Our Thoughtfully Curated Film Program Spans 75 Years Of Cinema History, Featuring Films Unseen For Decades Alongside Exciting New Discoveries From 2024.
Schedule Of Events:
Catskill Honeymoon
10:00am
Drama-Musical Comedy / 1949 / 96 Min
Director: Josef Berne
A Yiddish-American Musical Revue On Film, Catskill Honeymoon Offers A Fictional 50th Wedding Anniversary Story To Showcase Authentic Performers Of Vaudeville Comedy And Musical Acts In English And Yiddish, Once Mainstays In Borscht Belt Resorts. Much Of The Film Was Shot At Young’s Gap Hotel In The Catskills. In English And Yiddish (With Occasional Subtitles.)
Sweet Lorraine
12:30pm
Comedy-Drama/ 1987 / 91 Min
Director: Steve Gomer
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The Lorraine, A Famed Catskills Family Destination, Is Run-Down, Losing Money, And Nearing The End Of Its Days. Molly, Granddaughter Of The Resort’s Matriarch, Comes To The Lorraine To Escape Her Parents’ Bitter Divorce, But Becomes Part Of The Resort’s Extended Family. Shot On Location At The Heiden In South Fallsburg. Co-Starring Iconic Borscht Belt Comedian Freddie Roman.
Guided Tour Of The Borscht Belt Museum -- Plus A Dollop Of Comedy!
1:00pm
Borscht Belt Museum
90 Canal St., Ellenville
Join Historian & Founding Board Member Peter Alan Chester For A Nostalgia Filled Tour Of The Museum's Latest Exhibition, "And Such Small Portions: Food And Comedy In The Catskills Resort Era."
$25, Includes Museum Admission.
Peddlers, Fishmongers & Rabbis: The Everyday Art Of Seymour Rosenthal
2:00pm
The Common Good
119 Canal St., Ellenville
A Talk With Lenny & David Melzer, Grandsons Of Artist Seymour Rosenthal.
Born In The Bronx And Raised On The Lower East Side, Seymour Rosenthal (1921-2007) Was A Self-Taught Artist Who Painted What He Knew Best: The Working-Class Inhabitants Of The Gritty New York Neighborhoods He Knew And Loved. Inspired By His Surroundings And The Seismic Events Of The 20th Century, His Paintings, Sketches And Lithographs Capture The Hardships Of Everyday People Trying To Survive In A Rough-And-Tumble City, The Rise Of Organized Labor And The Time-Worn And Expressive Faces Of The Religious Figures Who Seized His Imagination.
Rosenthal's Paintings Have Been Acquired By The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, The Technion Museum In Haifa And Other Institutions Around The World.
The Last Laugh
3:00pm
Documentary / 2016 / 89 Min
Director: Ferne Pearlstein
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The Holocaust Would Seem Off-Limits Topic For Comedy. But Is It? This Daring Documentary Examines This Moral Conundrum, Offering Fresh Insights Into These Questions, Through Interviews With Influential Comedians And Thinkers Ranging From Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Judy Gold, Gilbert Gottfried, Playwright & Musician Jake Ehrenreich, Abraham Foxman Of The Anti-Defamation League, And Auschwitz Survivor Renee Firestone.
A Walk On The Moon
5:30pm
Romance-Drama / 1999 / 106 Min
Dir. Tony Goldwyn
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A Jewish Wife And Mother Dares To Challenge Her Cozy But Narrow Life During A Summer Vacation To A Catskills Bungalow Colony. Her Conflict Unfolds Against The Backdrop Of Two Watershed Events In The Summer Of 1969: The Woodstock Festival In Sullivan County And The United States’ Historic Landing On The Moon.
Starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber And Anna Paquin.
Taking Woodstock
8:00pm
Featured Filmmaker And Guest Of Honor Ang Lee Will Be In Attendance!
Elliot Tiber, A Struggling Greenwich Village Interior Designer, Moves Back Upstate To Help His Parents Manage Their Run-Down Catskills Motel. The Bank Is About To Foreclose, But Elliot Hopes For A Miracle. Then He Meets Promoters Looking To Plan A Huge Music Festival – To Be Called Woodstock – Just Down The Road. They Move Into The Motel, Changing The Tiber Family’s Fortune – And Elliot’s Life. Inspired By The Memoir By Elliot Tiber.
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