Please note the new show time for Wednesday Night at the Movies: 7:30 PM
This fall we start presenting a 2PM screening once a month for audiences
who have requested an alternative to going out at night.

Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies starts on September 24 with
"Encounters at the End of the World" and October 15 with "Mongol."
For information about this program please call 845-348-0741

Wednesday, September 17
TELL NO ONE
Directed by Guillaume Canet
With Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye
France, 2006, 125 minutes, in French with English subtitles, unrated

A delicious contemporary thriller involving murder and depravity in high places. The twisting plot revolves around Alex, a blissfully married pediatrician whose life goes horribly awry when his wife wanders into the woods one night, and is murdered…or is she? Years later, an anonymous email sends Alex on a run for his life and his innocence…and the truth about just what happened that fateful evening.

“Beautifully acted and written…a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“A top-notch thriller so twisty you may forget to breathe” – Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times

“Hot-blooded, haunting and packed with the pleasures of the unexpected, Tell No One will pin you to your seat” - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Playing with:
HOW I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, by local filmmaker Grace Rosner. 4 minutes.
The 2007 winner of the National Award of Excellence (out of 700,000 entries) for the PTA reflections program. 7 year-old Grace Rosner hit the streets of Nyack to interview people about making a difference. . . and got all types of answers. The filmmaker will be present.

Wednesday, September 24, 2PM and 7:30PM
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Directed by Werner Herzog
USA, 2007, 90 minutes, documentary, unrated and suitable for general audiences

WernerHerzog (Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo, Aquirre: The Wrath of God) travels to the American Antarctic settlement of McMurdo Station, and beyond. Exquisite scenes abound, some profound, some surreal, as Herzog puts both Mother Nature and human nature before his lens. Every bit as wondrous as the jellfish, fuzzy clams and fat seals are the humans circulating throughout, wayfarers who seem eerily at peace at the bottom of the world, proof of the curious filmmaker’s unshakable faith in his own species.

Note: Encounters at the End of the World kicks off a new, monthly, Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies Series, in response to requests for added screenings from audiences who find it easier to see films in the afternoon. 2PM. For more information please call Riverspace: (845) 348-0741

“Striking. Hauntingly beautiful.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times

“Stunning. Riviting. Herzog is at his peak.” – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
“
Herzog’s Antarctic masterpiece. Amazing.” – Rolling Stone

“Entrancing” – New York Magazine

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Wednesday, October 1
THE LAST MISTRESS
Directed by Catherine Breillat
With Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Claude Sarraute
France, 2007, 104 minutes, in French with English subtitles, unrated. It contains plenty of nudity, and no one under the age of 17 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.

France, 1983: The courtesan, La Vellini, and a penniless nobleman, Ryno, share an unhinged affair. Theirs is a cruel and enthralling passion which they cannot quit, even when Ryno marries a beautiful, younger aristocrat. These two erotic equals are dualists in a continuing war of their own making, one monitored by society busybodies. The compelling tale of ravenous passion and the depiction of desire as a creating, destroying force that invades the very flesh.

“Gloriously unpredictable” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“A passionate and explicit film about sexual obsession” – Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times

“Lush. Debauched. Ravishing. And did I mention, sexy?” – Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Wednesday, October 15, 2PM and 7:30PM
Mongol
Directed by Sergei Bodrov
Germany, HYPERLINK "http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Countries/Kazakhstan/"Kazakhstan, Russia, 2007, 126 minutes, in Mongolian with English subtitles, rated R for sequences of bloody warfare

An epic story of the early years of Genghis Khan, from his perilous childhood until his harrowing early years as a ruler. As it follows Khan to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait, revealing him not as a stereotypically evil brute but as a fearless and visionary leader who consolidates rival tribes and factions and who modernizes some of the traditional Mongol ways.

Note: Mongol is the second in our new 2PM Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies series. For information about the afternoon screenings, call (845) 348-0741.

“I don't know the Mongolian word for panache, but Mongol's got plenty of it. The battle scenes are as notable for their clarity as their intensity; we can follow the strategies, get a sense of who's losing and who's winning. The physical production is sumptuous. – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

As a visual spectacle, it is all but overwhelming, putting to shame some of the recent historical epics from Hollywood. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

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Wednesday, October 22
SEASONS IN THE VALLEY
Directed by Adam Matalon
USA, 2008, 87 minutes, documentary, unrated

This enlightening film challenges notions about immigrant labor, showcasing the symbiotic relationship between the Jamaican men who, through the Temporary Agricultural Worker Program, pick apples in New York’s Hudson Valley, and the orchard owners who employ them. This economy of apple growing faces a precarious future due to many things, including increased competition from overseas, changing trade policies, and immigration issues, policy choices that can have unintended consequences that affect the lives of all concerned. You will look at apples and apple orchards in a new way after you see this film.

The director and the co-producer will be present to discuss this film after the screening.

Wednesday, October 29
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
Directed by Fatih Akin
With Baki Davrak, Hannah Schygulla, Patrycia Ziolkowska
Germany, Turkey, Italy, 2007, 122 minutes, in German, Turkish and English with English subtitles, unrated, contains adult themes and situations

Director Fatih Akin’s Turkish/German background informs this multicultural story of contemporary Europe. The characters, navigating through a personal and political turbulence that is beyond their control, are irreconcilably intertwined. Every important issue of modern life seems to be acknowledged, but we are swept up into the lives of the characters and their story, not a political score card, as generations and geography shrink and grow.

“….an ambitious chronicle of the intertwined fates of six people… Schygulla's heartbreaking performance—like the movie itself—will stay with you long after the film's quietly devastating final frame” - David Ansen, Newsweek