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The Dryden Theatre
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📽 Screening Premieres, classics, and more on reel film
🔥 Home of The Nitrate Picture Show
🏛 Located at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY
🔗 eastman.org/dryden-theatre
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anomalyfilmfest.com
Still vault-diving at the @drydentheatre.bsky.social for the *perfect* vintage title to share with you all this November!

We are digging deep y’all. ⛏️🎞️

#ROC #RochesterNY #AnomalyFilmFest #movies
Two men (Jared and Adam) talking inside the Dryden Theatre, with the screen in the background between them. Meghan in the foreground giving a thumbs up, while Adam stand in the background. In the Dryden Theatre.
September 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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scottpukos.bsky.social
When the Connections talk show looks to add more goofball energy, they turn to me! I was honored to again get the host mic for two hours Monday with smart, funny, and just plain awesome guests.
🔥 HORROR IS HOT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPfn...
☀️ SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2h...
Horror is hot
YouTube video by WXXINews
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June 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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eastmanmuseum.bsky.social
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
September 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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

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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)
June 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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anomalyfilmfest.com
More vault delving at the @drydentheatre.bsky.social, where the Anomaly crew is searching for the best vintage weirdness to share with folks this November.

Here we see @murphypop.bsky.social willing the curtain to go up a *little* quicker.

#AnomalyFilmFest #movies #RochesterNY #ROC #Dryden
Photo inside the Dryden theater. A figure (Meghan) sits in a theater seat, back to the camera, raising her hands in the air in front of a large golden curtain at the front.
April 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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thelittletheatre.bsky.social
✨dream sequence✨
April 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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thelittletheatre.bsky.social
The Little and Dryden marketing teams will stop at NOTHING to promote A Lyttle Lynch: a collaborative David Lynch tribute film series 🥧🌽

Series info on both The Little and @drydentheatre.bsky.social websites. Creamed corn not included.
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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nitratepictureshow.bsky.social
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
April 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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laurakeeney.bsky.social
Here’s the full program for A Lyttle Lynch at the @drydentheatre.bsky.social and @thelittletheatre.bsky.social. It’s going to be so fun to see all of these in a theatre again!

#DavidLynch #ALyttleLynch #RochesterNY #ROC
A program for “A Lyttle Lynch” at the George Eastman Museum and The Little Theatre in Rochester Nay. The flyer has an image of David Lynch and a list of his films that will be shown from March through July: Eraserhead; Mulholland Drive; Wild at Heart; Lost Highway; The Straight Story; and a collection of short films.
March 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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thelittletheatre.bsky.social
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
March 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
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. 🎥
March 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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ballardiangorse.bsky.social
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
March 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
Get all the info you need about this weekends exciting screenings: eastman.org/events/film-screenings
ballardiangorse.bsky.social Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · Mar 13
sorry I just learned that @drydentheatre.bsky.social is screening Treasure of the Sierra Madre *and* Casablanca on 35mm over the weekend and I'm shaking a comical amount
March 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
✨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. 🎞️
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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March 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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nitratepictureshow.bsky.social
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.
March 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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eastmanmuseum.bsky.social
✨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
March 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
This first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was written by Rochester, NY-born Michael Kanin, along with Ring Lardner, Jr. Tess Harding and Sam Craig (Hepburn and Tracy) are rival journalists at the same New York newspaper.

Enjoy WOMAN OF THE YEAR tonight at 7:30 p.m. 🎥
Woman of the Year | George Eastman Museum
From Rochester, With Love This first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was written by Rochester-born Michael Kanin, along with Ring Lardner, Jr. Tess Harding and Sam Craig (Hepburn and Tr...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
✨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.
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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March 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
✨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.
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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February 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
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.
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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February 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
✨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.
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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February 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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eastmanmuseum.bsky.social
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
February 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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anomalyfilmfest.com
We are starting early this year finding the best deep-in-the-vault genre goodness from the @drydentheatre.bsky.social to share with folks at this year's fest! Our eyeballs are ready to be filled!

#AnomalyFilmFest #movies #RochesterNY #ROC #Dryden
Adam, Matt, and Meghan standing outside the entrance to the Eastman Museum, wearing their winter best.
February 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
Watch the replay! 🎥
scottpukos.bsky.social Scott Pukos @scottpukos.bsky.social · Feb 14
I guest hosted Connections on @wxxirochester.bsky.social today. The topic? ROMANCE. We dive into what makes the ultimate Valentine's Day watch + @hottoiletwater.bsky.social introduces the Tusk Test™️
Listen: www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zx...
February 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
drydentheatre.bsky.social
Audrey Hepburn, who visited #RochesterNY frequently in her later years, followed up her breakout success in Roman Holiday with this wonderful romantic triangle featuring Humphrey Bogart and William Holden.

Enjoy SABRINA (35MM) on screen Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. ✨
Sabrina (35mm) | George Eastman Museum
From Rochester, With Love Audrey Hepburn, who visited Rochester frequently in her later years, followed up her breakout success in Roman Holiday with this wonderful romantic triangle featuring Humphre...
www.eastman.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM