In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when tours were canceled and all live music went silent, one band refused to stay quiet. The musical duo Buke and Gase performs to the eerily empty, famed hall Basilica Hudson

Based on author Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network, Dumb Money tells the story of fortunes made and lost overnight in the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze that may have changed Wall Street forever. It offers a scathing, funny and emotional portrayal of how a loosely affiliated group of amateur investors and internet denizens crushed one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street and upended the establishment.

Harry Smith was a wide-ranging, bohemian polymath: a musicologist, painter, magician, and linguist. He also made tactile, visionary short films with beautifully hand-painted frames, here accompanied live by the composer Will Epstein and his freewheeling band. Epstein’s album, “Wendy” – “an imaginative blend of cosmic jazz, psych, and 1970s soft rock” (Pitchfork) –was recently released on Fat Possum Records. The Apparatus series is presented by Jane Street Gallery, Saugerties

Willy Deville earned the praise of artists like Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. He cut his teeth on blues and rock. He had the looks. He had the talent. But he never broke into the mainstream. Why? In this film, director Larry Locke explores the personal and professional life of this underappreciated artist. If you like rock and roll but you’ve never heard of Mink Deville, you’re going to leave the theater with some new favorite songs. (dir. Larry Locke, U.S, 2020 100 min) “Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage presence camouflages an acute musical intelligence; his songs and arrangements are rich in ethnic rhythms and blues echoes, the most disparate stylistic references, yet they flow seamlessly and hang together solidly.” – music critic Robert Palmer

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

A SONIC WAVE Weekly screening This joyful documentary on the history of music in French Southwest Louisiana has the energy of festival season and features Cajun and Zydeco greats, like Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil, Clifton Chenier, and many others. It embraces the generous spirit and colorful characters of a special and often forgotten cornerstone of American music. (dir. Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, Maureen Gosling, U.S, 1989-2021, 84 min). “Passion, humor and common sense illuminate this classic from national treasure Les Blank.” – NY Times

Two of Ingmar Bergman’s favorite actors, Max Von Sydow and Liv Ulman, play a husband and pregnant wife who live in artistic solitude on an island. All seems well until nightmares of monsters plague the husband and worry the wife. Strange friends from a neighboring castle (because scary movies always need weirdos in a castle) stoke the fragile couple’s relationship with news of a former lover, and unease seeps into their psyche. Soon, the nightmares become all too real. Oozing with ghoulish imagery that mirrors a personal unraveling, this Bergman classic promises to disturb. (Sweden, 1968, 88m) “Probably the darkest of Ingmar Bergman’s journeys into his shadowy interior.” - The New Yorker

Part of the SONIC WAVE weekly series. This joyful documentary on the history of music in French Southwest Louisiana has the energy of festival season and features Cajun and Zydeco greats, like Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil, Clifton Chenier, and many others. It embraces the generous spirit and colorful characters of a special and often forgotten cornerstone of American music. (dir. Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, Maureen Gosling, U.S, 1989-2021, 84 min). “Passion, humor and common sense illuminate this classic from national treasure Les Blank.” – NY Times

King Crimson is a band that people literally are dying to be in. In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence. For over 50 years Robert Fripp, also famous for his work with Bowie and Eno, has overseen a unique creative environment in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band’s members - only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder. It's a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact.

One of the unsung heroes of blues and rock&roll, Lee Fields’ career has touched groups like Kool & the Gang and Sharon Jones, to rappers Travis Scott and A$ap Rocky. Often compared to James Brown, this documentary shows that soul veteran Lee Fields’ life and goals were unique and rich. (dir. Jessamyn Ansary, Joyce Mishaan, U.S, 2022, 76 m) “Just when you’re thinking soulman Lee Fields deserves a proper documentary about his remarkable life and creative blossoming, along it comes.” – Echoes Magazine

