Chautauqua Cinema

08/26/2025

What a great Summer! Thank you all for your patronage! See you in June!!

08/24/2025

08/07/2025

2025 Cinema Program 4 - 8/8-8/25

07/22/2025

2025 Cinema Program 3 - 7/25-8/11

07/04/2025

2025 Cinema Program 2 - 7/8-7/24

Reserve tickets and information at chq.org/things-to-do/chautauqua-cinema/

06/27/2025

2025 Cinema Program 1 - 6/20-7/7. Advance tickets and information at chq.org/things-to-do/chautauqua-cinema/

06/20/2025

It’s been a long year and a lot of work, but we are now back in business and open for the 2025 Season! Heartfelt thanks to everyone who loves the Cinema and has made this possible!! 🎥🍿🥤🎬🎞️❣️
Pick up a current program at the Main Gate or Bestor Plaza Visitor Centers, the Bookstore or come by the Cinema!
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Advance tickets available:
https://www.chq.org/things-to-do/chautauqua-cinema/

07/09/2024

The Chautauqua Cinema will be closed for the 2024 season.

In early June, we announced that the Chautauqua Cinema would not be able to open for the 2024 season due to mold discovered during the Town of Chautauqua’s Code Enforcement Officer’s annual inspection of the building. We have since received and reviewed the environmental report and project plan. Crews will begin mold mitigation and ventilation system upgrades starting in the first week of July 2024.

We appreciate everyone’s patience as we work on the facility and prepare to bring the Chautauqua Cinema back for a triumphant return in 2025. We will keep the community updated as this work progresses, and we thank Cinema Director Billy Schmidt for his ongoing expertise and support for this work. Schmidt shared his enthusiasm, saying, “I’m very pleased to see this work happening so quickly, and I will be thrilled to welcome you back to the Chautauqua Cinema next June.

08/26/2023

Thank you Chautauqua for an amazing first night of Barbie!! You really showed up!!!

08/25/2023

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken. Stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.

"A dazzling achievement, both technically and in tone. It’s a visual feast that succeeds as both a gleeful escape and a battle cry." -Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com

"Weird and wonderful, it’s one of the funnest and funniest movies ever made" -Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard

"Somehow, director Greta Gerwig has struck a balance between unhinged whimsy, deep humanity and comedic bliss." -Emily Zemler, Observer

"Absolutely bonkers." -Odie Henderson, Boston Globe

BARBIE (PG-13, 114m)
Fri, 8/25 -5:00pm
Sat, 8/26 - 9:00pm
Sun., 8/27 - 2pm, 5:00pm
Mon, 8/28 - 9:00pm

08/25/2023

During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years designing and developing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.

Director Christopher Nolan has created "a film with intelligence, purpose and historic value." -Rex Reed, Observer

"A towering achievement." -Wendy Ide, Observer UK

OPPENHEIMER (R, 180m)
Fri, 8/25 - 8:00pm
Sat, 8/26 - 5:00pm
Sun., 8/27 - 8:00pm
Mon, 8/28 - 5:00pm

08/20/2023

Climate Change Initiative Special Event!

***Free Admission with CHQ gate pass!***

Two authors who have written lyrically about the impacts of climate change on their native lands will join in conversation about how the climate crisis connects us all. Cristina Bendek is a journalist, author and poet from the island of San Andrés, Colombia, the setting for her first novel, Salt Crystals. Icelandic author, poet and filmmaker Andri Magnason’s novel, On Time and Water, weaves together family narrative, climate science and Icelandic mythology. This program will feature stunning imagery of the authors’ island homes: Iceland and San Andrés, in a multimedia TED-Talk-style presentation.

GLOBAL SOUTH MEETS GLOBAL NORTH
Tuesday, 8/22 at 4:00pm