4-8 Monday-Friday, 9 to 1:30 p.m.
SUMMER PHOTO FUN WORKSHOP FOR KIDS
“THEN & NOW: BASICS TO DIGITAL”
One of eight weekly photography-based workshops for kids ages 7 to 14 offered by George Eastman House. This week, campers move from chemistry to computers, exploring creative ways of “making” pictures -with both a camera and a mouse. Fee: $110 per weekly workshop (includes $10 supplies fee). Visit http://www.eastmanhouse.org/ to download the registration form. For more information, please call (585) 271-3361.

7 Thursday
GARDEN VIBES CONCERT
The third concert of the 15th annual Garden Vibes concert series at George Eastman House. George Eastman’s historic gardens will be filled with the music of Rochester -based and internationally renowned The Campbell Brothers, as they play gospel music featuring electric steel guitar and vocals. Chuck, Phil, and Darick Campbell are accomplished guitarists raised in the “sacred steel” style, a rare music tradition rooted in the House of God Church.

Bring blankets and/or chairs and your own picnic supper, or purchase concessions from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and Abbott’s Frozen Custard. An array of children’s activities will be offered. All concerts will be held rain or shine, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. Admission: $15 adults; $10 members; $5 youths (ages 13 to 18); and free to 12 and under, and includes admission to George Eastman House. For more information visit eastmanhouse.org or call (585) 271-3361.

11-15 Monday-Friday, 9 to 1:30 p.m.
SUMMER PHOTO FUN WORKSHOP FOR KIDS
“PHOTO FASHION”
One of eight photography-based workshops for kids ages 8 to 12 offered by George Eastman House. This week, campers make his or her own wearable photographic creations. Over the week, campers will use pictures in designing sunprint t-shirts, bandanas and buffs, necklaces, backpack accessories, and more. Fee: $110 per weekly workshop (includes $10 supplies fee). Visit http://www.eastmanhouse.org/ to download the registration form. For more information, please call (585) 271-3361.

16-21 Saturday-Thursday
PRESERVING PHOTOGRAPHS IN A DIGITAL WORLD
This annual seminar instructs mid-career professionals about issues of photograph preservation and digitization. Held in collaboration with the Image Permanence Institute at RIT, the program consists of lectures and workshops designed to expand expertise on how to store and protect photographic materials typically found in collections. The program fee is $1,495. Visit http://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/ for registration and further information, or contact Stacey Van Denburgh at (585) 271-3361 ext. 323 or seminar@geh.org.

21 Thusday
GARDEN VIBES CONCERT
The final concert of the season of the 15th annual Garden Vibes concert series at George Eastman House. George Eastman’s historic gardens will be filled with a wide repertoire of authentic hot swing and jazz by Pittsburgh’s The Boilermaker Jazz Band. The Rochester Swing Dance Network will offer free dance lessons at 5:30 p.m.

Bring blankets and/or chairs and your own picnic supper, or purchase concessions from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and Abbott’s Frozen Custard. An array of children’s activities will be offered. All concerts will be held rain or shine, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. Admission: $15 adults; $10 members; $5 youths (ages 13 to 18); and free to 12 and under, and includes admission to George Eastman House. For more information visit eastmanhouse.org or call (585) 271-3361.

25-29 Monday-Friday, 9 to 1:30 p.m.
SUMMER PHOTO FUN WORKSHOP FOR KIDS
“DIGITAL DISCOVERY”
One of eight photography-based workshops for kids ages 8 to 12 offered by George Eastman House. This week, examine the science behind how we see pictures move and then jump right in with your own ‘mini-movies.’ Campers will use a variety of early animation devices, combining photography with illustration. Fee: $110 per weekly workshop (includes $10 supplies fee). Visit http://www.eastmanhouse.org/ to download the registration form. For more information, please call (585) 271-3361.

26-30 Tuesday-Saturday
CINEMA AT SUNSET FILM SERIES
The Dryden Theatre experience - outdoors! George Eastman House presents a Classic Film Festival, five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. The films are geared toward an adult audience, a complement to the family film series screened at Highland Bowl. On a towering screen with booming stereo sound, Eastman House will present some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and horror, all under the stars. Showtime begins at sunset (approximately 7:30 p.m.). Live music and shorts from the Eastman House collection precede each screening. Cinema at Sunset is presented in collaboration with the Business Association of the South Wedge Area. In case of rain or inclement weather, screenings will move to the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave.

