Watters will conduct the 25-piece Eastman All Stars Big Band through selections from classic and contemporary jazz film scores by artists from ranging from Lalo Schifrin and Duke Ellington to Leonard Bernstein and Randy Newman.
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Filmmaker Signe Taylor hopes change is in the air
The documentarian talks about her film “It’s Criminal” and a change in conversation about women in the film industry
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Cady McClain wants women to see themselves in film
The High Falls Film Festival kicks off this Thursday, celebrating its 16th year of spotlighting women in film. On opening night, the festival will screen “Seeing is Believing: Women Direct,” Cady McClain’s documentary about the experiences of female filmmakers. Through interviews with several notable women directors, McClain explores the challenges they face thriving in a […]
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P.J. Soles talks ‘Carrie,’ ‘Halloween,’ and being part of the horror community
The actor will be in Rochester Saturday for a screening of the original “Halloween”
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Sequel looks at climate change 10 years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Following former Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to educate the public about global warming, the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” did a lot to move the climate change conversation into the popular consciousness when it was released back in 2006 (and picked up a couple Oscars along the way). Now comes “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to […]
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Director David Lowery tells a new kind of ghost story
Writer and director David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” is bound to be one of the more divisive films to be released this year. It tells the melancholy tale of life and death, as experienced by a married couple played by Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. When Affleck’s character unexpectedly passes away, he returns in the […]
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Sharp shooting
Released nationwide this week after making a splash on the festival circuit last fall, the movie “Free Fire” is an over-the-top crime-thriller about a black market arms deal that goes horribly, unexpectedly wrong in 1978 Boston. The film has earned a great deal of praise for its cast — which includes recently-minted Oscar-winner Brie Larson, […]
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Vittorio Storaro on writing with light
The George Eastman Museum this week is celebrating legendary cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, and on Saturday will present him the George Eastman Award, the museum’s highest honor
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The formation of a Star
“American Honey” star Sasha Lane was a student studying social work and psychology at Texas State University when she caught the attention of British director Andrea Arnold while on Spring Break, laying on a beach in Panama City, Florida. At the time, Lane was feeling directionless and looking to make a change; when she was […]
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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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If this tour doesn’t kill you
Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier gives his secret to building the perfect, violent tension in his new film, “Green Room.”
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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.
