story of an NYPD officer into one of the most acclaimed dramas of the decade. As crime engulfs the mean streets of New York City… [read more]

In Person! Dabney Coleman! After suffering endless harassment from their bigoted supervisor (Dabney Coleman), office workers (Jane Fonda), Violet (Lily Tomlin), and Doralee (Dolly Parton) take matters into their own hands… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! French singer Johnny Hallyday stars as a Parisian chef who travels to Hong Kong to avenge the death of his daughter’s family in this high-voltage thriller. When he joins forces with a gang of underworld assassins… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! French singer Johnny Hallyday stars as a Parisian chef who travels to Hong Kong to avenge the death of his daughter’s family in this high-voltage thriller. When he joins forces with a gang of underworld assassins… [read more]

A Trilogy of Trilogies. Quincy Wagstaff (Groucho) is keen to improve the athletic standing of Huxley College, but his plans go awry when the school’s new recruits turn out to be a bootlegger (Chico) and a part-time dogcatcher (Harpo)… [read more]

Švankmajer. Švankmajer’s fevered adaptation of two tales by Edgar Allen Poe (by way of the Marquis de Sade) may be the Czech animator’s finest feature-length film. It’s certainly one of his most delirious… [read more]

’70s Cops. Filmed on location in Harlem, by-the-books lieutenant Yaphet Kotto and his racist-but-streetwise partner Anthony Quinn run afoul of the Italian mafia. Bobby Womack’s title song was popularized by… [read more]

Living decadently with her playboy father (David Niven) on the French Riviera, young, carefree Cécile (Jean Seberg, whose performance led her to Godard and Breathless) finds her bliss interrupted with the arrival of Anne (Deborah Kerr)… [read more]

Living decadently with her playboy father (David Niven) on the French Riviera, young, carefree Cécile (Jean Seberg, whose performance led her to Godard and Breathless) finds her bliss interrupted with the arrival of Anne (Deborah Kerr)… [read more]

A Trilogy of Trilogies. Freedonia and Sylvania are ready for war — but what can you expect when Freedonia’s president is an insult-prone conman and Sylvania’s top spies a pair of lemonade-selling incompetents?… [read more]

Švankmajer. Looking back as far as the late 1960s, this program of Czech master animator Jan Švankmajer’s short films is truly a cabinet of wonders. Works include Flat (Byt, 1968), The Garden (Zahrada, 1968), Jabberwocky (1971)… [read more]

Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly! Gene Kelly was paired with none other than Judy Garland for his screen debut, a touching, dramatic musical about an up-and-coming vaudeville duo dreaming of stardom on the eve of World War I… [read more]

New 35mm Print! Continuing through territory masterfully illuminated in his previous work, Davies returns to his Liverpudlian. After the death of his brutal father, shy, daydreaming Bud… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Pat Healy in Person! On the final weekend of operations at the supposedly haunted Yankee Pedlar Inn, and the amateur ghost hunters on desk duty (Sarah Paxton and Pat Healy) are determined to crack its supernatural secrets… [read more]

New 35mm Print! Continuing through territory masterfully illuminated in his previous work, Davies returns to his Liverpudlian. After the death of his brutal father, shy, daydreaming Bud… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! On the final weekend of operations at the supposedly haunted Yankee Pedlar Inn, and the amateur ghost hunters on desk duty (Sarah Paxton and Pat Healy) are determined to crack its supernatural secrets… [read more]

A Trilogy of Trilogies. After the deaths of her husband and daughter, a composer’s widow (Juliette Binoche) struggles to rebuild her life, facing uncomfortable revelations about her marriage and an uncertain future… [read more]

Švankmajer. Švankmajer’s live-action adaptation of K.J. Erben’s folktale “Otesanek” is a darkly funny fable about appetite and childbirth. A neurotic husband presents his forlorn, childless wife with a tree stump… [read more]

Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly! The shy Clarence (Frank Sinatra) and the cocky Joe (Gene Kelly) are sailors on shore leave in Hollywood, where they try to aid the career of an aspiring young singer (Kathryn Grayson)… [read more]

Happy Father’s Day Weekend! Happy Father’s Day Weekend! Tatum O’Neal became the youngest actor ever to win an Oscar® for her startling portrayal of Addie, a 9-year-old tough cookie who hooks up with a cynical… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Middle-aged Frank (Joel Murray) has had it with pop culture’s idiocy and rudeness. Hitting the road, he pairs up with equally disaffected teen Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr), and the “platonic spree killers” travel… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Middle-aged Frank (Joel Murray) has had it with pop culture’s idiocy and rudeness. Hitting the road, he pairs up with equally disaffected teen Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr), and the “platonic spree killers” travel… [read more]

A Trilogy of Trilogies. Members Movie Night. A Polish hairdresser living in France is left with nothing after a painful divorce from his wife (Julie Delpy). He plots revenge the old-fashioned way — through money, power, and influence… [read more]

Mackendrick. The denizens of an insular Scottish island are oblivious to WWII rationing until an unimaginable disaster throws the tiny isle into turmoil: their whiskey runs out… [read more]

Gene Kelly. Sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin are on leave in the Big Apple in search of l’amour. One of the first Hollywood musicals to be filmed on location in New York City… [read more]

Bruce Goldstein in Person! The fabulous Nicholas Brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), are among the greatest dancers of the 20th century. Despite racial hurdles, the self-taught African American entertainers became… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! A naive twentysomething, whose knowledge of human nature is taken from David Attenborough documentaries and ’70s punk, discovers her own developing sexuality while preparing for her… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! A naive twentysomething, whose knowledge of human nature is taken from David Attenborough documentaries and ’70s punk, discovers her own developing sexuality while preparing for her…. [read more]

A Trilogy of Trilogies! A Swiss model (Irène Jacob) meets a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) with a penchant for telephone tapping. Their meeting will affect not only their own lives but… [read more]

Mackendrick. Alec Guinness is flawless as the titular inventor whose formula for a gleaming white (and radioactive) miracle fabric makes him the target of textile manufacturers and… [read more]

Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly! 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. Estranged Army buddies Gene Kelly… [read more]

New Release! Free spirit Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) is a trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. She finds escape in an affair with RAF pilot Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), but his callowness and her instability… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Separated by their parents’ divorce, 12-year old Koichi lives with his mother in southern Japan while his younger brother lives with their father in the north. When Koichi learns of a new bullet train line… [read more]