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Screening American independent, international & classic films. We have music, art + food/drinks in The Little Cafe. Also, our popcorn is magic 🍿
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📼 Happy Halloween! THE RING (2002) screens tonight (Friday) at 8pm. Open to all, and FREE for members of The Little (check your email for the link to reserve your free tickets!). Wearing a Halloween costume is EXTREMELY encouraged.
Today is our birthday! 96 years of art deco fueled bliss feels fantastic. Thanks, as always, to our members, donors, sponsors, and anyone who has supported us for the past nine-plus decades. Today’s a celebration for you too (insert popcorn confetti here) 🍿🎉
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Rochester, NY, get to @thelittletheatre.bsky.social this weekend!
🙏 A LITTLE PRAYER (limited run, 9/26-28!): A heart-tugging drama about finding kindred spirits in unexpected places. We promise this is one of those sweet hidden gems you come to The Little for!
🏙 LOVE, BROOKLYN: A modern romance set in (you guessed it) Brooklyn, our Black Cinema Series September pick returns for a full week run!

Showtimes for all at thelittle.org!
🙏 A LITTLE PRAYER (limited run, 9/26-28!): A heart-tugging drama about finding kindred spirits in unexpected places. We promise this is one of those sweet hidden gems you come to The Little for!
🎡 ELEANOR THE GREAT: June Squibb. That's it. That's what you need to know. The 95-year-old icon gives another stellar performance in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut.
✊ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: If you like to catch Oscar movies BEFORE the awards season buzz hits, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is a must-watch (multiple film writers throwing around the word masterpiece 👀). Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Chase Infiniti, and Teyana Taylor.
Four (!!!!) new movies for you this weekend!
A thread of movies opening, today, Friday, Sept. 26...
The ONE TAKE series presents REMAINING NATIVE, directed by Rochester's Paige Bethmann, Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 7pm (featuring a filmmaker Q&A), with an encore Saturday, Sept. 13 at 3pm. Presented with community partner, Ganondagan.
BOYS GO TO JUPITER opens Thursday, Aug. 28 at 7:30pm with a special screening and virtual Q&A with director Julian Glander. Additional screenings happening that weekend — Aug. 30 and 31.

🍊 A bonkers surreal animated coming-of-age comedy. Featuring the voices of Elsie Fisher and Julio Torres.
We're hoping to have it!
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@rbreich.bsky.social Excited for The Last Class screening at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social “1000 fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is.”
thelittle.org/the-last-cla...
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🎧 HIGHEST 2 LOWEST is playing in Rochester ONLY at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting THIS FRIDAY, August 15! thelittle.org/highest-2-lo...
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Denzel Washington stars in the upcoming Spike Lee movie “Highest 2 Lowest,” a reimagining of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film “High and Low.” The film confronts how virality, streaming, and AI are impacting the music industry and making it harder to maintain artistic integrity.
Not at this moment, but if that changes, we'll let you know!
Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark … and they never came back.

WEAPONS — from the director of BARBARIAN — opens Friday, Aug. 8. You'll need your emotional support popcorn for this one.
It’s a popcorn for dinner type of day (evergreen)🍿

The lineup:
🛌 OH, HI
🐈‍⬛ SORRY, BABY
🇵🇸 TO A LAND UNKNOWN
😷 EDDINGTON
🎶 PAVEMENTS (7/25-27)
🇨🇦 IT’S ALL GONNA BREAK (7/26)
🩵 BEFORE WE FORGET (7/26)
🎞️ IN THE CUT (35mm) (7/25)
🐴 BLACK BEAUTY (7/27)
👀 HIGH AND LOW (7/27 & 7/30)
NEW: Four films from the legendary Akira Kurosawa presented in stunning new 4K restorations.

🎬 HIGH AND LOW (July 27 & 30): See it before Spike Lee's HIGHEST 2 LOWEST releases on 8/15
🎬 THRONE OF BLOOD (Aug. 10)
🎬 STRAY DOG (Aug. 17)
🎬 RAN (Aug. 27 & 31)

Tickets and details at thelittle.org!
An under-the-radar 1983 gem projected on 35mm film!

TWICE UPON A TIME screens Sunday, July 20 at 7pm as part of our WORLD OF ANIMATION series.

💭 In the world of the Murwoks where nightmares are made, the evil Botch hatches a scheme to make bad dreams real.
David Lynch's G-Rated Disney film (!!) proudly projected on 35mm film!

🚜 THE STRAIGHT STORY — about a man who rides a lawnmower from Iowa to Wisconsin to see his sick brother — screens Wednesday, July 16 at 7:30pm as part of our A LYTTLE LYNCH collaborative series w/@drydentheatre.bsky.social
It went very high in the draft (I would have picked it #1!)
Movies and a Microphone: The Little’s podcast goes live Monday, July 14 at 7:30pm 🎬🎤

We'll draft 1999 films and the audience, will decide which drafter has the best movie roster. Cheer us! Roast us! Get on the audience mic and drop your best hot takes!

Meet the panel: thelittle.org/1999podcast/
A Rochester premiere for people who love bonkers sci-fi shenanigans

ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY — about three friends who time travel by sneezing — screens July 12, 13, & 20 only.

🌀 For fans of: Scott Pilgrim, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, 13 Going on 30