Film Screenings

Native American Cinematic Heritage Before creating Reservation Dogs and The Lowdown, Sterlin Harjo wrote and directed this drama of post-incarcertation reintegration.

Special Events John Barrymore delivers spectacular and chilling performances as both title characters in this superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel.

Silent Tuesdays Many silent filmmakers turned to Shakespeare for source material, transforming the Bard’s verbal poetry and drama into visual equivalents, but none more unusually than this project spearheaded by the legendary Danish actress Asta Nielsen.

Native American Cinematic Heritage Powwow People is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as outside observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow itself, inviting dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film.

Rochester Premiere While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne-Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen.

November Nitrate Weekend In the midst of a 1789 voyage to the West Indies, master’s mate of the HMS Bounty Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) rebels against the sadistic Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton). The most breathtaking and expensive film of 1935 was based on historical incident, but the combination of spectacular seascapes, shipboard intrigue, and Gable’s and Laughton’s battle for control make for a timeless story that will never be topped.

November Nitrate Weekend A fresh-faced farm girl goes to Hollywood and becomes a star, but her rise to the top is accompanied by heartbreak and tragedy.

November Nitrate Weekend “Daisy Kenyon is the kind of woman toward whom other women - and men - are never indifferent. Either they despise her heartily or admire her greatly, depending on their own experiences.”

November Nitrate Weekend Sir Laurence Olivier directs and acts in this definitive cinematic version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, which won four well-deserved Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor.

Silent Tuesdays A recent restoration from the Library of Congress, The Showdown finds George Bancroft playing against type as an honorable man. Cardan (Bancroft), a wildcat oil driller, looks after Sibyl Shelton (Evelyn Brent) when her husband leaves camp in the Mexican jungle to inspect some oil property.

Native American Cinematic Heritage Starring Lily Gladstone, Academy Award nominee for Killers of the Flower Moon, this drama is Erica Tremblay’s feature debut, after writing and directing for Reservation Dogs. Jax (Gladstone) has been taking care of her niece, Roki (Isabel DeRoy-Olson), since her mother’s most recent disappearance.

Holidays As marketing executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) attempts to get home for Thanksgiving, his plans seems to be foiled at every turn by shower curtain–ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), who also happens to be traveling back to Chicago.

Holidays Released in the summer of 1947, Miracle on 34th Street has nonetheless grown into a perennial favorite, bridging the season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When the Santa Clause hired for the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns up drunk, a jolly, bearded man named Kris (Edmund Gwenn) volunteers for the job.

Holidays Released in the summer of 1947, Miracle on 34th Street has nonetheless grown into a perennial favorite, bridging the season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When the Santa Clause hired for the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns up drunk, a jolly, bearded man named Kris (Edmund Gwenn) volunteers for the job.

Silent Tuesdays In a rollicking action comedy that rivals the masterful Safety Last, Harold Lloyd plays Harold “Speedy” Swift. A dreamer and schemer, Speedy gets himself involved in a number of outrageous slapstick stunts in his attempts to hold down a job.

Joyeux Noel | Holidays One of the most beloved and cherished of all musicals is this colorful, romantic, and bittersweet study of love and chance.

Rochester Premiere Somewhere between Babe: Pig in the City and Eo lies Hen, the newest film from György, Pálfi (Hukkle). The film follows a chicken from hatching into the wider and more dangerous world.

Rochester Premiere In Hong Kong, a young violinist named Zi (Michelle Mao) struggles with her memory while enigmatic visions of her future self haunt her. She meets a stranger named Elle (Haley Lu Richardson), whom she recognizes from these visions.

Filmi Fest 2000 This is the quintessential love story of Indian cinema, based on a celebrated 1917 novel by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay and brought to the big screen many times, to huge popular acclaim.

Nora Ephron’s Holidays Nora Ephron’s updating of The Shop Around the Corner takes us into the early days of e-mail and message boards. Instead of writing anonymous letters to each other through the mail, small business comes into conflict with corporate culture via AOL chat rooms.