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A live performance with beautiful accompanying films of the music of the most iconic songwriter of our age: Paul McCartney.

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Modesto Film Society
Monthly screenings dedicated to the exhibition & preservation of films of exceptional quality and significance, all of which are open to members at either no charge or a discounted admission price.

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Escape the mundane & enjoy a night at the theatre, all to yourself.
This Week At The State

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Men

Downton Abbey Dress Up & Screening Event
Now Showing

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Men

Downton Abbey Dress Up & Screening Event
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Pissarro Inspired Paint Along

Exhibition On Screen: Pissarro; Father of Impressionism

The Tale of King Crab
Live Events
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Borscht Dinner

The State Theatre presents: Glitter Coven: QUEER ~ A Burlesque Pride Celebration

Luv2Dance presents: Let’s Get Loud
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Legends Under the Oak Tree

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Movies On My Mind
Kiss Me Deadly: A Classic Film Noir with a Twist By Arnold Anthony Schmid Admit it: when you think about film noir, you don’t associate it with the nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti! Yet the suggestive role played by Rossetti’s 1862 sonnet “Remember” in Kiss Me Deadly illustrates only one of the many things that make […]

Movies On My Mind
“A Road Trip With a Twist: Compartment No. 6” By Arnold Anthony Schmidt Like many, I particularly enjoy narratives in which audiences first see characters as one kind of person, only to have them end up as quite a different kind entirely. Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (2021), winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes […]

Movies On My Mind
“Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” by Arnold Schmidt Films by Iranian Asghar Farhadi, one of the few directors to win two Oscars in the Best Foreign Language category, generally revolve around people making difficult, perhaps unresolvable, decisions. His most famous, the Oscar-winning 2011 A Separation, follows a family in which the […]

Movies on My Mind
By: Arnold Anthony Schmidt
“Life in the Rear-view Mirror”
(Drive My Car)
When a movie has a title with the word “drive” in it, audiences expect highspeed chases, acrobatic escapes, and catastrophic car crashes. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s elegiac Drive My Car has none of those physical actions, but it will definitely carry viewers along on an emotional ride, with lovers trying to chase memories and escape regrets, only to experience catastrophic psychological impacts in the end.
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