NEWSLETTER
Sunday, February 9 at 10 a.m.
Rochester, N.Y., January 23, 2025— On Sunday, February 9, the Eastman Museum Council will present the 2025 Valentine's Day Brunch & Film with all proceeds benefiting the George Eastman Museum. The event starts at 10 a.m. in the Potter Peristyle and includes a film screening in the Dryden Theatre.
After the brunch, attendees are encouraged to attend a screening of the classic film Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987), a romantic comedy starring Cher, Nicholas Cage, and Olympia Dukakis in the Dryden Theatre.
The event coincides with the opening of George Eastman Museum’s annual Dutch Connection floral display (February 7–23) in the historic mansion. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the display.
Schedule of events:
Doors open at 9:15 a.m.
Brunch, promptly at 10 a.m., Potter Peristyle
Film Screening, 12 p.m., Dryden Theatre, Moonstruck (1987)
Reservations for the 2025 Valentine's Day Brunch & Film ($75/person) are required by Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025.
Guests are welcome to join for the film screening only without advanced registration. Tickets for the film can be purchased online or at the Dryden Theatre box office at the regular admission rate.
For more information, call the Eastman Museum Council office at (585) 327-4935.
About the Dryden Theatre
The 500-seat Dryden Theatre is the premier exhibition space for the art of cinema as championed and interpreted by the George Eastman Museum. Presenting film screenings every day of the week, the Dryden is devoted to showing all films in their original formats, thus honoring and reproducing their historical—and aesthetically supreme—modes of exhibition. It is one of the very few theaters in the world equipped for the projection of original nitrate film that also makes nitrate film screenings part of its regular program.
About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program, and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation’s graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. For more information, visit eastman.org.
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