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FilmColumbia 2024

FilmColumbia, Columbia County’s premier annual cultural event, screens the very best upcoming American and international films.

The 2024 festival will run from October 18-27.

2024 Schedule 2024 Program (PDF)

NOTE: Regular Crandell tickets are not available online to non-members during FilmColumbia pre-sales (ends October 12). They are available online through Fandango or by coming to the box office in person for tickets!

Members-only pre-sales for FilmColumbia 2024 are now open! Not a member yet? It’s not too late to become a member and access the FilmColumbia presales benefit.

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Yesterday

Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance Rated: PG-13 116 min
Showing: Wednesday, October 9 5:30pm

John Lennon Birthday Tribute: In this surprise hit, Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer-songwriter. After a freak bus accident, Jack wakes up to discover that the Beatles have never existed… and he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed.

“It’s appealing and accessible in a way that the Beatles never really were.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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Documentarian Ralph Arlyck and His Poignant Film I Like It Here Return to the Crandell on October 13 at 1 pm

posted on October 3, 2024

(Chatham, NY—October 2, 2024)—Crandell LIVE! at the historic Crandell Theatre is pleased to welcome back documentary filmmaker Ralph Arlyck for an encore screening of his film I Like It Here, a poignant, poetic and deeply moving visual essay about the simple pleasures of being alive and the undeniability of aging as we pass through it. The screening on Sunday, October 13, is at 1 pm. Arlyck and Executive Director Brian Edward Leach will discuss the film and take audience questions following the screening. I Like It Here continues to screen on the festival circuit to much acclaim and recently opened in New York. Said The New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson in her review, “I Like It Here is loaded with gentle humor….[Arlyck] is doing precisely what great memoirists do: invite us into their stories as a way of…

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FilmColumbia 2024 to Honor Actor Walton Goggins and Screen Pedro Almodóvar’s First Film in English

posted on September 24, 2024

(Chatham, NY—September 23, 2024)—FilmColumbia, celebrating its 24th year, returns to the Crandell Theatre in Chatham, NY, this October 18 – 27 with 50+ of the very best domestic and international features, documentaries and shorts, including many fresh from the festival circuit that have not yet opened commercially. Columbia County’s longest running film festival, FilmColumbia has screened more than 650 films; 106 have gone on to receive Academy Award nominations. This year the festival will feature a number of on-stage, in-person interviews with filmmakers and stars, including the festival’s 2024 Honoree, Emmy-nominated actor and area resident Walton Goggins. Known for his ability to create complex characters and blend comedy and drama, fan-favorite Goggins stars in The Uninvited, a new comedy/drama about a mysterious party crasher written and directed by his wife, Nadia Conners. A hit at South by Southwest, the film…

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