Admission Prices:
Popcorn $2.00; all other concessions $1.00 per item.
Coffee graciously provided by Uncommon Grounds.
The Saratoga Film Forum is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing quality films to downtown Saratoga Springs.
Unless otherwise indicated, Film Forum screenings are Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. (November to April) or 7:00 p.m. (May to October) at the Dee Sarno Theater in the Saratoga County Arts Council building, 320 Broadway at Spring Street.
We do not offer advance ticket sales or reservations (except for special events where indicated). The Box Office opens one hour prior to any screening time.
Our films are primarily shown on 35mm film.
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The screenings at the Saratoga Film Forum are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Here's a question to ponder: what if you could travel inside a painting? We get a glimpse of the answer to that question with Polish visual artist Lech Majewski's The Mill & the Cross, a cinematic recreation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1564 painting The Way to Calvary. Based on the book The Mill & the Cross by art historian Michael Francis Gibson, Majewski's film tells the story of a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's masterpiece. Set in 1564, Rutger Hauer stars as Bruegel, Michael York his patron, and Charlotte Rampling as the Virgin Mary, telling the story of Christ's Passion against the backdrop of the brutal and religiously intolerant Spanish occupation of Flanders. Cutting-edge computer graphics place the actors within Bruegel's own backgrounds, recreating cinematically the visual style of 16th-century Flemish art.
The Friday screening of The Mill & The Cross will be followed by a discussion led by Rachel Seligman, Associate Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and formerly the director of the Mandeville Gallery at Union College. She has taught Renaissance and Baroque art, and is delighted to return to the Film Forum for this occasion; long long ago, she was the Film Forum's first paid administrative employee and director!
"What hangs before us is so striking, beautiful, strange, vast, horrifying, ethereal, lifelike--so alive--that we're desperate to enter the other side of the canvas, to be inside the painting." --Wesley Morris, Boston Globe (full review)
"If you see no more than the opening shots, you will never forget them." --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (full review)
"An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands, The Mill and the Cross...is a moving-image tribute to the still image, with its ability to 'wrestle the senseless moment to the ground.'" --Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice (full review)
Official Web site forThe Mill & the Cross
The Mill & the Cross at the Internet Movie Database
Watch the trailer for The Mill & the Cross:
