UPCOMING EVENTS
9 to 5 – Dec. 10
Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 7pm | Join the Rochester Imagination Library for a special screening of Dolly Parton’s classic 9 to 5 to celebrate the delivery of their chapter’s 100,000th book. All proceeds support the Rochester Imagination Library, which mails thousands of free new books each month to children across our city from birth to age five.
One Take: The Short List 2025 – Dec. 11 & 13
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, December 11 and Saturday, December 13 | Locally-produced short documentary films.
The Preacher’s Wife (35mm) – Dec. 12
MERRY LITTLE | 35MM FILM | Friday, December 12 at 7:30pm | An angel comes to Earth to help a preacher save his church and his family. Starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston.
The Baltimorons – Dec. 12-14, 19-20
MERRY LITTLE | Limited Run: December 12-20 | A newly sober man’s Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.
Gremlins (35mm) – Dec. 13
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND x MERRY LITTLE | 35MM FILM | Saturday, December 13 at 8:00pm | After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
Inter Alia – Dec. 13 & 21
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE | December 13 and 21 | A successful Crown Court Judge`s personal life as karaoke lover, wife and mom is shaken when a crisis hits. Can she keep her family stable while managing her career? Starring Rosamund Pike
Magnolia (35mm) – Dec. 14
STAFF PICKS x ONE PTA AFTER ANOTHER | 35MM FILM | Sunday, December 14 at 6:30pm | An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Watkins & the Rapiers Christmas Concert – Dec. 17
MERRY LITTLE | Wednesday, December 17 at 7:30pm | Live in concert, it’s the Watkins and the Rapiers annual holiday concert spectacular! Songs, merriment, and more cheer than you can shake a candy cane at!
The Holiday – Dec. 18 (Craft Night) & Dec. 20
MERRY LITTLE | Thursday, December 18 – Craft Night | Saturday, December 20 – Traditional Screening | Amanda lives in LA and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey and is a journalist. The two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas – both trying to forget their troubled love lives, until love finds them anyways.
The Muppet Christmas Carol – Dec. 19 & 22
MERRY LITTLE | Friday, December 19 and Monday, December 22 | The Muppets put their spin on the classic tale, in what many may say is the best adaptation of Dickens’ work ever put to film. (“Light the lamp, not the rat!”)
Die Hard 2 – Dec. 20
MERRY LITTLE | Saturday, December 20 at 8pm | John McClane must race against time to save hundreds of lives when a group of terrorists take control of an airport in this sequel that still has Christmas vibes. Best of all: this is once again a “PIE HARD” screening with Crust Pie Co. serving fresh pie in the lobby!
Coffee with Joywave at The Little – Dec. 21
SPECIAL EVENT | Sunday, December 21 at 3:00pm | A Joy 2 The World 2025 event: An afternoon screening of the complete Joywave music video catalog, a moderated Q&A conversation with the band + more.
Brazil (Director’s Cut) – Dec. 21
MERRY LITTLE | Sunday, December 21 at 7:00pm | New 4K Restoration of Terry Gilliam’s Director’s Cut. A daydreaming everyman finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. “Happy Christmas!”
The House with Laughing Windows – Jan. 9
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 9 at 7:30pm | Stefano is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village, whose original artist is rumored to be a madman who tortured his subjects.
Alice, Sweet Alice (35mm) – Jan. 15
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 15 at 7:30pm | In 1961, divorced Catholics Dom and Catherine’s lives are upended when their teenage daughter is suspected of brutally murdering her younger sister during her First Holy Communion.
Felidae – Jan. 23
JANUARY GIALLO x WORLD OF ANIMATION | Friday, January 23 at 7:30pm | A cat must investigate brutal murders of other cats in a neighborhood he has moved into with his owner, in this rarely-seen 1994 German animated film.
Tenebrae – Jan. 29
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 29 at 7:30pm | Giallo master Dario Argento’s 1982 classic: An American novelist promoting his latest book in Rome is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.