Bay Area Film Society

BAFS Board meeting
2024-08-21 18:00, 2024-04-17 18:00, 2024-03-20 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Vaughn Library, 502 Main St W,, Ashland, WI, 54806, United States

Super Secret Screening
2024-05-04 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
This is a free event for invited folks only!
Sponsored by A to Z Plumbing & Heating

Member/Sponsor/Volunteer Party
2024-05-04 17:30 | The Black Cat Coffeehouse, 211 Chapple Ave., Ashland, WI, 54806, United States

Perfect Days
2024-04-12 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
﻿﻿Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders, from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film combines four short stories and stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a toilet cleaner.
Sponsored by The Bayfield Inn.
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Perfect Days
2024-04-12 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders, from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film combines four short stories and stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a toilet cleaner.
Sponsored by The Bayfield Inn.
By [1], Fair use, Link

The Zone of Interest
2024-03-22 19:30, 2024-03-22 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis. It was a co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland. It stars Christian Friedel as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, who strives to build a dream life with his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), in a new home next to the German Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Persian Version
2024-02-23 19:30, 2024-02-23 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Persian Version is a 2023 American comedy drama film directed and written by Maryam Keshavarz. The film stars Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Bijan Daneshma﻿nd, Bella Warda, and Tom Byrne. It follows the struggles of a young Iranian-American woman who is often at odds with her family, particularly with her mother.

The Boy and the Heron
2024-02-02 19:30, 2024-02-02 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Boy and the Heron (Japanese: 君たちはどう生きるか, Hepburn: Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka, lit. ’How Do You[a] Live?’) is a 2023 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Produced by Studio Ghibli, the Japanese title references the 1937 novel of the same name by Genzaburō Yoshino, which appears in the film, but the film has an original story that is not connected to the novel.
The Japanese voice cast includes Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Shinobu Otake. Described as a “big fantastical film”, it follows a boy named Mahito Maki during the Pacific War who discovers an abandoned tower in his new town after his mother’s death and enters a fantastical world with a talking grey heron.
Film screening sponsored by AdventurUs & Steffenson Carpentry.

16th Big Water Film Festival
2024-01-19 - 2024-01-20 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
https://16thbigwaterfilmfestival.eventive.org/

Anatomy of a Fall
2024-01-12 18:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Anatomy of a Fall (French: Anatomie d’une chute) is a 2023 French courtroom drama thriller film directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay co-written by Triet and Arthur Harari. It stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death.
The film received acclaim from critics, who praised Triet and Hüller, and it has sold over one million admissions in France.
152 minutes
Not Rated
$7.00 for members

Róise & Frank
2023-12-08 19:30, 2023-12-08 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Róise & Frank is a 2022 Irish comedy-drama film directed and written by Rachael Moriarty and Peter Murphy, and starring Bríd Ní Neachtain. The film is set in Ring, a town within Gaeltacht na nDéise in Waterford.
Two years after the death of her husband Frank, Róise becomes increasingly isolated from those around her, going through the motions of her life. An unchipped, apparently ownerless, dog appears at Róise’s doorstep & is insistent on staying with her. The dog manages to reawaken Róise and ends up reconnecting her to her family & community.
This film is sponsored by Bay Area Animal Hospital.
84 minutes
Not Rated
$7.00 for members

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
2023-11-10 19:30, 2023-11-10 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a 2022 American action-thriller film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol. It relies on ideas advanced in Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, published by Verso Books. Malm’s nonfiction work examines the history of social justice movements and argues for property destruction as a valid tactic in the pursuit of environmental justice. The film stars Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary and Irene Bedard.
104 minutes
Rated R for language throughout and some drug use
$7.00 for members

Night of the Living Dead - New Restoration
2023-10-20 21:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film that introduced the flesh-eating ghouls that would become synonymous with the term “zombie”. The story follows seven people trapped in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, under assault by reanimated corpses. The movie was directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, and produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman. It stars Duane Jones and Judith O’Dea.
96 minutes
Not rated
$7.00 for members
Double feature with The Exorcist
$12.00 for members

The Exorcist - 50th Anniversary Director’s Cut
2023-10-20 18:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. The story follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.
This film is sponsored by Play Unplugged.
132 minutes
Rated R for strong language and disturbing images
$7.00 for members
Double feature with Night of the Living Dead
$12.00 for members

Past Lives
2023-09-29 19:30, 2023-09-29 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Past Lives is a 2023 American romantic drama film written and directed by Celine Song in her feature directorial debut. Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, the film follows a reunion between two childhood friends as they contemplate their relationship and their own lives.
106 minutes
Rated PG-13 (Some Strong Language)
$7.00 for members

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2023-08-13 00:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Some say The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the greatest movie ever made. Transcendent, orgiastic and earnest, the command it can hold over a crowd demonstrates cinema as some twisted, liberating religion. With these observations in mind, it is no wonder why so many hold the film in such high regard.
The Bay Area Film Society is proud to announce our partnership with the Bay Theater and Chequamegon Pride in helping to put on the 2023 midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Members of our board will be providing security services for the two back-to-back shows on Friday, August 11 and again on Saturday, August 12. Tickets will be sold by the Bay Theater at a reduced price of $4.00, because film is for everyone–lovers, misfits, all.
1 hour 40 minutes
Rated R

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2023-08-12 00:00 - 01:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
﻿Some say The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the greatest movie ever made. Transcendent, orgiastic and earnest, the command it can hold over a crowd demonstrates cinema as some twisted, liberating religion. With these observations in mind, it is no wonder why so many hold the film in such high regard.
The Bay Area Film Society is proud to announce our partnership with the Bay Theater and Chequamegon Pride in helping to put on the 2023 midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Members of our board will be providing security services for the two back-to-back shows on Friday, August 11 and again on Saturday, August 12. Tickets will be sold by the Bay Theater at a reduced price of $4.00, because film is for everyone–lovers, misfits, all.
1 hour 40 minutes
Rated R

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
2023-06-23 21:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian road comedy film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows two drag queens, played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, and a transgender woman, played by Terence Stamp, as they journey across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named “Priscilla”, along the way encountering various groups and individuals.
1 hour 43 minutes
Rated R for sex-related situations and language

Super Secret Screening TBA
2023-04-28 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
(Sponsors/Volunteers/Members only)

Polyfaces
2023-04-20 19:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Polyfaces is a joyful film about connecting to the land and the community. Produced over 4 years it follows the Salatins, a 4th generation farming family who do ‘everything different to everyone else’ as they produce food in a way that works with nature, not against it.
FREE showing sponsored by the Ashland/Bayfield Chapter of the Wisconsin Farmers Union
1 hour 30 minutes
Not Rated

Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023-04-14 19:30, 2023-04-14 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as “Daniels”), who produced it with Anthony and Joe Russo and Jonathan Wang. It follows Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn, with Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis in supporting roles.
