Saugerties Film Society

05/06/2026

This Friday, May 8th, 7pm Saugerties Public Library please come to this very special screening of Borderland The Line Within (2024, 110 mins.) with filmmakers, Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís, who will introduce their powerful documentary with a q&a post screening. From the filmmakers -“We are living in dangerous times. Yet, even in the darkest hour there are always people finding apathy forward. While making Borderland, I sought out visionaries who propose solutions, leaders who speak from their own lived experiences to guide us through their lives and speak of new ideas. Immigrants all, their courage is contagious.”

Borderland is not to be missed - see you at the library!

03/26/2026

The last film in the Saugerties Film SocietySpirit of ’76 series, Bound for Glory, (147 mins., 1976), is based on Woody Guthrie’s autobiography and stars David Carradine. Directed by acclaimed auteur of the 70’s, Hal Ashby, and produced by folk music impresario and Guthrie’s manager, Harold Leventhal; Bound for Glory is known for its first use of the Steadicam by legendary cameraman Haskell Wexler who won an Oscar for Best Cinematography. See you this Friday, 3/27, 7pm, Saugerties Public Library

03/20/2026

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky won't screen this evening, 3/20, in its place at 7pm is Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson. Directed by the great Robert Altman, who takes a not surprising revisionist perspective on the western genre and myth. Buffalo Bill stars Paul Newman as William F. Cody along with Geraldine Chaplin, Joel Grey, Harvey Keitel and Burt Lancaster as Bill's biographer, Ned Buntline. Bring popcorn - this will be fun! Running time is 123 minutes. Saugerties Public Library

03/10/2026

Saugerties Film Society presents "The Spirit of '76" - ttrue it was a bicentennial year but in the midst of the 1970's Cinema renaissance happening in Hollywood, filmmakers like Don Seigel, Elaine May and Hal Ashby were telling different stories of America! Saugerties Public Library

11/12/2025

This Friday, 11/14, 7pm Saugerties Public Library Saugerties Film Society honors Diane Keaton with the screening of Love and Death, (1975, 75 mins.) written and directed by Woody Allen starring his favorite leading lady/muse, Ms. Keaton. This hilarious ode to Bob Hope, Marx Brothers and Bergman’s Persona, is a send up of Russian novels set during the Napoleonic wars. In my not so humble opinion, Love and Death is one of the funniest of Allen's films. See you at the Library Comrades! Hilarious . . .

11/07/2025

Saugerties Film SocietyNovember series Saugerties Public Library this Saturday, 11/8, 7pm Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - the BEST western crime buddy movies with equal score by Burt Bacharach! In honor of the recent passing of truly one of the giants of Cinema - Robert Redford!

06/05/2025

Born John Uhler Lemmon III in Boston, MA. 1925 - this year of course marks the 100th birthday of the great Jack Lemmon. Saugerties Film Society celebrates his work with the incomparable Billy Wilder and in particular the scripts co-written by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Beginning Friday, June 6th, 7pm Saugerties Public Library - Free as always:)

03/04/2025

In honor of a special event this Friday, March 7th, 7pm Saugerties Public Library screening of Be Natural, doc about the first female writer/director/producer, Alice Guy-Blache' when Hollywood was located in Fort Lee New Jersey introduced by author Scott Anderson whose novel, Downriver: A Tale of Moving Pictures Before Hollywood includes Ms. Guy-Blache'. Free and open to the public!

07/22/2024

Heads up - a week from today, Monday, July 29th, my very good friend, Kerthy Fix will be in town to screen her amazing film, Strange Powers, about Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Orpheum Theatre - Upstate Films 7pm, upstairs at The Mark as part of our on-going Sonic Wave series. This will be great fun! Not to be missed. Alex Rappoport Paul Kloss. See you at the Orpheum!

Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has d...

06/18/2024

Saugerties Film Society presents, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999, 116 mins.), Friday, June 21st at 8:30pm Saugerties Public Library. Directed by Michael Hoffman, this version of Shakespeare’s fantasy, romantic comedy play is set in 1890’s, Italy and stars Kevin Kline as Bottom, Queen and King of the Fairies are Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett and Puck is Stanley Tucci. The San Francisco Chronicle described it as - “a playful, sexy piece of work" and Time Out London wrote, “It’s Kevin Kline’s play and he acts it to the hilt, Kline is a superb Bottom.”

***Please note: screening will be held in the Community Room not outside as originally planned. The Library decided to change due to heat and noise from St. Mary’s Bazaar. Better viewing indoors.