In 1956, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg journeyed to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild – predating Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Anne’s research provided important stepping stones for those who followed.
After Parkland
In commemoration of the two-year anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, join us for a one-night-only screening of this timely documentary.
Wed., Feb., 12 at 7:30 in Woodstock
Oscar Shorts 2020 – Animation
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 – Documentary (Program A)
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 Documentary Shorts. (Running Time: Approx. 80 mins)
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Oscar Shorts 2020 – Documentary (Program B)
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 Documentary Shorts. Running Time: Approx. 80 minutes
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Oscar Shorts 2020 – Live Action
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 Live Action Shorts. (Running Time: Approx. 102 mins)
Oscar Shorts 2020 – Documentary (Program A)
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 Documentary Shorts. (Running Time: Approx. 80 mins)
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Oscar Shorts 2020 – Animation
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.
Oscar Shorts 2020 – Live Action
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 Live Action Shorts. (Running Time: Approx. 102 mins)
Knives Out
Everyone’s a suspect in Rian Johnson’s tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie though this very clever film is not based on one of her books. It is nominated for best original screenplay at the upcoming Academy Awards.
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Oscar Shorts 2020 – Documentary (Program B)
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 Documentary Shorts. Running Time: Approx. 80 minutes
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Clemency
In this gripping drama, Alfre Woodard delivers a deeply powerful performance as prison warden Bernadine Williams who, after years of carrying out lethal injections, must contend with the devastating emotional fallout her job creates.
Little Women
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s groundbreaking 1868 novel of the same name, Greta (LADY BIRD) Gerwig’s adaptation unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, relives and reflects back and forth from childhood to adulthood and back.
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Bombshell
Academy Award winners Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman play two of the on-air personalities of Fox News (Megyn Kelly & Gretchen Carlson) and Margot Robbie is a composite character, an ambitious evangelical new hire in this powerful movie about how the CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes, was finally dethroned due to his sexual harassment of at least twenty-three women.
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Afterward
Delving as it does into the not-so-secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers, this personal film asks if it’s possible to forgive.
The Maltese Falcon
A great film (noir anyone?) directed by a great director (John Huston’s first credit as director after writing for Warners for years) starring an iconic actor (Humphrey Bogart) based on a great writer’s (Dashiell Hammett) work.
Waves
The third feature from writer-director Trey Edward Shults (Krisha, It Comes at Night), Waves casts its lens on an African American family in south Florida — assembling a riveting saga out of fraught exchanges, constant motion, a killer soundtrack, and the dramatic tale of a domestic life caving in.
“A deep, at times overwhelming sensory experience.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times Critic’s Pick
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Waves
The third feature from writer-director Trey Edward Shults (Krisha, It Comes at Night), Waves casts its lens on an African American family in south Florida — assembling a riveting saga out of fraught exchanges, constant motion, a killer soundtrack, and the dramatic tale of a domestic life caving in.
“A deep, at times overwhelming sensory experience.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times Critic’s Pick
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A Hidden Life
Shot on location in the alps of Austria and Italy, the latest film from Terrence Malick (BADLANDS, THE TREE OF LIFE, DAYS OF HEAVEN) is based on the true story of Franz Jägerstetter, an Austrian conscientious objector during the second world war.
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Dark Waters
Inspired by the shocking and heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family by representing West Virginia farmers who believe their cattle and crops were poisoned by toxic waste dumped by DuPont in local landfills.
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Marriage Story
This compassionate and probing portrait of a disintegrating marriage, written and directed by Vassar alum, Noah (THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, GREENBERG, FRANCES HA, KICKING AND SCREAMING) Baumbach, is his own incredibly well-acted KRAMER VS KRAMER.
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Honey Boy
HONEY BOY, written by and starring Shia LaBeouf (PEANUT BUTTER FALCON) goes in search of himself and takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father as he struggles to deal with his frayed mental health in this most cathartic and engaging film.
Uncut Gems
For Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner – NYC diamond dealer, suburban husband/father, womanizer, and above all else, gambler – life is a quest for a big score.
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To Be of Service
Josh (ORCHESTRA OF EXILES, SOUND AND FURY, TALENT HAS HUNGER) Aronson’s new film explores the stories of veterans returning home from the maw of war burdened with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who, paired with service dogs, discover a new measure of happiness and hope.
Wed., Dec. 18, 7:30
The Pollinators
A cinematic journey that sounds the alarm that’s been ringing for more than a decade – no bees, no food.
IN PERSON: Wednesday, December 4th at 8:10pm – director/cinematographer Peter Nelson & executive producer Sally Roy.
Where’s My Roy Cohn?
