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November 2024
- Saturday November 2nd 10:00AM - Shadowland Stages
- CATSKILL HONEYMOON
- Drama and Musical Comedy/1949Dir. Josef Berne 96 minA Yiddish-American musical revue on film, Catskill Honeymoon offers a fictional 50th wedding anniversary story to showcase authentic performers of vaudeville comedy and musical acts in English and Yiddish, once mainstays in Borscht Belt resorts. Much of the film was shot at Young’s Gap Hotel in the Catskills. In English and Yiddish (with occasional subtitles.)Conversation with Yiddish film historian Eve Sicular and moderator Jay Blotcher
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- Saturday November 2nd 12:30PM - Shadowland Stages
- SWEET LORRAINE
- Comedy-Drama/1987Dir. Steve Gomer 91 minThe Lorraine, a famed Catskills family destination, is run-down, losing money, and nearing the end of its days. Molly, granddaughter of the resort’s matriarch, comes to The Lorraine to escape her parents’ bitter divorce, but becomes part of the resort’s extended family. Shot on location at The Heiden in South Fallsburg. Co-starring iconic Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman.Conversation with director Steve Gomer, production designer David Gropman, art director Karen Schulz and moderator Jay BlotcherTRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14auc1MUHY
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- Saturday November 2nd 03:00PM - Shadowland Stages
- THE LAST LAUGH
- Documentary/2016Dir. Ferne Pearlstein 89 minThe Holocaust would seem off-limits topic for comedy. But is it? This daring documentary examines this moral conundrum, offering fresh insights into these questions, through interviews with influential comedians and thinkers ranging from Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Judy Gold, Gilbert Gottfried, author Shalom Auslander, Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, and Auschwitz survivor Renee Firestone.Conversation with director Ferne Pearlstein, moderated by original “Saturday NIght Live” writer and five-time Emmy winner, Alan Zweibel.
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- Saturday November 2nd 05:30PM - Shadowland Stages
- A WALK ON THE MOON
- Romantic Comedy-Drama/1999Dir. Tony Goldwyn 1 hr, 46 minA Jewish wife and mother dares to challenge her cozy but narrow life during a summer vacation to a Catskills bungalow colony. Her conflict unfolds against the backdrop of two watershed events in the summer of 1969: the Woodstock festival in Sullivan County and the United States’ historic landing on the moon.Conversation with Tony Award-winning costume designer Jess Goldstein and moderator Jay Blotcher
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- Saturday November 2nd 08:00PM - Shadowland Stages
- TAKING WOODSTOCK
- Comedy-Drama/2009Featured Filmmaker Guest of Honor, Dir. Ang Lee 120 minElliot Tiber, a struggling Greenwich Village interior designer, moves back upstate to help his parents manage their run-down Catskills motel. The bank is about to foreclose, but Elliot hopes for a miracle. Then he meets promoters looking to plan a huge music festival – to be called Woodstock – just down the road. They move into the motel, changing the Tiber family’s fortune – and Elliot’s life. Inspired by the memoir by Elliot Tiber.Conversation with director Ang Lee, production designer David Gropman and moderatorJay Blotcher
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