Starring
Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, Joan Baez, Tito Burns, Donovan
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker

As 23-year-old Bob Dylan mounted a tour of England in 1965, he granted director D.A. Pennebaker intimate access behind the scenes. The result: one of the best looks at the notoriously hard to pin down singer-songwriter whose work has echoed over generations since he burst onto the New York folk scene. The film chronicles Dylan's concert appearances, hotel room conversations, and downtime, pulling back the curtain on the folk messiah at the end of his relationship with Joan Baez and on the cusp of his creative shift toward rock music.

This screening of Pennebaker's classic verite doc follows the release of James Mangold's A Complete Unknown, a Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothee Chalamet that traces some of the earliest days of the artist's iconic career.

The Paducah Film Society is Maiden Alley Cinema's own monthly movie club, screening classic, cult, and foreign films in western Kentucky. PFS is supported by Maiden Alley Cinema, WKMS, and local donors. Promotional support comes from Minuteman Press in Paducah.

  • Tue, 02/11/2025 - 7:00pm
Starring
Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Lio Tipton
Directed by Glenn Ficarra, Directed by John Requa

This screening is part of our Community Focus series sponsored by Marrs Property Group! Each month in 2025 MAC is partnering with a local nonprofit organization to host a film of their choice. Tickets are $10 and 50% of all tickets sales go to the partner organization. Kicking off the series is Child Watch Counseling & Advocacy Center of West Kentucky

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

  • Thu, 02/13/2025 - 7:00pm
Starring
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy
Directed by Brady Corbet

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Tóth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.

This showing includes a 15 minute intermission halfway through the film.

  • Fri, 02/14/2025 - 6:00pm
  • Sat, 02/15/2025 - 1:30pm
  • Sat, 02/15/2025 - 6:00pm
  • Sun, 02/16/2025 - 1:00pm
  • Sun, 02/16/2025 - 5:00pm
  • Mon, 02/17/2025 - 6:00pm
Starring
Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Joan Allen
Directed by Nick Cassavetes

This screening is part of our Community Focus series sponsored by Marrs Property Group! Each month in 2025 MAC is partnering with a local nonprofit organization to host a film of their choice. Tickets are $10 and 50% of all tickets sales go to the partner organization.

This film showing benefits our neighbor, The River Discovery Museum!

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

  • Thu, 02/20/2025 - 7:00pm
Starring
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault, Charles D. Lucas
Directed by Oscar Micheaux

Paducah Film Society is proud to announce that, in honor of Black History Month, it will be presenting a screening of Oscar Micheaux’s “Within Our Gates” with a live, in-house score on Feb. 21 at Maiden Alley Cinema.

Micheaux, whose father was born into slavery in Kentucky, was born in 1884 in Metropolis, Illinois, just across the river from Paducah. He would later move to Chicago and then to South Dakota, where he would publish the first of his seven novels. He launched a film production company to adapt his book “The Homesteader” into his first feature film, which he directed and released in 1919. That first film was lost.

His second film was “Within Our Gates,” a movie written, produced and directed by Micheaux. It tells the story of a young biracial woman visiting Boston during the Jim Crow era. While there, she becomes a school teacher and tries to raise money for an underfunded, segregation-era institution that serves Black children.
Modern critics and film historians have hailed the film — the oldest surviving feature directed by a Black American — as an important work. It is listed in the National Film Registry, the collection of films the United States National Film Preservation Board has selected for preservation.

The film was banned in some theaters and inspired many protests through the time of its release. It depicts acts of racial violence, including a lynching. Often considered a response to Kentuckian director D.W. Griffith’s “Birth Of A Nation,” Micheaux said that he created the film independently as a response to social instabilities he perceived in the wake of World War I.
“With a brisk and sharp-edged style, Micheaux sketches a wide view of black society, depicting an engineer with an international career, a private eye with influential friends, a predatory gangster, devoted educators—and the harrowing ambient violence of Jim Crow, which he shows unsparingly and gruesomely,” Richard Brody wrote of the film for The New Yorker upon its restoration and physical rerelease in 2017.

A brief program will precede the film shortly after 7 p.m.


Rev. Orlando McReynolds of First Missionary Baptist Church will speak before the screening. The Metropolis faith leader was responsible for the southern Illinois city erecting a historical marker in Micheaux’s honor in 2023.

For this special screening, the 78-minute silent film will be scored by area musicians Clifton Davis and Keenan Perez.

The Paducah Film Society is Maiden Alley Cinema's own monthly movie club, screening classic, cult, and foreign films in western Kentucky. PFS is supported by Maiden Alley Cinema, WKMS, and local donors. This screening is sponsored by the McCracken County chapter of the NAACP. Promotional support comes from Minuteman Press in Paducah.

  • Fri, 02/21/2025 - 7:30pm
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