Berkshire Edge‘s “Women on the Verge” columnist Sarah Wright spoke with documentary filmmaker Marisa Fox about her new film, My Underground Mother. “As writer, director, and producer of My Underground Mother, she makes it her mission to unlock hidden Holocaust history. Specifically, Fox sets out to decode her mother’s many mysteries,” writes Wright. READ MORE HERE To buy tickets to My Underground Mother and the Q&A directly following with Fox and producer Deborah Shaffer, click here. The film screens on Sunday, October 19 at noon.  

Albany Times Union reporter Katherine Kiessling talks with Executive Director Mirissa Neff and VP of Theater Operations on the Crandell Board of Directors Nick Van Alstine in a feature story released the day of the reopening. READ MORE HERE Left to right, first row, above: John Lillis, President, Crandell Theatre, Inc., Mirissa Neff, Executive Director, Chatham Mayor John Howe, Stephen Lang, Tina Lang, New York Assemblymember Didi Barrett, Walton Goggins, Nadia Conners. Second row (behind Goggins and Conners): Dan Wrenn, District Representative for Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Logan Gooley, District Representative for New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey. Photo by John Shea.

When FilmColumbia rolls out the red carpet at the newly reopened Crandell Theatre in Chatham this week, the festival’s 2025 honoree will need no introduction. Around Columbia County Stephen Lang, the journeyman actor turned international household name, is just a recognizable neighbor and Crandell regular. In an exclusive interview with RI, Lang talks about his career and life in Columbia County.   READ MORE HERE  

Executive director Mirissa Neff and FilmColumbia Director Calliope Nicholas, who are leading the Crandell’s future programming efforts, sat down with WAMC’s Joe Donahue, host of The Roundtable, earlier this week.  Click the button below to hear all of the exciting things in store for FilmColumbia and the Crandell.   LISTEN HERE    

Chronogram editor Brian Mahoney raves about FilmColumbia’s starry lineup this year and singles out  ten films you won’t want to miss. Read the Full Article Here

by Larry Kardish The Toronto International Film Festival just celebrated its 50th anniversary. It began a half century ago with typical municipal bravado as “The Festival of Festivals,” and indeed, it quickly became one. A behemoth with over 210 feature films, all of major interest, shown over ten packed days, TIFF 2025 was expansive, inclusive, and a true treasure chest of recent cinema. Films that premiered at other major festivals like Berlin, Cannes and Venice, were shown along with a significant number of world premieres. Many of those films were from the U.S., as Hollywood jumpstarts its Oscar campaigns in Toronto. Torontonians love their festival and attend it in droves, filling theaters as early as 8:30 am every morning and enduring long waits in rush lines to take the seats of no-shows. TIFF is located in a hideous but contained…