The Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House will host a film series tribute to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman beginning in July. Hoffman, a Rochester-area native, died in February. “Hoffman was one of the screen’s most versatile, daring, and prolific actors whose performances were not only a delight to watch, but often transcended the films themselves,” […]
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Documenting an elf in Kansas
Anyone who makes a film about a writer faces the perennial problem of transforming essentially nonvisual material into entertaining moving pictures. As the history of cinema demonstrates, painters, sculptors, composers, singers, dancers, and musicians provide rich, highly visual subjects for film; writing, on the other hand, offers little in the way of surface attraction for […]
