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The Dryden Theatre's Nitrate Picture Show explodes our view of movie history

For the first half-century of cinema, most movies were made and printed on nitrate film. Problem: it easily decomposes, it's easily combustible, and once it's on fire, you can't put it out. Only a few theaters on Earth can safely screen nitrate prints...and only one has an annual festival dedicated to the format: The George Eastman Museum's Dryden Theatre in Rochester, New York with its Nitrate Picture Show.To understand why it's important to screen these original treasures in an age of...

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  BABE: PIG IN THE CITY — George Miller makes one for the grownups

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  SORCERER — William Friedkin’s heart of darkness

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  SKINAMARINK — The Internet’s own haunted house

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  HOUSE — The Japanese psychedelic masterpiece

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  THE AMITYVILLE HORROR — America’s most haunted home

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  THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE — Guillermo del Toro’s creative resurrection

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  POLTERGEIST — The first suburban haunted house

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  THE SUBSTANCE — Coralie Fargeat rips beauty standards to gory shreds

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  Riz Ahmed channels Yann Mounir Demange in DAMMI

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  The Flipsides of Cannes — Featuring Wim Wenders and more

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  PERFECT DAYS — Wim Wenders cures his post-pandemic blues

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  HIGH & LOW - JOHN GALLIANO — Kevin Macdonald tackles fashion and forgivene…

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  Sofia Coppola — PRISCILLA, from source to soundtrack

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  Sofia Coppola — from VIRGIN SUICIDES to PRISCILLA

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  DO THE RIGHT THING — Spike Lee and Ruth E. Carter find color in the dark

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  QUADROPHENIA — The mod, mod world of ’64, ’79 and beyond