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From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon (GOOK), BLUE BAYOU is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

“Both a passionate exposé of a serious injustice and a big emotional ride that is also prepared to take some interesting risks in its journey towards a old-school tear-jerker finale” -Lee Marshall, Screen Daily

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5:30p 8:00p Thursday, September 23
2:45p Saturday, September 25
2:45p Sunday, September 26

This documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Oren Jacoby shows how Broadway led the way in the city’s last great rebirth and provides a model of how it can come back again. Brand new interviews with legends of the stage and screen take us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking and beloved shows.

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A glimpse into infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the U.S. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from AIDS to SARS to Ebola, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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7:30p Thursday, September 16

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Which souls will make the journey to the earthly realm? Will (Winston Duke) helps decide, in a space where time takes strange forms. The candidates vie for their opportunity, and one, the free-spirited Emma (Zazie Beetz), reaches Will in unexpected ways. Edson Oda’s haunting, melodic film imagines a new spiritual path. (U.S., 2020, 124m)

“That rare work of art that asks you to reconsider your entire worldview.” –Variety

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Based on a true story, Sean Penn’s film, which he wrote, directed and stars in, follows a man who can’t stop failing—a father who, to provide for his father, lives a secret life as a con man. With Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin. (U.S., 2021, 107m)

“Powerful … Penn is in top form in this wrenching true-life tale of love dancing with dysfunction.” –Variety

In Person: Screenwriter Jennifer Vogel and producer Bill Horberg

Sunday, August 15th at 2 pm – Tickets HERE

Presented in conjunction with the Woodstock Film Festival

Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson plays Aretha Franklin as she navigates a challenging rise, from child star in a famous family, through moments in an uncomfortable spotlight to international superstardom … all the while seeking to find her own voice. Directed by Liesl Tommy, with Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Damon Wayans and Mary J. Blige. (U.S., 2021, 145m)

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Dash Shaw’s wry yet magical animation for grownups explores the strange discovery of Amber and Matt, who discover first a unicorn, and then a world of cryptids—creatures who we thought only existed in fiction and mythology. And they meet Lauren, who has vowed to protect them. Winner of awards at Sundance and Berlin. (U.S., 2021, 95m)

“A Disneyland-size kingdom of ideas that never cease to astound” –Playlist

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“Michael Sarnoski’s stunningly controlled first feature, is a mournful fable of loss and withdrawal, art and ambition.” -NY Times

“A film of enormous beauty and depth.” -Washington Post

When his beloved foraging partner is kidnapped, a reclusive truffle hunter leaves his home in the Oregon wilderness to find her in the city. Nic Cage gives an unforgettable performance in Michael Sarnoski’s debut, a film that explores the power of love, in whatever form it might take. (U.S., 2021, 92m)

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The teenage Ruby is a Child of Deaf Adults, or CODA—two parents who are running a struggling fishing business. Ruby’s also a gifted singer. Encouraged to apply to a prestigious medical school, she finds herself pulled by two strong forces: her passion and her beloved family. Sian Heder’s film won an unprecedented four awards at the Sundance Film Festival. (U.S., 2021, 111m)

“Reminds us of the comforting, even cathartic, gratifications of a feel-good story well told.” – Hollywood Reporter

All screenings of CODA will be presented in the Open Caption format, with subtitles at the bottom of the screen for both English and ASL dialogue. 

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An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, THE GREEN KNIGHT tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and kingdom by facing the ultimate challenger. From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table. (US, 2021, 125m)

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Saturday, August 14, doors open at 6:15, music at 6:45, film at 8:00
With special guest director Rebecca Miller
Opus 40, Saugerties
Tickets: $15 ($10 Upstate Films members)
With live music by Dolunay

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Rebecca Miller’s sharp-witted film has romance and comedy, but it’s no typical rom-com. Greta Gerwig plays a woman (Greta Gerwig) who, after luring away a married man (Ethan Hawke) from his wife, decides to reunite them. (U.S., 2016, 98m)

