Arthurian Films | 35mm Print In 1975, British comedy troupe Monty Python created what must surely be regarded as one of the funniest and strangest movies ever made. The mere mention of its title can send large groups of people into paroxysms of laughter and endless quoting of dialogue.
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a clocker, a low-level drug dealer who works around the clock. He is also an emergency case whose allies are indistinguishable from his enemies, especially the two who hold his fate in their hands: a paternal but vicious boss (Delroy Lindo) who offers to advance Strike's "career" if he eliminates the competition; and Harvey Keitel as a twenty-year veteran cop determined to nail the both of them.
From the Camera Neg Director Edwin Carewe and Mexican superstar Dolores Del Rio re-team for the sixth time in this romantic drama. Here, Del Rio plays Rascha, the wild daughter of Costa (James Marcus), the Gypsy bear tamer, who swears revenge on Jorga (LeRoy Mason), her father's enemy, when he cuts off her braids.
From the Camera Neg | Member Movie Night In the first sound adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s oft-told tale, Wallace Beery stars as the legendary peg-leg pirate Long John Silver.
Crashing into the 60s Born to a single mother in the English countryside, young Tom Jones (Albert Finney) grows to be a free-spirited playboy whose cross-country promiscuity can’t disguise a deep love for hometown lass Sophie Western (Susannah York).
Arthurian Films | 35mm print Boorman’s visually splendid retelling of the Arthurian legend for mature audiences takes us from Uther Pendragon’s (Gabriel Byrne) encounter with Merlin the magician (Nicol Williamson) to Arthur’s (Nigel Terry) quest for the Holy Grail.
Crashing into the 60s William Holden, on the run from a posse led by his former partner-in-crime Robert Ryan, takes a band of "professional" outlaws through hostile Mexican territory in a film that paralleled the madness and destruction of the ongoing Vietnam War.
Silent Tuesdays Incomplete films, fragments, and excerpts survive the ravages of time only to struggle to find an audience following their preservation. In these programs we dig into the history of the museum’s film preservation program and bring films missing footage to light for audiences to see again, sometimes for the first time in decades.
Special Screening For the third year in a row, the Dryden presents the best films created by students of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) School of Film and Animation, as chosen by their professors.
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Theresa Randle is Girl 6, a talented actress who finds the business of phone sex both challenging and satisfying, and becomes emboldened to assume her various grapevine personae outside of work in order to discover a new, sexually charged world.
Crashing into the 60s Once upon a time, Baby Jane Hudson was a hugely popular child star of the vaudeville stage. Now she’s a drunken madwoman (Bette Davis) “caring” for her sister (Joan Crawford), a movie star whose own career abruptly ended when she was crippled in a car crash that was no accident.
Silent Tuesdays Incomplete films, fragments, and excerpts survive the ravages of time only to struggle to find an audience following their preservation. In these programs we dig into the history of the museum’s film preservation program and bring films missing footage to light for audiences to see again, sometimes for the first time in decades.
Bond in the 60s | Crashing into the 60s With a mix of sly wit and thrilling espionage action, this first film in the legendary James Bond franchise laid the foundation for all that was to follow. A power-hungry scientist named Dr. No is terrorizing Cape Canaveral from his secret base in Jamaica. When the chief of British intelligence on the island disappears, the capable and suave James Bond 007 (embodied by the capable and suave Sir Thomas Sean Connery) is sent to investigate.
Crashing into the 60s Director Otto Preminger "takes the lid off Washington" in this drama, which traces the fierce Senate battle that explodes when an uncompromising liberal (Henry Fonda) is nominated as Secretary of State by a contentious presidential administration.
Crashing into the 60s Audrey Hepburn, in her Hollywood debut, plays a runaway princess who falls for a "Prince Charming" commoner: an American reporter (Gregory Peck) covering the royal tour in Rome. Over twenty-four hours, the pair take in the Roman sights, including the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, and the Mouth of Truth in this frothy, modern telling of the Cinderella story in reverse.
Hitchcock 125 | 35mm Nitrate Print! The assassination of a British agent, a kidnapping, and international conspiracy are just some of the highlights in this tense story created by the “Master of Suspense.” While on holiday in Saint Moritz, an ordinary British couple find themselves holding the clue to an impending assassination. When their daughter is kidnapped, they have to choose between following orders from the abductors or work to prevent an International Crisis.
Crashing into the 60s Cary Grant still shines in one of his final film roles as Walter Eckland, a hard-drinking drop-out in the South Pacific during World War II.
Bond in the 60s | Crashing into the 60s Though the Bond series would soon evolve into something more like an action franchise than a series of genuine spy thrillers, From Russia with Love represents the purest example of espionage storytelling in the series.
Make Mine Musicals Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth were actors, singers, and songwriters who had their heyday in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. Bayes was the bigger star and when the two married in 1908 they became a very influential couple, challenging the authority of even Florenz Ziegfeld himself.
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee Independently financed by a group of African American investors including Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes, and Johnnie L. Cochran, this earnest docudrama tracks the journey of a disparate group of men traveling by bus from Los Angeles to the Million Man March in Washington.
