The Dryden will screen Het Witt Kasteel (White Castle, Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands 1973, 78 min., 16mm, Dutch w/ subtitles). In the second installment of Johan van der Keuken's North-South trilogy, the rhythmic interplay of documentary sequences produces a … Continue reading
Swiss trombonist S. Blazier first played the Bop Shop in 2008 as a member of the improvising trio Animal Forum. Talking with him, he mentioned he was just coming out with the first release under his own name, Seventh Heaven … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Truth (James Vanderbilt, Australia / U.S. 2015, 125 min.) "Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather … Continue reading
The MAG will screen The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (Wes Orshoski, 2015) as part of the Alternative Music Film Series. From "Lemmy" filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk—The Damned, the … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, U.K. 2015, 106 min.) "The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State."
In Ken Ludwig's (Lend Me A Tenor, Fox on the Fairway, Shakespeare in Hollywood) latest comedy, it's Christmas Eve, 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited … Continue reading
Sick and tired of Christmas music? Well, so are we, so come join us as we pay homage to these terrible tunes in ways you've never heard before with some of Rochester's finest local musicians!
The Dryden will screen The First Legion (Douglas Sirk, U.S. 1951, 86 min., 35mm). "All is not well in the hushed spaces of Jesuit Saint Gregory's Seminary. Dominated by conservative older men, the institution is sometimes suffocating to younger initiates … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Truth (James Vanderbilt, Australia / U.S. 2015, 125 min.) "Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather … Continue reading
In Ken Ludwig's (Lend Me A Tenor, Fox on the Fairway, Shakespeare in Hollywood) latest comedy, it's Christmas Eve, 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited … Continue reading