Railroad Square Cinema

Met Opera Live in HD: La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi! Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines—in Michael Mayer’s vibrant production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy. Tenor Stephen Costello is her self-centered lover, Alfredo, alongside baritone Luca Salsi as his disapproving father, and Maestro Daniele Callegari on the podium. TICKETS […]

Maine Film Center and Colby Center for Arts and Humanities present: Cinema in Conversation: FOOD FOR THOUGHT Programmed and sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Co-sponsored by the Oak Institute for Human Rights and the Colby College Departments of Cinema Studies, Spanish, and Religious Studies. Post-film discussion with Bowdoin Assistant Professor of […]

The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film is a collab­oration between Indigenous filmmakers, […]

One screening only! Politics got you down? Well, it could be a lot worse. On Election Day we're showing 2006's Idiocracy, "easily the most potent political film of the year" (Reihan Salam, Slate). Despite having never benefitted from a wide release or big studio marketing budget, Mike Judge's follow-up to Office Space has earned its place as one […]

Sixty years later and just in time for Election Day, The Manchurian Candidate, now recognized as a classic, looks just as terrifying — in fact more so! The recently deceased Angela Lansbury received an Oscar nomination as the extreme right-wing mother of a Korean War officer who returns from the war with a medal of honor […]

Join us for the closing reception of Abbott Meader’s exhibition A Rock Made Out of Stone. Light refreshments will be served from 5:00 to 6:00, with a selection of Meader’s short films to be screened starting at 6:00.

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) as the Creature and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) as Victor Frankenstein. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he […]

It's 1968. Suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter, but when a new pregnancy becomes life-threatening, she must navigate the all-male medical establishment unwilling to terminate her pregnancy. Her journey for a solution leads her to activists Virginia (Sigourney Weaver) and Gwen (Wunmi Mosaku), who dream of a […]

At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been […]

500 Years tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history, from the genocide trial of General Ríos Montt to the citizen uprising that toppled President Otto Perez Molina. While indigenous peoples of Guatemala are no stranger to oppression, the recent events that took place over a tumultuous three-year span, change […]

One Night Only! Post-film Q&A with documentary subject Elliot Van Orsdel, current USM student. Minnesota is the heartland of US hockey, creating more skaters—on the local rinks and in the NHL—than any other state. Here, the senior boys of rival towns — one an emerging dynasty, the other with a fabled past — face down […]

VOICES FROM THE BARRENS: NATIVE PEOPLE, BLUEBERRIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY Railroad Square Cinema Sunday, September 25 2:30 p.m. FREE Part of the "Cinema in Conversation: Food for Thought" film series, sponsored by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities, Voices from the Barrens is a stunning portrait of the Wabanaki and their participation in the largest […]

Join us for the closing reception of X + O, an exhibition featuring new and recent work by Waterville-based fiber artist Christine Nilles. Christine is an award-winning costume designer, fiber artist, and illustrator, and has exhibited her sculptures and fiber art in galleries across the United States. She has designed costumes for Colby College Theater and […]

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in this glorious revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic. One summer's evening, two aging writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the […]

A big hit in its initial screening at MIFF 2021 before a bit further work was done to round this important film into perfect shape, Fighting Indians returns with a riveting story from Central Maine, and co-director Derek Ellis will be in attendance! On May 16, 2019, The State of Maine made history by passing […]

One Night Only! OK, when was the last time you stood up and cheered at a film? No cap—this is what literally has happened for audiences seeing RRR. This has been true for Indian audiences both in RRR’s native country and for Indians and Indian-Americans here—but the Indian cinema, and this astonishing piece of action filmmaking, like […]

One Show Only! Director Lori Miller in-person for intro and Q&A. Living Wine follows the journeys of natural winemakers in Northern California, during the largest wildfire season on record. Equal parts farmers, winemakers, and artists, they stay true to their ideals of creating exceptional wines made through innovative, sustainable, and regenerative farming without chemical additives. […]

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power. Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into […]

Special advanced screening of the 2010 viral video turned family-friendly feature film, courtesy of A24 Films. Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a […]

Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman's BBQ & Lounge. In Fort Worth, Texas, Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen: she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slaves in Texas were freed, two […]

One Show Only! Very recently, the "real-life" Erin Brockovich visited Central Maine to help throw her support to the fight and clean-up efforts made against dangerous PFAS in Fairfield.  But Erin Brockovich became a household name in large part for the similar fight she waged in this crackerjack movie, based on an environmental disaster of […]