Rivertown Film

06/03/2026

This special first public screening of Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today, at Rivertown Film, featuring excerpts from a new film by Greg Mitchell, narrated by Rosanne Cash, is the kickoff benefit for Rivertown Film Society’s 2026 Reserve Fund fundraising drive. Tickets and donations will be matched up to $10,000 by private donor.

Live performances by
Tom Chapin
The Chapin Sisters
The All Together Now Chorus
and a “This Land is Your Land” sing along.
All tickets are $15, or $20 on June 15.
8:00 PM at the Nyack Center in Nyack

Director Greg Mitchell will present extended clips from this timely film and then join a discussion with Woody’s granddaughter Anna Canoni and Daniel Wolff, author of “Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.”

All tickets are $15, or $20 on June 15.
8:00 PM at the Nyack Center in Nyack

06/01/2026

In The Christophers, at Rivertown Film on June 10, 8pm at the Nyack Center, the children of a once famous artist hire a forger to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they'll have an inheritance when he dies. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, with Ian McKellen, Michaela Cole, Jessica Gunning, 2025, UK/USA, 100 min., rated R for language.Directed by Steven Soderbergh, with Ian McKellen, Michaela Cole, Jessica Gunning. 2025, UK/USA, 100 min., rated R for language. “The Christophers is largely a comedy, but it’s also about all that we gain and lose with age, and about how we sometimes need young people to bring us back to ourselves.” – Stephanie Zacharek, TIME.

Discussion after the film with Daly Flanagan, Executive Director of Rockland Center for the Arts.

Community Partner: Rockland Center for the Arts

05/24/2026

Wonderful 5/20 screening of Maintenance Artist, at Rivertown Film and Q&A with director Toby Perl Freilich and Kris Burns, introduced by Bill Batson! Thanks to The Nyack Center and community partner the Village of Nyack and it's Department of Public Works, which maintains our Village. Please follow Rivertown for more film news and details of our upcoming screenings including The Christophers 6/10 with Daly Flanagan from Rockland Center for the Arts.

05/20/2026

THE NYACK DPW FILM, "WORKING WILL BE THE WORK" THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO SHOW FREE OUTSIDE THE NYACK CENTER HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF IMPENDING RAIN. IT WILL BE SHOWN INDOORS WHEN DOORS OPEN AT 7:30 FOR THE "MAINTENANCE ARTIST" AUDIENCE. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND WILL REAPPEAR AT A FUTURE DATE!

05/20/2026

Pioneers of Social Practice Art at Rivertown Film. The work of the first artist-in-residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Discussion with Film Maker Toby Pearl Freilich and Nyack's Public Art Commission Chair Kris Burns follows, introduced by Nyack Sketch Log...

05/20/2026

Bill Batson adds a personal perspective to the artist at the center of Maintenance Artist, at Rivertown Film tonight, an artist who participated in an exhibit he curated in the 1980s, and connects her to the work of one of our own, Nyack's Kris Burns. Fascinating. TONIGHT AT 8pm. Bill Batson Nyack News And Views

Pioneers of Social Practice Art at Rivertown Film. The work of the first artist-in-residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Discussion with Film Maker Toby Pearl Freilich and Nyack's Public Art Commission Chair Kris Burns follows, introduced by Nyack Sketch Log...

05/18/2026

Arrive early and see a short film, “Working Will Be The Work,” by the Nyack Department of Public Works, projected on the side of a DPW truck.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles is the New York City Sanitation Department’s official artist-in-residence. Maintenance Artist, at Rivertown Film, on Wednesday, May 20, is about Mierle and her art, which was inspired by Marcel Duchamp to express the notion that routine maintenance – from changing diapers to picking up city trash – can be acts of performance art. Penetrating, provocative, funny, and moving, Maintenance Artist calls for a new way to be in and view our world.

8:00 pm, May 20, at The Nyack Center.

Meet the Filmmaker: the director, Toby Perl Freilich, will discuss her film with Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee member Kris Burns.

Community Partners: Village of Nyack, Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee, Edward Hopper House, Garner Arts Center

05/15/2026

Mierle Laderman Ukeles is the New York City Sanitation Department’s official artist-in-residence. Maintenance Artist, at Rivertown Film, on Wednesday, May 20, is about Mierle and her art, which was inspired by Marcel Duchamp to express the notion that routine maintenance – from changing diapers to picking up city trash – can be acts of performance art.
Penetrating, provocative, funny, and moving, Maintenance Artist calls for a new way to be in and view our world.

Arrive early and see a short film, “Working Will Be The Work,” by the Nyack Department of Public Works, projected on the side of a DPW truck.

Meet the Filmmaker: the director, Toby Perl Freilich, will discuss her film with Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee member Kris Burns.
Community Partners: Village of Nyack, Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee, Edward Hopper House, Garner Arts Center

05/11/2026

Mierle Laderman Ukeles is the New York City Sanitation Department’s official artist-in-residence. Maintenance Artist, at Rivertown Film, on Wednesday, May 20, is about Mierle and her art, which was inspired by Marcel Duchamp to express the notion that routine maintenance – from changing diapers to picking up city trash – can be acts of performance art.

Penetrating, provocative, funny, and moving, Maintenance Artist calls for a new way to be in and view our world.

Arrive early and see a short film, “Working Will Be The Work,” by the Nyack Department of Public Works, projected on the side of a DPW truck.

Meet the Filmmaker: the director, Toby Perl Freilich, will discuss her film with Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee member Kris Burns.

Community Partners: Village of Nyack, Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee, Edward Hopper House,