Rivertown Film welcomes Dark Side of the Hudson, the authentic Pink Floyd tribute experience, back to The Nyack Center for a fifth time, on February 24. Their live performance includes the groundbreaking Dark Side of the Moon and the ethereal Wish You Were Here. Both of those classic Pink Floyd … [Read more...]
Movies with Music
HAVE YOU GOT IT YET? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
Cult icon, enigma, recluse… the life of Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, is full of unanswered questions. Until now. Piecing together his comet-like rise to pop stardom, his creative and destructive impulses, breakdown, exit from the band and subsequent life alone, this feature length … [Read more...]
Summer of Soul – Free outdoors in the Artopee Way Drive In, Nyack
Summer of Soul (… Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a feature documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer for The Roots and bandleader for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. USA, 2021, 118 minutes, documentary. This … [Read more...]
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: The songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving … [Read more...]
SUMMER OF SOUL, presented by Garner Arts Center and Rivertown Film
Summer of Soul (… Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a feature documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer for The Roots and bandleader for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. USA, 2021, 118 minutes, documentary. This … [Read more...]
HOW THEY GOT OVER, streaming at Rivertown Film from February 25
How They Got Over celebrates the spirit of gospel performers and how they helped usher in a musical revolution that changed the world forever. Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and records made it possible to reach a wider … [Read more...]
HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING, presented with ArtsRock
Award-winning singer/songwriter Harry Chapin (Taxi and Cats in the Cradle) spent his fame and fortune chasing a dream to end world hunger and poverty, and in the process inspired, changed, and saved the lives of millions of people. His lyrics and melodies tell us about ourselves, our lives, and our … [Read more...]
AMAZING GRACE
ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED. Tickerts will still be on sale at the door, starting at 7:30. Please arrive early. A 1972 concert recording of Aretha Franklin’s best and biggest-selling gospel album, shot at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts. Featuring astounding footage of … [Read more...]
Movie Music History: Great Composers and Directors with Elliott Forrest, presented by ArtsRock and Rivertown Film
The history of music for the movies not only includes some of the world's great composers but it also features iconic collaborations between composers and directors. Think of Bernard Hermann and Alfred Hitchcock, John Williams and Steven Spielberg, and Federico Fellini and Nito Rota, … [Read more...]
LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
ONLINE TICKET SALES END AT 3:00, but tickets will be available at the door starting at 7:30. With one of the most stunning voices to ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt emerged in the folk rock scene of the 1960s and went on to create unforgettable music across rock, pop, country, folk, … [Read more...]
SATAN & ADAM
This gritty, lovely documentary follows the unlikely musical partnership between Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, a black studio and backup musician for stars like Etta James, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and Adam Gussow, a white Princeton graduate who grew up in Rockland County. A … [Read more...]
MARIA BY CALLAS
ONLINE TICKET SALES have ended. Additional tickets will be available at the door. This film is presented at the Rockland JCC, 450 West Nyack Road in West Nyack. Doors open at 7:00. Film at 7:30. A compendium of interviews, performances, and writings from Maria Callas that proves she was … [Read more...]
LIVE: Dark Side of the Hudson presents Pink Floyd’s ANIMALS and WISH YOU WERE HERE, with the original visuals
Rivertown Film welcomes Dark Side of the Hudson, the authentic Pink Floyd tribute experience, back to The Nyack Center for a fourth time, on December 27th. The show is an exposition of the ethereal record Wish You Were Here as well as the unique and darker album Animals. Both records will be … [Read more...]
IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF: A Celebration of Verdi, and Italy’s Opera-Crazed Town
ADVANCE SALES ONLINE CLOSE AT 3:00 on Wednesday. Tickets will be available at the door, but please arrive a few minutes early. The Italian city of Parma and its magnificent Teatro Regio enjoy fame— some would say infamy— as the “toughest,” most passionate and best-informed opera audience in the … [Read more...]
NEIL BERG’S 100 YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD
ONLINE TICKET SALES WILL CLOSE AT 4:00 ON SATURDAY. A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR, STARTING AT 7:00. Composer/lyricist/producer Neil Berg brings to Rivertown Film a live musical revue of some of the greatest songs from Hollywood's greatest musicals and classic films … [Read more...]
WEATHER CANCELLATION!!! COCO, Main Street Movies presented by the Village of Nyack, FREE
COCO HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE EXPECTATION OF RAIN BEGINNING AT 8:00. Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on performing music, Miguel dreams of becoming a musician. Desperate to prove his talent, he enters into the stunning Land of the Dead through the tomb of his ancestors, … [Read more...]
TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’
In June 1964 hundreds of college students traveled to Mississippi for Freedom Summer. That same month, two groups of obsessed blues fans—from different coasts and unknown to each other—traveled to Mississippi to find two blues musicians and coax them out of retirement. Thirty years earlier, Son … [Read more...]
ANIMALS and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: played by Dark Side of the Hudson
Online advance sale tickets are CLOSED. A very few tickets will be sold at the door beginning at 6:45. The ten-piece band Dark Side of the Hudson returns to the Nyack Center to perform Pink Floyd's 1977 release Animals and 1973 release Dark Side of the Moon, just as you remember them, with … [Read more...]
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Outdoors and Free
A tornado sweeps Dorothy and her little dog Toto away from Aunt Em and Uncle Henry’s hardscrabble farm and drops them in the Land of Oz, a colorful world of munchkins, witches, a brainless scarecrow, a heartless tin man, a cowardly lion, and a powerful wizard. One of cinema’s all-time great coming … [Read more...]
Stop Making Sense | Free, outdoors at the Artopee Way Drive-In
Join the nationwide celebration of Jonathan Demme on July 19, when theaters all over the country are showing Stop Making Sense. In honor of our home town filmmaker, Nyack will show this film for free in the Artopee Way Drive-In (normally known as the Artopee Way Municipal Parking Lot). Stop … [Read more...]
