County Players’ Falls Theater opens season with Bell, Book and Candle revival
Opening on Friday, Sept. 8: This marks the group’s 60th anniversary season.
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Making waves: Jon Bowermaster launches Hope on the Hudson
Saturday, Sept. 9: After a couple of decades as a world adventurer, author and filmmaker who documented Antarctica and other far-flung parts of our ocean planet on National Geographic expeditions, the Stone Ridge resident simply wants to save the world’s waterways — in particular the one closest to home.
Robert Pattinson shines as nervy Queens bank robber in Good Time
For Josh and Benny Safdie, indie co-directors who grew up in Queens, its harshly neon-lit boulevards lined with strip malls, car dealerships, check-cashing joints and White Castles are the perfect setting for their über-edgy new caper movie.
Shakespeare amongst the sculptures
Friday-Saturday, September 1-2: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival takes Love’s Labour’s Lost on the road to Storm King Art Center.
Welcome to Night Vale‘s Jeffrey Cranor launches new season of his other hit, Within the Wires
Tuesday, Sept. 5: The Saugerties podcaster asks himself: “How do you tell a true story to an audience that’s hungry for a story better than their own lives?”
Tracking shots: Wind River will chill you to the bone
Scratch the surface of this film and you get much more than a detective thriller. Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation is one of the deadliest places in the Lower 48 states – largely because it’s among the coldest, windiest and snowiest. But the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho for whom the area is home face additional life-threatening challenges: poverty, drug and alcohol addiction and violent crime. Unemployment rates on the reservation exceed 80 percent; the average life expectancy is below age 50.
Free admission at Woodstock Museum Film Festival
Through Sept. 4: The independent films on view are submitted from all around the world. Two air-conditioned theaters run each scheduled film simultaneously. There are countercultural exhibits to view and grounds to stroll in the daytime and a café on-site that opens at 6 p.m., one hour before the evening movie programs get underway. There will also be music, light shows with Jim C., a bonfire and, weather permitting, access to a swimming pool with underwater stereo speakers.
Watch Star Wars: Rogue One under the Walkway over the Hudson
Saturday, August 26: There will be music by Matthew Fink & Friends in a sunset concert before the movie, along with activities and food trucks on the Poughkeepsie waterfront.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power rekindles hope in dark environmental times
Al Gore goes beyond the slideshow and visits parts of the world already suffering effects of climate change. Though the recent political news has not been encouraging for environmentalists, the film finds hope in the growth of cost-effective renewable energy.
East meets West, with complications, in The Big Sick
The Big Sick is a rom/com that’s sweet and funny but complex and smart. It stars Kumail Nanjiani, best-known as a regular on Silicon Valley.