FilmColumbia, Columbia County's premier annual cultural event, screens the very best upcoming American and international films for ten days in late October. Launched in 1999 as the Crandell Theatre's "little local festival that could," FilmColumbia is now an acclaimed, nationally recognized film event.
FilmColumbia was recently recognized by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World." Said Tim Molloy, MovieMaker's editor-in-chief, "Obviously a lot of New Yorkers are now discovering the beautiful small communities just a short drive from New York City, and we think they'll be delighted to learn more about FilmColumbia, a fest that blends a gorgeous location, local color (both people and leaves) and Oscar-caliber films, lovingly programmed by a revered team with exquisite taste."
Schedule of Events:
The Hateful Eight
Honoring Walton Goggins
168 mins
11:30 am
Part of FilmColumbia's lineup honoring Walton Goggins.
Quentin Tarantino explores racial issues in this bloody and violent post-Civil War western, featuring an array of name actors, including Walton Goggins, playing a batch of sleazy characters taking shelter together during a blizzard. Needless to say, nothing good comes of their encounter. Trivia: The film was subject to an unrelated police boycott!
Walton Goggins on Television:
The Shield, Season 7, Final Episode + The Righteous Gemstones, Season 3, Final Episode
112 min
3:00PM
The Shield:
The extraordinary finale of an extraordinary series that broke every taboo in the book and ignited the explosion of quality TV in the early 21st century, should only be watched by those with strong stomachs. Its unrelenting picture of police violence cast it as an HBO-killer, and put FX on the map. Rolling Stone called it "the best drama finale of them all."
Kick-Off Party Honoring Walton Goggins
6:00pm
This year's honoree is actor Walton Goggins. Goggins, who traded a home in gridlocked Los Angeles for the glorious Hudson Valley, has acted in some 50 films and 49 TV series, not including the upcoming installment of the HBO hit, The White Lotus, and shows know signs of slowing down. Goggins is a unicorn among actor for, among other things, the range of his skills. He can play drama as well as comedy with equal facility. He has been nominated or won some twenty awards, among them the Television Critics Association Individual Achievement in Drama for The Shield, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Justified, and this year a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Fallout.
Join us in celebrating Walton Goggins at the home of Crandell benefactor Jack Shear.
Terrestrial Verses
6:15PM
77 min
Unfolding in nine stiletto episodes set in government offices in Tehran, Terrestrial Verses is a brilliant, sharp and devastating black comedy about the impossibility of ordinary life in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami's satire focuses on ordinary citizens navigating the absurdity of bureaucratic restrictions designed to make everyone crazy. And then the inevitable happens. A New York Times Critic's Pick.
In the Summers
8:00pm
95 min
Children grow, and in this luminous first feature, two sisters, raised by their mother and separated from their father, adapt, mature, and age over the twenty years they pay summertime visits to their dad in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Based on her own experience of connecting with her dad in Colombia, filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio traces with delicacy and compassion the dynamics of a broken family and the complexity of an ambivalent parental connection. Winner of the Grand Prize at Sundance this year.