“One of the most controversial American men of the 20th Century, Roy Cohn was a ruthless lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.”
JoJo Rabbit
Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival… And yet, not everyone will like JoJo Rabbit, and at times you’ll wonder if you should. A coming-of-age comedy whose hero is a 10 year-old German boy during World War II who wants to be a Nazi/Adolf Hitler as comic relief? As it walks some precarious high wires, Taika Waititi’s latest (Boy, What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok) takes a risky premise and delivers a piece of grandly entertaining provocation.
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American Nightmare / American Dream
A Free Fundraising screening of a work in progress with the filmmaker & some of the participants.
Sunday November 3 11:30am Rhinebeck
The uplifting stories of four low-income women who overcame tremendous odds to earn college degrees and help others to forge a path out of poverty.
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One Child Nation
China’s One Child Policy, the extreme population control measure that made it illegal for couples to have more than one child, may have ended in 2015, but the process of dealing with the trauma of its brutal enforcement is only just beginning.
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The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers’s follow-up to his horror masterpiece, The Witch, is a strangely hypnotic tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
This music bio about Linda Ronstadt, one of the most successful and versatile female singers of the 20th century and one of the most successful recording artists of all time, is surprisingly moving.
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis: horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial. Genius. The very embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart.
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Official Secrets
In the run-up to the Shock and Awe attack on Iraq, Keira Knightley is Katharine Gun — a British intelligence officer who risked everything to expose a US plot to force UN delegates to support the Iraq war.
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The Laundromat
Friday, October 11th at 8:15 in Rhinebeck: Film, Q&A, and book signing with author Jake Bernstein. Each ticket includes a copy of The Laundromat (previously published as Secrecy World) by Jake Bernstein, courtesy of Netflix. Jake will sign books before the film begins.
CLICK here for Tickets (2 free per courtesy of Netflix) (*If asked for a code, enter: UpstateFilms)
The film is adapted from Secrecy World by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein, and directed by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, The Limey, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Contagion, Side Effects…)
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
A modern-day adventure story, The Peanut Butter Falcon stars Shia LaBeouf as an outlaw fisherman who takes a wrestling-obsessed young man with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) under his wing.
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Brittany Runs a Marathon
Hilarious, outgoing and always up for a good time, New Yorker Brittany Forgler is everybody’s best friend ― except maybe her own.
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Based on the wryly funny bestseller by Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? is an inspiring comedy about a loving mom (Cate Blanchett) who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family.
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Sword of Trust
“Mel (Marc Maron) is a cantankerous pawnshop owner in Alabama who spends most of his time swindling customers while trying and failing to get his man-child employee Nathaniel (Jon Bass) to do any work. When Cynthia (Jillian Bell) and her wife Mary (Michaela Watkins) try to hawk a Civil War-era sword inherited from Cynthia’s recently deceased grandfather, he tries to get the better of them…
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Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
Wednesday, August 28th at 8:15 in Rhinebeck
Upstate Films and SunCommon present this FREE screening of filmmaker James Redford’s journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US. The screening will be accompanied by a brief presentation from a representative from Citizen’s Climate Lobby, a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.
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Curing the Incurable?
Saturday, August 3rd at 1:30 in Woodstock. Presented by Radio Woodstock 104, director Gary Null will lead a q&a following the film. Suggested donation $10.
Acclaimed natural health and nutrition expert Gary Null, in his newest film, interviews medical experts, doctors, nurses, and psychologists, who are using new techniques, cutting edge science, along with breakthrough methods, to restore people to optimal health.
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Fantastic Fungi
(11/30 screening features Q&A with producers Steve Apkon and Martina Hale after the show.)
FANTASTIC FUNGI is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet.
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David Crosby: Remember My Name
David Crosby, now 77, reflects on his life of music stardom sharing his often-challenging journey with humor and bite, while forging new paths to relevancy in this deeply personal documentary.
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Maiden
A film that celebrates the defiant spirit of all the female athletes who have challenged the sporting world’s entrenched sexism, Maiden is the story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989.
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Hail Satan?
“In the battle for justice and equality, the Satanic Temple is putting up a hell of a fight…
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This Changes Everything
In Person: Director Tom Donahue. Friday, August 16th at 8:15pm in Rhinebeck. Co-presented by the Woodstock Film Festival.
Told first-hand by some of the industry’s leading voices — including Executive Producer Geena Davis, living legends like Meryl Streep, and younger talent such as Yara Shahidi and Chloe Moretz — THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING uncovers what is behind one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry… the under-representation and misrepresentation of women.
Click here to purchase tickets through the Woodstock Film Festival website in advance
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