The 18th annual Rochester Jewish Film Festival shines a spotlight on Jewish culture and heritage with film screenings, live performances, visiting directors, and post-film discussions.
Dryden Theatre
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Projecting the Nitrate Picture Show
Eastman Museum’s projectionists discuss the technical art of screening notoriously combustible nitrate films.
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Film preview: Rochester International Film Festival
The RIFF turns 60 this year, and offers 28 films in four programs across three days.
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Film preview: One Take Film Festival
After a successful first year, the team behind the One Take Film Festival has no intention of falling prey to the sophomore slump. They’ve added new venues and partnerships to turn the celebration of documentary filmmaking into four packed days of great movies, music, cocktails, and conversation. Held this Thursday through Sunday (April 19-22), the […]
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‘Move’ documentary explores individual, citywide impact of gun violence
The new locally-produced documentary “Move” from first-time filmmaker Tam Little chronicles the 2015 shooting at the Rochester Boys & Girls Club, and seeks to spur viewers to take action.
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Bonus features: Works of art
On the third Thursday of each month, Memorial Art Gallery holds a “DeTOUR,” a new, specially curated guided gallery tour tailored to a particular theme or topic. These tours examine specific works of art, dive into some lesser known stories about pieces in the MAG’s collection, and include art facts, trivia, and interactive activities. August’s […]
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Film recap: The 2017 Nitrate Picture Show
The George Eastman Museum last weekend hosted the third Nitrate Picture Show, its annual “festival of film preservation” paying tribute to the medium’s notoriously combustible early format. The weekend’s events included tours of the Eastman Museum’s vaults and projection booths, lectures from film scholars Hisashi Okajima and Alexander Horwath, workshops, and demonstrations, all centered on […]
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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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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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When the weather outside is frightful
Sometimes you just need a movie break during the holidays. Here are our suggestions on what to watch this season The term “Christmas movie” means different things to different people. Just like the holiday itself — which can be both universal and extremely personal — we all celebrate in our own way, and certain films […]
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Film Review: “Underground”
In the days before the Internet made communication easy and the transfer of information instantaneous, films provided a crucial role in allowing us to learn about people and places that were otherwise worlds apart. This week, the Dryden Theatre will kick off a new month-long film series called “Here and Elsewhere,” which presents a lineup […]
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Film Review: “The Tribe”
On paper, “The Tribe” sounds almost like someone’s idea for a parody of arthouse cinema: a story set at a corrupt Ukrainian boarding school for deaf teenagers, acted out with no translation, no subtitles, no music, and no voiceover. It sounds unbelievably artsy and affected, and while it makes for an undeniably challenging watch, the […]
