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SUMMER SESSION
A hands-on, interactive two-week filmmaking course designed to give you the fundamental skills needed to begin your filmmaking journey!





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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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This Week At The State

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Moonstruck

Peter Rabbit
Now Showing

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Moonstruck

Peter Rabbit

Film School Graduation/Premiere

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Paint Night ~ Bob Ross
Live Events
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Big Brother and The Holding Company

The Counselor

The AZORES BAND of ESCALON

We Own The Laughs: Modesto













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Movies On My Mind
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking: A Movie of Ideas By Arnold Anthony Schmidt As might be expected, the most intriguing thing about director Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking, nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars, is what the women talk about. The film treats sexual violence, but only a hint of that appears on […]

Movies On My Mind
“The World Turned Upside Down: The Transformative Energy of Cabaret” By Arnold Anthony Schmidt Powerful art often comes out of personal experiences, especially experiences undergone at moments of profound historical and social transformation. Such is the case with Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972), which stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey. Set in 1931, the […]

Movies On My Mind
“Trading Places: A Comic Switch with an Eye on Eddie Murphy” By Arnold Anthony Schmidt Most of us have spent time daydreaming about “what if?” What if we were richer? Smarter? More athletic? Less shy? Lots of things. In the course of dreaming, we perhaps consider which person in the world we’d like to change […]

Movies On My Mind
“The Manchurian Candidate: A Political Thriller That Packs a Wallop” By Arnold Anthony Schmidt Back in the day, talk of the Beatles and “Beatle-mania” saturated the news. My mother claimed that, when it came pop star frenzy, her generation had all of us (then) young people beat. After all, she’d been one of the thousands of […]