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George Eastman Museum

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World's foremost museum of photography & cinema located in Rochester, NY on the historic estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Plan your visit at eastman.org.

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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Celebrate 30 years of Sweet Creations starting November 8! ✨ This merry showcase features more than 50 beautifully decorated gingerbread creations, along with dozens of handcrafted wreaths, festive tabletop trees, and mantel displays throughout the museum. Details: eastman.org/holidays
Clock made of gingerbreadTabletop tree with a honeybee themeWreath with a sewing theme
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You’re invited to the opening celebration of "American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy" at the George Eastman Museum— Thursday, September 25, 6 p.m. ✨ Tickets: eastman.org/event/special-events-member-events/exhibition-preview-american-born-hungary
Nickolas Muray (American, b. Hungary, 1892–1965), "Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Santa Monica, California," 1929. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray. © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Join us as we present Rita Moreno with the George Eastman Award for her distinguished contribution to the art of cinema on Wednesday, October 29 in the @drydentheatre.bsky.social ✨ Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/2025-george-eastman-award-ceremony-and-gala-tickets-1538289739019?aff=oddtdtcreator
Still from CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Mike Nichols, US 1971), with Rita Moreno as Louise. AVCO Embassy Pictures/Photofest © AVCO Embassy Pictures
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🎬 Ever heard of a mutoscope? Imagine flipping through moving pictures on a reel — part arcade novelty, part cinematic time machine. #OnlineWithSFFP #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #Mutoscopes #DouglassCrockett #FilmPreservation #FilmSky 1/3
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Join us for a conversation exploring how Gorge Eastman Museum preserves its collections while also making sustainable choices. 🌱 🗓️ Friday, September 12 ⏰ 1–2 p.m. 📍Online Free to all; advance registration required: eastman.org/event/talks/focus-building-sustainable-future
Photography vault at George Eastman Museum
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This month’s ONLINE WITH SFFP uncovers Crockwell’s visionary work and the @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social’s cutting-edge project to digitize his mutoscope reels. 🗓️ Friday, September 19, 12:00–1:00 PM (PST) 💻 FREE! 👉 REGISTER: filmpreserve.org/eve... 2/3
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Online with SFFP — Preserving Douglass Crockwell’s Mutoscopes - San Francisco Film Preserve
The Moving Image Department of the George Eastman Museum houses a substantial number of mutoscope reels and viewers, the majority of which stem from the collection of American artist Douglass […]
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billcap.bsky.social @billcap.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Tip to Nitrate Picture Show '25 & its gift of beloved classics & unfamiliar films on the big screen in beautiful nitrate. Favorites this year: La Ronde & My Man Godfrey Thanks for a magical time to all at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social, @drydentheatre.bsky.social @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social ‬
Top image is a young woman sitting forlorn looking at a table with a drink on it. To the left is the movie information (La Ronde France 1950)

Bottom image is William Powell and Carole Lombard at a sink. He is washing dishes wearing an apron and she is drying. They are looking at each other and smiling/laughing. To the left is movie information (My Man Godfrey US 1936)
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Archives news! The @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social has acquired and will be preserving the complete master recordings for the moving image works of Bill Viola! www.eastman.org/george-eastm...
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George Eastman Museum to acquire and preserve the complete master recordings for the moving image works of Bill Viola | George Eastman Museum
The Viola-Perov Trust has agreed to donate the complete set of the master recordings for the moving image artworks by Bill Viola to the George Eastman Museum for the purpose of creating the definitive...
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"I like to be remembered as an educator, and that's the first thing I think about when I talk about my photography." - Zig Jackson Hear artist Zig Jackson introduce his exhibition, "Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo," on view through November 9: youtu.be/RlI7CCBkA14?...
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MovieJawn @moviejawn.com · 27/05/2025
On Thursday! MovieJawn's @rosaliekicks.com and @kongmoodsy.bsky.social will be headed to @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social for the @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social. Find out more about the fest in Rosalie's interview with Curator in Charge of its Moving Image Department, Dr. Bagrov. #NitratePictureShow
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FILM IS COOL, NITRATE IS HOT! Old Sport chats with Dr. Bagrov about the 2025 Nitrate Picture Show — Moviejawn
by Rosalie Kicks, Editor in Chief & Old Sport Beginning May 29 until June 1, The Nitrate Picture Show provides not only a unique opportunity to showcase films from the past, but the ability to ex...
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Preparing for the opening of "Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo"—Saturday, May 10! 🔨 See you soon? 👀 Learn more: eastman.org/zig-jackson
Gallery Closed: Exhibition installation in progress sign.Installation of "Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo" at George Eastman Museum. Installation of "Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo" at George Eastman Museum.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Thanks to the Behind the Studio Door for diving into the impact of Studio 678, an after-school program where middle school students explore photography and poetry. See "Flower City Arts Center: Studio 678 Photo Club 2024/2025" on view in our community gallery, Gallery Obscura, through May 11. ✨
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Studio 678: The Power of Photography for Middle Schoolers with Markus Essien and Emma Rathe - Behind the Studio Door
Join us on Behind the Studio Door as we explore art, photography, and poetry, highlighting student creativity and community impact.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
With her exhibition "Frames per Second (Silent)" as a focus, Liz Deschenes joined Eastman Museum curator Phil Taylor in conversation on April 2. 🎤 Watch the discussion over on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/hA8Ztwgo0Rw?...
Liz Deschenes in conversation with Phil Taylor.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
From a queer/feminist perspective, Joy Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity, and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. Join Episalla in-person this Wednesday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m. Get your ticket👇
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Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla | George Eastman Museum
Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. In her film As long as there's you, as long as there's me, she sequences and parlays disparate filmed ...
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Adam Lubitow @adamlubitow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
JUST ADDED! New 4K digital presentation of David Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN screens Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10 at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social. Part of the A LYTTLE LYNCH collaborative film series with @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social's Dryden Theatre. 🎟️ Tickets at thelittle.org/the-elephant...
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The Nitrate Picture Show @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It's official! The original Technicolor nitrate print of BECKY SHARP (1935) will open the ninth Nitrate Picture Show at @drydentheatre.bsky.social,Thursday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. 🎉 Reserve your pass today: 1618a.blackbaudhosting.com/1618a/2025-N...
Becky Sharp (Rouben Mamoulian, US 1935
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James Kennedy @iamjameskennedy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Big crowd at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social for the Rochester showing of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, hosted by me and @brucecoville.bsky.social! Kids made great movies: a stop-motion TALE OF DESPEREAUX, a claymation LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY, and more! Recap: jameskennedy.com/2025/04/07/t...
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Jamie J Tilley @jamiejtilley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Last April we made a trip to Rochester NY to visit the George Eastman House and Museum. Here is the front of the house, photographed ( appropriately I think ) with Kodak film. George Eastman House, April 2024 📷 Nikon f100 Nikon 50mm 1.8g 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
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The Little @thelittletheatre.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A LYTTLE LYNCH: David Lynch Tribute coming to The Little & @drydentheatre.bsky.social! 🎞️ 3/29 | DRYDEN: Eraserhead 🎞️ 4/12 | LITTLE: Mulholland Drive 🎞️ 4/19 | LITTLE: The Short Films of David Lynch 🎞️ 4/30 | DRYDEN: Wild at Heart 🎞️ 6/13 | DRYDEN: Lost Highway 🎞️ 7/16 | LITTLE: The Straight Story
A Lyttle Lynch film series
Picture of David Lynch in black and white and The Little and Dryden logos
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Explore, research, and discover! 🔎 George Eastman Museum offers scholars, students, and researchers access to primary and secondary sources on the history, technology, and art of photography and moving images both online and in-person (by appointment).
