It's Agnes Varda week at Upstate Films! Join us for CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1961), VAGABOND(1985), and VARDA BY AGNÈS (2019), her final film before her death. Showtimes andadditional information below, or on our website. We hope to see you there.
Oct SPECIAL EVENTS:
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIREPORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
(SNEAK PREVIEW)
SATURDAY, 2/22 - 4:30 in WOODSTOCK
SUNDAY, 2/23 - 3:00 in RHINEBECK
Tickets are available day-of at the box office. We open one hour before the first showtime every day.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ALL MY SONS
WEDNESDAY, 2/26 in RHINEBECK
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More info below as well as on our website here.
Oct Now Showing in Rhinebeck (2/17 - 2/20)
ParasiteFeb 17 - 20Mon 3:00Tue 7:45Wed 7:40Thur 5:15
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Knives OutFeb 17 - 20
Mon 5:40 7:40Tue 7:40
Wed 3:00 5:40Thurs 8:00
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Kind Hearts and CoronetsFeb 17 - 20Mon 3:15Tue 5:30Wed 3:15Thur 7:40
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The Woman Who Loves GiraffesFeb 17 - 20
Mon 5:45 8:10Tue 5:45
Wed 5:45 8:10Thur 5:45
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Oct Now Showing in Woodstock (2/17 - 2/20)
IncitementFeb 17 - 20
Mon - Thur 7:30
Oct February 21 - 27 in Rhinebeck:
Beanpole
February 17 - 21:Fri-Sat 2:45 5:30 8:15Sun 2:45 8:15Mon-Tue 5:30 8:15Wed 2:45 8:15Thur 5:30 8:15
(Russia / 2019 / Directed by Kantemir Balagov)
During World War II in Leningrad, the siege of the city is finally over, but life and deathstruggles continue in the wreckage that remains. Two young women search for meaningand hope during their struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
This year's Russian entry for the Best International Feature at the Oscars arrives havingalready scored a directing award for filmmaker Kantemir Balagov at Cannes. Iya, or Beanpole,is a nurse at a hospital for wounded veterans in St. Petersburg at the tail end of WWII. A quietand gangly figure still suffering the effects of a concussion sustained in the war, she cares forher patients with stoic resolve while looking after a young boy for whom she has a mysteriousobligation. When another woman, Masha, shows up at the hospital, we begin to understandhow past events motivate Iya and tie the characters together. A character drama exploringthe manifestations of PTSD in a social climate of repression, BEANPOLE takes a sensitive andincisive approach to its two female protagonists. Offering more than just a portrait of misery,it provides a female perspective on the early stages of healing from the traumas of war.
"Not only is BEANPOLE one of the first essential cinematic works released in theaters thisyear, it is also among the most involving character studies in recent memory." -MattFagerholm, RogerEbert.com
Unrated / 2 hr 10 mins.
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Varda By Agnès
February 21 - 27:Fri-Sat 3:00Sun 5:30Tues 5:40Thur 5:40
(France / 2019 / Directed by Agnès Varda)
In this autobiographical documentary, we join beloved Belgian-born French auteur AgnèsVarda (CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, VAGABOND, THE GLEANERS & I, FACES PLACES) as she revisitsmoments from her extensive and influential body of work.
We know Agnès Varda from her contribution to the world of French New Wave, as well asfeminist cinema, but it is her curiosity of spirit and willingness to experiment that made hersuch a compelling voice. VARDA BY AGNÈS, her final film before her death, is like a cinematicscrapbook in which we find the filmmaker exploring feelings on her own identity and what itmeans to be an artist. Varda takes us on a tour through her photography, films, artinstallations, and meaningful personal experiences, as she resurrects old memories andshares wisdom from a long, rich life of creativity and exploration - all on her own terms, fromher own distinct and playful point of view. The film is "both an excellent primer fornewcomers, and a wonderful parting gift for longtime fans (...) The perfect way for thelegendary auteur to have the last word." (David Elrich, IndieWire)
Unrated / 1 hr 55 mins.
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Cleo From 5 to 7
February 21, 24, & 26:Fri 5:20Mon 5:45Wed 5:45
(France / 1962 / Directed by Agnès Varda)
Agnes Varda was front and center of what, decades ago, was called the French New Waveand here she captures 1960s Paris in her enchanting portrait of a young pop singerexperiencing her own crisis.
Corinne Marchand plays the chanteuse who's at loose ends as she wanders about Parisawaiting the results of a biopsy. Varda's film, her second feature, chronicles Corrinne'sevening walking the city as she confronts the possibility of illness and death. An imaginativemix of vivid vérité and heartful melodrama, it features a score by Michel Legrand (TheUmbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. In French withEnglish subtitles.
Unrated / 1 hr 30 mins.
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Vagabond
February 22, 23, & 26:Sat 5:20Sun 8:10Wed 8:10
(France / 1985 / Directed by Agnès Varda)
Agnes Varda's VAGABOND is a stunner that was hailed as one of the great films of the1980s by critics and film juries alike.
Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifterMona who lives on the road as the film's French title proclaims "Sans Toit ni Loi" without roofnor rule. She's found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of the film. How she endedup there is what we piece together as Varda tells Mona's bleak story through flashbacksrelated by dozens of people who encountered her, producing a nonlinear, splintered portraitof an enigmatic and fiercely individualistic young woman. In French with English subtitles.
