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Crandall Public Library

Fall Film Series

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m.
Bill Cunningham New York (USA, 2010, 84 min., color, 35mm) Richard Press’ documentary about octogenarian photographer Bill Cunningham is a delight. Cunningham is famed for his now
legendary “On the Street” and “Evening Hours” photo spreads that appear in The New York Times’ Style section; his knack for anticipating trends in fashion ahead of professional tastemakers has contributed to his reputation as a style oracle, but his famous friends, Anna Wintour of Vogue
Magazine, author Tom Wolfe, and others talk not about celebrity and high fashion, but about how wonderful a person Cunningham is. At 80, he wears the same outfit every day, rides his bicycle to take his photographs, and lives very simply. “…here is a good and joyous man who leads a life that is perfect for him, and how many people do we meet like that? This movie made me happy every moment I was watching it.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times, 3/18/2011

Tuesday, Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m.
Buck (USA, 2010, 88 min., color, 35mm) Cindy Meehl’s first film is an engaging documentary about Buck Brannaman, the philosopher-cowboy who was the basis for the acclaimed novel and film The
Horse Whisperer. As a boy, he performed rope tricks on TV and the traveling rodeo circuit but his father abused him relentlessly. Vintage footage of young Brannaman establishes not only the boy’s skill but the tyranny of the father. Unlike his father, Brannaman grew into a patient, gentle man, capable of feeling empathy for humans and horses alike. If his gift for training horses seems astounding, his life story is nothing short of miraculous. “…the documentary is on the surface that of a man who turned hurt into grace operating from a reservoir of patience and profound love of horses. It’s also… a look at the lines connecting parent to child, man to beast.” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times, 6/16/2011

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m.
Jews & Baseball: An American Love Story (USA, 2010, 91 min., color/b&w, 35mm) Dustin Hoffman narrates Peter Miller’s loving documentary about the special Jewish passion for the great American pastime. With interviews and archival footage, Miller’s film chronicles every era of the sport—baseball was played and enjoyed by Jews eger to assimilate into American society at large as early as the 1860s. Players like Hank Greenberg are featured, but his real star is Sandy Koufax, who gives a rare interview for the documentary. "Confronted with nine Jews, most people would probably guess ‘Supreme Court’ rather than ‘ball club,’ but that's precisely the kind of bias that Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story successfully sends to the showers…strikes out a stadium-load of assumptions." – Stephen Holden, NY Times, 05/14/10

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 6:30 p.m.
The Company Men (USA, 2010, 113 min., color, 35mm) John Wells takes an inside look at the state of American employment. With an all-star cast including Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, and Kevin Costner, it’s unlike many recent films on the current recession. It centers on highly paid managers who are recently laid off from the same downsizing company. Suddenly jobless, without prospects
to market their considerable skills in a stagnant economy, each man has to confront a bleak future without giving into despair. The newly unemployed take advantage of company job hunting skills classes and go home each night to their families who are as bewildered by the changes as they are.
“…offers no great elation or despair. Its world is what it is… In good times, young people go to the movies and dream of becoming Gordon Gekko. In bad times, a house builder looks more like a Master of the Universe." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times, 1/19/2011

Tuesday, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m.
Submarine (UK, 2010, 97 min., color, 35mm) Richard Ayoade’s first film is a quirky, self-aware coming of age story set in the not-toodistant past. Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a high school student, seems at times to be writing his own film—athough he clearly cannot control everything: his own blossoming relationship with a girl from school remains awkward and his mother (Sally Hawkins) is becoming romantically involved with an insipid new-age neighbor. Oliver spends much of his time at the local cinema watching old films and cultivating his eccentricities, but however peculiar a boy he may be, his problems are familiar to anyone who can recall adolescence. "… Mr. Ayoade’s keen visual wit and clever, knowing touches keep it surprising and nimble, especially in the quick, lurching early scenes, which are startlingly funny. At moments he approaches the mordant, heady sense of the sorrows and freedoms of youth captured by François Truffaut in The 400 Blows, a movie that, come to think of it, Oliver has no doubt already seen." – A.O. Scott, The New York Times, 6/2/2011

