Upcoming Movies at Nyack Center

Meet Avery Klein-Cloud, an African-American teenager at the center of this powerful, intimate documentary about family and identity. Raised in a household with white Jewish lesbian parents and two adopted non-white brothers, Avery’s curiosity about her biological mother and her search for … [Read more...]

One of the year’s most critically acclaimed films, this riveting crime thriller follows 17-year-old Ree’s quest to find her father, a convicted methamphetamine dealer who disappeared after posting the family homestead for bail. If she fails, her impoverished family will be turned out into the … [Read more...]

Assembled from 300 hours of footage shot in Afghanistan over three years, this remarkable documentary follows several US National Guardsmen, the Afghan officers they worked with, and the new Afghan battalion to be trained. Their stories – of frustrations and friendship across cultural, political … [Read more...]

Celebrated filmmaker Fatih Akin’s oddball comedy of food, friends, music, and Hamburg’s multicultural, bohemian/grunge subculture. Zinos, owner of a scruffy restaurant, is struggling to stay in business amid a series of calamities and the eccentric characters around him – including an ex-con … [Read more...]

DIG OUT AND COME ENJOY A GREAT EVENING. THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AS PLANNED. After the film, join Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) in a discussion led by Francis Wilkinson (Executive Editor, The Week magazine). Gibney’s film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room was also … [Read more...]

Special pre-release screening and Q&A with director John Gray and, schedules permitting, film stars Stephen Lang (Avatar, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Public Enemies), and Peter Riegert (Traffic, Crossing Delancey, Animal House). 1/18 UPDATE: The guest line-up is changing, and Stephen Lang is … [Read more...]

Featuring a post-screening performance by The Male Chorus of The First Baptist Church of Spring Valley. The story of the American civil rights movement, told through the powerful music sung on picket lines, in mass meetings, and in jail cells. The infectious energy of these freedom songs, which … [Read more...]

Post-screening HOWL Happening: discussion about the film, Ginsberg and poetry. It’s San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. The film recounts this moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as … [Read more...]

Join two-time Oscar nominee Kristi Zea for the “not-Hollywood-enough” director’s cut of The Joneses, never before shown in the U.S. A "jaw-dropping" premise (Rex Reed), great performances and a strong festival kick-off gave this fun satire of consumer culture early momentum. Then it stalled. … [Read more...]

Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary (2011). Join us afterward for "A Screenwriter's Perspective" with J.D. Zeik. Waste Land follows the journey of renowned artist Vik Muniz to the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, outside Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band … [Read more...]

A vintage “girl power” tale based on the true story of 187 female sewing machine operators at a Ford plant sweatshop in 1968, whose threat to strike eventually led the British Parliament to pass an Equal Pay Act. Starring award-winner Sally Hawkins as Rita, their fast-talking, fiery-tempered … [Read more...]

Meet the Filmmakers: Indian film star and renown cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey, with Rockland County indie producer Declan Baldwin. Aasif Mandvi (cowriter and star of Today's Special has been called to work at his regular job as "International Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and … [Read more...]

Renowned director Margarethe von Trotta’s portrayal of the 12th century Benedict nun, an extraordinary mystic, composer, writer, healer and ecological activist. Barbara Sukowa captures von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand women’s roles within the order, despite outrage from the Church. … [Read more...]

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Writer/Director Kenneth Bowser will be interviewed by Declan Baldwin after the screening. A revealing biography of a conflicted truth-seeking troubadour who, with his guitar in hand, stood up for what he believed and challenged us all to do the same. Unyielding in his political … [Read more...]

Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2010 Mija, a sixty-something woman, makes a living by cleaning house for an elderly man. Faced with the discovery of a monstrous crime involving her sullen adolescent grandson, it is Mija’s poetry class at a local cultural center that gives her … [Read more...]

Oscar winner Kevin Kline (in his first French-speaking role) and French star Sandrine Bonnaire shine in this sophisticated dramedy set on the beautiful isle of Corsica. Middle-aged chambermaid Hélène’s newfound obsession with chess—a passion that rankles her husband and teenage … [Read more...]

AFTER THE FILM, join a discussion of what makes Bill Cunningham so unique, with two guests who produced their own short profile of Cunningham over a decade ago: Amy Atkins (news anchor, correspondent, style & fashion specialist and former host of Fox Style News) and award-winning cinematographer … [Read more...]

A Western that captures the immense hardships and strange, frightening lands faced by early pioneers—a far cry from the macho world of John Wayne. Three families, guided by the enigmatic Stephen Meek, are lost along the Oregon Trail, facing hunger, thirst, and exhaustion. When a Native American … [Read more...]

STEEL EARTH Episode 1: “Auto Archaeology,” 10 minutes, 2009; Episode 2, “Dodge Coronet,” 17 minutes, 2010; Episode 3, “Tackamack Park,” 22 minutes, 2011; Produced & Directed by Jason Paris, made in Rockland County Tickets: $5, sold … [Read more...]

MEET THE FILMMAKERS: Post-film discussion with Rockland actor Bern Cohen and members of Nim’s first adoptive human family, moderated by New York Times “Science Times” editor David Corcoran. Oscar-winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) tells the story of Nim, the “subject” of a 1970’s … [Read more...]