Unrated / 1 hr 45 mins.
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Parasite
February 21 - 27:Fri-Sat 8:10Sun 5:35Mon-Tue 8:10Wed 5:15Thur 8:10
(South Korea / 2019 / Directed by Bong Joon-Ho)
Academy Awards Big Winner (director, picture, screenplay, international)! Also took theCannes Film Fest's top prize, the Palme D'or, here's a film its director calls "a comedywithout clowns and a tragedy without villains," a film that keeps us delightfully off balanceas it mixes pathos and satire with thrills and drama as it nails the dichotomy between thestruggling poor and the wildly rich.
A vertical story of class struggle - meet the moldy basement dwelling Kims: Ki-taek (SongKang-ho) an unemployed husband and father; his hard-working wife Chung-sook (ChangHyae-jin), his clever twenty-something daughter Ki-jung (Park So-dam), and his teenaged sonKi-woo (Choi Woo-shik). And then there's the Park family living in a fabulous airy house withtheir teenage daughter Da-hye and terribly spoiled young son Da-song, who has suffered achildhood trauma that occasionally causes him to exhibit strange behavior. Due to anunexpected stroke of luck and some clever moves, Ki-woo is hired by the Parks to be theprivate English tutor of Da-hye, and soon figures out how to get his sister hired as an arttherapist. Before long all the Kims are inside the Park's bastion of privilege as the destinies ofthe two families become interlaced. As they become enmeshed, the film takes us on afascinating ride that culminates in a powerful and utterly original outcome. In Korean withsubtitles.
R / 2 hrs 15 mins.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire:Sneak Preview
February 23:Sun 3:00
(France / 2019 / Written & Directed by Céline
Sciamma)
A sensuous, painterly period drama set in 18th century Brittany about the friendship thatdevelops between two young women, a painter and her subject whose portrait she iscommissioned to do without the subject's knowledge.
Hoping to marry off her daughter to an Italian royal, a wealthy contessa (Valerie Golino)commissions an artist (Noémie Merlant) to come live at her Brittany estate where she's tomake a portrait of her daughter Héloïse (Adèle Haenel). Easier said than done, as Héloïse hasjust come home after a long stint in a strict convent and is not thinking of marriage, arrangedor otherwise. Therefore, Marianne must pose as a hired companion and paint Héloïse insecret - from memory - so that the her mother can make a deal for her hand without herknowledge. This is the fourth feature from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma (GIRLHOOD) andis a confidently crafted period drama that is traditional in its formal beauty and progressive inits treatment of romance between women. French with English subtitles.
R / 2 hrs 1 min
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National Theatre Live: All MySons
February 26:Wed 1:30
(UK / 2019 / Directed by Jeremy Herrin)
Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman(The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller's blistering drama that was filmed liveon-stage at The Old Vic in London.
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are asuccess story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of theireldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buriedtruths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare. Thismoving, tragic drama is a compelling tale of the conflict between father and son, and amerciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the American Dream.Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, All My Sons, brought Arthur Miller his firstmajor success as a playwright, and in 1947 was a great success on Broadway, earning him hisvery first Tony Award for Best Author and established his reputation as a playwright. Over thecourse of his lifetime, Miller went on the win two more Tony Awards for his plays "Death of aSalesman" and "The Crucible," as well as a number of other awards including the John F.Kennedy Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Unrated / 3 hrs
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Oct February 21 - 27 in Woodstock:
The Traitor
February 21 - 27:Fri 7:30 Sat 7:30Sun 4:30Mon-Thur 7:30
(USA / 2019 / Directed by Marco Bellocchio)
Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio (FISTS IN THE POCKET), now 80, this narrativefeature tells the story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra.
In the early 1980's, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade.Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are beingsettled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowinghe may be next. And as the ties of clan loyalty are strained and torn, he's arrested andextradited to Italy by the Brazilian police. Buscetta makes a decision that will changeeverything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the vowhe made to the Cosa Nostra in the so-called "Maxi trial," a chaotic spectacle in whichhundreds of mafiosi are tried simultaneously in a fortified courtroom within a Palermoprison. In Italian with English subtitles.
R / 2 hrs 25 mins
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire:Sneak Preview
February 22:Sat 4:30
(France / 2019 / Written & Directed by CélineSciamma)
A sensuous, painterly period drama set in 18th century Brittany about the friendship thatdevelops between two young women, a painter and her subject whose portrait she iscommissioned to do without the subject's knowledge.
Hoping to marry off her daughter to an Italian royal, a wealthy contessa (Valerie Golino)commissions an artist (Noémie Merlant) to come live at her Brittany estate where she's to
make a portrait of her daughter Héloïse (Adèle Haenel). Easier said than done, as Héloïse hasjust come home after a long stint in a strict convent and is not thinking of marriage, arrangedor otherwise. Therefore, Marianne must pose as a hired companion and paint Héloïse insecret - from memory - so that the her mother can make a deal for her hand without herknowledge. This is the fourth feature from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma (GIRLHOOD) andis a confidently crafted period drama that is traditional in its formal beauty and progressive inits treatment of romance between women. French with English subtitles.
R / 2 hrs 1 min
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