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Songs and Stories with David Yazbek

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7 Broadway Shows, 5 Albums + Tony, Emmy and Grammy Awards!

How does he do it? He has no idea, but he’ll try to figure it out. Join us for an evening with The Band’s Visit composer David Yazbek!

Direct from his performance at 54 Below in NYC, David will play and sing songs from his shows and albums.

David Yazbek’s Broadway credits include music and lyrics for The Band’s Visit (10 Tony Awards), Dead Outlaw, Tootsie, Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Larry David’s Fish In The Dark, The Roommate, and Buena Vista Social Club (Producer/Creative Consultant).

Solo albums include The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus!, Tape Recorder, and Evil Monkey Man. He is currently completing a new album and continues to perform with his band. The New York Times called him “A daredevil juggler catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination.”

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RIVERTOWN FILM SCREENING: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

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When Victims Turn the Tables

December 2025 – Rivertown Film presents a searing Iranian film on Wednesday, January 14th – the Palm d’Or winning “It Was Just An Accident”. The movie – drawn straight from writer- director Jafar Panahi’s life – is a tragicomedy that doesn’t fit into a neat box.

Panahi has drawn from his own experience in Tehran’s Evin Prison for “propaganda against the state” and his subsequent house arrest to tell this story. Initially banned from filmmaking (though no longer), he shot the film covertly. A tale of crime and punishment, it follows Vahid, a formerly imprisoned mechanic, who grabs a man, Eghbal, off a busy street because the sound Eghbal makes when he walks sounds just like the guard who had tortured Vahid in jail. Vahid hits him with a shovel and starts to bury Eghbal alive. From there, the film turns absurdly funny as Eghbal insists he isn’t the guard. Soon Vahid and Eghbal set off in Vahid’s van to track down other ex-prisoners that Vahid hopes can identify Eghbal as said guard. Vahid finds two other former prisoners, and they join he and Eghbal in the van, driving to nowhere in particular. During their bizarre drive, they all bicker, bond and share grim prison stories. Director Panahi allows his characters to speak their minds, voice their rage, and raise questions about the way that a tyrannical rule corrupts a society.

There will be a Zoom discussion with the film’s cinematographer, Amin Jafari following the screening.

Doors to the Nyack Center open at 7:30pm, and the film begins at 8pm. Tickets are $13/General Admission, $11/Students & Seniors, and $9/Rivertown Film Members More information can be found at rivertownfilm.org.

Rivertown Film is a non-profit organization which was founded in 2001. Their
mission is devoted to celebrating, exploring and promoting the art of the motion picture through film screenings and educational programs. The organization is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and our corporate sponsors are Elena Schloss, Happy Dwellings with Elena/ Julia B. Fee, Sotheby’s International Realty, PainterSmith, Harrington Press, and Emerald Medicare.

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Friday Night Film School: The Prestige (2006)

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Rival 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter battle for trade secrets.

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Rated PG 13

Runtime: 2h 10m

Geoff will host movies, pausing along the way to appreciate and discuss the audacity of cinema when it fires on all cylinders (engaging story-world, irony, metaphor, ideas and craft).

* Popcorn will be served

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Film Screening: It Was Just An Accident

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January 14, 8:00 pm at The Nyack Center

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Directed by Jafar Panahi
2025, Iran, 103 minutes, in Farsi with English Subtitles

Winner of the Palm d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and the first film by Jafar Panahi since his most recent imprisonment in Iran, It Was Just An Accident is a moral dilemma of a man who has a random encounter with someone he suspects was his torturer while in prison. To decide what action to take, if any, he contacts others who were tortured, possibly by the same man. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences, and questions are raised about the way that tyrannical rule corrupts a society.

Discussion with the cinematographer, Amin Jafari, via zoom.

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Circle Up

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Our weekly poets circle, Circle Up, is happening every Thursday night from 6 PM to 7 PM at X House in Nyack. This week, I’m thinking on doing a performance/delivery workshop, but usually we do either writing or editing. If you want weekly emails or texts about that, let me know and I can add you to the proper list. If you can swing it, cost is $5, paid directly to the venue.

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