Discover, Discuss, and Watch Cinema in the Catskills, Featuring Local Makers & Places
The Mountain Cinema Independent Film Series is curated by Caitlin McColl, who has been leading the Lexington Film Festival for the past 2 years. Films will be shown on the third Thursday of each month, with the directors in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Variable chronicles the 10 year journey of two brothers as they attempt to backcountry ski the Adirondack 46ers—a rugged collection of 46 mountains rising to 4,000ft and higher—in a quest to become the first to ski all 81 of the classic high peaks of the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains.
Beautiful Darling is a 2010 feature-length documentary film about Candy Darling, pioneering trans woman, actress and Andy Warhol superstar.
For the past three years, the 65-foot Schooner Apollonia has been delivering goods up and down the Hudson River by sail sans fossil fuels – a throwback to a day when there were 1,200 such boats on the river each day.
The story of the Videofreex, who pioneered the new medium of video and create the country’s first pirate TV station…in tiny Lanesville, NY.
We talk or laugh about aging; its irritations and relentless progression, but we rarely confront the reality of dying or being left alone. Nor do we consider the lightness and calmness that can come when the success race seems not so crucial. I Like It Here is about all those things and, finally, about the pleasures of being alive.
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