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Being Elmo (USA, 2011, 76 min., color, Blu-Ray) Constance Marks won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her look at the puppeteer behind the famed furry red Muppet Elmo. Kevin Clash, who animates and voices Elmo, grew up determined to be a puppeteer—an unusual ambition that he approached with rare determination in spite of his soft-spoken demeanor. Clash’s tremendous success is a testament to his years of hard work and the documentary is in some respects a Horatio Alger-like tale of a boy who is driven to succeed at what he loves. It’s appropriate that his signature Muppet is famed for his positive outlook on life. With appearances by Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Frank Oz, and others. “Much of Being Elmo is a ‘local boy makes good’ story…Their subject is an open, friendly person who never seems to be holding back….He's humble and self-deprecating but takes pride in his accomplishments.” – Jay Seaver, efilmcritic.com, 5/2/10

Tuesday, Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (USA/France, 2010, 90 min., color, 35mm) Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) was allowed unprecedented access to film within France’s Chauvet Cave, site of the world’s oldest known cave paintings. Discovered in the 1990s, the cave was sealed immediately to
prevent damage to the paintings, the oldest of which are some 32,000 years old. The cave remains almost exactly as it was when the paintings were new: its floors still bear the footprints of Paleolithic visitors. Herzog’s
team is limited to three other men who must take extreme precautions and work under tremendous constraints of lighting, equipment, time, and space to photograph flickering images of mammoths, horses, cave bears, and giant cats. The effect is magical. “Transcendent, provocative and deeply humbling, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a wonderful film, in the most literal sense of that word. It inspires not just delight and awe, but profound gratitude.” – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post, 5/6/2011

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m.
Win Win (USA, 2010, 106 min., color, 35mm) Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent and The Visitor) casts Paul Giamatti as a gloomy lawyer and off hours wrestling coach in an offbeat comedy/drama about a down and out man who thinks his luck might be about to change. Business is slow at Mike Flaherty’s NJ law firm. Plus the boiler in his office needs a major repair, a dead tree is menacing his house, and the high school wrestling team he coaches is on a losing streak. Things begin to look up, however, when he works up a scheme to become the legal guardian to an elderly client in order to collect a healthy monthly stipend from the man’s estate. He puts the client in a nursing home but it is not long before a relative—a runaway teenaged grandson—appears on the scene to change everything. “Mr. McCarthy—who is a first-rate character actor specializing in second-rate characters—has a deep and nuanced understanding of the rules of comedy, which is at once the most rigorous and the most elastic of narrative genres. He also possesses a sharp wit and a generous spirit, mocking his characters without meanness and lampooning their social circumstances without condescension.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times, 3/17/2011

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
Meek's Cutoff (USA, 2010, 104 min., color, Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy) brings us the true story of a group of three pre-Civil War pioneer families as they move Westward. They begin to question their increasingly unreliable guide. As it becomes clear that Stephen Meek is as lost as they are, and that the entire party faces the grim prospect of starvation, they are surprised to stumble across a lone American Indian in the deserted territory. With the group often on the edge of survival in a hostile landscape, who they chose to rely on will determine their future. With Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, and Zoe Kazan. “Meek’s Cutoff is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams’s character, its absolutely believable heroine. It is also a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled.” –
A.O. Scott, NY Times, 9/25/09

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 6:30 p.m.
In a Better World (Denmark, 2010, 119 min., color, 35mm) Suzanne Bier’s film won the 2011 Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Two intersecting storylines, one in Africa and one in Denmark, examine the place violence holds in the lives of both the moral and immoral. Anton, a Swedish doctor who works in an unnamed African nation gripped by ethnic conflict, faces the dilemma of whether or not to provide treatment to an injured warlord. In Denmark, his son is taunted by bullies for being an outsider, but is protected by a new friend who thinks swiftly but acts
brutally. The poignant performances and powerful storylines create a film both beautiful and disturbing. “The performances are impeccable...” – A.O. Scott, NY Times, 3/31/2011

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 6:30 p.m.
The Tree of Life (USA, 2011, 138 min., color, 35mm)Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven) won the 2011 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Impressionistic and cinematically beautiful, it conveys the entire span of human existence. Sean Penn stars as the middle-aged Jack O’Brien. Much of the action takes place during his childhood in 1950s Texas, where his mother and father (Brad Pitt) are like light and dark personified. Tragedy befalls the family, but we find the adult Jack, alone in the modern world, still grappling with the same unresolved issues of his childhood. Malick has successfully created something we have never seen before. ”This movie stands stubbornly alone…it’s defiant peculiarity it shows a clear kinship
with other eccentric, permanent works of the American imagination…of homegrown romantics like Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane and James Agee.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times, 3/31/2011

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African American Film Forum Tuesdays in February at 6:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Glens Falls Chapter of the NAACP. Films TBA.

