Duel tells the taut, simple tale of an average man (Dennis Weaver) who’s terrorized on a lonely stretch of highway by the faceless driver behind the wheel of a monstrous truck. Originally produced for American television, Duel was the film that put Steven Spielberg on the…[read more]

The director of Russian Ark made this powerful anti-war film in which not a shot is fired. Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya stars as an elderly woman visiting her grandson, an officer stationed among the bored, weary troops at a desolate military outpost. More myth than contemporary politics…[read more]

In Leone’s final film and most accomplished masterwork, Robert DeNiro stars as Noodles, an aged Jewish gangster who recalls his childhood and rise to power in prohibition-era New York. The supporting cast includes James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, and Danny Aiello. Shorn of 90 minutes…[read more]

In Leone’s final film and most accomplished masterwork, Robert DeNiro stars as Noodles, an aged Jewish gangster who recalls his childhood and rise to power in prohibition-era New York. The supporting cast includes James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, and Danny Aiello. Shorn of 90 minutes…[read

The director of Russian Ark made this powerful anti-war film in which not a shot is fired. Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya stars as an elderly woman visiting her grandson, an officer stationed among the bored, weary troops at a desolate military outpost. More myth than contemporary politics…[read more]

A 12-year-old boy during the Italian fascist period develops a crush on the village outcast, a mistreated war widow (Monica Bellucci) who’s become the victim of cruel gossip. Another piece of bittersweet nostalgia from the director of Cinema Paradiso, Malèna is highlighted by an Oscar®-nominated Morricone score…[read more]

Audrey Hepburn (in an Oscar®-nominated turn) stars as young Sister Luke, assigned to a hospital in the Belgian Congo. The novitiate must endure rigorous conditions that test her devotion to her calling. But it’s at the outbreak of World War II, when Luke must obey an edict not to take sides in…[read more]

Jeff Bridges stars as real-life moonshine-runner turned champion race-car driver in The Last American Hero, another gem of 1970s character-driven cinema co-starring Valerine Perrine, Ned Beatty, and Gary Busey. Then, The Last Picture Show’s Timothy Bottoms stars in A Small Town in Texas as…[read more]

Marilyn Monroe is one of the screen’s definitive femmes fatales in this rarefilm noir shot in Technicolor™. On honeymoon in Niagara Falls, a young bride(Monroe) plans to murder her war vet husband (the always intriguing Joseph Cotton), who himself has murder on his mind. Ah, l’amour…[read more]

In a gripping work of suspense from the director of Cinema Paradiso, a mysterious woman (Xenia Rappoport) uses desperate means in order to be hired as nanny to an upwardly mobile couple’s young daughter. As the story slowly reveals her motives, the woman’s disturbing past comes back to haunt her. Tornatore’s…[read more]

In a gripping work of suspense from the director of Cinema Paradiso, a mysterious woman (Xenia Rappoport) uses desperate means in order to be hired as nanny to an upwardly mobile couple’s young daughter. As the story slowly reveals her motives, the woman’s disturbing past comes back to haunt her. Tornatore’s…[read more]

Boorman’s visually splendid retelling of the Arthurian legend for mature audiences takes us from Uther Pendragon’s (Gabriel Byrne) encounter with Merlin the magician (Nicol Williamson) to Arthur’s (Nigel Terry) quest for the Holy Grail. A must-see on the big screen, Excalibur’s supporting cast includes Patrick Stewart, Liam…[read more]

Marlon Brando (in what he considered his best performance) plays William Walker, a British agent who is sent to a Caribbean Island in 1845 to teach black sugar plantation workers the art of revolution against the Portuguese landowners. Based on histrorical fact, this rousing political adventure set to the equally inspiring music of…[read more]

Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn team up in this musical satire of the fashion world. A Madison Avenue photographer (Astaire) stumbles across a dowdy New York bookseller (Hepburn) and turns her into the biggest model in Paris. Based loosely on the life of Richard Avedon (who served as a visual consultant), the movie spotlights…[read more]

Road icon Peter Fonda stars in a fun pair of the most dynamic action movies from the early ’70s. In Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Susan George and Fonda play the title characters: a kooky hitchhiker and a would-be race driver, who take it on the high-speed lam after ripping off a supermarket. Then, in Race with…[read more]

Young French music lover Jules (Frédéric Andrei) finds himself in the possession of rare tapes by an American opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez) who refuses to be recorded. Then all hell breaks loose, and soon he is pursued by two gruesome thugs on a hair-raising moped and car chase through…[read more]

The latest film from the director of Deliverance, Excalibur, and Hope and Glory is an unusually gripping and witty doppelganger thriller set in contemporary Dublin. Veteran character actor Brendan Gleeson plays Liam O’Leary, a venture capitalist whose world turned upside down when a seemingly…[read more]

Young French music lover Jules (Frédéric Andrei) finds himself in the possession of rare tapes by an American opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez) who refuses to be recorded. Then all hell breaks loose, and soon he is pursued by two gruesome thugs on a hair-raising moped and car chase through…[read more]

The latest film from the director of Deliverance, Excalibur, and Hope and Glory is an unusually gripping and witty doppelganger thriller set in contemporary Dublin. Veteran character actor Brendan Gleeson plays Liam O’Leary, a venture capitalist whose world turned upside down when a seemingly…[read more]

From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering big screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35 mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and…[read more]

From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering big screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35 mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and…[read more]

From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering big screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35 mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and…[read more]

From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering big screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35 mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and…[read more]

From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering big screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35 mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and…[read more]

Maverick filmmakers Rodriguez and Tarantino team up to recreate the ’70s exploitation double feature experience, complete with scratchy prints and even fake trailers (directed by Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, and Rob Zombie). Rodriguez’s Planet Terror is a gory John Carpenter-esque zombie flick featuring Rose Mac- Gowan…[read more]