John LeBold’s collection of classic costumes is part of a celluloid-themed New Year’s blast at Turning Stone.

Following more than a year’s worth of renovations, downtown Syracuse’s Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St., ushers in a new era in mid-November with a string of special occasions, including a swanky grand reopening celebration on Nov. 18 and Bill Cosby’s stand-up comedy on Nov.

Owen Shapiro, the fest’s artistic director and a film professor at Syracuse University, and his steadfast spouse—and the fest’s managing director—Christine Fawcett-Shapiro, spent the summer in Bologna, Italy, to coordinate the new SU Abroad program for student filmmakers.

A funny thing happened on the way to last summer’s Capitolfest, the annual blowout of BOOKS rarely screened movies at Rome’s Capitol Theatre, 220 W. Dominick St.

This maverick feature would surely have dropped into public domain obscurity, until little-known (then, anyway) distributor New Line Cinema reissued the flick in the early 1970s as a midnight-only attraction aimed at a new generation of pothead hippies.

A host of upgrades are new this summer at the Finger Lakes Drive-In (252-3969, www. fingerlakesdrivein.com), about 30-plus miles away from Syracuse, and located for the last 64 summers on Routes 5 and 20 (Clark Street Road, to the locals), about two miles past the Bass Pro Shops drawing card at Fingerlakes Mall in the farming community of Aurelius.

Manufactured-on-demand DVDs help bridge the gap for die-hard movie collectors

Keeping things fresh even as the plotline remains firm, Phillips and co-writers Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong swap out some elements here and there, such as relegating the original groom, played by Justin Bartha, to the sidelines, and adding Lauren’s teen brother Teddy (Mason Lee), a musical prodigy, to the fourth-wheel slot.

The Geek Pride Celebration offers movies, games and more for the pocket-protector set

Nightclubbers of a certain age will recall the glory days of Three Rivers Inn, the showroom that packed ’em in during the 1960s with major stars like Jimmy Durante, Peter Lawford and Louis Armstrong, despite the fact that the supper club was in the relative backwater of Phoenix, far, far away from the swizzle sticks of Vegas lounges.