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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday Night at the Movies has been presented by Rivertown Film and Riverspace Arts in Nyack since January of 2007. The only local venue devoted to showing films in limited release, this series primarily presents recent foreign and American independent films, and occasionally recently re-released classic films, most of which would not otherwise appear on a big screen in 35mm in Rockland County. The Lives of Others (2007 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film), La Vie En Rose (2008 Academy Award nominee), and Away From Her (2008 Academy Award nominee), to name just a few, are examples of films that received their only local screening from Wednesday Night at the Movies.
Wednesday Night at the Movies is unique in providing local access to the diversity of styles and content found in contemporary film. It gives us the opportunity to share stories from around the world that enhance our own lives, and sends a message to our children that our county values a full spectrum of filmmaking.
A special Wednesday Night at the Movies miniseries, World Cinema Classics, which was presented at Nyack’s Riverspace and Suffern’s historic Lafayette Theater, presented Rockland County’s first 35mm screenings of important classic films by Ozu, Fellini, Cocteau, Bergman and Truffaut.
Discussions after selected screenings have been led by guests who have included Melvin Van Peebles, the subject of Badasssss, three-time Sundance honoree for cinematography Ellen Kuras, the international editor of Associated Press, and filmmaking and appreciation faculty from various colleges and universities in the area. New films by local filmmakers are shown regularly. Jonathan Demme’s Right to Return, and Megamall by Sarah Mondale, Vera Aronow and Roger Grange, were shown as works-in-progress in December 2007. Daughters of Wisdom, a new film by New City native Bari Pearlman, winner of the audience award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival, will screen in March 2008. And Don Nace exhibited artwork he made as a scenic designer on “Across the Universe” that was central to that film’s theme.
Wednesday Night at the Movies presents these motion pictures the way they were meant to be seen, in projected 35mm film, except in cases where a film has been shot on video and released only on video.
Tickets are available in advance and may be obtained in person or by phone from the Riverspace box office, 845-348-1880, or on-line from www.riverspace.org. The Riverspace box office is open every day except Monday, noon to 6pm. It is open later on evenings when there is a film or performance.
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