Film

• International Film Festival also known as Movies on a Shoestring — May 4-6, 2006
  

• Jewish Film Festival — July 17-24, 2005, 2006 date TBA
  

• High Falls Film Festival — November 8-13, 2006
  

• ImageOut — October 6-15, 2006

Movie Theaters in the Rochester area range from unique art-houses to corporate googolplexen. See Movie Listings for dozens of choices available daily and check Movie Reviews for local reviews.

Tip: Most theatres have a dollar store nearby. Twizzlers, lemonheads, nerds, most candy is $1.

• The Little Theatre (showtimes) is a nonprofit theatre dedicated to showing independent and foreign films. With five screens and an elegant cafe, it's one of the hippest places in town. Become a member and tickets are only $4.50. The Little is located on East Avenue just inside the Inner Loop and next to Spot Coffee.
  

• The Dryden Theatre (showtimes), operated by the George Eastman House, has a similar fare, with special engagements and screenings of rare films throughout the year. The Dryden is a located little further down East Avenue.

• See Free Movies
  

• Movies 10 (showtimes) is where to go when you really do want to see the not-quite-most-recent Hollywood tripe, but don't want to pay a lot of money. $2.25 admission on weekends, $2 on weekdays, and $1 on Tuesdays. Movies 10 is near University of Rochester on West Henrietta Road / NY 15, a bit south of Crittenden Road across the street from Jay's Diner and just past Friendly's.
  

• The University of Rochester/Cinema Group (http://sa.rochester.edu/urcg/) shows movies weekly to a predominantly undergraduate audience (but anyone can come) in Hoyt Hall auditorium on the University of Rochester campus.
  

• The Cinema located in at the corner of South Clinton and Goodman in the South Wedge has $5 double features starting at 7 everyday and matinees on the weekends, plus cheap concessions

• Vintage Drive-In in Avon has outdoor double feature movies on three screens during the warm months. Only a short drive down Route 15 or I-390 from Henrietta (making it the closest Drive-In theatre)!
  

• The Strand (showtimes) is located in Brockport. It is one of the oldest existing movie theatres in the country.
  

• Silver Lake Drive-In in Perry is about a 45 minute drive from the city. In addition to the movie screen, they have a mini-golf course, a game room and a family restaurant.

• Pittsford Cinema Located in Pittsford Plaza also shows a few art-house films along with the standard multiplex fare.
  

• Tinseltown is a huge complex in Gates with a Kodak Digital Cinema DLP theatre (Theatre 9). The first show of the day Mon-Fri is $4.00.
  

• Regal has theaters at
  

• Regal Eastview (Eastview Mall)
  

• Henrietta Cinema 18,
  

• Regal Culver Ridge Cinema 16 Irondequoit and
  

• Greece.
  

• AMC Loews Webster has 12 screens and is located on Empire Boulevard in Webster.

• The Tinseltown IMAX theatre is the only "true" IMAX theater in the Rochester Area.
  

• The Strasenburgh Planetarium at the Rochester Museum and Science Center shows movies and laser shows on its giant screen. Movies are open captioned for school showtimes; available for other showtimes if you call ahead.

Rochester has a variety of local movie reviewers:

• City Newspaper has a Review Page.
  

• Jack Garner is the long-time movie critic at the Democrat & Chronicle.
  

• Planet Sick Boy is a local independent review site run by Jon Popick. Jon also talks about movies on the Friday Morning Show on WBER.

Over the years, there have been many movies filmed in Rochester.

• The Alphabet Killer (2006)
  

• Cherry Crush (2007)
  

• Drivers Wanted (2005)
  

• Sophomore (2008)
  

• Smoking Laws (2008)

Click here for an IMDb list of films shot in part or entirely in Rochester.

As of September 10 2007, IMDB reports that 73 films and TV shows have been shot here. The six earliest were released in 1899, but a whopping 42 of them have been released since 2000. Twelve of those are scheduled for release in 2007/2008.