The films of Cinema at Sunset:
Tuesday, Aug. 26: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Wednesday, Aug. 27: Manhattan
Thursday, Aug. 28: North by Northwest (Music by Bobby Henrie & The Goners)
Friday, Aug. 29: American Graffiti (”Cruise Night” plus music by The Hi-Risers)
Saturday, Aug. 30: The Black Cat and The Bride of Frankenstein
(Music by Ancient Youth and Gordon Munding & Curtis Waterman)

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
August 2008

Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta – Through Sept. 1, 2008 (Entrance Gallery)

West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo – Through Sept. 28, 2008 (Brackett Clark Gallery)

Africas: Photographs from the Eastman House Collection – Through Sept. 28, 2008 (South Gallery)

What We’re Collecting Now 2008 — Ongoing

The Photograph Collection: An Introduction — Ongoing

Where Do Cameras Come From? – Ongoing (Second floor of house)

Machines of Memory: Cameras from the Technology Collection – Ongoing (Mees Gallery)

The Remarkable George Eastman — Ongoing (Second floor of house)

CALENDAR OF FILM EVENTS
August 2008

Please note: Sunday films are screened at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted
All films listed begin at 8 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre, except those otherwise noted. Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for students, and $4 for museum members, unless otherwise noted. “Take-10″ discount tickets (10 admissions for $40/$35 members and students) are available at the box office and the Museum Shop. The film program is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

AUGUST ROCHESTER PREMIERES
This month, in addition to our summer retrospective series, we’re also screening several new films making their local premieres in the Dryden Theatre.

La France (August 2) is a film best experienced and not read about, but if you must know a little, suffice to say it’s about a strong-willed young woman (Sylvie Testud) who disguises herself as a young man during World War I and becomes an indispensable member of a fighting platoon. The audacious feature directorial debut of Serge Bozon assuredly moves from heartbreaking war scenes to sweet musical numbers. Don’t miss it.

The latest film from Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov is Alexandra (August 8 & 10). Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya stars as an elderly woman visiting her grandson, an officer stationed among the bored, weary troops at a desolate military outpost. Sokurov, whose acclaimed Russian Ark will screen again on August 1, has made a powerful anti-war film in which not a shot is fired.

Giuseppe Tornatore, the man behind Cinema Paradiso, returns with a change of pace, the suspense thriller The Unknown Woman (August 16). A mysterious woman (Xenia Rappoport) uses desperate means in order to be hired as nanny to an upwardly mobile couple’s young daughter. As the story slowly reveals her motives, the woman’s disturbing past comes back to haunt her. Tornatore’s usual composer, Ennio Morricone, contributes another beautiful music score.

Finally, on August 23 & 24, we’ll present John Boorman’s The Tiger’s Tail. The director of Deliverance and Hope and Glory brings us an unusually gripping and witty doppelganger thriller set in contemporary Dublin. The cast is headlined by veteran character actor Brendan Gleeson as a wealthy venture capitalist who finds his world turned upside down when a seemingly malevolent identical lookalike plots to take his place at work and at home with his beautiful but neglected wife (Kim Cattrall). You can also catch Boorman’s masterful Arthurian epic Excalibur on August 17.

Thunder Roads: The Great American Car Crash & Car Chase Movies
There’s something essentially cinematic about the chase sequence, and there’s nothing quite like the thrill of watching a well-shot and well-edited one. The more unusual the location and the more believably dangerous the action is, the more our pulses are likely to join in on the racing. Filmmakers since the silent era have understood this, but our series begins with the original moonshine running movie, Thunder Road (1958) (screening July 3), a time when American automobiles had just gotten bigger, and the screens had become wide enough to accommodate them.

Some of the performers featured in these action classics are true movie icons: Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, Peter Fonda. But the real stars are the spectacularly talented stunt drivers and, of course, the cars themselves.

And cars aren’t the only things on wheels you’ll see racing and crashing on the Dryden’s screen this summer. We’ve included a special “Truck Night” double feature of White Line Fever and Duel (August 7), the little movie that made cinephiles first aware of a young director named Steven Spielberg. David Carradine battles an army of “destructocycles” in Deathsport (July 17), and Fonda uses his vacation Winnebago to wage war against a score of satanists in Race With the Devil (August 21). (Although it’s not an American movie, you probably should also know about the spectacular moped and car chase through the Paris Métro in Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva, screening August 22 & 24).

