Americans are faced with a daunting array of choices at the end of their lives, from aggressive disease-directed therapies to hospice care to last resort options that may hasten death. Timothy Quill MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, … Continue reading
The UofR Film and Media Studies group will screen Driving With Selvi (Elisa Paloschi, Canada 2015, 74 min.) in Dewey 1-101 on the UofR Campus. Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda, France 1962, 90 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles). The film depicts two crucial hours in the life of Cléo (Corinne Marchand), a pop star waiting … Continue reading
The Cinemark Tinseltown USA will screen Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, U.S. 1974, 93 min.) In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be … Continue reading
He was one of the great twentieth century American playwrights, and Tennessee Williams' private persona is shown to have been just as fascinating as his plays in this delightful, moving, and incisive ninety minute drama. The play is structured as … Continue reading
The MuCCC will host a performance of Augusta by Richard Dresser. Augusta is a comedy with a dark edge to it. Two women clean houses for wealthy summer people on the coast of Maine. When the national cleaning company (Golden … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) "A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Carol (Todd Haynes, U.K. / U.S. 2015, 118 min.) "In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) "A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and … Continue reading
This month's Monday Mayhem discussion is titled Navajo Resistance to Forced Relocation: A Report Back from Black Mesa, Arizona. In 1974, Congress redrew the lines of the Hopi and Navajo Reservations in Arizona and overnight 10,000 Navajo and 300 Hopis … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Carol (Todd Haynes, U.K. / U.S. 2015, 118 min.) "In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love … Continue reading
Starting today at the Yates County History Center is a display of their Tintype Photo Collection. Yates County History Center invites the public to enjoy a display of its tin type photo collection beginning Tuesday, February 2 inside the Oliver … Continue reading
At today's Tuesday Topics in Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Heidi Zimmer-Meyer will discuss Downtown in the Next Decade. With a full-service grocery store in operation and numerous luxury apartments currently under development, Rochester's downtown … Continue reading