Champlain Valley Film Society

The Champlain Valley Film Society shows current and classic movies throughout the year in upstate New York, from Essex and Elizabethtown to Westport and Willsboro.

2008 Movie Schedule

May 24 Charlie Wilson's War Masonic Lodge
Essex		 8:00
June 7 Atonement Masonic Lodge
Essex		 8:00
August 2 Air Guitar Nation Ballard Park
Westport		 8:00
August 23 Annie Hall Ballard Park
Westport		 8:00
September 13 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
8:00
September 23
8:00
October 11 King Corn
8:00
October TBA Taxi to the Dark Side
8:00

Film Reviews

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

Saturday, May 24 - Masonic Lodge, Essex - 8:00 PM

Directed by Mike Nichols, this is the outrageous true story of how a congressman who loved a good time (Tom Hanks) and a renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a beautiful Houston socialite who loved a good cause (Julia Roberts) join forces to organize the largest covert operation in history and bring down the Soviet Union.

  • "The year's funniest, smart comedy" - Time
  • "Wickedly funny" - Roger Ebert
  • "Smart sophisticated entertainment for grownups" - Variety
  • "Extremely enjoyable" - Empire
  • "A hoot" - New York Times
  • "Hanks and Hoffman bounce clever lines off each other like verbal ping-pong" - USA Today
  • "Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the movie" - Baltimore Sun
  • "Full of rapid-fire bandiage, like writer Aaron Sorkin's West Wing" - Philadelphia Inquirer

Rated R for language, some nudity and drug use

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ATONEMENT

Saturday, June 7 - Masonic Lodge, Essex - 8:00 PM

Winner of a Best Motion Picture award at this year's Golden Globes and nominated for 7 Academy Awards. This story about enduring love is based on the best-selling novel by Ewan McEwan. Stars Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, and Vanessa Redgrave

  • "One of the year's best films" - Roger Ebert
  • "Some kind of miracle. Written, directed and acted to perfection" - Rolling Stone
  • "Romantic, sensuous, intelligent" Wall Street Journal
  • "Gives a splendid novel the film it deserves" - Los Angeles Times
  • "A smashing success, filled with great performances" - TV Guide
  • "Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life" - Variety
  • "Gorgeous cinematography and near-faultless performances" - Empire
  • "A rare combo - a good movie based on a good book" - Chicago Reader
  • "An amazing story" - New York Daily News

Rated R for language, disturing war images and some sexuality

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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, and the Honeybee Foundation.

Our 2008 schedule of films is made possible, in part, with a Developing Community Arts Grant with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program administered locally by the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks

    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; Putting It Together; Sweeney Todd

    2006: The Battle of Algiers; The Beauty Academy of Kabul; Best In Show; Capote; Disappearances; 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; Bobby; 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; Air Guitar Nation; Annie Hall; Atonement; Au Revoir, les Enfants; Away From Her; Charlie Wilson's War; The Darjeeling Limited; Death at a Funeral; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Into the Wild; Juno; King Corn; Lars and the Real Girl; No Country for Old Men; Taxi to the Dark Side; Touching the Void

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Contact Us

cvfilmsociety@aol.com

    Box 743, Willsboro, NY 12996

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Local Businesses

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The Cupola House on Lake Champlain
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The Deer's Head Inn Restaurant
Elizabethtown: Casual Fine Dining.
The Inn on the Library Lawn
Westport: an Adirondack retreat overlooking Lake Champlain.
Turtle Island Cafe
Willsboro: Named "Best Area Restaurant" by the New York Times.
Westport, NY
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