Railroad Square Cinema

EARLY ACCESS SCREENING* Be one of the first to see the highly anticipated new chapter...Tickets are on sale now! The original Downton Abbey was one of Railroad Square's biggest hits of recent years. More of the same delight it afforded its fans looms in this long-awaited follow-up, Downton Abbey: A New Era, which reunites the […]

With a post-screening Q&A led by Sara Ellis, Ph.D., documentary participant, drone pilot, and Marineland Right Whale Project senior researcher and by Bill McWeeny, chair of the Maine Coalition for North Atlantic Right Whales and founder of the educational and advocacy group the Calvineer Project. An issue very much in the foreground in Maine due […]

Part of Arts in Bloom, all over Waterville on Saturday, May 14. It’s the perfect way to celebrate spring! A timeless story for Arts in Bloom…young Mary Lennox is sent to her absent uncle’s mansion after she becomes an orphan. Overseen by austere Mrs. Medlock (played by the beloved Dame Maggie Smith), Mary doesn’t have much freedom. […]

Though it's the original The Godfather, shown recently in its 50th year restoration at Railroad Square, that has the greatest fame, it's director Francis Coppola’s immediate follow-up (not a sequel, but an extension of a huge saga he'd planned all along) that is easily the superior film — one of the true highpoints in the […]

Ukrainian-born filmmaker Maya Deren is often cited as one of the most influential voices in experimental cinema. In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Not rated, 103 min., 2001) offers an accessible portrait of its subject and “not only celebrates Deren’s cinematic legacy but also reveals a gifted talent whose explosive temperament was at odds with […]

Celebrate Earth Day with the Wild and Scenic Film Festival! The show starts at 7:00 and will be preceded by a reception with beverages and food and a silent auction with great local items to support the work of Waterville chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby. Considered one of the nation's premier film festivals, the […]

This free film screening is part of the programming around the Farm Tools Project, an art exhibition at Ticonic Gallery and in the Railroad Square Cinema lobby from April 11-June 17. Based on the beloved story by Maine author E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web “is humble, and also terrific” (New York Times). After learning that a young pig’s days […]

One show only! Q&A with Director Medhin Tewolde Serrano following the film. At the age of seven, Filmmaker Medhin Tewolde Serrano recounts her first experience of being called Black by a stranger on the streets of Mexico, noting it as the first time becoming conscious of her racial identity and the prejudice that came along […]

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, Maidan chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of pro-Russian Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich in 2014 in "The Revolution of Dignity." Filmed in stunning long takes without commentary, Maidan is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, […]

For one night only, we bring back the poignant comedy Everything is Illuminated, about a young man exploring his Jewish heritage in a visit to Ukraine. Elijah Wood plays Jonathan, a spectacled neurotic American intent on finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. The film starts as a humorous road movie, then […]

One Night Only! Recently nominated for 10 Oscars, Dune returns to Railroad Square for one night only. With a cast that’s topped by Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, and Charlotte Rampling, “Dune reminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be” (Xan Brooks, Guardian). (PG-13, 155 min., 2021) Regular admission prices apply. For more information […]

Following the very recent passing of Ashley Bryan, Railroad Square Cinema brings back a memorable film about this remarkable Maine man. Born in Harlem and raised in the Bronx, Bryan served in an all-Black battalion during World War II and preserved his humanity through drawing by stowing supplies in his gas mask. Bryan later moved to […]

One showing only! Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities, an assignment he's not exactly thrilled about. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant […]

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends, each murdered as they struggled to change the way race was in the U.S.: Medgar Evers, Malcolm […]

Vermont poet Ruth Stone is still not well known outside of the poetry world, though she won accolades and vaunted accolades such the National Book Award. Now, Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson, many of whose films have been favorites at the Maine International Film Festival, returns to Waterville with the premiere of a new feature, 12 […]

In this classic from director Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart plays Jeff, a wheelchair-bound photojournalist who becomes obsessed with peering through his apartment window: he believes someone has been murdered in the building next door. Suspense builds as we see the action unfold through Jeff's camera lens, but we, like him, are unable to intervene. (PG, […]

French auteur Jacques Tati's Playtime is a genre-less collection of scenes observing the absurd and often comedic banalities of everyday modern life. The set, called "Tativille," was created with its own high-rises, offices, power plant, and airline terminal. The characters on screen interact with the glass and steel of the whimsical world, often disappearing and […]

Brian Wilson is, indisputably, one of the most celebrated and “eccentric” musicians who's ever lived—and a true musical genius. He turned pop music into hymnals, with an unprecedented mastery of the recording studio that produced, as well as inspired, some of the most acclaimed albums and songs of all time. He's also one of the […]