The Rochester Police Department will hold public forums to discuss the state of police-community relations as part of Mayor Lovely A. Warren's 90 Days of Community Engagement Initiative.
The Little will screen Do Not Resist (Craig Atkinson, U.S. 2016, 72 min.) as part of the One Take Documentary Series. An urgent and powerful exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. Starting on the … Continue reading
The Flying Squirrel will screen 13th (Ava DuVernay, U.S. 2016, 100 min.) as part of the Enough is Enough meeting. According to the New York Film Festival description of the documentary, "Ava Duvernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg, Hong Kong / U.S. 2016, 107 min.) "A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history."
The Dryden will screen The Navigator (Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp, U.S. 1924, 60 min., 16mm) with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli, as part of the Silent Tuesdays series. While Keaton is often credited as co-director on his productions, in … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Don't Breathe (Fede Alvarez, U.S. 2016, 88 min.) "Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems."
The City of Rochester will host a Public Meeting on the Comprehensive Plan Update - Rochester 4.0 (Center City Venue) in the Lobby of Tower280. This "open house" style meeting will include various stations where the public can share their … Continue reading
At the Squeaky Wheel is a screening of films titled Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde: Little-Seen Films by Women from the Collection of Canyon Cinema followed by a discussion with Tess Takahashi. Toronto based scholar and curator Tess Takahashi … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg, Hong Kong / U.S. 2016, 107 min.) "A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history."
The Dryden will screen Robert Frank - Don't Blink (Laura Israel, Canada/France/U.S. 2015, 82 min., DCP). The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one and the same, and the vast amount … Continue reading
Through a series of choreographed, interconnected scenes, an author/poet/composer faces the specter of the blank page. Each symbolic vignette explores the birth, growth, and death of an "idea", often ending catastrophically: the author falls into the abyss of the blank … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Don't Breathe (Fede Alvarez, U.S. 2016, 88 min.) "Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems."
John Akers and Erik Welsh of the great Rochester rock band Hard Rain perform as an acoustic duo.