Nat Fein: A Talent For Living

A film by Frank LoBuono
2013, USA, 57 minutes

Thursday, April 16, 6:30 pm
At The Nyack Library

Rivertown Film is proud to be a Community Partner for this screening of Nat Fein: A Talent for Living.

Meet the Filmmaker: Frank Lobuono will speak after the film.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Nat Fein gets recognition in the county where he lived, in a documentary made by broadcast journalist Frank LoBuono, also a Rockland County resident. … Read more

Blue Moon

Directed by Richard Linklatter
With Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andew Scott, Margaret Qualley
2025, USA, 100 minutes

Wednesday, April 8, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Meet the Filmmaker: The screenwriter, Robert Kaplow, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Blue Moon, will discuss his work and the film with author Lynn Lauber.

Composer Richard Rogers and lyracist Lorenz Hart worked together on 28 musicals and more than 500 songs, many of which are legendary classics of the Great American Songbook. … Read more

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Directed by Mary Bronstein
With Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien
2025, USA, 113 minutes

Wednesday, March 25, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

With her life (and ceiling) crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. … Read more

You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine

A Film by Fiona Phelan Prine
Directed by Michael John Warren
2025, USA, 90 minutes

Wednesday, March 11, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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After the film, join us for our own celebration of John Prine, with singer and guitarist John Malino.

You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine, captures a star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter, filmed in October 2022 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The event brought together acclaimed artists, friends, and family to share stories and perform classic songs, honoring Prine’s legacy. … Read more

Losing Ground

Directed by Kathleen Collins
1982, USA, 84 minutes

Wednesday, January 25, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

Community Partners: Historical Society of the Nyacks, Piermont Historical Society, CEJJES Institute, African American Historical Society of Rockland County, NAACP Nyack and Spring Valley Branches.

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Losing Ground was one of the first feature films made by a Black woman. Her name is Kathleen Collins (1942 – 1988), and she lived in Piermont and in Nyack, where she raised her children until her life was cut short way too soon.

This screening will include a discussion with Nina and Emilio Collins, the daughter and son of Kathleen Collins, moderated by filmmaker Liani Greaves.

In 2015, Kathleen Collins’s daughter finished restoring her writings, plays, and films. … Read more

Orwell: 2+2=5

Directed by Raoul Peck
2025, USA/France, 119 minutes

Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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There will be a discussion after the film with its producer, Alex Gibney, moderated by writer and director Susanna Styron.

George Orwell was one of the most radical and visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose 1940s novels, such as 1984 and Animal Farm, foretold a chilling, all-to-believable authoritarian future. … Read more

No One Cares About Crazy People

Directed by Gail Freedman
2025, USA, 96 minutes

Wednesday, January 28, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Community Partners: Greater Mental Health of New York, NAMI Rockland

Stay for a discussion with producer/director Gail Freedman, editor Dina Potocki, and Alyssa Schmidt, Vice President of Mobile Support Services at Greater Mental Health of New York, in Valley Cottage.

No One Cares About Crazy People is a powerful and deeply human documentary that confronts one of the most urgent yet overlooked crises of our time: the reality of living with severe mental illness in America. Director Gail Freedman delivers a film that is both intimate and expansive, weaving together personal experience, expert insight, and systemic critique to create a gripping and emotionally resonant cinematic journey. … Read more

It Was Just An Accident

Directed by Jafar Panahi
2025, Iran, 103 minutes, in Farsi with English Subtitles

Wednesday, January 14, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Sadly, the discussion after the film will not include the cinematographer, Amin Jafari. He was to Zoom with us from Iran, but Internet and phone service has been cut off in Iran and we have lost contact with him.

Winner of the Palm d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and the first film by Jafar Panahi since his most recent imprisonment in Iran, It Was Just An Accident is a moral dilemma of a man who has a random encounter with someone he suspects was his torturer while in prison. … Read more

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