Berkshire Film Society

01/15/2024

We endorse the TAA Community Film Series which launches with GOLDA, Sunday Jan 21 at 2 pm in Pittsfield. Send an email to reserve tickets: [email protected]

07/10/2023

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Environmental Documentary Directed by Jimmy Choo and Chai Vasarhelyi The Berkshire Film Society presents special screenings of contemporary domestic and international independent films, many with spec

07/07/2023

The Lee Library and the Berkshire Film Society present a Special Screening of WILD LIFE, by Jimmy Choo and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Tickets are free.
Date: Wednesday July 12
Time: 4 pm
Location: Lee Library.

04/05/2023

Get involved by contacting: [email protected]

Without any action, Triplex owner Richard Stanley has stated that the Triplex will close on June 1.

03/21/2023

Please join us for FIRE OF LOVE - 2023 Oscar-nominated documentary - Wednesday, March 22nd at 4 pm. Location: the Lee Library, 100 Main Street, Lee, MA.

Synopsis: French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died as explosively as they lived — chasing eruptions and capturing hundreds of hours of footage, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world.

There's no charge to attend. RSVP to: [email protected]

07/12/2021

Playing Friday, July 16: The Price of Everything art doc by Nathanial Kahn.
With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, hold a fun-house mirror up to our values and times. Open Air Cinema begins at sundown, approx 8:20 pm. Purchase advance tickets: https://tinyurl.com/BFSPriceEverything

07/10/2021

☀️☀️Weather is looking good for tomorrow night's Frida Kahlo - Documentary Screening!! 8PM at TurnPark Art Space - 2 Jerusalem Rd., W. Stockbridge.
Come early to secure a socially distant spot on the lawn! Please bring your own chair and or blanket. There will be popcorn! 🍿

07/05/2021

FRIDA KAHLO - Documentary by Ali Ray
Open Air Cinema, Saturday, July 10 at 8 pm. Location: TurnPark Art Space, 2 Jerusalem Road, West Stockbridge.
Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the truth behind her often turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Discover the real Frida Kahlo. This film delves deeper than any film has done before, engaging with world-renowned Kahlo experts, exploring how great an artist she was.
Purchase advance tickets here: tinyurl.com/BFSFridaK

06/11/2021

AGGIE - documentary by Catherine Gund - Open Air Cinema
Saturday, July 17 at 8 pm
An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Masterpiece" in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.
Purchase advance tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/BFSAggieDoc

06/11/2021

The Price of Everything documentary by Nathanial Kahn.
Open Air Cinema. Friday, July 16, at 8 pm.
With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, hold a fun-house mirror up to our values and times. Purchase advance tickets: https://tinyurl.com/BFSPriceEverything

06/11/2021

FRIDA KAHLO - Documentary by Ali Ray
Open Air Cinema, Saturday, July 10 at 8 pm
Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the truth behind her often turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Discover the real Frida Kahlo. This film delves deeper than any film has done before, engaging with world-renowned Kahlo experts, exploring how great an artist she was.
Purchase advance tickets here: tinyurl.com/BFSFridaK

06/04/2021

Save the dates for open-air screenings of these art documentaries:

July 10: FRIDA KAHLO
July 16: The Price of Everything
July 17: AGGIE

Location: TurnPark Art Space, 2 Moscow Road, West Stockbridge, MA; screenings will begin at dusk.

05/01/2021

NEW! ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS by Roy Andersson presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.
Tickets: $12
Rent About Endlessness: https://tinyurl.com/FSSAbtEndless

04/30/2021

Coming soon at TurnPark Art Space in West Stockbridge: an outdoor screening of the new documentary on Frida Kahlo! Live discussion to follow.

02/02/2021

Opening Feb. 5th: TWO OF US -- drama (2020) Two retired women, Nina and Madeleine, have been secretly in love for decades. Everybody, including Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbors, sharing the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, enjoying the affection and pleasures of daily life together, until an unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down and leads Madeleine’s daughter to gradually unravel the truth about them. Rent the film here: tinyurl.com/BFSTwoOfUs

02/02/2021

Playing in our virtual cinema: SOME KIND OF HEAVEN -- documentary (2021) Director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, the film invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise. With strikingly composed cinematography, this candy-colored documentary offers a tender and surreal look at the never-ending quest for finding meaning and love in life’s final act.
Rent SOME KIND OF HEAVEN here: tinyurl.com/BFSHeaven

12/18/2020

A new documentary on MASS MoCA!

The film, directed by Jennifer Trainer, the museum's former director of development, offers a congenial historical overview of MASS MoCA — but little else