Rochester Premiere! Filmmakers Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and Alex Kotlowitz boldly follow three Chicago individuals whose own criminal pasts have led them to an innovative anti-violence program. Using contagious disease as a model… [read more]

Curator’s Choice! In Person! Paolo Cherchi Usai, Curator. Once upon a time, in the 13th century, there was a poet — Hadewijch of Antwerp — who expressed her views on the ecstasy of spiritual love in poems of flamboyant beauty. Fast forward to the 21st century… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Filmmakers Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and Alex Kotlowitz boldly follow three Chicago individuals whose own criminal pasts have led them to an innovative anti-violence program. Using contagious disease as a model… [read more]

The Films of Aki Kaurismäki. Based on the Henri Murger novel that inspired Puccini’s opera La Bohème, Kaurismäki’s loose literary adaptation is considered one of his best films. Aspiring poet Marcel Marx (André Wilms) finds camaraderie with an Albanian composer and an Irish painter… [read more]

You Don’t Know Jack: Jack Nicholson in the ’70s. Bobby Dupea (Nicholson) is a classically trained pianist from a highly cultured family in the Pacific Northwest, but you wouldn’t know it: he spends all his time in oil fields and bowling alleys, wavering about his proudly redneck girlfriend… [read more]

Jack Garner Presents: Tall in the Saddle. The most iconic and beloved of all Westerns, in which a lawman (Gary Cooper) stands alone against revenge-seeking killers due on the noon train. A ticking clock (and a narrative in “real time”) heightens the tension… [read more]

The Films of Aki Kaurismäki. In the French port city of Le Havre, Marcel Marx (André Wilms) is a high-spirited, bohemian shoe shiner who enjoys a glass of wine or two at his favorite bar before returning home to his lovely wife and dog. When his wife falls ill and a young African immigrant shows up at his door, however… [read more]

The Films of Aki Kaurismäki. In the French port city of Le Havre, Marcel Marx (André Wilms) is a high-spirited, bohemian shoe shiner who enjoys a glass of wine or two at his favorite bar before returning home to his lovely wife and dog. When his wife falls ill and a young African immigrant shows up at his door, however… [read more]

The Films of Aki Kaurismäki. In the French port city of Le Havre, Marcel Marx (André Wilms) is a high-spirited, bohemian shoe shiner who enjoys a glass of wine or two at his favorite bar before returning home to his lovely wife and dog. When his wife falls ill and a young African immigrant shows up at his door, however… [read more]

The Astral Plane. Damiel and Cassiel are two angels tasked with observing the lost souls of West Berlin. After his gaze falls on a lonely (and lovely) trapeze artist, however, Damiel longs to become human and shed his immortality… [read more]

You Don’t Know Jack: Jack Nicholson in the ’70s. Member’s Movie Night! Second-rate scam artist Nicky (Warren Beatty) works his way into the heart of millionaire heiress Fredericka Bigard (Stockard Channing), convincing her to marry his best friend Oscar (Jack Nicholson)… [read more]

Jack Garner Presents: Tall in the Saddle. A year before Ben-Hur, Wyler honed his epic skills on this vast Western, about a fight over water rights between a wealthy rancher and a scruffy brood of neighbors. The cast includes Gregory Peck… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Director Jonathan Lee in Person! Co-sponsored by Nazareth College’s School of Education. Perhaps best remembered for his book Growing Up Absurd — a sociopolitical tract on “the disgrace of the Organized System” that both predicted and helped to inspire the radical changes of the 1960s… [read more]

New Restoration! “Directed” by Nicholas Ray, this largely improvised, highly experimental film was actually produced over the course of several years by some 45 students at SUNY Binghamton’s Harpur College… [read more]

Rochester Premiere! Perhaps best remembered for his book Growing Up Absurd — a sociopolitical tract on “the disgrace of the Organized System” that both predicted and helped to inspire the radical changes of the 1960s… [read more]

New Restoration! “Directed” by Nicholas Ray, this largely improvised, highly experimental film was actually produced over the course of several years by some 45 students at SUNY Binghamton’s Harpur College… [read more]

Astral Plane. After he finds her portrait hanging in the Grand Hotel, Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) becomes obsessed with early 20th-century actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour). Smitten, Collier attempts to conquer time… [read more]

You Don’t Know Jack: Jack Nicholson in the ’70s The final production of Rafelson’s ill-fated production company BBS, The King of Marvin Gardens emphasizes mood over plot. Nicholson plays a Philadelphia-based radio host called to Atlantic City by his shady brother (Bruce Dern)… [read more]

New Restoration! The most famous man in the world in his most famous role: a Yukon tramp with dreams of striking it rich and an unrequited crush on a beautiful dance hall girl. The dancing dinner rolls and the cabin on the cliff… [read more]

New 35mm Print! A picturesque postcard of provincial France gone homicidally wrong, Godard’s acid vision of a bourgeois apocalypse still packs a sick wallop. Nominally about a typical couple plotting to collect an inheritance (and dismember each other)… [read more]

New Restoration! The most famous man in the world in his most famous role: a Yukon tramp with dreams of striking it rich and an unrequited crush on a beautiful dance hall girl. The dancing dinner rolls and the cabin on the cliff… [read more]

New 35mm Print! A picturesque postcard of provincial France gone homicidally wrong, Godard’s acid vision of a bourgeois apocalypse still packs a sick wallop. Nominally about a typical couple plotting to collect an inheritance (and dismember each other)… [read more]

Astral Plane. A struggling painter (Joseph Cotten) meets a young girl (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park who inspires a portrait and invigorates his career. She continues to visit him, but always preternaturally aged… [read more]

You Don’t Know Jack: Jack Nicholson in the ’70s A sun-dappled film noir for the ’70s, replete with political paranoia, intricate conspiracies, and an energy crisis. Nicholson offers an uncharacteristically understated performance… [read more]

Jack Garner Presents: Tall in the Saddle Hill takes a classic tale — the story of Jesse James — and employs remarkable casting. The story is of brothers: the Jameses, the Youngers, the Fords, and the Millers. Hill hires real brothers… [read more]

Director Todd Rohal in Person! Produced by David Gordon Green, Jody Hall, and Danny McBride, director Todd Rohal returns to the Eastman House (he was here in 2007 with his debut feature The Guatemalan Handshake) with his newest feature… [read more]

New Restoration! Fritz Lang may have foreseen the future in his epochal sci-fi silent Metropolis, but he never could have envisioned his allegory of labor and capital scored to the likes of Pat Benatar and Freddie Mercury… [read more]

Dryden Theatre Closed.

Astral Plane. Architect Peter Ibbetson (Gary Cooper) is hired by the Duke of Towers for a restoration project, but finds himself falling for the Duke’s wife. Their love grows, and even after Peter is sentenced to life in prison… [read more]

You Don’t Know Jack: Jack Nicholson in ’70s Master filmmaker Antonioni charts the wavering political commitments of Nicholson, a TV reporter who impulsively assumes the identity of a leftist gunrunner… [read more]