COMMUNITY EVENTS @ NYACK CENTER
Rivertown Film
RIVERTOWN FILM AT NYACK CENTER
Broadway at Depew, Nyack, NY
All films presented digitally
Information: 845.353.2568 or www.rivertownfilm.org
Tickets at the door, in advance from 800.838.3006 or online at www.rivertownfilm.org
Unless otherwise noted:
$12 general admission
$9 for students, seniors and general Rivertown Film members
$8 for student and senior Rivertown Film members
Check locations and ticket prices for each event. Call for group tickets
Friday, May 3 – 8:00 PM at Nyack Center
INSPIRED!
The creative process is a mystery, known only to the artist. Or is it?
People who create are inspirations to us all. But what inspires them? On May 3, fifteen artists in all disciplines will enlighten us as to the sources of their inspiration, using ten slides and twenty seconds per slide to explain them. Join us for a fast-paced night of innovation and creativity, and let us show you some of the many ways that the imaginations of creative people are stimulated. A fascinating and entertaining evening at Rivertown Film that will leave you inspired. $30, or $25 for members of Rivertown Film.
Wednesday, May 29 – 8:00 PM at Nyack Center
Seldom-seen Demme
COUSIN BOBBY
Directed by Jonathan Demme
1992, USA, 70 minutes
Jonathan Demme's film may be primarily about his cousin Robert Castle, an Episcopalian priest who served in a Harlem church, but it is also a family reunion. While profiling Cousin Bobby and his mission to help the poor and dispossessed, it provides interesting insights into Jonathan Demme's family, his childhood, and the origins of the social values that are the hallmarks of every "film by Jonathan Demme.”
Discussion after the film with Rev. Dr. Mary Foulke, from Robert Castle’s St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, and producer Ed Saxon.
"A home movie of sorts, in which the social involvement of Cousin Bobby is set against a backdrop of faded photographs, old family memories and reunions, and the wonderment we all feel when we meet someone we were friends with long ago, and see what has become of them."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“Something special was at work here: a true meeting of the minds, which the film captures effortlessly.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Wednesday, June 12 – 8:00 PM at Nyack Center
CAPERNAUM
Directed by Nadine Labaki
With Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Lebanon, 2018, 120 minutes, rated R
In Beirut, 12-year-old Zain is suing his parents for bringing him into the world and failing to care for him or his siblings. Prior to the suit, Zain finds relief from his disorderly home by running errands for shopkeepers. After his parents marry off his younger sister, Zain flees, moving into the shantytown apartment of an African refugee and her son. His wanderings illustrate the absurdities and horrors of the larger world; they are a howl of protest and an anthem of resistance.
Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Film
“Capernaum is a searing unforgettable work.”—Soren Andersen, Seattle Times
“It’s a deeply assured piece of direction, and though it only plays a few emotional notes, they are ones that won’t soon leave your memory.” —Emily Yoshida, New York Magazine
Wednesday, June 26 – 8:00 PM at Nyack Center
THE WIFE
Directed by Björn Runge
With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater
USA/Sweden, 2017, 110 minutes, rated R
Joan Castleman has been married to celebrated, egotistical writer Joe for years, subjugating her own talents. When he wins the Nobel Prize, they travel to Stockholm, where Joan keeps Joe in line while he and the other all-male winners prepare to receive their glory. Another writer—hoping to be Joe’s official biographer—waits in the wings, picking at family wounds and secrets.
Post-screening discussion with Holly Castor (“Please Be Seated”).
Academy Award Nominee: Best Actress
“An unusually good adaptation of an unusually good novel.”—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“It is the depths Close lends to Joan that kept me riveted—and angry.”—April Wolfe, Village Voice
“Glenn Close’s perennial look of astonishment and resilience commands the action to the point of turning every other screen element into a gratuitous prop.”—Diego Semerene, Slant Magazine
Wednesday, July 10 – 8:00 PM at Nyack Center
MEGAMALL
Directed by Vera Aronow, Sarah Mondale, Roger Grange
2009, USA, 81 minutes
If you don’t know the story of the Palisades Center in West Nyack, don’t miss this! If you do know the story, you might want a refresher, because the Town of Clarkstown may be voting on permission to let the mall expand. In 1985 a mall developer came to Rockland County to build its biggest mall on a toxic dump, sparking a citizen uprising that lasted almost 20 years. Megamall is a gripping account of that dramatic grass-roots struggle.
Discussion with the filmmakers moderated by Nancy Cutler, People and Policy reporter for the Journal News / LoHud.
Wednesday, July 24 – 8:00 PM at Nyack Center
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Directed by Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
With Carmiña Martinez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes
Colombia, 2018, 125 minutes, unrated
A film about how the world changes, how individual actions and the forces of fate together bring glory and ruin to a hero and his family. A Homeric tale revolving around the Colombian drug trade from the sixties to the eighties, shady deals, double-crosses, and miscalculations, it becomes a domestic tragedy and a cultural apocalypse.
“The movie is a knockout.”—David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“The cultural richness of Birds of Passage is overwhelming, its sense of detail piercingly perceptive, and its sense of drama rigorously yet organically integrated with its documentary elements.”—Richard Brody, New Yorker
“Never less than fascinating as a piece of ethnology, with magic-realist dimensions that amounts to an origin story of the Latin American drug trade.”—Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
THE KNOWLEDGE MARKET-Feed Your Brain
Schedule will be available soon for Fall
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Nyack Center. Scholarships available upon request.
Go to link below for more info.
https://www.nyackknows.com
NYACK FARMER's MARKET INDOORS coming Dec 2020
Nyack's Farmer's Market moves indoors in Dec 2020 to Nyack Center. Open every Thursday from 8am-2pm until March.
Some wonderful vendors in our region come together to bring you locally produced food, featuring fresh delicious produce, fish, meats and cheeses, baked goods, sweet somethings and other great items. Stop by on your way to work, have lunch and shop or just come when your day allows. Live music and other local artisans are all part of the fun day.
Some wonderful vendors in our region come together to bring you locally produced food, featuring fresh delicious produce, fish, meats and cheeses, baked goods, sweet somethings and other great items. Stop by on your way to work, have lunch and shop or just come when your day allows. Live music and other local artisans are all part of the fun day.
