Railroad Square Cinema

The Maine Film Center will conclude its fall series Cinema in Conversation: Films of Freedom, Captivity, and Human Rights with a special screening of the documentary All Light, Everywhere, followed by a Q&A with producer Jonna McKone. The film is free and open to the public. Jonna McKone, originally from Maryland, graduated from Bowdoin College. […]

Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international […]

Un Prophète, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009, is the story of Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old, illiterate Franco-Algerian inmate who’s been sentenced to six years in prison and the “thick network of warring tribes he finds himself mired in and ultimately forced to master” (Variety). When it comes to hard-bitten crime […]

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents CINEMA IN CONVERSATION: FILMS OF FREEDOM, CAPTIVITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities and Oak Institute for Human Rights Post-film discussion with Steve Wurtzler, Colby Cinema Studies. “Todd Haynes’ Safe is a horror movie about the ultimate nightmare: becoming allergic to your own life. […]

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents CINEMA IN CONVERSATION: FILMS OF FREEDOM, CAPTIVITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities and Oak Institute for Human Rights Shown with “The ABCs of Abolition,” short film by Reagan Dennis Post-film discussion with Colby College Professor of Cinema Studies Seth Kim. A post-apocalyptic ice […]

In a gorgeous-looking and spectacular-sounding new DCP of arguably the greatest rock film ever made, The Last Waltz returns to Railroad Square, where it was the cinema's first hit after it first opened in 1978, in anticipation of the upcoming Waterville Opera House show by The Weight Band, the original Band's touring legacy group. But […]

Yes, it’s true! Margaret Hamilton, known forever as The Wicked Witch of the West, was a heck of an actress—as proven by the fact that she was actually a very sweet woman. No stranger to Maine, where she was a part-time resident, she once worked on the stage of Skowhegan’s Lakewood Theater! And her son, […]

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents CINEMA IN CONVERSATION: FILMS OF FREEDOM, CAPTIVITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities and Oak Institute for Human Rights Shown with “The Way Life Is,” MIFF24 Maine Shorts alum Post-film Q&A with “The Way Life Is” director Sophie Nacht, University of Maine Professor of […]

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents CINEMA IN CONVERSATION: FILMS OF FREEDOM, CAPTIVITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities and Oak Institute for Human Rights Part of Freedom & Captivity, a statewide initiative to explore an abolitionist future for Maine. Post-film Q&A with subject Jacinta Hunt. A feature documentary directed by Jessica […]

The 24th annual Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) will be held July 9-18 at Railroad Square Cinema and Waterville Opera House in Waterville, Skowhegan Drive-In Theatre in Skowhegan, and online. The complete lineup, festival passes, and tickets for individual screenings are available on MIFF's website. Opening & Closing Night Tickets: $12 All Other Tickets: $10 […]

Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. This Oscar-nominated short documentary puts a human face on one of the world’s greatest contemporary global crises while also providing a spark of hope. Filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald follows a group of volunteers from a German nonprofit who risk the waves of the Mediterranean Sea to pluck African refugees from sinking […]

Cancelled due to Coronavirus “Hollywood does not always hunt for grim reality, but that’s what it found here. Waterville the perfect backdrop for the filming of Empire Falls, based on Richard Russo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with the same title about a rundown, blue-collar Maine community where the economy never recovered after its shirt factory shut […]

"The title of this inventive absurdist comedy is meant to mislead — it's not a sex movie but a parody, and the loose feel is part of its genius. On the final day of summer camp in Maine in 1981, the counselors and the campers — adolescents all — are desperate to make the most […]

To celebrate her fiftieth birthday, filmmaker and MIFF alumna Lynne Sachs — MIFF is where this film originally screened — gathers together other people, men and women who have lived through precisely the same years but come from places like Iran or Cuba or Australia or the Lower East Side — not Memphis, Tennessee where […]

A dream of dark and troubling things…. David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt […]

In one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest films, based on a story by John Steinbeck, seven people with different personalities and backgrounds — an international journalist, a rich businessman, a radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor, and an engineer with communist tendencies — are stranded together on a lifeboat in the Atlantic Ocean after […]

Kennebec Montessori School, in partnership with Maine Montessori Association, will be hosting a screening of the documentary Inside Montessori. See inside five Montessori classrooms throughout the US, hear their stories, and then listen to a panel of speakers from KMS. KMS is accredited by the American Montessori Society and has been offering experiential educational programs […]

Golden Globe Nominee, Best Foreign Film. France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride-to-be, and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly.  Seeing—really seeing—is perhaps the […]

Presented in 35mm! “The film’s protagonist, played by Wiley Wiggins from director Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, sleepwalks around—sometimes he appears to float—asking essential questions about existence, identity, the nature of the universe and whether it’s a big, stupid risk to make a plotless movie about dreams. That the Texas-based Linklater . . . chose to […]

The 92nd annual Oscar nominees have just been announced! The Maine Film Center invites you to celebrate the best films of 2019 with us on a special evening with all the glitz of the Oscars! Join us at 6:30 p.m. at Railroad Square Cinema for drinks and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a telecast of the 92nd Academy Awards on […]