Benefit: TIBETAN BAZAAR, FILM and DISCUSSION
An Evening in Tibet
Thursday, Feb 28th / 6:30 pm
(5:30 pm VIP Reception)

Benefit In Celebration of Tibetan Home of Hope
Tibetan Bazaar: shop for Tibetan Goods
Enjoy Delicious Tibetan Hors D’oeuvres
Monks Chanting and more
Film: 'Compassion in Exile'
Discussion: Dr. Robert A.F. Thurman (Modern Buddhist Scholar and President of Tibet House U.S.); Tashi Dolma & Tashi Rabten (Founders of the Home of Hope); Jonathan Demme (Film Director and Advocate for Human rights); John Shea (reading from Tibetan Book of the Dead & Living); and Mickey Lemle (Director of 'Compassion in Exile')

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For more info call: 845.268.2339

Website: www.tibetmedicine.us

Tickets: $100 VIP/$25 / $15 students

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, March 5, 8PM
Margot at the Wedding

A bitingly funny and painfully honest dissection of family life. Margot travels to her childhood beach house for her sister Pauline’s wedding.  Margot is a total nightmare to be around, despite professional success and a loving husband. Pauline realizes that her sister hasn’t changed, and, over the course of a few days, past and present conflicts erupt and explode, threatening to ruin Pauline’s nuptials completely.

Directed by Noah Baumbach, with Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black. USA, 2007, 91 minutes, rated R.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, March 12, 8PM
Daughters Of Wisdom

Kala Rongo is a rare and exceptional Buddhist Monastery for nuns situated on Tibet’s Northeastern plateau. Monastic life, long available only to men, is here granted to women. Without glorification or cliché, Pearlman offers a revealing impression of her subjects’ lives, preserving and reshaping their cultural heritage.

The filmmaker and the founder of the Monastery, Lama Norlha Rinpoche, will both be present at this screening.

Directed by Bari Pearlman.  USA , 2007, 68 minutes, documentary, not rated.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, March 19, 8PM
Starting Out In The Evening

This tale of an all-but-forgotten novelist in his 70's is a picture of steadfast dignity and decorum. The disciplined rhythm of Leonard’s life is slowly interrupted by  an ambitious young graduate student who wants to write her master’s thesis on him. Flattered and unnerved by the attention, Leonard allows himself to be transported into a delicate and peculiar romance – which might undo him.

Directed by Andrew Wagner, with Frank Langella, Lili Taylor, Lauren Ambrose. USA, 2007, 111 minutes, rated PG-13.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, March 26, 8PM
I’m Not There

A dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music’s most revered and enigmatic artist, Bob Dylan. Six different actors portray several incarnations of the ground-breaking troubadour. A challenging, sprawling work that spans several decades and genres. Director Haynes uses his expansive knowledge of movie-history to pay homage to a variety of genres directors from Fellini to Godard, using many gorgeous visual styles for emphasis.

Directed by Todd Haynes, with Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere.  USA, 2007, 135 minutes, rated R.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, April 2, 7:30PM
Rockland Jewish Film Festival
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

It’s 1970, and Brazil is led by a military dictatorship. Twelve-year-old Mauro’s parents flee, leaving Mauro at his grandfather’s. A Jewish neighbor takes him in, and he becomes part of the Jewish community, while waiting for his parents to return.

Directed by Cao Hamburger.  Brazil 2006, 104 minutes, Portuguese with English subtitles.

Tickets: $15 (no Rivertown Film discount)

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, April 9, 8PM
The Golden Door

At the turn of the 20th-century, a dirt-poor family from Sicily travels by ship to Ellis Island, a voyage that was made by the relatives of 40% of our population. It is a story that has been well told in many films, but never like this. The Golden Door is an original, stunningly photographed, emotionally resonant film about the voyage into the unknown.

Directed by Emanuele Crialese. Italy, 2006, 118 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, April 16, 8PM
Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

A suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all: itself. Two brothers enter into a larcenous scheme to rob a jewelry store that just happens to be owned by their parents. When the heist goes awry, their father pursues justice at any cost, completely unaware that the culprits he’s hunting are his own sons.

Directed by Sidney Lumet, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei. USA, 2007,117 minutes, rated R.

Seventy-five “top ten of 2007” critics’ lists, including NY Times, Post, News, Newsday, Chicago Sun-Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, April 23, 8PM
Honeydripper

A fable about the birth of rock ‘n’ roll in 1950’s Alabama. Tyrone Purvis, the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge is deeply in debt. Hoping to restore former glory to his place, he hires a famous guitar player “guaranteed” to bring in the crowds. When a twist of fate intercedes, Tyrone is forced to bring in a young Sonny, an unknown with nothing but big dreams and his guitar.

Directed by John Sayles, with Danny Glover, Mary Steenburgen, Charles S. Dutton. USA, 2007, 123 minutes, rated PG-13.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors

Rivertown Film and Riverspace Present
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday, April 30, 8PM
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the world-renowned editor of French Elle, suffered a paralyzing stroke at the age of 43. Able to communicate only by blinking his left eye, Bauby produced the words that would form his eloquent memoir. Striking cinematography and first-person perspective convey his interior life, and what emerges is a painful and tender portrait made all the more exhilarating because of its close proximity to death.

Directed by Julian Schnabel, with Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow, Emmanuelle Seigner.  France/USA, 2007, 112 minutes, in French with English subtitles, rated PG-13.

Tickets: $9/$7 students and seniors