Happenings

Friday, October 21, 9 - 5 pm
Saturday, October 22, 9 - 4 pm
Sunday, October 23, 1 - 4 pm
Friends of the Crandall Library Book Sale Books- Fiction & Non-fiction; Hard & Soft-Cover; CD & DVDs; Books on CD; Video tapes

Charles R. Wood Events

Wednesday, September 14, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Have a Seat in Glens Falls Chair Auction Each chair artist receives 25% of the final sale price of the chair; with the remaining proceeds being split between three non-profit organizations: Crandall Public Library, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council and the Downtown Glens Falls Business Improvement District.

Friday, September 16
Saturday, September 17
Pendragon Theatre Company Fall Production: “The Mystery of Irma Vepp” By Charles Ludlum

Friday, September 23
Wood Theater and the City of Glens Falls Present: The “The Band” Band. Tribute band from Woodstock of The Band

Saturday, October 1, 3p & 7p
98.5 WCKM Tribute Concert: The Piano Men Featuring the dueling pianos of Elton John and Billy Joel Tribute Artists. Appearing from Toronto are Leo Frantz as Billy Joel and Les Smith as Elton John. Leo has astonished audiences all over North America with his tribute to Billy Joel. His dead ringer appearance and voice leaves nothing to the imagination, backed by a rocking live band. Leo has performed all over the world, returning for numerous encore performances in many major cities across the US and Canada. Les Smith is Captain Fantastic with his “as close as they come” performance of Elton John. He channels the famous British entertainer by wearing all the famous costumes and playing all his biggest hits. Les has also appeared all over North America as well as Europe. Both entertainers will be backed live by THE FACE-TO-FACE BAND. Reserved seating is now available at the Wood Theater box office, online at www.woodtheater.org, or by phone at 874-0800. All seats are $30.00, all fees included. For more info, contact Pete Cloutier at 761-9890.

Saturday, October 8, 2:00 pm
Pendragon Theatre presents Fairy Tale Theater production of “Stuart Little”

Thursday, October 13, 8:00 pm
Lake George Community Band POPS Concert

Friday, October 14, 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 15, 8 pm
Leo Kottke

November 4, 5, 6; 11,12,13: 8:00 pm and 2:00 on Sundays
Glens Falls Community Theatre Presents: “The Drowsy Chaperone”

Friday, November 18
Saturday, November 19
West Mountain Educational Foundation Presents: Annual Warren Miller Ski Movie

Saturday, November 26, 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 27, 2:00 pm
Tony DeSare in Concert

Thursday, December 1, 6:30 pm
World AIDS Day Celebration

Saturday, December 3
Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater Christmas Show

Saturday, December 10
Sunday, December 11
Adirondack Ballet present: The Nutcracker

Friday, December 16, 8:00 pm
Lake George Community Band Christmas Concert

Saturday, December 31
The Wood Theater Presents “From Broadway to Billboard” A Musical Review

Thursday, February 16, 8:00 pm
Chad and Jeremy British Invasion artists.

Rock Hill Bakehouse

Every Saturday & Sunday Noon to 2 pm Live Acoustic Renaissance

Progressive Film Forum Our entire DVD collection is free to borrow with the purchase of a Film Forum membership ($25 a year - $15 Seniors/Students). Membership entitles you to borrow any film without charge. Upon its return, you may borrow another. 100% of your annual dues are used to purchase more films for our collection.

Lending Library We have amassed a collection of interesting books and are excited to share them with you. So, please feel free to borrow books from our collection. We just ask that you make an honest effort to return them so that others can enjoy them, as well.

Matt's blog at the Times Union.

Hyde Collection
The Hyde Collection is open Tuesdays through Fridays, 11 am to 4 pm and weekends from noon to 5 pm. Closed Mondays and national holidays. Suggested donation for non-member admission to the Museum complex is $8 for adults, free for children 13 years old and under. Tuesday afternoons – Tours for Tots – Guided tours and art-making sessions for children ages 3-6, accompanied by an adult. 3-4 pm. Free. Wednesday afternoons (during school weeks) – ARTfull Afternoons – Drop-in art program for children ages 6-12, accompanied by an adult. Free. 1:30-4:30 (participants must arrive no later than 3:45). Free. NOTE: ARTfull Afternoons will not be held on February 17, 2011.
The Hyde Collection announced the debut of its new website, aimed at broadening the Museum’s connection with cyber-visitors of all ages and interests. In addition to the new format, which features monthly event and activity highlights, as well as Hyde News on the homepage, www.hydecollection.org now presents excerpts from the Museum’s new orientation video, along with podcasts featuring personal views of works from The Hyde’s permanent collection.

