January 1st
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 1pm & 7pm
The annual Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Extravaganza is produced by poet Bruce Weber, who brought it to the Hudson Valley from Manhattan seven years ago.This year’s event has been made possible by a 2024 Gratitude Grant from the Saugerties Arts Commission, which gives the award to organizations that offer free art in Saugerties through its grants program. Admission is free. Wine and beer will be available for purchase. The organizers will gratefully accept donations of books, new and used, fiction and nonfiction, hardcover and paperback for the Greene Correctional Facility in Greene County, NY, and non-perishable food, beverages, toothbrushes or toothpaste for the Saugerties Food Pantry, which provides food for nearly 250 men, women and children in the area each month.
Whirlwind: The Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza
January 3rd-9th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St.
All We Imagine As Light- Prabha (Kani Kusruti), a nurse locked in an arranged marriage and Anu (Divya Prabha), her vivacious young roommate having an awkward affair, are seeking to help Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), their older co-worker, is about to be evicted by a greedy developer. Writer-director Payal Kapadia’s powerful debut fiction film make the heat, rain and street crowds of Mumbai vividly palpable and capture the heroines in their quiet dignity with deep wisdom and a visionary camera. Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Cannes. (dir. Payal Kapadia, France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg, 2024, 118m)
January 3rd-16th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St.
Nosferatu- Horror auteur Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) returns with his long-simmering passion project, a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 iconic classic. It’s a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her. Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter, a woman whose soul is seduced by the vampire (Bill Skarsgård) while her husband Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) fights to save her. (dir. Robert Eggers, U.S., 2024, 132 min.)
A Complete Unknown - Timothée Chalamet plays Bob Dylan during his legendary transition from acoustic to electric in the mid-60s, scripted by Jay Cocks (The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York). Filmmaker James Mangold (Ford vs. Ferrari)’s Altman-esque ensemble piece includes Elle Fanning (Suze Rotolo), Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez), Edward Norton (Pete Seeger), Nick Offerman (Alan Lomax) and Boyd Holbrook (Johnny Cash). (dir. James Mangold, U.S., 2024, 135 min.)
Anora- Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winner film begins as a sexually explicit Pretty Woman. Ani (Mikey Madison), a lap-dancer, is not above providing extra services if the price is right. Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, can’t get enough of her. Their impromptu marriage sends their relationship into wildly unpredictable territory. Baker (The Florida Project) continues to display his mastery in depicting people leading unconventional lives on the margins of society. (U.S., 2024, 138m)
January 6th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Rude Boy feat. The Clash- Jack Hazan and David Mingay made the doc A Bigger Splash, an intimate observation of painter David Hockney. Once again merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash — the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era, seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers. (dir. Jack Hazan and David Mingray, U.K., `1980, 127 min.)
January 7th
Dialogue for the Ear and Eye ✹ 3 Simmons Plaza ✹ 7-9pm
You don’t have to register for a ticket or prepay, just arrive. Guests present their work for about twenty minutes each, followed by an open discussion/Q&A.
January 8th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Get Out 7p Jan. 8
Jordan Peele’s modern masterpiece, set in upstate NY, is a potent blend of race-savvy social satire and edge-of-seat horror. The film follows a young black photographer (Daniel Kaluuya), who goes with his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) to her family’s country home. Oscar nominee, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor; Oscar winner, Best Screenplay. (U.S., 2017, 104 min.)
Saugerties Public Library ✹ 91 Washington Ave. ✹ 6pm
A Fine Prospect: Charles Edward Townsend’s Catskill Mountains from Barclay Heights
The lecture will explore Townend‘s sublime landscape and the reasons behind what led him to move to Saugerties at the end of 1852 when his family purchased the house of the first supervisor of the town’s Ulster iron Company Bruce Webber is an independent historian of American art who has primarily been focusing in recent years on the historic Woodstock art colony.
Registration required: 845-246-4317 x2
Available on Zoom by emailing bruweber942@gmail.com
January 10th
The Local ✹ 16 John St. ✹ 7pm
An in-the-round showcase ft. country, folk, and blues artists: Michele Gedney, Paul Andreassen, Jenna Nichols, Garrin Bennfield, Charles Wellcome, and Phil Miller.