The series and our summer calendar end with a screening of the complete Grindhouse (August 31), featuring the sublime and witty Death Proof; evidence that there’s still a smart way to have real cars smashing into real cars. -Jim Healy, Assistant Curator, Exhibitions, Motion Picture Department

MORE AUDREY HEPBURN WEDNESDAYS
The epitome of big-screen class and feminine charm is back for the first three Wednesdays in August when we present the show-stopping Audrey Hepburn in a trio of her most beloved classics. First, she watches Gregory Peck stick his hand into La Bocca della Verità in William Wyler’s Roman Holiday (screening August 6). Next up, Ms. Hepburn in her Oscar®-nominated turn in Fred Zinnemann’s spiritual epic, The Nun’s Story (August 13). Then, she’s opposite Fred Astaire and dancing to George Gershwin’s tunes in Stanley Donen’s Funny Face (August 20).

ENCORE, MAESTRO MORRICONE
As a follow-up to last summer’s popular series of films featuring the music of the great composer Ennio Morricone, you’ll be able to see five more Italian productions each boasting one of the maestro’s finest scores. Morricone’s most famous collaborator, Sergio Leone, is represented by the uncut versions of Duck, You Sucker (screening August 5) and Once Upon a Time in America (August 9 & 10). Morricone has also remained loyal to director Giuseppe Tornatore, and the composer earned his most recent Oscar® nomination for Tornatore’s Malena (August 12). Their newest collaboration is The Unknown Woman (August 16, see “Summer Rochester Premieres” section on this page), and the movie offers another memorable Morricone main title theme. Concluding this small lineup is the uncut Italian version of Burn! (August 19), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) and showcasing particularly rousing music by Morricone and an equally effective performance from Marlon Brando.

“CINEMA AT SUNSET”: FREE MOVIES IN THE HIGHLAND PARK BOWL
From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and horror: it’s all here under the stars. Showtime begins at sunset (approximately 7:30 p.m.). In case of bad weather conditions, screenings will move to the Dryden Theatre.

Live music will be performed before each screening from 6 to 7:30 p.m., followed by shorts, trailers, and animation from the Eastman House motion picture collection. To further offer the Dryden Theatre experience, each screening will be preceded by a live introduction from Jim Healy, Eastman House’s assistant curator of motion pictures.

The featured films of Cinema at Sunset
TUES | August 26 | 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
(Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1968, 138 min., 35mm)

WED | August 27 | MANHATTAN
(Woody Allen, US 1979, 96 min.)

THURS | August 28 | NORTH BY NORTHWEST
(Alfred Hitchcock, US 1959, 136 min.)

FRI | August 29 | Cruise Night | AMERICAN GRAFFITI
(George Lucas, US 1973, 112 min., 35mm)

SAT | August 30 | Double Feature
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, US 1935, 75 min.)
& THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer, US 1934, 65 min.)

The projection and sound elements will be provided by Boston Light & Sound, an internationally renowned company that has overseen recent and dramatic upgrades to the Dryden Theatre’s projection and sound.

Assemblymember Susan John obtained the funds necessary to present Cinema at Sunset, from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Additional sponsors for Cinema at Sunset are Brighton Securities, City Newspaper, Echo-Tone Music, Flower City Glass, Highland Hospital, Time Warner Cable, Sam Adams Brewery, 321 Productions, Pinnacle Printers, C.H. Morse Stamp Shop, HTB Custom Screen Printing, Clarion Riverside Hotel, and ImageOut Film Festival.

AUGUST 2008 FILMS:

1 FRI | 8 p.m.
RUSSIAN ARK
(RUSSKI KOVCHEG, Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia 2002, 96 min., Russian/subtitles)
Invisible to everyone around him, a filmmaker finds himself in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, where he magically travels through time and sees Catherine the Great, the last Tsar before the revolution, and the last Great Royal ball of 1913. With a dazzling technical tour de force, the camera travels across the museum in a single, uninterrupted shot covering 4,265 feet of galleries, 867 actors, hundred of extras, and three live orchestras.

