At least since the "War on Poverty," politicians have gone back and forth between saying that the answer is, on the one hand, more aid, such as that offered by publicly and privately funded food programs, or on the other … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman, U.S. / Japan / Canada 2019, 104 min.) "In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen America, America (Elia Kazan, U.S. 1963, 174 min., 35mm) as part of the Fourth of July series. Elia Kazan gives cinema perhaps its most poignant portrait of the immigrant experience in this epic adaptation of his … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen All is True (Kenneth Branagh, U.K. 2018, 101 min.) "A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare."
The Dryden will screen Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (Yonathan and Masha Zur, Israel 2009, 86 min., English, Hebrew w/ subtitles) as part of the Rochester Jewish Film Festival. Amos Oz, who died in December 2018, was a bestselling … Continue reading
This ASL interpreted, overview tour is a 2-hour walk of approximately 1 mile. It includes the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, as well as topics of local history, horticulture, geology, architecture, monument symbolism, and more. In addition, … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Chasing Portraits (Elizabeth Rynecki, USA, Canada, Israel, Poland 2018, 78 min., English, Polish w/ subtitles) followed by a video discussion with Elizabeth Rynecki as part of the Rochester Jewish Film Festival. Before he died in the … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Tomorrow Man (Noble Jones, U.S. 2019, 94 min.) "Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two … Continue reading
Join artist Tanya Marcuse and curator Lisa Hostetler for a conversation in the Dryden Theatre, and then be among the first to see the exhibition Tanya Marcuse: Woven in the Project Gallery.
The Dryden will screen 93Queen (Paula Eiselt, USA 2018, 85 min., English, Yiddish, Hebrew w/ subtitles) as part of the Rochester Jewish Film Festival. Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93Queen follows Rachel "Ruchie" Freier, a no-nonsense … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman, U.S. / Japan / Canada 2019, 104 min.) "In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen All is True (Kenneth Branagh, U.K. 2018, 101 min.) "A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare."
The Dryden will screen The Accountant of Auschwitz (Matthew Shoychet, Canada 2018, 80 min., English, German w/ subtitles) followed by a discussion with producer Ric Esther Bienstock as part of the Rochester Jewish Film Festival. In 2015, 94-year-old former German … Continue reading