Director: John Hughes, Cast: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Charlie Sheen

1h 43m, PG-13

Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, “borrows” a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day journey through the streets of Chicago. On Ferris’ trail is high school principal Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), determined to catch him in the act.

The 2026 Anniversary Classics series is co-sponsored by Les Apple & Debra Saunders, Teri Bordenave & Eric van Leuven, The North Country Chamber Players and Les Apple & Debra Saunders.

Director: Akinola Davies Jr. | Cast: Sope Dirisu, Wale Davies, Efon Wini, Godwin Chiemerie Egbo, Logan Chitwood

1h 33m, PG-13

Languages: Nigerian Pidgin (Naija), Yoruba, and English with English subtitles

Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.

Play by William Shakespeare

Directed by Robert Hastie

Filmed from the National Theatre

6:30pm – Meet the Speaker reception | 7pm – Dr. Joshua Wakeham presentation | After the presentation, stay for a screening of The Big Short.

The Big Short (2015): Based on the non-fiction best-seller by Michael Lewis, The Big Short follows a group of bankers who discover that the world of high finance is built on a house of cards. Follow along as eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry (Christian Bale) and banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) uncover the rot in the housing market and try to convince others to dare to see the truth: there is money to be made in betting against the bubble. 

Presentation:
Join Josh Wakeham, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Plymouth State University, for a discussion about the organizational dynamics, questionable ethics, and outright fraud that fueled the Great Recession. Then watch The Big Short, starring Christian Bale, Steve Carrell, Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling. Stay for a Q&A about what, if anything, has been learned about the risks to the financial system.

Bio: Joshua Wakeham is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Plymouth State University. He received his B.A. in Sociology from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. He has published research on a wide variety of topics, including organizational behavior, policing, juvenile justice, gang intervention work, corruption, Somali pirates, bullshit, and con artists. Josh lives in Bethlehem, NH, with his wife and three daughters.

Science on Screen at The Colonial is presented in partnership with White Mountain Science, Inc. (WMSI) and is sponsored by Kerberos LLC and Hacker.Nexus

Science on Screen is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Director: François Ozon, | Cast: Benjamin Voisin, Félix Lefebvre, Philippine Velge, Antoine Simoni

1h 40m, NR

French with English subtitles

4:30pm – Doors, look for a table from North Country Pride! | 5pm – Screening of Summer of 85 | After Summer of 85, stay for a screening of The Stranger at 7:30pm. | After the double feature: Join us for a community conversation held in partnership with North Country Pride!

When Alexis (Félix Lefebvre) capsizes off the coast of Normandy, David (Benjamin Voisin) comes to the rescue and soon opens the younger boy’s eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art, and sexual bliss. Their seaside summer fling lasts just six weeks, but casts a shadow over a lifetime in François Ozon’s sexy, nostalgic reverie of first love and its consequences. 

Buy a ticket to both movies using our package deal and receive a token for a free small popcorn on arrival to the theatre.

Coming for both movies? Order from a select Cold Mountain Cafe menu – to be delivered to the theatre between film screenings!

Director: François Ozon | Cast: Benjamin Voisin, Pierre Lottin, Rebecca Marder, Swann Arlaud, Christophe Malavoy, Dennis Lavant

2h 3m, NR

Languages: French with English subtitles

In the 1930s Algeria, the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and a fateful encounter on a beach.

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Join us on Friday, June 26th for a François Ozon & Benjamin Voisin Double Feature!

4:30pm – Doors, look for a table from North Country Pride! | 5pm – Screening of Summer of 85 | After Summer of 85, stay for a screening of The Stranger at 7:30pm. | After the double feature: Join us for a community conversation held in partnership with North Country Pride!

Buy a ticket to both movies using our package deal and receive a token for a free small popcorn on arrival to the theatre.

Coming for both movies? Order from a select Cold Mountain Cafe menu – to be delivered to the theatre between film screenings!

With the pressure to prove herself in a male dominated sport, Emily Harrington sets an ambitious goal, a 24- hour ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan.

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Professional climber Emily Harrington has summited Everest, 8000-meter peaks, and dominated the competition circuit but, her greatest challenge extends beyond the physical. To cement her legacy in the male dominated world of elite rock climbing, she sets her sights on a career-defining 24-hour ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan.

Caught between the pursuit of personal ambition and the ticking biological clock of life, a near-fatal fall forces Emily to reckon with what she’s willing to risk. Equal parts gripping survival story and intimate portrait, Girl Climber isn’t just about breaking records, it’s about breaking barriers. Amongst Yosemite’s legendary boy’s club, Emily isn’t proving she is the best *Girl Climber- she’s proving she is one of the best. Period.