2 SAT | 8 p.m. | Rochester Premiere
LA FRANCE
(Serge Bozon, France 2007, 102 min., French/subtitles)
The less you know ahead of time about this unique and unpredictable creation, the more satisfying the journey. In short, it’s about strong-willed Camille (Sylvie Testud), who disguises herself as a young man and heads to the World War I front lines in search of her husband. Eventually, Camille becomes an indispensable member of a fighting platoon while trying to make sure the soldiers don’t recognize her true identity. The audacious feature directorial debut of Serge Bozon assuredly moves from heartbreaking war scenes to sweet musical numbers.

3 SUN | Peter Lorre/Origins of Noir Double Feature!
7 p.m. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Josef von Sternberg, US 1935, 88 min.)
8:45 p.m. STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (Boris Ingster, US 1940, 65 min.)
Peter Lorre stars in a double feature of Hollywood thrillers that laid the ground work for the classic film noir style. First, in Crime and Punishment, Lorre stars as Dostoyevsky’s anti-hero Raskalnikov, haunted by the murder he’s committed and ensnared in a cat-and-mouse game with Inspector Porify (Edward Arnold). Then, in the crazily inventive Stranger on the Third Floor, Lorre is the title character and a newspaperman’s chief suspect in a murder case.

5 TUES | 8 p.m. | Encore, Maestro Morricone | New 35mm print!
DUCK, YOU SUCKER-THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
(GIÙ LA TESTA/A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, Sergio Leone, Italy 1971, 157 min.)
Little seen and previously only available in butchered versions, this underappreciated Leone Western stars James Coburn as an Irish terrorist trying to flee from his bitter past in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, and Rod Steiger plays a crude Mexican peasant who robs banks to liberate political prisoners. The film reveals a striking political consciousness and, as you’d expect in a Leone film, a great score by Ennio Morricone.

6 WED | 8 p.m. | Audrey Hepburn | New 35mm print!
ROMAN HOLIDAY
(William Wyler, US 1953, 118 min.)
In her first principal role, Audrey Hepburn is a runaway princess who falls for a “Prince Charming” commoner-an American reporter (Gregory Peck) covering the royal tour in Rome. Wyler’s bittersweet fairy-tale romance, shot entirely o location in Rome, was reportedly based on the real-life Italian adventures of British Princess Margaret. Presented through the support of the Cornell/Weinstein Family Foundation, in loving memory of Regina Cornell.

7 THURS | Car Crashes and Chases | Truck Night Double Feature
7 p.m. DUEL (Steven Spielberg, US 1971, 90 min., Digital Projection)
8:45 p.m. WHITE LINE FEVER (Jonathan Kaplan, US 1975, 92 min.)
Duel tells the taut, simple tale of an average man (Dennis Weaver) who’s terrorized on a lonely stretch of highway by the faceless driver behind the wheel of a monstrous truck. Originally produced for American television, Duel was the film that put Steven Spielberg on the map. Then, in the blue-collar revenge classic White Line Fever, Jan Michael Vincent stars as an independent trucker who fights against the hoodlums running and ruining his industry.

8 FRI | 8 p.m. | Rochester Premiere
ALEXANDRA
(Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia 2007, 92 min., Russian/subtitles)
The director of Russian Ark made this powerful anti-war film in which not a shot is fired. Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya stars as an elderly woman visiting her grandson, an officer stationed among the bored, weary troops at a desolate military outpost. More myth than contemporary politics, the movie juxtaposes her womanly warmth with the hard steel of their weaponry; the value she places on their lives with the pessimism of their mindset; her memories of family life and hopes for their future with the cynicism inherent in their mission. “A film of startling originality and beauty”-Mahohla Dargis, The New York Times.

9 SAT | 7 p.m. | Encore, Maestro Morricone
10 SUN | 2 p.m.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
(Sergio Leone, US/Italy 1984, 227 min.)
In Leone’s final film and most accomplished masterwork, Robert DeNiro stars as Noodles, an aged Jewish gangster who recalls his childhood and rise to power in prohibition-era New York. The supporting cast includes James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, and Danny Aiello. Shorn of 90 minutes for the first American release, this version restores Leone’s original epic vision.

10 SUN | 7 p.m.
ALEXANDRA
See August 8.

11 MON | 1:30 p.m. | Senior Matinee (free to those age 60 and over)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
(1951; Robert Wise; 92 min)
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Beaumont and a very young Billy Gray (Father Knows Best) star in this classic story of the first space visitor on earth - and how he was greeted. “Gort, Klatu barada nicto!”

