Stop Making SenseOrpheum · Saugerties + Starr · Rhinebeck + Community • Catskill“The overwhelming impression throughout Stop Making Sense is of enormous energy, of life being lived at a joyous high...It's a live show with elements of Metropolis...But the film's peak moments come through Byrne's simple physical presence.”-Roger EbertPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Opens Thursday, September 28- The Big SleepStarr · Rhinebeck“...it is one of the great film noirs, a black-and-white symphony that exactly reproduces Chandler's ability, on the page, to find a tone of voice that keeps its distance, and yet is wry and humorous and cares."-Roger EbertREVIVAL HOUSE: THE RECKLESS KIND (film noir series)October 5 & 7
- The OthersOrpheum · Saugerties“Absence makes the heart beat faster: the absence of light, the corporeal absence of loved ones. Shrewdly cast, Kidman is pitch perfect. It's a clammy, ingenious film, one of the best studio movies of the year.”-TimeOutA REVIVAL HOUSE screening.Opens Friday, October 6
- The Royal HotelStarr · Rhinebeck“Green deals in the unexplicit, and those questions are the engine of the film.”- Vanity FairOpens Friday, October 6
- PiaffeStarr · Rhinebeck“Nothing is phoned in here, everything is calibrated to a unique frequency so that even though you can trace the influence of Bette Gordon, Catherine Breillat, and Lucille Hadzhihalillovic, Piaffe is its own playful and majestic beast.”- IndieWireOpens Friday, October 6
- She Came to MeStarr · Rhinebeck“There hasn’t been a rom-com this inventive in a long time.”-AwardsWatchOpens Friday, October 6
- I Went to the Dance (J’ai Été Au Bal)Orpheum · Saugerties“Passion, humor and common sense illuminate this classic from national treasure Les Blank.”– NY TimesPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.October 8 & 9
- Close Up: Bad Press with directors Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler and star Angel EllisStarr · Rhinebeck“Has the giddy ‘are you seeing what I’m seeing?’ tenor of a classic muckraking narrative like All the President’s Men.” - VarietyOne Night Only - Oct. 9 (Indigenous People’s Day)
- In a Lonely PlaceStarr · Rhinebeck“In a Lonely Place truly embodies a unique but nonetheless existential purpose that supreme happiness is inextricably bound to the absurd."-Slant MagazineREVIVAL HOUSE: THE RECKLESS KIND (film noir series)October 12 & 14
- Joan Baez I Am a NoiseOrpheum · Saugerties“Up-close, intimate and mostly frank. Whether you’ve followed her career for decades or are just now discovering her, (this) is undeniably impressive and ceaselessly engaging.”– DeadlineOpens Friday, October 13
- TAYLOR SWIFT – THE ERAS TOURStarr · Rhinebeck + Orpheum · Saugerties“***a cultural juggernaut”—(NY Times)Splashed on our screens and augmented by 7.1 surround-sound!October 13, 14, 15 & 19
- Hour of the WolfOrpheum · Saugerties“Probably the darkest of Ingmar Bergman’s journeys into his shadowy interior.”- The New YorkerPart of The Witching Hour film series.October 14 & 18
- Harry Smith’s “Early Abstractions” with live soundtrackOrpheum · SaugertiesLive From Upstate/Apparatus (experimental series)One Night Only - Sunday, October 15
- Hipgnosis: Squaring the CircleOrpheum · Saugerties“...a fascinating and suitably maverick snapshot of a richly creative moment in music history, told through a couple of disreputable hippies who designed some of the most iconic album covers of all time.”– The GuardianPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, October 16
- Out of the PastStarr · Rhinebeck“Significantly, (the film) takes place mostly at night - and the darkness is used metaphorically to express that malignant evil spreads from character to character."-Danny Peary, Guide For the Film FanaticREVIVAL HOUSE: THE RECKLESS KIND (film noir series)October 19 & 21
- Dicks: The MusicalOrpheum · Saugerties“Dicks is an unapologetically puerile, hard-R novelty that’s just lo-fi enough to maintain its underground cred.”- VarietyOpens Friday, October 20
- SuspiriaOrpheum · Saugerties“Suspiria is a film of rare and unfettered madness, and it leaves behind a scalding message that's written in pain and blood: The future will be a nightmare if we can't take responsibility for the past.”- IndieWirePart of The Witching Hour film series.October 21 & 25
- Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVilleOrpheum · Saugerties“Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage presence camouflages an acute musical intelligence; his songs and arrangements are rich in ethnic rhythms and blues echoes, the most disparate stylistic references, yet they flow seamlessly and hang together solidly.”- music critic Robert PalmerPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, October 23
- Cat PersonOrpheum · Saugerties“Cat Person was, among other things, a story about our inability, our unwillingness, to heed red flags—humans are, after all, creatures who want to believe in love.-TimeOpens Friday, October 27
