Embrace despair. The Little's Bleak Week titles are here: 🩶 The Wages of Fear – June 5 🩶 The Mist (Black & White) – June 6 🩶 The Plague Dogs – June 7 🩶 Werckmeister Harmonies – June 8 🩶 Mysterious Skin – June 9 🩶 The Vanishing – June 10 🩶 Killer of Sheep – June 11 🎟️🔗: thelittle.org/bleakweek/

For the better part of two decades my mom and I have made a habit of catching the oscar-nominated animated shorts at the local independent theatre. Now that I'm home, we're picking up the tradition again, and @thelittletheatre.bsky.social never disappoints

Happy Wicked Day™️ to those who celebrate. WICKED: FOR GOOD is now playing 🩷💚

ɢᴇᴛ ᴄᴜʀꜱᴇᴅ! ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ! 📼 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) 🍿🎉

I love you @thelittletheatre.bsky.social

Rochester, NY, get to @thelittletheatre.bsky.social this weekend!

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.

@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...

🎧 HIGHEST 2 LOWEST is playing in Rochester ONLY at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting THIS FRIDAY, August 15! thelittle.org/highest-2-lo...

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

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

Summer is a time for SWEAT and HEAT and THRILLS, and also (cinematic) MURDER. 🥵 Our new EROTIC THRILLERS summer series begins with a 4K restoration of BASIC INSTINCT (1992) Friday, July 11 at 7:30pm. 🥵 Programmed by our own @adamlubitow.bsky.social + the VHS Queen, @hottoiletwater.bsky.social

When the Connections talk show looks to add more goofball energy, they turn to me! I was honored to again get the host mic for two hours Monday with smart, funny, and just plain awesome guests. 🔥 HORROR IS HOT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPfn... ☀️ SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2h...

This one is a lot of fun and well worth heading to @thelittletheatre.bsky.social to check out this weekend. My thoughts from last month's limited release: jaredmobarak.com/2025/04/14/q... #filmsky #rochester #buffalo

#nw Friendship (2025) 🎥 📽 Directed by Andrew DeYoung and starring Tim Robinson & Paul Rudd Screening at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social historic Theatre 1 There's a new Marvel out and I hear it's *insane*

I keep thinking of all the very funny bits in this — some are big comedic set pieces, others are simply throwaway lines that just *work*. FRIENDSHIP meshed with my sense of humor extremely well. A frontrunner for my fictional Best Comedy Oscar!

This Memorial Day weekend, discover FRIENDSHIP at The Little. 🧥 Opens Friday, May 23. Starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd — a comedy that's a glorious mashup of I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE and THE CABLE GUY. ☕ Presented with community partner Ugly Duck Coffee.

ADVANCE TICKETS FOR THE NEW WES ANDERSON FILM NOW AVAILABLE "The Phoenician Scheme" — written and directed by Wes Anderson — opens Thursday, June 5 at The Little. 🎟️: thelittle.org/the-phoenici...

It’s cool to see something pop up in a memory the day the final is released. Made a trash monster for @thelittletheatre.bsky.social Here is the initial sketch. Here is the final results: www.instagram.com/share/BBNaax...

A big thank you to THE LEGEND OF OCHI producers Traci Carlson and Rich Peete for stopping by to watch and discuss their new film with us on opening weekend! THE LEGEND OF OCHI, an A24 family film, is now playing at The Little!

JUST ADDED! New 4K digital presentation of David Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN screens Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10 at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social. Part of the A LYTTLE LYNCH collaborative film series with @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social's Dryden Theatre. 🎟️ Tickets at thelittle.org/the-elephant...

Frank >>> Easter bunny DONNIE DARKO (2001) screens May 16 and 17 🐰

Nicole is one of the *best* in addition to being an all around delightful human. And this screening was 🔥 so glad I got to see this on 35!

Behind the scenes: Our projectionist, Nicole, demonstrates what a 35mm screening looks like from the booth, during a recent showing of OCEAN’S ELEVEN. That projector sound?! Well, it’s perfect. 📽️🎞️ Our next 35mm screening is April 25 with MISS CONGENIALITY. Many are saying it’s the perfect date!

THE ENCAMPMENTS screens Friday, May 2 at 7:30pm w/ a panel discussion + Saturday, May 3 at 3pm. Community partner: Witness Palestine Film Festival. 🇵🇸 When a group of students launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

BIG AGREE

FINALLY getting to reverse dance to promote movies

✨dream sequence✨

aaaaaargh I want to see so many films at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social ! Mulholland Drive - that doggone restaurant-dumpster scene gave me a panic attack years ago! 🗑️😱 The Penguin Lessons - penguins AND lessons?! sign me up! 🐧📖 The Ballad of Wallis Island - so charmingly awkward, just like me! 🏝️🎸

This week @thelittletheatre.bsky.social FAMILY FLICKS series presents THE PRINCE OF EGYPT Sun, April 13 at 11:30am & Mon, April 14 at 7pm. Featuring gorgeous animation, an all-star voice cast including Val Kilmer & Ralph Fiennes, with songs by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), and score by Hans Zimmer!

This is playing again Saturday, and I highly recommend it.

A reverse heist film! It was a packed house for SECRET MALL APARTMENT tonight. Part of the One Take Documentary series. Presented with community partner Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo). Encore show—w/ a Q&A featuring director Jeremy Workman and artist Michael Townsend—Saturday (4/12) at 3!

The Little and Dryden marketing teams will stop at NOTHING to promote A Lyttle Lynch: a collaborative David Lynch tribute film series 🥧🌽 Series info on both The Little and @drydentheatre.bsky.social websites. Creamed corn not included.

We have a helluva wknd of films coming up @ @thelittletheatre.bsky.social! Indie baseball drama; Naomi/Bill/GreatDane; a lost Charles Burnett! Erin Brockovich 25th; Ocean’s Eleven 35mm; Ultimate Frisbee indie doc (w/ GRADA & director Q&A); classic Gershwin/Kelly (w/ JCC); cool Japan anime! WOW! #ROC

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Here’s the full program for A Lyttle Lynch at the @drydentheatre.bsky.social and @thelittletheatre.bsky.social. It’s going to be so fun to see all of these in a theatre again! #DavidLynch #ALyttleLynch #RochesterNY #ROC

I saw Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway at the Little when they originally came out!

(jumpscare)

Opens April 11 🏝️

Wake up, Donnie 🐰 Be among the first audiences to see a brand new 35mm print of DONNIE DARKO (2001); Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 both at 7:30pm. Tickets now available! 🎞️ 35mm print courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA).

I was able to enjoy the absolute DELIGHT of a film, "The Day The Earth Blew Up" tonight at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social WITH SPECIAL QNA GUEST AND VA FOR SO MANY OF OUR BELOVED LOONIES, INCLUDING BOTH DAFFY AND PORKY, ERIC BAUZA

JUST ADDED: 20th anniversary screenings of Joe Wright’s PRIDE & PREJUDICE April 20 & 23 at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social! Tickets now available — four showtimes on two days, April 20 and 23. thelittle.org/prideprejudi...