12 TUES | 8 p.m. | Encore, Maestro Morricone
MALÈNA
(Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy 2000, 92 min., Italian/subtitles)
A 12-year-old boy during the Italian fascist period develops a crush on the village outcast, a mistreated war widow (Monica Bellucci) who’s become the victim of cruel gossip. Another piece of bittersweet nostalgia from the director of Cinema Paradiso, Malèna is highlighted by an Oscar®-nominated Morricone score.

13 WED | 8 p.m. | Audrey Hepburn
THE NUN’S STORY
(Fred Zinnemann, US 1959, 149 min.)
Audrey Hepburn (in an Oscar®-nominated turn) stars as young Sister Luke, assigned to a hospital in the Belgian Congo. The novitiate must endure rigorous conditions that test her devotion to her calling. But it’s at the outbreak of World War II, when Luke must obey an edict not to take sides in the conflict, that the nun finds her vows at odds with her personal beliefs.

14 THURS | Car Crashes and Chases | Double Feature
7 p.m. THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (HARD DRIVER, Lamont Johnson, US 1973, 100 min.)
9 p.m. A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS (Jack Starrett, US 1976, 95 min.)
Jeff Bridges stars as real-life moonshine-runner turned champion race-car driver in The Last American Hero, another gem of 1970s character-driven cinema co-starring Valerine Perrine, Ned Beatty, and Gary Busey. Then, The Last Picture Show’s Timothy Bottoms stars in A Small Town in Texas as an ex-convict who comes home from jail, only to be railroaded again by a crooked sheriff (Bo Hopkins), who has also stolen his wife (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’s Susan George).

15 FRI | 8 p.m. | New 35mm print!
NIAGARA
(Henry Hathaway, US 1953, 89 min.)
Marilyn Monroe is one of the screen’s definitive femmes fatales in this rarefilm noir shot in Technicolor. On honeymoon in Niagara Falls, a young bride(Monroe) plans to murder her war vet husband (the always intriguing Joseph Cotton), who himself has murder on his mind. Ah, l’amour!

16 SAT | 5 p.m. & 8 p.m. | Encore, Maestro Morricone | Rochester Premiere
THE UNKNOWN WOMAN
(LA SCONOSCIUTA, Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy 2006, 118 min., Italian/subtitles)
In a gripping work of suspense from the director of Cinema Paradiso, a mysterious woman (Xenia Rappoport) uses desperate means in order to be hired as nanny to an upwardly mobile couple’s young daughter. As the story slowly reveals her motives, the woman’s disturbing past comes back to haunt her. Tornatore’s usual composer Ennio Morricone contributes another beautiful music score.

17 SUN | 7 p.m. | Members’ Movie Night
EXCALIBUR
(John Boorman, UK 1981, 140 min.)
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. A must-see on the big screen, Excalibur’s supporting cast includes Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson as Sir Gawain, and Helen Mirren as Morgana Le Fay. Members admitted free.

18 MON | 1:30 p.m. | Senior Matinee (free to those age 60 and over)
THE MAGNIFICENT MATADOR
(1955; Budd Boetticher; 94 min)
Maureen O’Hara stars as a spoiled, rich and predatory woman who becomes infatuated with dashing matador Anthony Quinn. Watch out for the bulls and the fireworks!

19 TUES | 8 p.m. | Encore, Maestro Morricone
BURN! THE UNCUT VERSION
(QUEIMADA, Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/France 1969, 132 min., Italian/subtitles)
Marlon Brando (in what he considered his best performance) plays William Walker, a British agent who is sent to a Caribbean Island in 1845 to teach black sugar plantation workers the art of revolution against the Portuguese landowners. Based on histrorical fact, this rousing political adventure set to the equally inspiring music of Ennio Morricone will be presented here in its original Italian release version, which restores 20 minutes of footage never before shown in the US.

