Spring-Summer 2026 Schedule
Special Saturday Matinee Event! Adults — $6. School age children — Free !
April 25 2 pm Hurrah for Library Week —Free for All: the Public Library
How did our wonderful free, public libraries come to exist? Pothole Pictures is partnering with the Shelburne Falls Women’s Club and the Arms Library to show this film, which tells the story. As many as 75 to 80 percent of public libraries were started by local women’s clubs, as part of the “Free Library Movement.” Join us to celebrate Library Week, and to honor the “quiet revolutionaries” who made modern libraries possible. Q & A with local librarians after the film.
2025 unrated documentary 85 min. IMDB 8.4
May 8 – 9 7:30 pm One of the best films of the 2000s — IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
A poetic love story that is on several lists of the greatest foreign films of all time — the film that made Wong Kar Wai one of the coolest directors in the world. Not a film that focuses on plot or action, but on acting, cinematography, design and direction, making it “dizzy with a romantic spirit that’s been missing from the cinema forever.” (NY Times). 2000 PG 98 min IMDB 8.0
May 23 7:00 pm – May 24 1:30 pm The Unbearable Cuteness of Being — PADDINGTON
No Film on Friday: Saturday Night and Sunday Matinee ONLY
Not just another story about a talking Peruvian bear in London, but a film as charming as Paddington himself, “charmingly funny and shamelessly punny.” Scored 96% from critics on Rottentomatoes.com. Please help us look after this bear, either Saturday night or at a special Sunday matinee. 2014 PG 95 min IMDB 7.3
June 6 7 pm Special One -Day Film Event — Short But Great!
SHANTIGAR FOUNDATION presents THE Thomas Edison Film Festival
As a break from our Pothole Pictures series, we are hosting a special one-day film event. The Shantigar Foundation in Rowe is partnering with the Thomas Edison Film Festival on an evening of award-winning short films – narrative, animation, and documentary – exploring the themes of nature, meditation, and creative arts. The films will be followed by Q&A with Festival Director Jane Steuerwald and Shantigar Co-Director Didi Goldenhar. Join us for this wonderful evening of new discoveries and international talent.
June 27 7:30 pm Special Event for “Follow the Trolley Day” — SPEEDY
June 27 is “Follow the Trolley Day” in Shelburne Falls, a chance to follow the historic original route of the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Railway trolleys. To celebrate, we are showing Harold Lloyd’s final silent film. Lloyd plays Speedy, who is trying to save the last horse-drawn trolley in NYC…Includes a great scene with Babe Ruth — as himself! 1928 unrated 85 min IMDB 7.6
July 10 – 11 7:30 pm Down the Tubes! — UNLESS SOMETHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG
In partnership with the Shelburne & Buckland Sewer Commissions, and to celebrate the retirement of Dan Fleuriel, who operated the local water treatment facility for many years, we are showing this award-winning documentary about Portland, Maine’s wastewater treatment plant, which has been called: ”a buddy comedy about wastewater treatment — and the unlikely heroes who make it work.” 2025 73 min – documentary
July 24 – 25 7:30 pm Robert Duvall tribute — TENDER MERCIES
Robert Duvall won his only Oscar for his role as Mac Sledge, a country singer putting his life back together. A moving story of hope and redemption, (which also won a “Best. Screeplay” Oscar), it’s an opportunity to see a great actor in one of his greatest roles. Duvall does his own singing, and even wrote two of the songs! 1983 Robert Duvall IMDB 7.2
August 7 – 8 7:30 pm. All-star, All-Time, All-female Cast — THE WOMEN
An unusual treat, and a significant milestone in cinema history: all 130+ parts are played by women. Written by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, based on Clare Booth Luce’s hit Broadway play, it celebrates sharp tongued dialogue, catfighting and conniving. Starring Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard AND Rosalind Russell (to name a few.) Directed by George Cukor. 1939 Unrated IMDB 7.7 133 min
August 21 – 22 Dance to the Music! — SUMMER OF SOUL
Oscar winning documentary about “Black Woodstock,” the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Questlove assembled this wonderful film from long-unseen footage of the summer festival, with music from (among others) Sly & the Family Stone, Nina Simone and The Fifth Dimension. 2021 PG 118 min IMDB 8.0