Now through Saturday, September 17
New York, New York: The 20th Century The Hyde Collection introduces its major summer exhibition from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. This exhibition features over sixty paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper that capture New York City’s unique urban atmosphere and the human interface with it. The Norton Museum of Art owns a wealth of artworks that feature this remarkable metropolis.The objects in the exhibition are centered on some of the most notable and beloved features of the city and date from 1889 to 2009. Artists represented in this exhibition include Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Andreas Feininger, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and Jim MacMillan’s moving photograph of the World Trade Center on September 12, 2001.

Saturday, October 2, 2011 - Saturday, December 4, 2011
Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children’s Book Illustrations A good children’s illustrated book still has the power to whisk young minds off to another time and place – even in today’s high-tech world of computer games. Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children’s Book Illustrations explores one-hundred years of bold adventures, classic fairy tales, amazing animals, and imaginative ABCs, all seen through the eyes of forty-one artists who have created works especially for children. Originating from the Cartoon Museum in San Francisco, California, Draw Me a Story presents forty original works of art and thirteen books in a thematic and nostalgic journey through the history of children’s book illustrators and illustration techniques. Among the artist/illustrators included in the exhibition are Ralph Caldecott, Jules Feiffer, Edward Gorey, Kate Greenaway, Sarah Noble Ives, William Steig, and Chris Van Allsburg.
Draw Me a Story is a Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-American Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Chapman Museum
The Chapman Historical Museum, located at 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, and Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
For info call (518) 793-2826.

Thursday, September 15 at 7 pm
Chapman Historical Museum Program on Sherman Island Dam At the Chapman Historical Museum, Director Tim Weidner will present an illustrated talk on construction of Sherman Island (Parklap) Dam in the early 1920s. Members of the public are invited to bring and to share their clippings, photos or other research materials relating to Hudson River dams. Of particular interest is information about the “IP train track” that ran from the Finch, Pruyn & Co. mill along the north side of the river and the small settlement of kit houses built for workers at the dam site. The program is presented in connection with the museum’s exhibition, Harnessing the Hudson, which will be on display through September 25th. The Chapman Historical Museum is located at 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY. Public hours are: Tuesday – Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, and Sunday from noon to 4 pm. For more information call (518) 793-2826 or go to www.chapmanmuseum.org.

Now through Sunday, September 25
Harnessing the Hudson In 1903, the Spier Falls hydroelectric dam located on the Hudson River eight miles upstream from Glens Falls, began to produce electricity. Touted at the time as the largest dam of its type in the United States, the dam supplied electricity not only to surrounding communities but also to the large General Electric plant in Schenectady 50 miles away. The dam quickly became part of a network of power plants and transmission lines that supplied power for factories, transportation and lighting in the Capital region. The Chapman Historical Museum's summer exhibit explores the history of how people in the region have harnessed the renewable energy of the Hudson River. Featuring archival materials and artifacts from the museum’s collections and other regional archives, the exhibit tells the story of water power on the Hudson from early sawmills to the development of “the grid.” Hands-on activities provide greater understanding of the science and technologies involved. Public programs relating to the exhibit include talks about specific dam sites on the Hudson, the development of the electric grid, the social history of electricity in the early 20th century and river ecology, and Saturday afternoon hands-on programs for families.

Lower Adirondack Arts Council

Saturday, November 5
Sunday, November 6
LARAC’s 29th Annual Fall Arts and Craft Festival Taking place for the third year at the Adirondack Sports Complex on Upper Sherman Avenue, the juried festival is accepting applications from fine and handcrafted artists in all categories: pottery, metalwork, woodwork, oil and watercolor painting, fiber art, photography, soaps, stained glass, and much more.

Bay Street Beadworks Located at the foothills of the Adirondacks in the heart of Downtown Glens Falls (at 206 Glen Street), and minutes between Lake George and Saratoga Springs, Bay Street Bead Works is upstate New York's premier bead shop! We specialize in bringing our customers the highest quality beads, including semi-precious gemstone beads, focal beads, genuine freshwater pearl beads and Czech glass beads at the best possible prices.