20 WED | 8 p.m. | Audrey Hepburn
FUNNY FACE
(Stanley Donen, US 1957, 103 min.)
Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn team up in this musical satire of the fashion world. A Madison Avenue photographer (Astaire) stumbles across a dowdy New York bookseller (Hepburn) and turns her into the biggest model in Paris. Based loosely on the life of Richard Avedon (who served as a visual consultant), the movie spotlights Astaire’s elegant dancing to the songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

21 THURS | Car Crashes and Chases Double Feature
7 p.m. RACE WITH THE DEVIL (Jack Starrett, US 1975, 88 min.)
8:45 p.m. DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY (John Hough, US 1973, 93 min.)
Road icon Peter Fonda stars in a fun pair of the most dynamic action movies from the early ’70s. In Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Susan George and Fonda play the title characters: a kooky hitchhiker and a would-be race driver, who take it on the high-speed lam after ripping off a supermarket. Then, in Race with the Devil, Fonda and Warren Oates play a couple of pals who take their wives on a road trip in a decked-out Winnebago. When the boys witness what looks like a human sacrifice at their campsite, they find themselves fleeing from a widespread cult of Southern Satan worshippers!

22 FRI | 8 p.m. | New 35mm print!
DIVA
(Jean-Jacques Beineix, France 1982, 123 min.)
Young French music lover Jules (Frédéric Andrei) finds himself in the possession of rare tapes by an American opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez) who refuses to be recorded. Then all hell breaks loose, and soon he is pursued by two gruesome thugs on a hair-raising moped and car chase through the Paris Métro. Helped by an eccentric assortment of friends, Jules tries to figure out the reasons behind his predicament. Maybe the most stylish and influential French movie of the last 30 years, Diva is a true feast for the senses.

23 SAT | 8 p.m. | Rochester Premiere
THE TIGER’S TAIL
(John Boorman, Ireland 2006, 107 min.)
The latest film from the director of Deliverance, Excalibur, and Hope and Glory is an unusually gripping and witty doppelganger thriller set in contemporary Dublin. Veteran character actor Brendan Gleeson plays Liam O’Leary, a venture capitalist whose world turned upside down when a seemingly malevolent lookalike plots to take Liam’s place at his job and at home with Liam’s neglected wife (Kim Cattrall).

24 SUN | 4 p.m.
DIVA
See August 22.

24 SUN | 7 p.m.
THE TIGER’S TAIL
See August 23.

25 MON | 1:30 p.m. | Senior Matinee (free to those age 60 and over)
KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES
(1953; Henry King; 100 min)
Nineteenth century India is the setting for this sweeping drama of miscegenation and rebellion. Tyrone Power and Terry Moore are caught up in the whirlwind of romance seemingly thwarted by racial prejudice and warfare.

26 TUES- 30 SAT
“Cinema at Sunset”
From Tuesday, August 26 through Saturday, August 30, George Eastman House will present five nights of FREE outdoor screenings at Rochester’s Highland Park Bowl. On a towering big screen with booming stereo sound, we’ll screen some of Hollywood’s most cherished classics on 35 mm film. Comedy, sci-fi, adventure, and horror: it’s all here under the stars. Showtime begins at sunset (approximately 7:30 p.m.). In case of bad weather, screenings will move to the Dryden Theatre. For directions to the Bowl and more information visit http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/.
TUES | August 26 | 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
(Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1968, 138 min., 35mm)

WED | August 27 | MANHATTAN
(Woody Allen, US 1979, 96 min.)

THURS | August 28 | NORTH BY NORTHWEST
(Alfred Hitchcock, US 1959, 136 min.)

FRI | August 29 | Cruise Night | AMERICAN GRAFFITI
(George Lucas, US 1973, 112 min., 35mm)

SAT | August 30 | Double Feature
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, US 1935, 75 min.)
& THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer, US 1934, 65 min.)

31 SUN | 7 p.m. | Car Crashes and Chases
GRINDHOUSE
(Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, US 2007, 191 min.)
Maverick filmmakers Rodriguez and Tarantino team up to recreate the ’70s exploitation double feature experience, complete with scratchy prints and even fake trailers (directed by Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, and Rob Zombie). Rodriguez’s Planet Terror is a gory John Carpenter-esque zombie flick featuring Rose Mac- Gowan, Josh Brolin, and Bruce Willis. Tarantino’s Death Proof is a positively sublime homage to the car chase movies of the ’70s, starring Kurt Russell as the perverse and murderous “Stuntman Mike” who meets his match in a tough group of young women, including real-life stunt artist Zoe Bell. The only place to truly experience Grindhouse is in a theater, so don’t miss your chance to catch this enormously enjoyable and overlooked gem the way it was intended.

Attn. Media: A sample of high-res Dryden stills are online at
https://secure.eastmanhouse.org/pressroom/DrydenTheatre/

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