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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.
A cinematic journey that sounds the alarm that’s been ringing for more than a decade – no bees, no food.
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.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner.
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Presented in association with the One Mile Gallery, Upstate Films presents filmmaker/cultural iconoclast/artist Guy Maddin in person, with his homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s spellbinding VERTIGO. Admission $12/$10 seniors/$8 members. Click here to purchase tickets in advance
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Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, The Mirror, The Circle), who defies a filmmaking ban from the Iranian government each time he makes a new film, is always a director worth checking out. And how lucky we are for his tenacity… Full of metaphor, insight, and gentle humor, this remarkable film features some of his best filmmaking.
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Tobe Carey and Linda Montano have a long history of collaborating on video productions; most recently on a presentation as part of her show at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, called The Art/Life Hospital.
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While shrinking in population, 46 million people still live in rural Mid-American towns, making them important formative centers for politics and values. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, journalists had to reckon with being out of touch with some of these red-state areas. In his own way, Wiseman helps fill that void with his latest film by immersing us in a corner of the Midwest seldom depicted on film.
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Academy Award Nominee – Best Makeup and Hair Design
Based on a short story by Let the Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist, Border seamlessly fuses social commentary, fantasy, and psychological insight to tell the story of Tina (Eva Melander) — a woman born with a facial “disfiguration,” a strange scar on her tailbone, and the ability to sense or smell how people feel.Read More
Academy Award Nominee – Best Documentary Feature
You don’t need to be a climbing enthusiast to marvel at Free Solo. With its extraordinary cinematography, nothing can match the wonders of humans and nature, and the sheer movie-going suspense, captured in this acclaimed documentary by filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Meru).
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Set primarily in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, this feature debut examines how a single incident of violence has consequences for an entire community.
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Eugene (Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, The House I Live In) Jarecki’s wildly ambitious new film takes Elvis’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a road trip across America forty years after his death. Linking the singer’s life to the story of our country, the film carries us on a trip from Graceland to Trumpland.
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Sixteen years after the release of the groundbreaking film RIVERS AND TIDES – ANDY GOLDSWORTHY filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer has once again collaborated with the artist on a film that reveals some of the magic of our world.
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Sixteen years after the release of the groundbreaking film RIVERS AND TIDES – ANDY GOLDSWORTHY filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer has once again collaborated with the artist on a film that reveals some of the magic of our world.
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Brett (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) Morgen’s latest, a terrific time travel film about primate researcher Jane Goodall who lived in the wild with chimpanzees, is drawn from over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage that had been tucked away in the National Geographic archives for over 50 years.
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1 Academy Award Nomination – Best Actor
In his follow-up to the award-winning Tangerine, Sean Baker dives deep into a community living on the margins of Floridian society. In the process, he gives us some of the most unforgettable characters in the cinema this year: 22-year-old Halley (Bria Vinaite) and her six-year-old daughter, Moonee (Brooklyn Prince).
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Charming, intimate, and warm-hearted, School Life provides an empathetic portrait of the work gifted teachers do to help children flourish.
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Childhood is when impressionable minds open widest to the mesmerizing power of entertainment. Nearly everyone can recall connecting with a show so completely it feels like a magical world created just for you. But what if it actually was?
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An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
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Academy Award Nominee: Best Documentary
The “too big to fail” 2008 Wall St. meltdown: Much has been written; hands have been thoroughly wrung, and now here’s the true tale of the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the heinous greed-induced financial crisis. By the director of HOOP DREAMS.
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