Image of someone in the technology vault at George Eastman Museum on a ladder.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Home Movie Day is almost here! 🎥 Thanks to ARC Rochester for inviting us to come on this morning and talk about the origin of Home Movie Day and how the community can get involved tomorrow, March 22. Watch the interview: foxrochester.com/news/good-da...
Image of four people in a news room engaged in an interview, in front of a TV that says "ARC The Big Screen."
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Take a look through the world’s leading collection of photographic and cinematographic technology 👉
Image of cameras from the George Eastman Museum technology collection.
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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Seeing Treasure of the Sierra Madre on 35mm at @drydentheatre.bsky.social is a holy experience. Greatest establishment in Rochester.
the gorgeous poster for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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The Dryden Theatre @drydentheatre.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Throughout 2025 we'll will be celebrating cinematic luminaries reaching the 100th anniversary of their birth the best way we know how—by bringing their films to the big screen for everyone to enjoy. 🎥
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Just in case you missed our conversation on Poder 97.1—Rochester, NY's first 24-hour Latin radio station—listen to the replay! 🎙️
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Su Hora Informativa March 15th 2025
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Experience how "Liz Deschenes: Frames Per Second (Silent)" draws connections among our collections, testing the potential of these media to reproduce (and produce) perceptions of time and color. On view through August 17. ✨
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DEAR DAVE Magazine
By Whitney Hubbs, March 10, 2025
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Dave Schafer @dlschafer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Went to see this, this past weekend. Was really great. Appreciate @flowercityarts.bsky.social and hope these kids really enjoyed seeing their work in this setting.
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Joseph @josephexists.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Earlier today at George Eastman House Museum with my mother.
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Dave Schafer @dlschafer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Camera goals. (At the George Eastman Museum) #photography #nikon #goldisbest
An extremely tacky gold Nikon camera with red lizard-skin grips.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thanks to CITY Magazine for featuring @flowercityarts.bsky.social's Studio 678 Photo Club 2024/2025 exhibition! On view in our community gallery, Gallery Obscura, through May 11.
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Young photographers bring their vision to the George Eastman Museum
A photo exhibit by RCSD middle schoolers is on display in the Gallery Obscura through May 11.
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ThisIsROC — Rochester, NY @thisisroc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🙋‍♀️🎞️🏛️ Come celebrate Women’s History month at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social! We’re giving away (2) tickets PLUS a $20 gift card to dine at Open Face! 👉 Enter on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DHOFV5E... #roc
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Home Movie Day is a worldwide event that invites the public to see and share their own home movies with an audience from their community. It's also a chance to discover why home movies are important and how to care for these precious films. Coming to George Eastman Museum on Saturday, March 22. 🎥
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Home Movie Day | George Eastman Museum
Home Movie Day is a worldwide event that invites the public to see and share their own home movies with an audience from their community.
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🎬✨ BIG NEWS! ✨🎬 We are beyond thrilled to announce that we’re restoring Lewis Milestone’s breathtaking 1928 silent classic, THE GARDEN OF EDEN! LEARN MORE: filmpreserve.org/res... #SFFP #SFFilmPreserve #FilmRestoration #SilentCinema #TheGardenOfEden #FilmSky 1/7
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Good news! If you missed this talk, you can now watch it over on YouTube: youtu.be/8bUzNsTlzRc?...
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In Focus: The Eastman Kodak Company Patent Museum Collection
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The Nitrate Picture Show @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Everything you want, including a chance to experience nitrate film up close. 🎞️ At the The Nitrate Picture Show, Nitrate Touch offers a rare opportunity to handle original 35mm nitrate prints with gloves, a magnifying glass, and expert guidance.
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The Dryden Theatre @drydentheatre.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
✨TOMORROW NIGHT at 7:30 p.m. ✨ THE LONE WOLF RETURNS, with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli. (Ralph Ince, US 1926, 70 min., 35mm) Preceded by...UNMASKED (Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, US 1917, 11 min., 35mm) Part of our From Rochester, With Love series. 🎞️
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The Lone Wolf Returns (35mm) | George Eastman Museum
Silent Tuesdays Bert Lytell is Michael Lanyard, “The Lone Wolf,” a gentleman burglar created by Louis Joseph Vance in a series of novels. Lytell became a minor film star with this role and turned in f...
