COVER-UPs, AMERICAN STYLE
Political and media manipulation as seen in four films Written and Directed by Greg Mitchell
Wednesday, September 24 at 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
Filmmaker Greg Mitchell will present clips from four of his films and discuss them with ArtsRock director and WQXR host Elliott Forrest.
Atomic Cover-up (2022): Suppressed footage of suffering caused by the US nuclear bombing of Japanese in 1945 is uncovered. The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair (2023): When Upton Sinclair swept the Democratic primary for governor of California in 1934- MGM producer Irving Thalberg created the first attack ads. Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried (2023): Ten striking workers were killed by police in 1937, and the film disappeared. The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero – and Nuclear Peril Today (2025): A few months after the second atomic bomb blast in Japan, the U.S. military staged a football game on a killing field. Why? … Read more
Sorry, Baby
Directed by Eva Victor
With Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi
2025, USA, 103 minutes, rated R for language, sex, partial nudity.
Wednesday, September 10, 8:00pm
At The Nyack Center
Meet the filmmaker: Louis Cancelmi will discuss Sorry, Baby with moderator Nancy Savoca (Household Saints) after the screening.
When Agnes (played with deadpan humor by writer/director Eva Victor), a college professor in New England, is visited by an old roommate who has reached a milestone in her life, Agnes realizes she has been stuck and needs find a way to move on with her own life as well. … Read more
Piece by Piece free outdoors in Memorial Park, Nyack FREE
Directed by Morgan Neville
With Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Gwen Stafani, Timbaland, Snoop Dog,
Justin Timbalake, Jay-Z, N.O.R.E., Daft Punk, Busta Rhymes, Pusha-T
voicing their lego selves. 2024, USA, 93 minutes, rated PG
Friday, August 15, 8:15pm in Memorial Park, Nyack
Brought to you by: Rivertown Film, Village of Nyack, Angel Nyack, Nyack Center
and
Main Street Beat, Music For Life, Rock Shop Nyack, Nyack NAACP, Diamonds and Pearls, Friends of Visit Nyack
Piece by Piece takes viewers on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams, as told by his community of musicians, his family and friends, himself, and a lot of Legos. … Read more
Community Partner: Rivertown Film
Directed by Ashley Dawson
With Vytarie Sisco, L’Tanya Watkins, Esq., Ashley Dawson, Kiandra Castor
2025, USA, 40 minutes
Return Engagement!
Friday, July 25, 7:30 pm at The Nyack Center
THAT KID tells the story of a young, gifted Black boy from Nyack Plaza named James. All of his elders do their darndest to help him prepare for life in a system that is predicated on his exploitation rather than designed for his success.
Directed by Jeremy Workman
2024, USA, 91 minutes
Wednesday, July 23, 8:00pm at The Nyack Center
In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the way.
Directed by Louise Courvoisier
With Clément Faveau, Maïwène Barthélemy, Luna Garret
2024, France, 90 minutes, in French with English Subtitles
Wednesday, July 9, 8:00pm at The Nyack Center
After the tragic death of his father, 18 year old Totone is thrust into the unexpected and very adult role of looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the Jura section of France. He assumes even more responsibility when he enters a cash competition for the best Comte cheese made in this western part of the French Alps.
Directed by Marta Renzi and Daniel Wolff
2024, USA, 45 minutes, documentary
Wednesday, June 25, 8:00pm at The Nyack Center
A revealing and humorous double portrait of Catherine Murphy and Harry Roseman whose work is in collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Metropolitan Transit Authority. “Cathy & Harry” documents how their lives revolve in joyous, dizzying intensity around work, food, friends, and each other.
Showing: Saturday, May 17, 8:00 PM
Doors Open at 7:15.
Arrive by 7:50 or your seat may be sold!
Genre: Live Performance
Rivertown Film welcomes Wish We Were Floyd, the authentic Pink Floyd tribute experience, to The Nyack Center on May 17. Their live performance includes one complete album side from The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here, accompanied by a stunning light show that includes original visuals as well as visuals created for the live performance of these records by Pink Floyd.
A Benefit for Rivertown Film
Saturday, May 3, 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
Sponsored By
Elena Schloss / Julia B Fee, Sotheby’s International Realty
SOLD OUT! People who create are inspirations to us all. But what inspires them? Find out at Rivertown Film’s Inspired! on Saturday, May 3. Support our future by attending our signature fundraising event.
Wednesday, April 9, 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
SOLD OUT! For half a decade (2019-2023), Basel Yadra, a young Palestinian activist, unflinchingly chronicled destruction of homes, playgrounds, chicken coops and schools by the Israeli military in twenty West Bank villages together known as Masafer Yatta, resulting in a documentary that is both urgent and personal.
Thursday, April 3, 7:00pm, at the Regal Nanuet Cinema
Rivertown Film is pleased be a Community Partner for the JCC Rockland Jewish Community Center presentation of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round. When five Black students rode a segregated carousel in 1960, they ignited one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protests in US history. Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is the untold story of the Jews they marched with, Nazis they provoked, Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became.
Showing: Friday, March 28, 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
ArtsRock and Rivertown Film Society present 40 film clips with live commentary by Grammy Award-winning conductor LEONARD SLATKIN and WQXR radio host ELLIOTT FORREST.
March 9
SOLD OUT! Lee, the directorial feature debut from award-winning Rockland County based Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslet). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler’s private bathtub.
February 26
Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot, THE OUTRUN is set in the otherworldly Orkney islands of Scotland. It’s a brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on a journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and – one day at a time – Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
February 12
This new film from Raoul Peck (Lumumba, I Am Not Your Negro) chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black free-lance news photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to his homeland. During this period, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid, House of Bondage which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time at the age of 27.
January 8
Ruth Reichl—trailblazing NY Times food critic, groundbreaking Gourmet Magazine editor, best-selling memoirist, and for decades one of the most influential figures shaping American food culture—grows concerned about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestle with both immediate and systemic challenges as the pandemic took hold. Reichl reaches across political and social divides to discover innovators who are risking it all to survive on the front lines.
