(Maurice Tourneur, US 1917, 65 min.)
America’s sweetheart Mary Pickford stars as Gwendolyn, the unhappy daughter of wealthy and neglectful parents. When a crisis is started by a bullying and irresponsible servant, the family is forced to rethink what is important to them. The visual invention of talented director Maurice Tourneur will be accompanied by a new score composed by Rochester’s own Philip C. Carli, and performed by Carli and the Flower City Orchestra. The feature will be preceded by several short silent films with new music composed by students from the Eastman School of Music. This special event is sponsored by the Humanities Project of the University of Rochester’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, in collaboration with George Eastman House and the Eastman School of Music. Special ticket prices: $15, $10 members and students. No Take-10 tickets or passes.
(Samantha Buck, US 2009, 91 min., Digital Projection)
Filmed on location in Buffalo, 21 Below tells the compelling and multi-faceted story of one American family in crisis. Pregnant with her first child, Sharon returns to Buffalo in an attempt to repair the relationship between her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who is pregnant with her third child and caring for a daughter afflicted with the rare Tay-Sachs disease. Richly complex and inspiring, 21 Below unfolds as a compassionate portrait of a family coming apart and the compromises required for reconciliation. Director Samantha Buck will answer questions after this screening. No Take-10 tickets or passes.
George Eastman House has joined with 360 | 365 (formerly the High Falls Film Festival) to bring you the 360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival, a five-day paradise for movie lovers May 5 to 10 at the Dryden and Little Theatres. Additionally, the Dryden will be home to the 360 | 365 George Eastman House New Director Series, a bi-monthly program that will present the first area screenings of recent works from directors making their first or second feature-length effort.
The New Director Series begins March 20 with 21 Below, an emotionally powerful new documentary filmed largely in Buffalo. 21 Below tells the compelling and multi-faceted story of one American family in crisis. Pregnant with her first child, Sharon returns to Buffalo to repair the relationship between her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who is pregnant with her third child and caring for one daughter dying from a rare genetic disease. Richly complex and inspiring, 21 Below unfolds as a compassionate portrait of a family coming apart and the compromises required for reconciliation. Director Samantha Buck will appear in person to introduce and answer questions after the screening.
Read more about the New Director Series here.
(HIS LADY, Alan Crosland, US 1927, 111 min.)
John Barrymore and Dolores Costello star in the best version of Abbé Prévost’s oft-filmed Manon Lescaut, the love story of a divinity student (Barrymore) and a beautiful girl (Costello), whose brother (Warner Oland) has sold her to a lecherous aristocrat. One of the earliest sound films (released before The Jazz Singer, also directed by Crosland), When A Man Loves’ original Vitaphone soundtrack has been restored in a joint project by George Eastman House, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Warner Bros. The feature will be preceded by three Vitaphone shorts: Quartet from Rigoletto (1927), Charles Hackett (1927), and Van and Schenck: The Pennant-winning Battery of Songland (1927). This special event is sponsored by the Humanities Project of the University of Rochester’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, in collaboration with George Eastman House and the Eastman School of Music.
(Jacques Tati, France/Italy 1967, 121 min., French with subtitles)
Tati’s beloved Monsieur Hulot finds himself in a futuristic funhouse of modern architecture and traffic jams as his once-familiar Paris progresses uncontrollably. Hulot adapts to his new surroundings like a fish out of water, which of course sets the stage for his charming and irresistible clumsiness. Often referenced for his accomplishments in achieving astonishing visual complexity and multiplicity, Tati also knew how to manipulate the soundtrack to achieve the aural equivalent of slipping on a banana peel.
