We preview the 10-day Rochester LGBT Film Festival.
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Film preview: “The Decalogue”
Each year, the Rochester Polish Film Festival kicks off with a series of screenings focusing on a few selected classics of Polish cinema. (A second part, featuring a lineup of contemporary films, traditionally begins in early November.) This year, Part I of the festival will be devoted entirely to “The Decalogue,” the masterful, epic, 10-part […]
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The Little and Dryden celebrate Art House Theater Day
It used to be that movie-lovers interested in seeing the latest independent and foreign film titles in a theater had to live in New York or Los Angeles. Everyone else was pretty much out of luck unless they had an art house theater nearby willing to do the legwork involved with bringing these less commercial […]
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Three upcoming events stretch animation’s possibilities
Despite practically a hundred years of evidence to the contrary, animation is still burdened with a reputation for being “kids’ stuff,” simple cartoons meant to keep children occupied and out of their parents’ hair for a couple hours. But anyone who has bothered to broaden their definition beyond the latest mainstream release from Disney or […]
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Director Josh Fox preaches to the choir
With his film climate change documentary “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change,” Josh Fox aims to fire up people to take action.
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Film review: “Hollywood Beauty Salon”
Screening Tuesday, June 14, as part of the Reel Mind Theatre and Film Series, “Hollywood Beauty Salon” is a documentary focusing on the clients of a beauty parlor located in the Germantown Recovery Community in Philadelphia. The salons is part of a program to help people cope and recover from mental health challenges and addiction, […]
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Keaton to introduce “Beetlejuice” screening at Dryden
The George Eastman Museum has announced that actor Michael Keaton will introduce the film “Beetlejuice” at a screening on Wednesday, June 8, at 8 p.m., at the Dryden Theatre. Keaton will be in Rochester to receive the 2016 George Eastman Award in a ceremony and gala reception held on June 9. “Beetlejuice” stars Geena Davis […]
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Keaton to get George Eastman Award
The “Birdman” actor will be in town to collect his award on June 9.
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Documentary looks at lynching’s past and present
Trinity Emmanuel Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, March 23, will host a screening of “Shadows of the Lynching Tree,” Carvin Eison’s 2010 award-winning documentary. While shedding light on America’s lynching history, the film also asks if lynching has contemporary counterparts. May 15 will mark the 100th anniversary of the brutal death of Jesse Washington, the teenage […]
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Horror writer-director talks gore, slapstick
City talked with David Bruckner, one of the writer-directors of “Southbound,” a new indie horror anthology.
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Black History Month film screenings
There’s some irony in the fact that this year’s Oscars fall during Black History Month. The #OscarsSoWhite controversy called attention to the lack of nominations for black performers and filmmakers (or any artists of color, for that matter) and how these nominations were a reflection of the larger issue of Hollywood’s racial bias. Like an […]
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Film preview: 2016 Oscar Nominated Shorts Programs
Magnolia Pictures and Shorts HD continue their fantastic annual tradition of bringing the year’s collection of Academy Award-nominated short films to theaters around the country with the “2016 Oscar Nominated Shorts Programs.” The Academy’s short film selections usually end up being a bit more adventurous than the feature film nominations, and it’s often a place […]