“Clear-eyed, generous and funny—tart but not sour, sweet but not too sweet.” –New York Times

Saturday, July 24, doors open at 7:00, music at 7:30, film at 8:20

Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry
Del’s Roadside, Rhinebeck
Tickets: $10 
Live music by Zac and Miles

R.J. Cutler captures a stranger-than-fiction tale of a preternaturally gifted girl’s rise to global superstardom, and the pressures facing a teenager on the road in a media-saturated world. (U.S., 2021, 140m)

“The best coming-of-age movie of 2021 … just happens to be about a multi-platinum-selling, Grammy-winning international superstar.” –US Weekly

“It’s not where you go. It’s what you leave behind.” Anthony Bourdain, the chef, writer, adventurer and provocateur used his unexpected fame to turn the world’s attention to the people and cultures the mainstream media often ignored. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 FEET FROM STARDOM, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR) offers a loving and honest look at Bourdain’s insatiable appetite for life. (U.S., 2021, 118m) 

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5:15p Thursday, August 12
2:45p Friday, August 13

“A pulsating panorama a joyous and welcome addition to the documentary subgenre” –IndieWire

Questlove’s stirring, rich history, winner of the two top awards at Sundance, uses a forgotten musical series, the Harlem Cultural Festival, to revisit the era of civil rights, the moon launch and Motown through the lens of African Americans.

(U.S., 2021, 117m)

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5:30p Saturday, August 14

Lee Isaac Chung’s debut feature, winner of an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, for Youn Yuh-jung, follows a Korean-American immigrant family who pin their hopes for reinvention on rural Arkansas, testing their strength and their bonds as a family. (U.S., 2020, 116m)

Director Joshua Zeman (with Executive Producers Leonardo DiCaprio and Adrian Grenier) brings along on a quest that’s both scientific and spiritual: connecting with the “52 Hertz Whale,” which may have spent its entire life in solitude, calling out at a frequency that is different from any other whale. Cinematic and engrossing, this journey teaches us about the ocean, and ourselves. (U.S., 2021, 96m)

“Anyone who watches will come away moved by everything its cast and crew managed to accomplish.” –Toronto Globe & Mail

The most influential children’s show of all time was also a radical experiment in social engineering, and a passion product for a band of revolutionary educators and artists, including Jim Henson, dedicated to inclusion, tolerance and absurdist fun. You’ll appreciate “Sesame Street” even more than you did as a kid. 

(U.S., 2021, 107 min)

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(These screenings will be in our small theater)

“Exuberant and full of life … the kind of electrifying theatrical experience that people have been waxing nostalgic about ever since the pandemic began.” –IndieWire

Alex Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit musical follows the owner of a bodega who, after inheriting a fortune, prepares to return home to the Dominican Republic, and sees his beloved New York City through new eyes.

(U.S., 2021, 143m)

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Before Oprah and Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today.

Join audiences nationwide on Friday, February 19, 2021, at 6:00 pm ET, for a virtual Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of Mr. SOUL!, followed by Q&A with the producer, writer, director of Mr. SOUL!, Melissa Haizlip.

This event is hosted by Indie Lens Pop-Up, Black Public Media, and The WNET Group, in collaboration with Arizona Public Media, Bud Werner Memorial Library, Charitable Film Network, City of Mesa, Durango Public Library, Gary International Black Film Festival, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Global Peace Film Festival, Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking, Kansas City Public Library, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Panhandle PBS, PBS Hawai‘i, Pickford Film Center, Tillotson Center, Upstate Films Ltd., WSIU Public Broadcasting, and Yale Film Archive.

To attend this free virtual pop-up screening, please RSVP on Eventbrite. Instructions for joining the screening will be sent to your email. At screening time on February 19th, follow this link to join event on the OVEE platform.

With the Weinstein trial just concluded, here’s a film about a day in the life of a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer who’s landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. 

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Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the just wrapped 2020 Berlin Film Festival this is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania who, faced with an unintended pregnancy,  travel across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery and compassion.
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