ONE TAKE DOC | Tuesday, June 10 & Saturday, June 14 | A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years in power and beyond as she redefined leadership on the world stage.
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Friday, June 13 at 6:30pm and 9:00pm | SNR returns on a Friday, with one of the most iconic slasher franchises of all time! Join us for the original 1980 film that started it all, on 35mm film, followed by 1984’s part four “The Final Chapter.” One discounted price for both, or individual tickets available.
SNR returns with original classics on the big screen! Join Fright-Rags and The Little for December screenings of three of our all-time favorites.
The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
95 YEARS OF THE LITTLE | Monday, June 16 at 7:30pm | Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
West Side Story with Post-Film Discussion. Sunday, December 19 at 1pm in Little Theatre 1. (Doors at 12:15pm / Regular Ticket Prices)
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Wednesday, June 18 at 7:00pm | Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927. Nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Actress and Best Actor.
The Little Theatre’s Black Cinema Series, presented in partnership with the Rochester Association of Black Journalists (RABJ), screens both scripted and non-fiction films about the Black experience.
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
FAMILY FLICKS | Sunday, June 29 at 12pm | A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. Trust us, it’s super neat.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Monday, June 30 at 7:30pm | In this a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of the Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors’ lost kingdom.
EROTIC THRILLERS | Friday, July 11 at 7:30pm | 4K restoration. In one of Verhoeven’s most provacative films, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes ensnared in a web of sex, lies, and violence, all leading back to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a seductive, mysterious crime novelist. As the bodies pile up and hidden obsessions are revealed, Curran begins to doubt his investigatory instincts and give in to his baser ones.
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, July 12 at 3pm | The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with a love affair and falling out with Marie Antoinette.
A LYTTLE LYNCH | 35mm Film | Wednesday, July 16 at 7:30pm | Alvin Straight, a 73-year-old, learns that his estranged brother, Lyle is critically ill. Unable to drive, Alvin embarks on a journey from Iowa to Mt. Zion, by riding a lawn mower. Will he succeed? David Lynch’s G-rated drama made for Disney!
ONE TAKE | Thursday, July 17 at 7pm and Saturday, July 19 at 3pm |Exhausted by loneliness, social anxiety, and all the crushing barrage of pressures felt by their generation, three teenagers leave the comforts of home to enroll in a traditional “folk high school” in the wilds of northernmost Norway. Dropped in the arctic wilderness for one year, Hege, Romain, and Bjørn Tore must rely only on themselves and a pack of loyal sled dogs as they take the daunting step from childhood to adulthood.