Co-presented with the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Pioneering African American photographer and painter Adger Cowans will show selected works and discuss his seven-decade career and perspectives on being an artist with Brian Wallis, a photo historian and Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. At 86, Cowans remains remarkably insightful, vibrant, and productive; he is an inspiration, whose beautiful work spans decades of social and cultural change. In 1958, Cowans joined Gordon Parks at Life Magazine, where Parks encouraged Cowans to use his camera as a weapon against racism and violence. In 1963 Adger was a founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a photo and art collective that sought to undermine racist depictions of Black communities. As the first African American film set photographer in Hollywood, Cowans worked on over thirty productions, alongside directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, and Spike Lee. He has exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman Museum and numerous other institutions around the world. This unique event will feature a wide-ranging slideshow of Cowans’ portraiture, landscape, fine art, and documentary photographs, as well as short film clips and behind-the-scenes accounts of his many experiences on some popular movies (On Golden Pond, Juice, The Eyes of Laura Mars, Dirty Dancing, The Cotton Club, and Live and Let Die). “Extraordinary … Their human bodies, their environments, the sounds around them, and the sutra merge into a single expression unfolding before and within us … It is, for us, a transformative experience.” –Tricycle

***Thursday, September 28 -Talking Heads cover band I Get Wild will do a set from 6:45 pm-7:15 pm, film will follow. ONLY For The Community Theatre show in Catskill. Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.

Innocent Susie Bannon joins a prestigious West-Berlin dance company only to discover that a dancer has gone missing and the teachers are a coven of witches. The longer she lasts at the school, the more violence and beauty abound. Charged with gore and ritual, this piece is sometimes considered as much body-horror as it is a supernatural thriller. With a killer score by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and a roster of excellent actresses like Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, and Dakota Johnson, this remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 italo-horror film is not to be missed. (U.S., 2018, 152m) “Suspiria is a film of rare and unfettered madness, and it leaves behind a scalding message that's written in pain and blood: The future will be a nightmare if we can't take responsibility for the past.” - IndieWire

The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour. Taylor Swift Eras attire and friendship bracelets are strongly encouraged!

From writer/director Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One,” “Godzilla”) comes an epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua (John David Washington, "Tenet"), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife (Gemma Chan, "Eternals"), is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war… and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory… only to discover the world-ending weapon he’s been instructed to destroy is an AI in the form of a young child (newcomer Madeleine Yuna Voyles).

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

The Unsilent Picture is a new silent film about a stodgy atheist (played by Tony-award winning “Clown Prince of Broadway” Bill Irwin) who is dared to spend the night in a haunted house. Halloween hijinks ensue as we learn to always have a special regard for the unknown. The film is paired with a live Foley sound effect performance by Leslie Bloome, co-founder of Alchemy Post Sound, for a truly spooky, theatrical experience. An in-person artist talkback on the history of spooky silent cinema with Leslie Bloome and Alex Harvey will directly follow the screening.

Tony Award winner Ben Platt and Molly Gordon star in the original comedy THEATER CAMP as Amos and Rebecca-Diane – lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York. When clueless tech-bro Troy (Jimmy Tatro) arrives to run the property (into the ground), Amos, Rebecca-Diane, and production manager Glenn (Noah Galvin) band together with the staff and students, staging a masterpiece to keep their beloved summer camp afloat.

Written and performed by Adrienne Truscott, THIS is a brash, wickedly funny, genre-shifting solo show. Taking a confessional approach, Truscott bounces from feminism to the most recent presidency to unconventional urban living. Also thrown in the blender: truth, fiction, memoir, creative sources and what demarcates performance, intention, and execution. 'In “THIS,” Truscott has managed a real tongue twister: to make a dance about dance with no dance in it...to choreograph a dance of the mind.' - Gia Kourlas, New York Times.

A prequel to David Lynch’s famous television series Twin Peaks, this film chronicles the last week of homecoming queen Laura Palmer. Laura’s secret, racy late-night lifestyle exposes the dark underbelly of an all-American town, and puts her in grave danger. Arresting visuals that are now synonymous with Lynch are freshly used to investigate the question of how both pure and adulterated desires can exist in the same being. The answer? Maybe they can’t. (U.S., 1992, 134m) “Fire Walk With Me is not just an artistic triumph in its own right, it’s the key to the entire Twin Peaks universe. A quarter of a century on, the film is being rightly rediscovered by fans and critics as Lynch's unsung masterwork. It took a long time, and it took its toll on its maker, but Fire Walk With Me has finally come in from the cold.” - The Guardian