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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On the walls of the Eastman Museum dozens of posters from the 1960s are now on display in an exhibition called “Crashing into the 60s.” ....
The George Eastman Museum has announced that George Eastman Award recipient and two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster will introduce a special, public screening of The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) at the Dryden Theatre on Wednesday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m., EST. Foster will be in Rochester to accept the George Eastman Award on Thursday, May 25, ....
“All Souls Night” will be an evening extravaganza of experimental and avant-garde film, music, and performance art. Curated by Homer filmmaker Michael Walsh and presented by Bunnell Street Art Center, themes will include invention, inclusion, and metamorphosis and attendees are invited to join the fun by wearing costumes that celebrate transition and seasons of change. ....
George Eastman Museum restoration project Murder in Harlem selected for screening at Cannes Film Festival Still from Murder in Harlem (1935). ROCHESTER, NY .-The George Eastman Museum announced that its recent restoration of Murder in Harlem (1935), a rare film directed by Oscar Micheaux (18841951), has been selected to be screened in the Cannes Classic series at the 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) in France. The festival will be held from Tuesday, July 6, through Saturday, July 17, 2021. The Eastman Museum collaborated with the Cineteca di Bologna, in Italy, to preserve the film. Murder in Harlem is among a group of motion pictures referred to as race films, a term used to refer to films with Black casts created for Black audiences between 1915 and 1950. The original 35mm print was discovered in 1983 in a warehouse in Tyler, Texas, as part of an extensive collection of race films. The prints now belong to the Southern Methodist Univer ....
PHOTO PROVIDED BY GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM Edgar BArrier in Too Much Johnson. The images are black and white, the movements of the actors are herky-jerky, which is what we’re used to seeing in silent films. The acting is hammy Edgar Barrier twists the ends of his handlebar mustache and the antics are slapstick, with Joseph Cotton deftly scampering across an endless landscape of New York City rooftops, wrestling with uncooperative ladders. But there is mystery to this antic madness. The film, “Too Much Johnson,” is not from the 1920s. It was shot in 1938, produced and directed by Orson Welles. His other significant project that year was the infamous radio production of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.” ....