The Dryden will screen Brute Force (Jules Dassin, U.S. 1947, 98 min., 35mm) as part of the 12 Postcards from Prison series. In this atmospheric film noir from the director of Rififi and The Naked City, Burt Lancaster plays tough-hearted … Continue reading
Flower City Pickers (volunteer group who reduces food waste at Rochester's Public Market) is now over 2 years old! A mini-documentary has been entered and accepted into this year's Fast Forward Film Festival - Rochester, NY. FCP will be having … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Forushande (The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi, Iran / France 2016, 123 min.) "While both participating in a production of 'Death of a Salesman,' a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to … Continue reading
The Little will screen Political Animals (Jonah Markowitz, Tracy Wares, U.S. 2016, 87 min.) Political Animals (2016 ImageOut Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary) tells the story of the civil rights struggle of this century - the gay rights movement … Continue reading
The Squeaky Wheel will screen Gespenster (Ghosts, Christian Petzold, Germany 2005, 85 min.) as part of their Cultivate Cinema Circle. A man travels from Paris to Berlin in search of his wife. He finds her in a psychiatric hospital in … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen La La Land (Damien Chazelle, U.S. / Hong Kong 2016, 128 min.) "Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in … Continue reading
Dr. Piotr Marecki will present a Skalny Lecture titled 10 Things You Did Not Know About Polish Electronic, Experimental and Otherwise Unconventional Literature in Goergen Hall's Sloan Auditorium.
The Dryden will screen The Paper Bridge (Ruth Beckermann, Austria 1987, 95 min., 16mm, German w/subtitles) as part of the Holocaust: Affect and Absence series. "I don't know exactly why I traveled east this winter," filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of … Continue reading
Mission Hall will host music by Silbo Gomero, fascinating, engaging orchestral folk band Paxtor, and Evan Meulemans.
The Cinema will screen Forushande (The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi, Iran / France 2016, 123 min.) "While both participating in a production of 'Death of a Salesman,' a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen La La Land (Damien Chazelle, U.S. / Hong Kong 2016, 128 min.) "Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Goya en Burdeos (Goya in Bordeaux, Carlos Saura, Spain/Italy 1999, 100 min., 35mm, Spanish and French w/subtitles) as part of the Vittorio Storaro series. In this lavish recreation of the last days of Francisco Goya, one … Continue reading