- Hedwig and the Angry InchOrpheum · Saugerties“Employing an array of homespun props, hand-drawn animation, and seedy locales, the film fashions itself into something both exquisitely alluring and delightfully garish out of extremely limited means, quite like its protagonist, a wannabe rock star named Hedwig.”- Slant MagazinePart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.October 27 & 30
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With MeOrpheum · Saugerties“Fire Walk With Me is not just an artistic triumph in its own right, it’s the key to the entire Twin Peaks universe. A quarter of a century on, the film is being rightly rediscovered by fans and critics as Lynch's unsung masterwork. It took a long time, and it took its toll on its maker, but Fire Walk With Me has finally come in from the cold.”- The GuardianPart of The Witching Hour film series.October 28 & November 1
- Live From Upstate: The Unsilent Picture with dir. Alex Harvey and foley artist Leslie BloomeOrpheum · SaugertiesLive from Upstate!One Show Only - Sunday, October 29
- Film About a Father Who w/ director Lynne Sachs in personStarr · Rhinebeck"[A] brisk, prismatic and richly psychodramatic family portrait."- Ben Kenigsberg, New York TimesOne Night Only - Wednesday, November 1
- Dogtooth + surprisesStarr · Rhinebeck“A brilliant isolationist parable … tense, disturbing, often savagely funny”–A.V. ClubUtmost Lanthimos: a retrospectiveNovember 4 & 7
- Close Up: I Like It Here with dir. Ralph Arlyck in personStarr · Rhinebeck“A nostalgic love letter for the irreversible passing of time by one of the key figures in American independent documentary."- Modern TimesOne Day Only - Sunday, November 5
- Lee Fields: Faithful ManOrpheum · Saugerties“Just when you’re thinking soulman Lee Fields deserves a proper documentary about his remarkable life and creative blossoming, along it comes.”- Echoes MagazinePart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, November 6
- Live From Upstate: What Could Go Wrong w/Linda MontanoOrpheum · SaugertiesLive From Upstate/Apparatus (experimental series)One Night Only - Wednesday, November 8
- Live From Upstate: THIS with Adrienne TruscottOrpheum · Saugerties'In “THIS,” Truscott has managed a real tongue twister: to make a dance about dance with no dance in it...to choreograph a dance of the mind.'- Gia Kourlas, New York Times.Live from Upstate!One Night Only - Saturday, November 11
- The Lobster + surprisesStarr · Rhinebeck“A wickedly funny protest against nuclear coupledom that escalates, by its own sly logic, into a love story of profound tenderness and originality.”–VarietyUtmost Lanthimos: a retrospectiveNovember 11 & 14
- In the Court of the Crimson KingOrpheum · Saugerties“This unflinching portrait of the prog rock band is like an episode of The Office but with huge drum kits, grizzled roadies and rapturous fans.”- The GuardianPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, November 13
- Personal Vision: An Evening with Adger CowansOrpheum · SaugertiesLive from Upstate!One Night Only - Wednesday, November 15
- The FavouriteStarr · Rhinebeck“A perfectly cut diamond of a movie—finely executed, coldly entertaining, savagely misanthropic.”–VarietyUtmost Lanthimos: a retrospectiveNovember 18 & 21
- Buke & Gase w/live performance by Arone DyerOrpheum · Saugerties“In the smartly named Buke & Gase, band members Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez explain their unique approach to music, which finds them playing dynamic oddball compositions on homemade instruments called the buke and the gase. The doc also chronicles Buke & Gase’s concert in an empty Basilica Hudson.”- StereogumPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, November 20
- We Were Famous, You Don't Remember: The EmbarrassmentOrpheum · Saugerties“The movie is full of incredible footage of the band (a rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” for a handful of children in a backyard is epic stuff) with wry, warmly reflective interviews from the members themselves. The doc is an inspiring reminder that creativity can sprout anywhere.” - LA TimesPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, December 4
- Mr. JimmyOrpheum · Saugerties“Peter Michael Dowd's beguiling documentary Mr. Jimmy chronicles the good times and bad times of Japanese Jimmy Page impersonator Akio Sakurai….It’s nonetheless the very slipperiness of Sakurai’s passion — to humbly become the god he worships — that continually compels.”,/em> - The Hollywood ReporterPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, December 11
- Mama Africa, Miriam MakebaOrpheum · Saugerties“What ultimately stands is a portrait of a woman for whom the term "cultural ambassador" was meant, whose dynamic range and earth-wide smile made the words and sounds pouring from her like a hand extended, a heart exposed, a story of the world made achingly real.”- Los Angeles TimesPart of the SONIC WAVE weekly series.Monday, December 18