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Home Movie Day is coming to George Eastman Museum on Saturday, March 22! 🗓️ 🎥 [George Eastman home movies - Oak Lodge Nov. 1922] excerpt, (George Eastman, 1922 US)
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
See—the snow wasn't all bad ❄️ 📷 brittanyfordphoto #EastmanMuseum #RochesterNY #ThisIsRoc #VisitRoc #Photography
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
✨TONIGHT✨ we're kicking off our 2025 Wish You Were Here photography lecture series with an artist and activist whose vibrant photographic work encompasses themes of race, gender, and intergenerational representation—Lola Flash. 📷 Christa Holka
Lola Flash
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Before "Evoke: A Youthful Expression" closes in our community gallery, Gallery Obscura, join the student artists for a free panel discussion sharing their experience, creative processes, and participation in the exhibition.
Image of students and teachers that took part in "Evoke:A Youthful Expression"
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Take a look inside some of the most interesting and unusual items in the Eastman Kodak Company Patent Museum collection 👀 🎤 In Focus: The Eastman Kodak Company Patent Museum Collection (Virtual) 🗓️ Friday, March 7 ⏰ 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 🎟️ Free
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The Dryden Theatre @drydentheatre.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
✨TONIGHT at 7:30 p.m.✨ Recently seen in the Werner Herzog documentary THEATER OF THOUGHT, EARTH (35mm) is a stylized silent “film poem” about the creation of a collective farm and the conflicts between the poor peasants and wealthy landowners in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
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Earth (35mm) | George Eastman Museum
Silent Tuesdays A stylized silent “film poem” about the creation of a collective farm and the conflicts between the poor peasants and wealthy landowners in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Lindsay McIntyre is a multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent who often works in the medium of analog film. 🎞️
Still from "Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different)." Courtesy of the artist.
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Preserving photographic objects isn't all fun and frames (but a lot of that, too!) 🖼️
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The Dryden Theatre @drydentheatre.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
TONIGHT: GUINEVERE(Audrey Wells, US 1999, 104 min., 35mm) 🎞️ Audrey Wells considered herself a screenwriter first, earning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for GUINEVERE, which was also her directorial debut. Introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collections Manager in the Moving Image Department.
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Guinevere (35mm) | George Eastman Museum
Recent Acquisitions | To Collect and Project Audrey Wells considered herself a screenwriter first, earning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Guinevere, which was also her directorial debut. The f...
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The Dryden Theatre @drydentheatre.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
✨TOMORROW✨ Members of the @gwnyfilmcritics.com will join Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case live to preview the Academy Awards ceremony. From the topsy-turvy awards season to the biggest hits and misses of nomination day, nothing is off-limits. Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m. at the Dryden.
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Dryden Roundtable: Oscars 2025 Preview | George Eastman Museum
For the third year in a row, members of the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association will join Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case live on stage to preview the following day’s Academy Awar...
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The Dryden Theatre @drydentheatre.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
✨TONIGHT✨ at 7:30 p.m.: ELIZABETH (35MM) Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress, the film is filled with esteemed British thespians, including Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, John Gielgud, Emily Mortiner, and Daniel Craig.
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Elizabeth (35mm) | George Eastman Museum
Recent Acquisitions | To Collect and Project Queen Elizabeth I’s rise to power and early rule in a fractured England is dramatized in this lush production. Loyalty is split along religious lines when ...
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Don't miss a moment at the museum this weekend 📷 ✨ Saturday, February 22 ✨ 🌷 Dutch Connection Coffee Talk at 9 a.m. 🎞️ ELIZABETH (35MM) at 2 p.m. in @drydentheatre.bsky.social 🎞️ THEATRE OF THOUGHT at 7:30 p.m. in @drydentheatre.bsky.social
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George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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