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The Girl Who Played With Fire
Friday Sept 3 - Thursday Sept 9, closed Tuesday
Times
Friday 7:15 | Saturday 6 & 8 | Sunday through Thursday 7:15
The Girl Who Played with Fire is a 2009 Swedish film directed by Daniel Alfredson. It is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the second in his "Millennium Trilogy".
Lisbeth Salander returns to Sweden after spending a year abroad. Having returned, she falls under suspicion for having committed the murder of a journalist and his girlfriend as well as her guardian Nils Bjurman. Mikael Blomkvist has to do what he can to find her before the authorities do.
Dance Film Sundays Swing Dance!
Sunday, September 12 2 PM $10/$6 children
Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging
With live swing dance performance
The Rosendale Theatre Collective is unleashing the vital energy of swing dance - on the screen and on the stage, with some audience participation, too. Never Stop Swinging is the third in the series of programs called Dance Film Sundays.
Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging, directed by Julie Cohen, captures the life of the "Ambassador of Lindy Hop" who died in 2009 at age 95. He rose to national attention in the 1930s, stayed in the public eye through the 1940s and 50s, and achieved "national treasure" status the 80's and 90's. Featuring the dancer's last major interview before his death, the film includes contemporary and classic footage, a highlight being sequences of Manning and members of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, the energetic, immensely talented group based in Harlem's Savoy Ballroom that made the Lindy Hop a national phenomenon. Also included is Mr. Manning's appearance in Universal Picture's "Hellzapoppin (1941) which is still considered the greatest swing dance number of all time.
Dance historian and Lindy Hop enthusiast Frank Nestor will provide commentary and show a series of vintage clips of swing dance. Mr. Nestor will be joined by Emily Vanston, who appears courtesy of Vanaver Caravan, for a question and answer session ...PLUS...a live performance by Nestor and Vanston as they show-off their own swing dancing virtuosity..
The fun will continue after the show is over. At 6 PM the audience is invited to for Swing Dance instruction and jamming at Rosendale's Gina Marie's Timeless Sweets, Bridge Plaza, for the bi-monthly Vanaver Caravan Swing Sundae. All levels of dancers are encouraged to participate. Price of admission to Swing Sundae is $15.
The fourth Dance Film Sunday, at 2 PM on October 10, will feature a live performance--a preview of new choreography for Risa Jaroslow and Company's upcoming New York City Season. Additionally, Rites of Passage, Ms. Jaroslow's 1979 dance film that was shot at New York City's no-longer existent Arts Space on the Hudson River will be screened. Besides her distinctive choreography, Ms. Jaroslow's international reputation rests on her for the way she weaves her dancers with a community and her communities with dancers.
Tuesday, September 14 at 7:15
By donation
The Rosendale Theatre will host a special free public screening of the award-winning documentary, FLOW, on Tuesday, September 14, at 7:15 pm, as part of the 2010 Ulster County Creek Week to raise awareness about watershed issues. This critically acclaimed documentary film, directed by Irena Salina, investigates what experts have labeled the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century--the World Water Crisis. The New York Times calls FLOW an “astonishingly wide-ranging film” that is “less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.” The film showing is sponsored by the town environmental commissions of Rosendale and Marbletown, the Rondout Creek Watershed Council, and Stand for Land. The Rosendale Theatre is located on Main Street, Rosendale. Info: 687-7116.
Hudson Valley Poets
A Benefit for the Rosendale Theatre Collective
Sunday, September 19, 2pm Admission $10
Over two-dozen Hudson Valley Poets will honor the Rosendale Theatre in a reading and discussion of their work. Hosted by local writer Laurence Carr and featuring poets Will Nixon, Kate Hymes, Donald Lev, Barbara Adams, Robert Milby, Dennis Doherty, Mike Jurkovic, Jacqueline Ahl, Matt Spireng, David Appelbaum and Lucia Cherciu among many others.
A celebration of John Lennon's 70th birthday
A live concert by The Quarrymen (The band that became the Beatles)
Plus a special sneak preview of the new movie Nowhere Boy
(John Lennon's teenage years and the birth of the Beatles)
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Nowhere Boy captures and conveys the crucial formative teenage years of John Lennon. For the first time on screen, it depicts the events and personal circumstances that led to the formation of the Beatles, and the underlying family currents that shaped and molded the creative and inspirational qualities of John Lennon; qualities that had a revolutionary impact on the world during his brief 40 years of life, and continue to have immense effect 30 years after his death.
The Quarrymen
In 1956, a 15-year-old Liverpool schoolboy named John Lennon recruited five of his closest friends to join him in a skiffle and rock 'n' roll group called The Quarrymen.
On July 6th 1957, the group was performing at the annual garden party of the local village church St. Peter's. A friend of John Lennon attended the performance and brought with him another pal. He felt that his two friends should meet. The friend he brought with him was a just-turned-15 lad named Paul McCartney.$25 General Seating
$45 Gold Circle with special artists' reception and preferred seating
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