‘Trolls World Tour’ is the first major studio movie that will bypass theaters entirely to go directly to digital video. The fate of the entire industry is in the hands of the sequel to a children’s jukebox-musical inspired by a line of wildly popular, poofy-haired plastic dolls.
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Round-up: new to streaming
With movie theaters around the greater Rochester area shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, film lovers are having to look elsewhere for their viewing entertainment. Here are some of the best from the waves of new offerings arriving on digital platforms.
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Little Theatre announces renovations, capital campaign
The Little Theatre on Thursday, March 15, announced plans to renovate and upgrade its theater 1 to better serve the needs of modern moviegoers. The “Little Big Picture Campaign” aims to raise $1 million for rehabilitation, renovations, and upgrades to its historic theater 1, to match funds already committed through the Regional Economic Development Council. […]
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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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Cut and print
How the first year of the One Take Film Festival, a new Rochester festival celebrating the art of the documentary, came together Documentary films are hot right now. While nonfiction filmmaking has been around as long as cinema itself, it’s typically taken a backseat to narrative storytelling when it comes to audience popularity. For many, […]
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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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Film Preview: “2015 Oscar Nominated Shorts”
Continuing their annual tradition of the past 10 years, Shorts HD has partnered with Magnolia Pictures to bring each of the Oscar-nominated short films to theaters around the country. And once again, The Little Theatre is one of the select venues to screen the programs. It’s great that these films get to be seen by […]
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The Little closes Theater 1 for digital upgrade
The Little will temporarily close Theater 1 beginning Monday, May 12, for upgrades that will allow the space to show films released in a digital format. Theater 1, the Little’s largest venue, is expected to reopen by the end of the month, the organization said. Theaters 2-5 underwent similar upgrades during summer 2013, and will […]
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“Prisoners”
With the release of Denis Villeneuve’s chilly, David Fincher-esque procedural “Prisoners,” this year’s Oscar season has officially begun. Boasting several award-worthy performances from its A-list stars, a twisty plot, gorgeous cinematography, and an epic length, the film seems like exactly the sort of thing the Academy loves to reward. Still, the dark, often unpleasant subject […]
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“Ballin’ at the Graveyard”
Produced in Upstate New York, the documentary “Ballin’ at the Graveyard” posits that every city has one particular basketball court that everyone wants to play on, and functions as a hub in the subculture of urban pickup basketball. The film focuses on one such court, in Albany’s Washington Park, known as the Graveyard. Director Basil […]
