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The Rosendale Theatre is delighted to host the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation for a very special evening dedicated to the life and extraordinary career of one of the true pioneers of classic science fiction and mystery- Rod Serling!

Foundation president Nicholas Parisi and vice-president Tony Albarella will take us through Rod Serling's extensive work featuring many video clips, interviews and photos including:

The Twilight Zone
Night Gallery
Planet of the Apes

PLUS!

Rod Serling's Early Years
Career Highlights
Back Stories

And plenty of Q & A!

Rod Serling incorporated a powerful human element in his work which won him much acclaim during his lifetime and which resonates with audiences to the present day.

Come join us for this very special evening!

In this new “docu-comedy,” grammar guru Ellen Jovin takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

Ellen Jovin, grammarian, is a founder of Syntaxis, a communication skills training consultancy. She holds degrees from Harvard in German and UCLA in comparative literature, and has studied twenty-five languages just for fun.

The documentary is a companion to the 2022 national bestseller, Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian. Mary Norris, famed New Yorker grammar expert, called it, “A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher.”

7 p.m. Friday, October 3
Screening and commentary with director Brandt Johnson and star Ellen Jovin
Page Hall - University at Albany Downtown Campus
135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12203
Free event. No registration required.
(United States, 2025, 86 minutes, color)

Watch the trailer at
https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/rebelwithaclause

A THEATRE FILLED WITH ZOMBIES! (Just $6 admission in Zombie costume/makeup!)

GIANT “ZOMBIE GROUP PHOTO” EVENT! (COME JOIN US IN YOUR BEST ZOMBIE LOOK!)

CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972)
Six friends lead by their weird boss Alan (Alan Ormsby) dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a Satanic ceremony and to be guest of honor at a wild house party.

The plan backfires with disastrous results.

Widely regarded as one of the best Night of The Living Dead follow-ups!

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
The premier Zombie movie by which all others are judged!

A group of strangers barricade themselves in a rural farmhouse and attempt to keep out a horde of flesh-eating Zombies that have descended upon the area!

Nothing could prepare 1968 movie audiences for the shock they received when viewing Night Of The Living Dead for the first time! There had certainly been earlier Zombie movies, but director George A. Romero showed the world how a Zombie movie SHOULD be done!

Join us for this special night of classic BIG SCREEN ZOMBIE HORROR!

D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, 2h

The gents from Essex may be a gloomy bunch on record, but this film about the final leg of the band’s 1988 American tour is positively buoyant. Rather than a straightforward concert film like his previous Ziggy Stardust, D.A. Pennebaker (along with partner Chris Hegedus) brings their fly-on-the-wall approach to the entire traveling circus — from nimble lighting technicians to giddy number-crunchers, and from pinball-obsessed Dave Gahan to equally charismatic fans en route to see the finale at the Rose Bowl. For once, rock & roll isn’t presented as a spectacle of Dionysian excess, but of good — if not entirely clean — fun. — Rolling Stone

Co-presented with Next Chapter Records

Join Ambie Award-winner Blake Pfeil and writer Isabel Wilder for an immersive, multimedia journey into Ulster County’s abandoned spaces. Using Pfeil’s All-American Ruins as a guide, participants will explore how local ruins reflect America’s past, present, and future—while doubling as playgrounds for creativity, imagination, and healing. The program includes an audio feature from Pfeil’s podcast abandoned, a screening of HUDSY’s All-American Ruins, and a dynamic lecture with Q&A. Ideal for history buffs, artists, and wanderlusters, attendees will leave inspired to reimagine ruins as vital cultural landmarks filled with story, meaning, and possibility.

This powerful documentary tells the story of Heinz Geiringer’s hidden artwork and his sister Eva’s vow to recover it—revealing a legacy overshadowed by the better-known story of Anne Frank, who posthumously became Eva’s stepsister.

On a train to Auschwitz, 17-year-old Heinz Geiringer told his sister Eva that he hid the paintings and poetry he had created beneath the floorboards of their attic hiding place. Heinz made Eva promise that if he should die in the camps, she would retrieve the artwork. Today, his story lives in the shadow of the Diary of Anne Frank—and in a twist of fate, Eva became Anne’s posthumous stepsister when after the war her mother married Anne’s father. While the world knows Anne’s story, this film introduces Heinz, his artistry, and his sister’s efforts to find and share his remarkable legacy.

Documentary, 2022, run time 60 minutes

Steve McCarthy is an Emmy Award–winning TV news producer and documentary filmmaker. A former staff producer for 60 Minutes, Dateline, and CNN, he founded McCarthy Productions in 2001, producing work for major networks, including PBS, BBC America, and HBO. His films include Finding Paddy (2006), The One That Got Away (2016, PBS), Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2019, HBO, Emmy winner), and Life with Layla (2019), about a family affected by the opioid crisis. McCarthy teaches documentary film and journalism at Montclair State University.