The newest film from South Korean master Lee Chang-dong is just waiting to detonate. Instead, the plot of “Possible Love” simmers as a documentary project brings two families on different ends of a violent workers’ strike suppression together. Director Lee’s films always have a slow burn (his most recent feature from 2018 was named “Burning,” […]
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Western New York takes the spotlight in locally produced TV show ‘Abilene’
Twenty years ago, Nick DiBella walked into Schutt’s Apple Mill in Webster and immediately had an epiphany. He compared the feeling to being struck by lightning. “Suddenly, I could see a television show in that place,” said DiBella, local filmmaker and co-founder of Faith Street Films. “I could see young people working on the farm, […]
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REVIEW | ‘A Good Farmer’
The Rochester Community Players are following the news. They’re aware that ICE’s escalated detainment campaign has separated local families. They have their eyes on federal attempts to override procedure and impose a detention facility on State Street. They know the Batavia detention center is expanding. Their response is a staging of the deeply emotional play “A […]
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The VHS resurgence that’s part nostalgia rewind, part anti-digital consumerist revolution
Donnie Del Plato has an entire wall of VHS tapes in her apartment, sorted and stacked from floor-to-ceiling in a kaleidoscope of cardboard sleeves. She’s lost count of exactly how many she’s amassed, but the number has crested 1,000, plus a few bulky CRT TVs. Del Plato’s collection started three years ago with two curios: […]
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REVIEW | ‘You Can See Everything’
When the upper echelon of the filmgoing community convenes in the dog days of summer at the Telluride Film Festival, two questions are usually on everyone’s mind: Will the eventual Best Picture winner premiere here? And what is this year’s secret screening? Telluride likes to keep the lineup under wraps until people start arriving in […]
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REVIEW | ‘Sense and Sensibility’
Early on in Georgia Oakley’s “Sense and Sensibility,” the most recent adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved 1811 novel, Marianne Dashwood (played by Esmé Creed-Miles) finishes off a list of non-negotiables she’s looking for in a husband with the potent summation: “I require so much.” It’s played as a bit of joke — rightly, for even […]
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Meet the band that opens for Jeff Tweedy of Wilco at RIT on 10/23
As the saying goes, you can’t go home again. Even if your childhood home is still physically intact, there comes a time when the place you once knew becomes irretrievable. For writer-turned-singer-songwriter Casey Gomez Walker, home is actually a place she returns to often in her prose and her music. The St. Louis exurb of […]
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Morphin’ time: local filmmaker racks up a half million views on Power Rangers fan flick
Even the cab driver snapped a photo. When Jesse Ferrara and his wife were on a babymoon in Japan, Ferrara, a lifelong fan of Power Rangers — yes, the Mighty Morphin’ kind — saw it as a great opportunity. On a break from exploring the local culture, the couple ventured to a remote quarry. But […]
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Jake Taniguchi makes RPO debut as assistant conductor and RPYO music director
As a child in Hawaii, Jake Taniguchi would go to classical concerts with his grandfather. The first orchestra he saw in concert was the Honolulu Symphony, led by then-principal conductor Andreas Delfs, who is currently music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Taniguchi is now a conductor himself, and having a bit of a full […]
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Elizabeth Williamson to depart Geva Theatre in December
The search for a new artistic director is currently underway.
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REVIEW | ‘Vision of Exile’ by Great Klons
In the dream, you’ve crash-landed some kind of flying object into a billowy bed of lilacs somehow blooming out of season in October and, stranger still, unconnected to any trees. It’s dusk. Who knows where you’ve landed. Point is, you’re safe; you’ve survived. You emerge from the nonwreckage and decide to do a little gardening […]
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Vote for the Best Of Rochester 2026 finalists
The time has come to unveil the Best Of Rochester 2026 finalists! After 15,492 submissions — including laugh-out-loud write-ins, several three-way ties and more than a few surprises (always) — voting is now open for the final round in 156 categories. Vote HERE until Friday, Nov. 27 at midnight. If you’re a finalist, you can […]
