About CVFS
The Champlain Valley Film Society began showing movies in 2003 in the theater at the Willsboro Central School in Willsboro, NY, debuting with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Breaking Away, and Shakespeare in Love. In the summer of 2004 we started screening films outdoors behind the Essex Inn, in Essex, NY, with Some Like It Hot and North by Northwest. The summer movie series continued in 2005 with such films as Notorious and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In the winter of 2006 we began a new indoor series, with films such as March of the Penguins, The Battle of Algiers, and Capote. That summer we also began showing movies outdoors at Ballard Park in Westport, NY, with Master and Commander and A Hard Day's Night.
The Champlain Valley Film Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.
We are very grateful for the many donations from the community and for grants from the following organizations: the Adirondack Community Trust, the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks, the Boquet River Association, the Essex Community Fund, the Honeybee Foundation, and the International Paper Company's Ticonderoga Mill.
2003: A Bug's Life; Breaking Away; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Dumb and Dumber, Grease; Shakespeare in Love
2004: North by Northwest; Some Like It Hot
2005: Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Notorious; Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail; The Producers; Putting It Together (introduced by actor/singer George Hearn); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (also introduced by Mr. Hearn)
2006: The Battle of Algiers; The Beauty Academy of Kabul; Best In Show; Capote; Disappearances (introduced by writer/director Jay Craven); Good Night and Good Luck; A Hard Day's Night; An Inconvenient Truth; The Incredibles; L. A. Confidential; Life Is Beautiful; Mad Hot Ballroom; March of the Penguins; Master and Commander; Much Ado About Nothing; Neil Young: Heart of Gold; A Prairie Home Companion; Rockwell Kent;Spirited Away; Z
2007: Basquiat (introduced by sculptor Joel Shapiro and painter Ellen Phelan); Bobby (introduced by author Thurston Clarke); Charade; Children of Men; Concert for George; Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing; The Heart of the Game; Henry V; Hot Fuzz; Kung Fu Hustle; The Last King of Scotland; Letters from Iwo Jima; Little Miss Sunshine; The Lives of Others; Local Hero; The Namesake; Once; Pan's Labyrinth; The Princess Bride; The Queen; Sicko; The Sting; Three Farms; Waitress; Whale Rider
2008: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; The 11th Hour; Affliction (introduced by author Russell Banks); Air Guitar Nation; Atonement; Au Revoir, les Enfants; Away From Her; Casablanca; Charlie Wilson's War; The Darjeeling Limited; Death at a Funeral; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Into the Wild; Juno; King Corn (introduced by writer/director Aaron Woolf); Lars and the Real Girl; No Country for Old Men; Son of Rambow; Tell No One; Then She Found Me; Touching the Void; The Visitor
2009: The African Queen; Annie Hall; Burn After Reading; Every Little Step (introduced by dancer Antonette Knoedl); Food, Inc. (introduced by farmers Mike & Laurie Davis); Frost/Nixon; Frozen River (introduced by writer/director Courtney Hunt); Buster Keaton's The General (introduced and with piano accompaniment by Ben Model); Ghost Town; Goodbye Solo; Happy-Go-Lucky; Islander (introduced by actor/screenwriter Thomas Hildreth); Man on Wire; Milk; Slumdog Millionaire; Sugar; Sunshine Cleaning; Trouble the Water; Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2010: (500) Days of Summer; City Island; The Cove; An Education; The Ghost Writer; The Hurt Locker; Julie and Julia (introduced by chef John Ferry); Moon; Precious; Safety Last (introduced and with piano accompaniment by Ben Model); The Secret in Their Eyes; Up in the Air; Winter's Bone; Women Without Men (introduced by director Shirin Neshat); The Young Victoria