Some doors bring you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything. Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey– a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

Adelyne is filmmaker Holden Osborne’s backwoods alter-ego – she will share a story from the Last Day of Summer before she and the audience commune with plants. Followed by a parade to the river.

An expansive portrait of the life and music of Billy Joel, exploring the love, loss, and personal struggles that fuel his songwriting; intimately exploring the life and work of Joel, whose music has endured across generations.

The story begins in 1930, with several members of both the upper-crust and servant-class inhabitants of Downton attending a performance of a Noel Coward operetta in the West End Although everyone seems to be having a fine time, it soon becomes clear that there’s trouble brewing, especially when Robert (Hugh Bonneville), Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) and Mary (Michelle Dockery) attend a high-society ball. When scandalous news of Mary’s divorce becomes public, she becomes an instant pariah and is ordered to immediately leave.

Perhaps Kubrick's most perfectly realized film in part due to Terry Southern's sparkling script in which the world comes to an end thanks to a mad US general's paranoia about women and commies. Sellers' three roles make for a bravura showcase. And matching him is George C. Scott as the gung-ho military man frustrated by political soft-pedalling, and - especially - Hayden as the beleaguered lunatic who presses the button. The result is scary, hilarious, and nightmarishly beautiful, a bracing portrait of insanity. (dir. Stanley Kubrick, U.K/U.S, 1964, 95 min.) With post-film discussion by Kubrick scholar Andrew Delbanco after 9/19 screening.

CLOSE UP post-screening Q&A with dir. Gary Hustwit A movie event: this groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician Brian Eno is different every time it’s shown: presenting a different order, scenes, and music. This innovative approach echoes Eno’s iterative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity. Beginning his career as an original member of the legendary Roxy Music, Eno released a series of classic solo records before pioneering the new genre of ambient music. As a producer, Eno also helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most important artists in music, including David Bowie, U2, and Talking Heads. (dir. Gary Hustwit, USA, 2024, 100 min.) “A singular experience, impossible to replicate.” Rolling Stone “A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age” -The Quietus

Les Blank was known mainly for his films about regional music and musicians; here he offers a cinematic song in praise of the glories of the stinking rose. We meet evangelists who see it not just as a food, but a medicine and a way of life.

On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill.

Housing is the central challenge facing the Hudson Valley. Tonight we meet some of the people and organizations working on solutions: Steve Rosenberg, the co-convener of the Hudson Valley Alliance for Housing & Conservation; Adam Bosch , president and CEO of Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress; and Kevin O’Connor , CEO of RUPCO. WAMC’s Hudson Valley bureau chief Jesse King, will moderate the discussion on topics ranging from public policy to development and conservation, recorded for a future airing. Presented by WAMC On The Road and The Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley.

In 1975, Keith Jarrett played a live show that became the best-selling solo jazz album of all time. This is the (lightly fictionalized) story of how that show barely happened. Vera, a moxie-filled teenage producer, coordinated the historic concert in Germany, and shows us this behind-the-scenes look at how music history was made.  (dir. Ido Fluk, Germany, 2025, 116 min.) “You don’t need to be a Keith Jarrett fan to enjoy ‘Köln 75,’ but for anyone who is, the movie is a savory anecdote that colors in his fluky rapture.” — Variety

This 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film features music by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (whose story is featured in the upcoming Blue Moon by Richard Linklater). It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love. The famed Broadway composer-lyricist team supply the festivities with a full slate of witty, cheeky tunes. (dir. Rouben Mamoulian, U.S., 1932, 89 min.)

Cities and their dwellers evolve and grow in ways that are both richly intertwined and beautifully complex. In her gentle, timeless and quietly absorbing debut feature, Love, Brooklyn, director Rachael Abigail Holder wisely portrays such winds of change in her beloved Brooklyn, through the lived-in stories of three unique Brooklynites, as imagined by screenwriter Paul Zimmerman. While they grapple with the shifts that unfold in their own lives and relationships, the city spaces that they lovingly exist in go through subtle transformations of their own. As the easygoing writer Roger, producer and star André Holland is one third of that trio, soulfully biking around the city, working his way towards an impossible deadline. He is in an initially casual, and gradually deepening relationship with the confident and no-nonsense Nicole (DeWanda Wise), who dotingly raises her daughter as a single mother and navigates the emotional challenges of the recent loss of her husband. Elsewhere, the free-spirited Casey (Nicole Beharie) tries to decide on the future of her treasured art gallery, while steering her complicated camaraderie with her ex Roger—one that feels just a little more than a friendship. Specific in the sophisticated details of its characters, deeply immersive through its astute narrative and placid rhythms, and attentive to the nuances of love and friendship, Love, Brooklyn is both a tender ode to the cities we hold dear, and a fresh addition to the great tradition of compulsively rewatchable New York movies to luxuriate in.

When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunites to rescue one of their own's daughter.

Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer) are forced to reunite for one final concert. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues also marks the resurrection of documentarian Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner), who once again tries to capture his favorite metal gods as they contemplate mortality—and the hope that their 12th drummer doesn’t join them in The Great Beyond. Joined by music royalty Paul McCartney and Elton John, Spinal Tap wrestles with their checkered past to put on a concert that they hope will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock ’n' roll.

"Poet, Egyptologist, cosmologist, historian, activist, bandleader, musician…jazz pioneer Sun Ra was all of these. In this illuminating biography, Christine Turner takes us on a complex journey through the life of a complex man who either was born in Birmingham, Alabama, sent from Saturn, or both. With his band, the Arkestra, he extended the boundaries of free-form jazz, put his own mark on the standards, and pursued forays into electronic music, yet could be just as inspired to riff on 'Over the Rainbow.' His musical mission was also rooted as an agent toward advancing Afrofuturism, mixing interstellar metaphors ('space is the place') and his own scientific explanations ('transmolecularization') with the state of Black life in America. Turner gracefully balances recollections from the Arkestra’s devout, still-in-awe band members and dancers, comments from big-fan historians, scholars and other musicians, and the musings of Sun Ra himself with unforgettable performance footage and scenes from a self-produced film to paint a portrait — informative, enriching, and at times mind-blowing — of a man who was as much a visionary as a he was a musician.”

10th anniversary screening. The 46ers are those who have climbed all 46 High Peaks of the Adirondacks. The first 46ers were an unlikely band of fellows: Adirondack Guide Herbert Clark and the young brothers Robert and George Marshall. They identified 46 mountains in Upstate New York with an elevation of 4,000 feet or higher. Between 1918 and 1925 they hiked to the top of all 46 peaks. Since then, over 7,000 people have done the same. This documentary tells the stories of many ordinary men and women who have done the extraordinary and highlight the inspiring beauty of Upstate New York. (dir. Blake Cortright, USA, 2015, 65 min.)

A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy. The members must now find out who's human and who's not before it's too late.