CLOSE UP
Filmmakers-in-person.
The CLOSE UP series is generously underwritten by Sara Arno and The Ettinger Foundation.
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt“Amongst the great music docs of all time! Captures the anarchic spirit of this legendary band - hilarious, moving, and some of the most fun I’ve had in a theater in years. This should be seen far and wide.”-Richard Linklater
Zoom Close Up w/ director Tom Stern
Orpheum · Saugerties
One Night Only! September 14
- The Plagiarists"A loopy, goofy metacritique."
—Screen Slate
Close Up w/ James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Midtown · Kingston
Wednesday, September 16
- The Misconceived"Incisive, inventive movie about the anxieties faced by the never-quite-made-it creative class."
—The Film Stage
Close Up w/ James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Midtown · Kingston
Wednesday, September 16
- Capturing the Friedmans"A startlingly vivid and complex portrait [that] reaches deep inside the well of your darkest fears and drags out a mess of everything that makes us human."
—BBC
Close Up w/ dir. Andrew Jarecki
Starr · Rhinebeck
One Night Only! Wednesday, September 16
- Sembene!“Endlessly fascinating ... an enormously moving portrait of the profound way that art can transform those who come in contact with it.”
–New York Magazine
Close Up w/ Samba Gadjigo & Jason Silverman
Orpheum · Saugerties
One Night Only! September 24
- The Bend in the River
"The Bend in the River sneaks up on you. It’s all so modest and slight until it’s something far more poignant. That well-placed juxtaposition of young, free twenty-somethings against stressed-out forty-somethings against resigned, regretful-yet-resilient seventy-somethings hits like a sledgehammer" — The Film Stage
Close Up w/ dir. Robb Moss
Starr · Rhinebeck
Opens Friday, September 25
- Riverdogs + The Same River Twice"A beguiling, lyrical portrait of idealism and adulthood."
—New York
Close Up w/ dir. Robb Moss
Starr · Rhinebeck
Friday, September 25
- The Tourist + The Same River Twice"A beguiling, lyrical portrait of idealism and adulthood."
—New York
Close Up w/ dir. Robb Moss
Starr · Rhinebeck
Sunday, September 27
- Borderland: The Line Within“Woven into the personal narratives, the data visualizations make the message land even harder. Borderland comes at it from more than one direction, and is more effective for it.”
— NY Times
Close Up w/ dir. Pamela Yates & prod. Paco de Onis
Starr · Rhinebeck
CLOSE UP w/ dir. Pamela Yates & prod. Paco de Onis
Monday, Sept. 28
- Redemption Time
Benefit for Ulster Literacy Association
Orpheum · Saugerties
One Night Only! October 24
- The Oldest Person in the World"For a movie so filled with death, The Oldest Person in the World is surprisingly, almost confrontationally life-affirming."
—New York Magazine (Vulture)
Close Up w/ Sam Green
Starr · Rhinebeck
One Night Only! October 29
- What I Want You to Know
Close Up w/ dir. Catie Foertsch
Orpheum · Saugerties
One Night Only! November 12