Glens Falls Civic Center

Sunday, October 2, 8:00 pm
Bill Engvall The star of the former TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show and member of the Blue Collar Comedy group, is a popular stand-up comedian with eight comedy albums. Engvall will also be the host of the 2011 revival of the Game Show Network’s (GSN) series Lingo, premiering this June. Among other shows that Engvall is associated with is host of the Country Music Television’s (CMT) hit show Country Fried Home Videos. Bill Engvall’s stop at the Glens Falls Civic Center will be a part of his current 2011 North American comedy tour which includes over 40 destinations across the United States and Canada. Tickets are available exclusively through New Era Tickets at 1-855-GFCC-TIX, online at glensfallscc.com, or in person by visiting the Glens Falls Civic Center box office.

World Awareness Children’s Museum go! the interactive exhibition space of the World Awareness Children’s Museum is offering three exciting summer programs for children 8 to 12 years old from 10am to noon, each Tuesday and Thursday during the month of July and August at 89 Warren St. Downtown Glens Falls. Using cultural objects and art from the Museum’s collection, children will learn about celebrations and practices, international crafts created around the world and global foods. All three programs are hands-on and will involve the process of making some- thing, from shadow puppets to amulets, guacamole to Asian dipping sauce. For further information about go!, contact the Museum at 518-793-2773 or visit the web site at www.worldchildrensmuseum.org. Follow our progress on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gochildrensmuseum.

The Shirt Factory The Shirt Factory is a community of Artisans, Craftspeople, Healers and Professionals located in the historic Shirt Factory Building on Lawrence and Cooper Streets in Glens Falls, NY.

World Awareness Children's Museum The World Awareness Children’s Museum is an educational institution which fosters knowledge and appreciation of world cultures through exhibitions, interactive programming, the International Youth Art Exchange and educator-led tours. We are committed to using art conceived through the eyes of children to promote peace and understanding among people of the world.

Art in the Public Eye APE cultivates a partnership between the area arts community and local businesses, to promote established and emerging artists and local commerce and to create greater access to the arts through cultural activities and public exhibitions. APE's administrative offices and new fine art gallery can now be found at 176 Glen Street.

Vantage Gallery

Glens Falls Public Exhibitions

Thursday, September 15
Third Thursday Art Walk A city-wide event that takes places at approximately 20 traditional and alternative gallery venues on the Third Thursday of the month from May through October (5-8pm). Experience the wealth of talent our area has to offer including visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and more!

Thursday, October 20
Third Thursday Art Walk A city-wide event that takes places at approximately 20 traditional and alternative gallery venues on the Third Thursday of the month from May through October (5-8pm). Experience the wealth of talent our area has to offer including visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and more!

Around Town

Monday, September 12, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Crandall Park This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the picnic pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Monday, September 19, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tai Chi at Glens Falls Hospital This is a free Tai Chi group that meets Mondays. In the winter, the group meets in the community rooms at Glens Falls Hospital. In the warmer months, it meets by the picnic pavilion in Crandall Park. Facillitator: Neil Carter.

Friday, September 9, 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Saturday, September 10
Sunday, September 11
SunKiss Balloon Festival Twenty hot air balloons will launch from SUNY Adirondack Community College on Friday evening, then Saturday and Sunday launches will be at Kingswood Golf Course in Kingsbury.

Thursday, September 22
Friday, September 23
Saturday, September 24
Sunday, September 25
Adirondack Hot Air Balloon Festival Come witness the wonder as hot air balloons of all colors, shapes and sizes set launch all at once over the Adirondack countryside at several events throughout the weekend. An awe-inspiring event for children and adults alike, the Adirondack Balloon Festival is fun and free to attend. The Festival Committee is organized to develop a community oriented, family centered event that offers the business community a fall Adirondack attraction.

Saturday, September 24, 10 am to 4 pm
13th annual Colors of Fall Arts and Crafts Festival Festival will be held outside at Crandall Park by the pond at 576 Glen Street, Glens Falls, New York.

Sunday, September 25
19th Annual Taste of the North Country Sample a variety of foods from the area's best restaurants. Each restaurant sample is priced in food coupons and range from 50 cents to $4 dollars. Coupons are available at the event. Admission: Adults $5. Under 18 Free! For more information: 744-7470.