Writer-Director Tamara Jenkins visits Dryden Theatre Friday and Saturday, May 30 & 31

Work of the Oscar® nominee to be screened during Tamara Jenkins Weekend

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House welcomes writer-director Tamara Jenkins at 8 p.m. Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31. On Friday Jenkins will introduce a screening of Make Way For Tomorrow, and on Saturday she will introduce The Savages, which earned her a 2008 Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman. Following The Savages, Jenkins will engage in a discussion with the audience.

Tamara Jenkins Weekend:

8 p.m. Thursday, May 29
Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins, US 1998, 91 min.) The Dryden kicks off the weekend with Jenkins' semi-autobiographical feature debut, which follows an itinerant Jewish middle-class family as they evade landlords and move from one low-rent apartment to another in the typically upscale suburbs of Los Angeles.

8 p.m. Friday, May 30
Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, US 1937, 92 min.)
Introduction by Tamara Jenkins
Jenkins will introduce one of the best rare gems of the 1930s, Leo McCarey's heartbreaking Make Way For Tomorrow. In the film that Orson Welles said "could make a stone cry," an aging couple turn to their grown children when confronted with financial problems and potential homelessness. Jenkins cites Make Way For Tomorrow as a primary influence on The Savages.

8 p.m. Saturday, May 31
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, US 2007, 113 min.)
Introduction by and post-film discussion with Tamara Jenkins
Unmarried siblings Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney) are unexpectedly reunited and thrust into caregiver roles when their father (Philip Bosco) begins to succumb to dementia. Jenkins received an Oscar® nomination for her honest and unexpectedly funny screenplay and will talk about her work in a post-screening discussion. The program for the night also includes a screening of Jenkins' award-winning short film Family Remains (US 1993, 35 min.), about a young woman who has problems dealing with the death of her father.

7 p.m. Sunday, June 1
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 1953, 134 min., English subtitles)
The 1937 film Make Way For Tomorrow also inspired Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu and screenwriter Kogo Noda to make their undisputed masterpiece, Tokyo Story (Japan 1953, 134 min., Japanese/English subtitles), which also served as an influence for Jenkins' The Savages.

Admission to each film is $6 general admission, $5 students and $4 members. For more information please visit dryden.eastmanhouse.org or call (585) 271-4090.

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