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The Passion of Joan of Arc kicks off Rosendale’s Sunday Silents

There’s a magic to silent films that goes far beyond what we usually expect from the movies these days. It has to do with the way in which removal of a sense heightens…

Laura Linney and Bill Murray in Hyde Park on Hudson.

Hyde Park on Hudson screenwriter to speak at Upstate

Hyde Park on Hudson opens this week locally; screenwriter to speak at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on December 29 Probably no movie with local roots in the mid-Hudson has been so avidly anticipated…

Photographer James Balog installs a camera at Columbia glacier in Alaska.

The chilling scenario of Chasing Ice

You may not recognize the name James Balog right off; but unless you’re a diehard global warming denier, you’ve probably heard by now of his ambitious project to document the shrinkage of glaciers…

Audrey Luna flies high in The Tempest (photo by Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera)

The isle is full of noises

If you have an interest in fine theater, cutting-edge art and where culture’s going, get tickets to the screenings of the new Robert Lepage production of Thomas Ades’ hot new opera The Tempest…

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Let’s do the Time Warp again

Though Halloween has origins that stretch back through centuries, for many it’s difficult to imagine the holiday without the sheer collective joy of experiencing a theater full of devotees for a screening of…

Filmmaker Burrill Crohn (photo by Dion Ogust)

Arts Society of Kingston hosts evening of cabaret

The Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) on Broadway will present an evening of cabaret on Saturday, October 20 at 8 p.m. Billed as “Entertainment for Adults,” the diverse offerings include the saxophone music…

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu

Count with chords in Rhinebeck

Upstate Films is Rhinebeck will present F. W. Murnau’s classic German Expressionist film Nosferatu, with live accompaniment by the Andrew Alden Ensemble, on Wednesday, October 17. The Alden Ensemble has composed a new…

Baraka

“Movies with Spirit”

The “Movies with Spirit” monthly community film series kicks off its seventh season on September 15 at 7 p.m. with the kaleidoscopic documentary Baraka, shown at Flowing Spirit Healing/Woodstock Sufi Center, located at…

Photo of Marwencol by Mark Hogancamp

Kingston Film Festival spotlights Marwencol at BSP this Saturday

The first-ever Kingston Film Festival will present a special screening and awards ceremony this Saturday, September 8 featuring Marwencol and a Festival wrap-up. The film will be screened at 7 p.m., followed by a…

Hilary Swank in Iron-Jawed Angels.

League of Women Voters screens Iron-Jawed Angels this Saturday

Whenever I hear people saying that they don’t intend to vote, for whatever reason – “My vote doesn’t matter because the whole system is too corrupt,” “The choices are between Tweedledee and Tweedledum,”…

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