La Piscine

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Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly.

“Pretty people behaving poorly in beautiful settings is something we don’t see as much of in cinema as we used to. This is a master class in the subgenre, and one of unusual depth.” – Glenn Kenny, NY Times 

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Friday, September 3
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  Sunday, September 5
  Thursday, September 9

 

Annette

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Though Henry (Adam Driver), a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor and Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer, seem to have a passionate relationship, the birth of their exceptional first child turns their lives upside down. The latest extraordinary surrealist adventure by Leos Carax won Best Director at Cannes. (France, 2021, 129m)

“This astoundingly beautiful picture will stand the test of time.” –Vulture

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Wednesday, August 18

Mandibles

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When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.
 
From internationally acclaimed director Quentin Dupieux, Mandibles is a wild and surreal road movie, an utterly unique comedy about friendship, big dreams and bigger disasters, all set in motion by the discovery of a giant fly. (France/Belgium, 2020, 77m)
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Wednesday, July 28
Thursday, July 29

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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A sensuous, painterly period drama set in 18th century Brittany about the friendship that develops between two young women, a painter and her subject whose portrait she is commissioned to do without the subject’s knowledge.

Special Shows: This Coming Saturday, 2/22, in Woodstock at 4:30 & This Sunday, 2/23, in Rhinebeck at 3:00

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Oscar Shorts 2020 – Animation

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For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of Animated Shorts, plus a selection of addition shorts – HENRIETTA BULKOWSKI (USA, 16 min. featuring the voices of Chris Cooper and Ann Dowd!), THE BIRD AND THE WHALE (Ireland, 6 min.), HORS PISTE (France, 5 min.), MAESTRO (France, 2 min). Runtime: Approx. 80 mins.Read More

Oscar Shorts 2020 – Animation

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For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of Animated Shorts, plus a selection of addition shorts – HENRIETTA BULKOWSKI (USA, 16 min. featuring the voices of Chris Cooper and Ann Dowd!), THE BIRD AND THE WHALE (Ireland, 6 min.), HORS PISTE (France, 5 min.), MAESTRO (France, 2 min). Runtime: Approx. 80 mins.

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The Silence of Others

Sunday, August 11th, followed by post-screening discussion with Guillermo Fesser
Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. A powerful and poetic cautionary tale about fascism, and the dangers of forgetting the past.
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Non-Fiction

Digital disruption is all around us these days, and Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, Summer Hours) explores this theme in his highly intelligent new examination of what technology means to our lives.
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Sunset

Academy Award Winning writer/director László Nemes (Son of Saul) is back with this suspenseful and absorbing film about a young girl in Budapest in the early 1900s.
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2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus a selection of additional animated shorts.
(Estimated Running time: 75 mins)
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2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus a selection of additional animated shorts.
(Estimated Running time: 75 mins)
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At Eternity’s Gate

Academy Award Nominee – Willem Dafoe (Best Actor)
Golden Globe Nominee – Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama (Willem Dafoe)
Artist/filmmaker Julian (BASQUIAT, THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) Schnabel’s new film is a journey inside the mind of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe in a magnificent performance), who, in the face of skepticism, ridicule, and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art..
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The House That Jack Built

Wednesday, November 28th at 8:20 in Rhinebeck
Boundary-pushing cinema-provocateur Lars von Trier’s (BREAKING THE WAVES, DANCER IN THE DARK, MELANCHOLIA, ANTICHRIST, etc) latest, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, has its North American premiere Wednesday, November 28, with a special one-night-only show of the director’s cut – the version shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where the director was greeted with a 10-minute standing ovation and where the film, the tale of a serial killer, prompted many to walk out. Not for the faint-hearted.
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Back to Burgundy

Three siblings reunite at their home in picturesque Burgundy to save the family vineyard in this tender tale of a new generation finding its own unique blend from acclaimed director Cédric Klapisch (L’Auberge Espagnole, When the Cat’s Away).
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The Leisure Seeker

Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland are a runaway couple who, despite each having serious health problems and medical conditions, go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker, traveling from Boston to The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West.
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Faces Places

Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary
The late Agnès Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and the acclaimed French photographer JR teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/road movie.
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2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation

For the 13th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers and most would be rated G, except for GARDEN PARTY, which is suitable for children over 8 years old. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 83 mins)
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2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation

For the 13th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers and most would be rated G, except for GARDEN PARTY, which is suitable for children over 8 years old. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 83 mins)
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The Unknown Girl

The Dardennes brothers – remember THE KID WITH THE BIKE, THE PROMISE, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT – have an infallible sense of how to make cinema connect the personal with the political, and their latest, a gripping and profound moral tale is no exception.
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The Midwife

Catherine Deneuve, now 73, is an icon of international cinema who’s worked with many of cinema’s great directors -on film such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Belle de Jour – Indochine – 8 Women – Dancer in the Dark – etc, and brings her formidable acting chops to this story of an unlikely friendship between two women.
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ENGAGE Film Series Presents: Tomorrow

Celebrate Earth Day weekend at Upstate Films! Join us Sunday April 23rd at 10am for a free benefit screening of the award-winning documentary TOMORROW (suggested donation $10). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion anchored by KayCee Wimbish from The Kingston YMCA Farm Project, Sophie D’Anieri from Bard College, PAUSE, and the Coalition Against the Pilgrim Pipeline. Presented by the ENGAGE Film Series (read more on the series below), proceeds will be donated to the groups represented on the panel.
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The Salesman

*Academy Award winner – Best Foreign Language Film
*Golden Globe nominee – Best Foreign Language Film
*Winner: Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival 
A gripping drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past), The Salesman focuses on an Iranian couple whose life changes in an instant when their apartment begins to crumble around them.
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Elle

*Academy Award nominee – Best Actress
Double Golden Globe winner – Best Actress Isabelle Huppert & Best Foreign Language Film – ELLE is the story of Michèle who heads a successful video game company, and brings a ruthless attitude to her business as well as her love life.
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2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation

For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts – the weekend of February 10th at Upstate Films. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers until the very last film, which will be preceded by a parental-guidance title card. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 86 mins)
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2017 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Live Action

For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of Live Action Shorts – the weekend of February 10th at Upstate Films. Click below for information on the program. (Running Time: 130 mins)
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Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation

For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A hit with audiences around the country, don’t miss this year’s selection of animated shorts – the weekend of February 10th at Upstate Films. This year’s program includes the 5 nominees, plus 3 additional titles. The selections are suitable for young viewers until the very last film, which will be preceded by a parental-guidance title card. Click below for information on the program.
(Running time: 86 mins)
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My King

Tales of amour fou (mad love) are as French as croissant and potentially as delicious. This one comes alive in the story of Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) a lawyer, who falls madly for a charming restauranteur, a player who hangs out with models and actors while living the night life.
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The Innocents

Poland, December 1945: the second World War is over and Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Laâge), a doctor with the French Red Cross, is busy treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. Meanwhile not too far away at their convent, austere Benedictine nuns sing sweetly in the quiet stillness of morning—until a piercing scream echoes through the stone hallways. Turns out, it’s coming from an extremely pregnant, young nun who’s on the verge of giving birth—and she’s not alone.
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