Produced by Steve and Terri Massardo
January 11th-16th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St.
The Third Man -Orson Welles steals the show in screenwriter Graham Greene’s comic thriller about a pulp writer investigating his friend’s supposed death in duplicitous, post-war Vienna. The film, with a 4k restoration, is justly famous for its black-and-white cinematography, its atmosphere of paranoia and its influence on subsequent thrillers. Most important is its cultural vitality – while it takes place in a bygone Vienna, in moral terms it’s the same world we inhabit today. (dir. Carol Reed, U.K., 1949, 93 min.)
January 13th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Let’s Get Lost- A cinematic love song to singer-trumpeter Chet Baker, the James Dean of 1950s cool jazz whose moment had passed when photographer Bruce Weber finally caught up with him. Shot in film-noir black & white, the film shifts back and forth from past to present, from Baker’s breakout performance to his poignant late-career decline and struggles with addiction. This dreamy, improvisational film offers a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into a decadent life. (dir. Bruce Weber, U.S., 1988, 120 min.)
January 15th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 8pm
The Lodge- In a remote cabin, Riley Keough is a woman, uneasily, trying to bond with the children of her new boyfriend. That is until her dark past intercedes. This smart film pokes, prods and teases before settling on a devastating twist. (dir. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, 2019, 108 min.)
January 20th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 7pm
Boom: A Film About the Sonics- Before the New York Dolls, the Stooges, and MC5, there was The Sonics, the ultimate garage band. In the mid-60s, the Sonics played local venues around their hometown of Tacoma, Washington before recording their first manic single, “The Witch” on a two-track recorder before releasing two full-length albums. In time they’ve built a legacy including devoted fans like Kurt Cobain and Jack White who claimed they were "harder than the Kinks, and punk long before punk.” (dir. Jordan Albertsen, U.S., 2024, 77 min.)
January 17th-23rd
Babygirl- In this provocative film that will start conversations far and wide, Nicole Kidman plays an e-commerce CEO who has a caring husband (Antonio Banderas) with whom she shares a healthy “normal” sex life … and her secret transgressive fantasies, which play out with an underling (Harris Dickinson, Triangle of Sadness). The movie offers up a sly take on what’s happening in corporate culture. (dir. Halina Reijn, U.S., 2024, 114 min.)
January 24th- 30th
The Presence- Steven Soderbergh continues to push cinema into the 21st century. Shooting under his usual DP pseudonym of Peter Andrews, the director guides his subjective camera into every corner of a handsome old two-story house in a leafy suburb. We know something is a little off in this desirable property, which stands empty and is about to be shown to prospective buyers. (U.S., 2025, 85 min.)
January 22nd
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 8pm
Donnie Darko-Released weeks after 9/11, this time-travel fable stars Jake Gyllenhaal, along with a six-foot-tall rabbit who tells him that the world is coming to an end. The film initially puzzled critics and audiences with its complex blend of psychological thriller, science fiction, and teen drama, but has since metamorphosed into a cult phenomenon, inspiring fervent discussions and analyses. (dir. Richard Kelly, U.S., 2001, 113 min.)
January 27th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 7pm
It’s All Gonna Break- Broken Social Scene burst out of Toronto to become indie-darlings of the early aughts – cinematographer and friend Stephen Chung captured their rise with behind-the-scenes videos, intimate clips from personal archives, footage from live concerts, and interviews with the band’s famously sprawling lineup, including Feist. Chung originally planned on creating a film about the band in 2007, but the band turned him down at the time. (dir. Stephen Chung, Canada, 2024, 94 min.)
January 29th
Orpheum ✹ 200 Main St. ✹ 8pm
Wake in Fright- A young school teacher stranded in the pitiless outback is initiated into local boozing and gambling rituals. Then the nightmare begins, topped by a very graphic kangaroo hunt. Long thought to exist in a single inferior print, this Aussie gem’s original negative was found after a lengthy search, leading to this eye-popping restoration by Martin Scorsese. (dir. Ted Kotcheff, Australia, 1972, 109 min.)
Wishing you Happy Holidays from our SAC Artful Entertaining Meet and Greet.
