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Screened in conjunction with Cirque du Geek 2019: Myths and Legends! History is turned on its comic head when, in 10th century England, King Arthur travels the countryside to find knights who eventually end up on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Click for more info.
Be one of the first to see Downton Abbey on the big screen! Join us for a special sneak preview screening on Thursday, September 12 at 7:00! Afternoon tea will be served at 6:00 p.m. Costumes are encouraged! Click for more info.
Art curator and restorer Alice Smith Duncan works with The Innocents' Florence-based director David Battistella to introduce Maine audiences to the deep beauty of the city’s art, history, and compelling resonance with the current plight of children at the US/Mexico border. This is its first U.S. showing. When art restorers in Florence begin work on […]
Join us for one show of Peace, Love and Music, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary (to the weekend!) of 1969’s original Woodstock… This is the rarely theatrically screened “Director’s Cut,” encompassing not just the unforgettable standbys from the original 3 hour version, but eight originally unseen segments cut before the film’s original release. The result is […]
The Beatles’ Abbey Road is a masterpiece filled with classic Beatles songs. Producer George Martin told the Beatles to think “symphonically,” and they responded by creating the remarkable side two suite, resulting in Side 2‘s songs, from “Here Comes the Sun” through the unprecedented 16 minute medley of eight songs from “You Never Give Me […]
One Show Only! $12 Admission Tickets available in advance till sold out! Celebrate the 9th Annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up At the Movies — the first to go global — when the previously unreleased complete June 17, 1991 concert from Giants Stadium comes to Rail road Square. Widely considered one of the greatest shows of the […]
Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the easygoing interactions of a cast of unforgettable characters—Da Mayor, Mother Sister, […]
Join the news team from Maine Public for a community discussion around what is going on in the Waterville community and in Kennebec County. Maine Public wants to know what are some developments worthy of celebrating in the area and what types of news stories and coverage are important to the region. This is a […]
What does it take to live a good life? Selected as the best documentary at the Boston Film Festival, A Small Good Thing follows six people in Western Massachusetts who chart their own directions in search of happiness and fulfillment. Their stories make for intriguing reflections about living well in the twenty-first century. The film is […]
The Beatles’ Abbey Road is a masterpiece filled with classic Beatles songs, such as “Come Together,” “Something,” and “Here Comes the Sun.” George Martin told the Beatles to think “symphonically,” and they responded by creating the remarkable side two song suite. Abbey Road was the last time that the Beatles recorded together at EMI Studios […]
“I’ve never seen this America place,” explains Noxeema (Wesley Snipes), worrying about hinterland reactions to “people like us”. Noxeema’s one of three New York drag queens (or folks “with too much fashion sense for one gender”) contemplating a car trek to Los Angeles, and the land between is a terra incognita she’d just as soon […]
Film screening and panel discussion held as part of the 2019 Central Maine Pride Festival! When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as […]
Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Monty Python, etc.) has been planning and plotting and dreaming and scheming to make his Don Quixote movie since the late 1980s…. This is not a completed version of the Johnny Depp-starring “Don Quixote” movie Gilliam started filming in 2000 that fell apart due to flash floods and other disastrous setbacks….This is […]
Post-screening discussion with Kyle Knight of Human Rights Watch and Katherine (Katie) Taylor, USCG veteran and founder of the Kennebec Valley Queer Coalition. TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own. They put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender […]
Please join us for the MMTC Mass Media Communications Program’s Night at the Movies at Railroad Square Cinema. We’ll be screening the best work produced in the program — everything from award-winning journalism to short experimental pieces.
Two Screenings: Fri. May 10, 9:30 p.m. Sat. May 11, 12:00 noon A group of misfit kids (including such second-generation Hollywoodites as Josh Brolin and Sean Astin) search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. They cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli’s […]
John Ignatius Salemi (1952-2015) was born in Washington DC and spent his youth painting murals in Roman Catholic Churches, and went on to serve in the US Navy for two years during the Vietnam War, where he developed heart problems and post-traumatic stress disorder. After returning from Vietnam, John became a conscientious objector and began […]
“A hilarious knock-down of corporate culture” (Michael Sragow, The New Yorker), Office Space was the first film directed by cartoonist Mike Judge. “Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis & Butt-head and co-creator of King of the Hill, has a cool day job. But it wasn’t always thus. From his memories of Dilbert-like employment in anonymous […]
Fri. April 19 at 9:15 p.m. Sat. Apr. 20 at 12:30 p.m. Relive the days of true 3-Dimensional greatness with one of the all-time most unforgettable 3-D movies of the ‘50s, the heyday of 3-D! Put on those red and blue lensed glasses (which we will provide!) and see the Creature jump right out at […]
Oscar nominee: Best Foreign Film. Kolia lives in a small town near the Barents Sea in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His shop stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son from a previous marriage. Vadim Shelevyat, the mayor of the town, wants […]
Directors Amanda Kopp and Aaron Kopp will introduce the film and hold a post-screening Q&A! Under the guidance of acclaimed South African storyteller Gcina Mhlophe, five orphaned children from Eswatini collaborate to craft an original fairytale drawn from their darkest memories and brightest dreams. Their fictional character, Liyana, is brought to life in innovative animated […]
Restored version of one of the most famous and acclaimed films by an African-American filmmaker. Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep was one of the first 50 films to be selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry and was chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films, […]
Directors David Abel and Andy Laub will hold a Skype Q&A session after the screening! Lobster War is a must-watch — especially for us Mainers! — award-winning feature-length documentary film about a conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. The disputed […]
Maine is one of the states hardest hit by the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis, but people across southern Maine are working on the frontlines of this epidemic, saving lives, raising awareness, and developing new solutions. Points North Institute and Maine Health are partnering to organize a statewide tour of Oscar-nominated director Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s Recovery […]
Shield and Spear (2014) features visual activist Zanele Muholi and other leading South African contemporary artists and explores a constellation of stories about identity, art, race, and freedom of expression in South Africa, twenty years into democracy. This screening is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, on […]