The 2026 Reel Outdoors Series is co-sponsored by Appalachian Mountain Club, Carlson’s Lodge, North Country Climbing Center, The Lawton Company, and The Trout Unlimited Ammonoosuc Chapter 554

Director: Anthony Maras | Cast: Brendan Fraser, Andrew Scott, Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Henry Ashton

1h 40m, PG-13

The fate of the free world hangs in the balance as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Capt. James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the D-Day invasion or risk losing World War II altogether.

Performed in a style reminiscent of the Vaudeville era, Alejandro’s Olde Tyme Magik Showe is a wonderful one-man stand-up show with an emphasis on audience participation, visual magic, and physical comedy guaranteed to enchant and amuse the whole family. Blending classic magic and comedy with a little help from volunteer assistants, Pinard draws spectators into his zany world of wonder.

Event sponsored in honor of Gale River Cooperative Preschool

The 2026 Kids! @ The Colonial Series is sponsored by the Nancy F. Vaughan Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Director: Daniel Roher | Cast: Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu

1h 49m, R

A talented piano tuner’s meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

It’s no secret that great art comes from the margins. From those who are either pushed to create from inner forces, or who create to show they deserve to be recognized. Los Angeles-based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary Sunny War has always been an outsider, always felt the drive to define her place in the world through music and songwriting. Her restless spirit, a byproduct of growing up semi-nomadic with a single mother, led her to Venice Beach, California, where she’s been grinding the pavement for some years now, making a name for her prodigious guitar work and incisive songwriting, which touches on everything from police violence to alcoholism to love found and lost.

Event Sponsored by a Live Music Lover, Co-Sponsored by Passumpsic Bank

Join us early for patio crafts starting at 5:30PM!

Director: Bill Kroyer, Cast: Samantha Mathis, Jonathan Ward, Christian Slater, Robin Williams, Tim Curry

1h 16m, Rated: G

About Ferngully

Crysta is a fairy who lives in FernGully, a rainforest in Australia, and has never seen a human before. In fact, she is told they are extinct. But when a logging company comes near the rainforest, she sees that they do exist, and even accidentally shrinks one of them: a boy named Zak. Now her size, Zak sees the damage that the company does and helps Crysta to stop not only them, but an evil entity named Hexxus, who feeds off pollution.

The New Leaf Series is created in partnership with Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust and is co-sponsored by Forest Society North at The Rocks, Tall Provisions, and Liquid Death

Less means more. That’s kind of always how it’s been with us. This time the rules were simple: we can only use what we work with live and whatever we put down on tape must be accomplishable on a stage in a live setting. That’s always seemed to be when we’re at our best. Or most twitchy. Many times we’ve made records that we loved and then, after figuring out how we’d perform it live, we end up falling in love with the live arrangement because being a 2 piece band, it took some real risk and struggle which led to innovation, which gave it a whole new life. (Consider the tortured grape.)

For those who are new here we’ve spent the last decade or so bouncing around in the ‘Americana’ realm quite a bit. Getting branded into that world was admittedly a bit of a head scratcher for us as we’ve always identified as more of a rock band (though we do think of ourselves as folk songwriters and yarn spinners, and we do harmonize well together) but the people were paying attention and we were building a fan base so we kind of felt like “who were we to tell them who we weren’t?” But when you go all the way to Europe and are standing on a stage in front of a few hundred Scandinavians who are dressed in head to toe denim and cowboy hats, we can’t help but feel like we’re about to confuse some people. We will often find ourselves playing an outdoor, ‘free in the park’ type of concert series where a Male and Female with 2 guitars and beautiful harmonies will be booked as the opener, and then we’ll take the stage and proceed to be a little louder and maybe a little more brash than was anticipated. It’s always kind of been this way with us.

Event Sponsored by Mascoma Bank

Director: Kane Parsons | Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Lukita Maxwell, Finn Bennett, Avan Jogia, Robert Bobroczkyi

1h 50m, R

The owner of a furniture store finds a secret doorway that leads him to an endless stretch of rooms. When he disappears, his therapist ventures into the unknown to rescue him.

Doors at 10:30am | Performance at 11am

Join the North Country Chamber Players for an unforgettable performance of perhaps the most ingenious blend of storytelling, instrumental color and accessibility ever created, Peter and the Wolf.  The Chamber Players will present Prokofiev’s masterful, charming and memorable work in a special version for winds, percussion and narrator that is perfect for both first-time listeners and seasoned concert-goers who may remember it fondly from their own childhood.

Free and open to the public, RSVP’s requested. 

Event Sponsored by Barbra & Eliot Weisman

The 2026 Kids! @ The Colonial Series is sponsored by the Nancy F. Vaughan Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Director: Boots Riley | Cast: Keke Palmer, Taylour Paige, LaKeith Stanfield, Poppy Liu, Naomi Ackie, Eiza González, Demi Moore, Will Poulter

1h 53m, R

Professional shoplifters embark on a wild adventure as they target a cutthroat fashion mogul.