PG-13
Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director Barbara Kopple. Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Kopple’s American Dream unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult. Fed up with dangerous plant conditions and drastic wage cuts, Austin’s Local P-9 went against the advice of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and, with the help of labor activist Ray Rogers’s campaign to damage the meatpacking giant’s public reputation, conducted a nearly yearlong walkout. Following up her landmark documentary Harlan County USA with another engrossing report from the trenches of working-class America, Kopple poignantly captures the human and political costs of one of the most significant setbacks to organized labor amid the unchecked corporatism of the Reaganomics era.
R
The much-awaited sci-fi horror thriller, based on the web series of the same name, is an eerie journey through a haunted complex. When a therapist's patient goes into the dangerous twists and turns of his own mind (or is it?), his therapist follows, hoping to bring him home. Using lo-fi 1990s horror methods of filming and immersive visuals, we enter the Backrooms, which features Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell. (dir. Kane Parsons, US, 2026, 105 min.)
Rfor macabre violence and gore, strong sexuality and some language
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.
Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.
NR
This visionary music documentary traces the turbulent, transcendent life of Gregg Allman — from a childhood ruptured by his father’s murder to the soulful emergence that reshaped American music. Through archival recordings, candid interviews, and electric performances, the film follows Gregg’s musical awakening amid the blues he worshipped, the creation of the Allman Brothers Band with his brother.
TBC
In this singular event, Ocean Vuong will discuss the heart-wrenching documentary about the labor struggle between a coal miners' strike and the corporation's violent pushback, which lasted a full year. Winner of the 1977 Academy Award and ranked 24 in Sight and Sound's greatest documentaries of all time, this film doesn't hold back from the grit and reality of labor crimes, as well as Appalachian life. (dir. Barbara Kopple, 1976, USA, 103 min.) "The stars of the film are the men and women of Harlan County, portrayed here not as patronized mountain folks but as human beings." — Variety
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes tells the story of a musician whose ambitions were both inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him.[1] The film follows Roach across seven decades—as a pioneering, master drummer, bandleader and cultural activist--from the revolutionary Bebop Jazz of the 1940s to the Civil Rights years; experiments in Hip Hop, multi-media works and more. (dir. Sam Pollard Ben Shapiro, U.S. 2023, 82 min.)
Abby, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abby meets a programmer, Sam, who has created a technology that reconnects Abby with her beloved father. Her relationship with her digitized dad then forces her to re-examine everything from her romantic relationships to her life’s work. O Horizon (Close Up w/ dir. Madeleine Rotzler) on Friday, June 26 7 pm at the Orpheum/Saugerties
RFor language
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
NR
Peter Asher’s extraordinary life has intersected with some of the greatest artists and musical moments of the last six decades. A child actor who became a pop star and then a manager and producer to the likes of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, he is a Zelig-like figure who remains a vital creative force to this day. Featuring interviews with Paul McCartney, Carole King, and many more.
PG-13for war violence, bloody images, some strong language, and smoking
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
TBC
It is set in the botanical garden of Marburg, a medieval university town in Germany, and tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of more than 100 years.
A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. The screening of this film is generously supported by Will Nixon and Sponsored by Bushwhack Books in Honor of Indivisible Saugerties. The Revival House series is presented by Ruge’s Auto Group. It is also generously underwritten by the Ettinger Foundation, Ray Nimrod, Patricia Alofsin, and Erik Stangvik. The Acts of Resistance series is generously underwritten by Bushwhack Books, publisher of Crossing Divides by Vernon Benjamin, in support of Indivisible Saugerties., This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
PGfor thematic material, some violent content and brief language
In this witty, new breed of mystery, George (Hugh Jackman) is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can’t possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.