Bay Area Film Society

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
2023-11-10 19:30, 2023-11-10 17:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Butterfly in the Sky
2023-03-24 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Butterfly in the Sky chronicles the journeys of broadcasters, educators and filmmakers who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.
1 hour 27 minutes
Not Rated
$7.00 for members

Butterfly in the Sky
2023-03-24 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Butterfly in the Sky chronicles the journeys of broadcasters, educators and filmmakers who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.
FREE showing sponsored by Friends of the Vaughn Library & Ashland Adult Literacy
1 hour 27 minutes
Not Rated

95th Academy Awards
2023-03-12 19:00 | WI
ABC

Aftersun
2023-03-10 19:30, 2023-03-10 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Aftersun is a 2022 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Charlotte Wells, starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall. Set in the early 2000s, the film follows Sophie, an 11-year-old Scottish girl, on vacation with her father at a Turkish resort on the eve of his 31st birthday.
$7.00 for members
Rated R
101 min.

Chequamegon Food Co-op Round For Partners
2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31 | Chequamegon Food Co-op, 700 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806, United States
We are honored to be @chequamegonfoodcoop Round For Partners March recipient. We have a lovely swag basket drawing on display, sign up and try to win a BAFS T-shirt, BAFS winter beanie, two BAFS stickers, two free tickets to a BAFS film, two @southshorebrewery pint glasses with the beer to fill them. The drawing will be on March 31st. We have membership forms available and your membership would last a year from the date purchased so it’s never too late in the season.
Please consider rounding up your change for BAFS!

Living
2023-02-24 19:30, 2023-02-24 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
﻿Living is a 2022 British drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa, which in turn was inspired by the 1886 Russian novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. Set in 1953 London, it depicts a bureaucrat in the county Public Works department (played by Bill Nighy) facing a fatal illness.
$7.00 for members
Rated PG-13
102 min.

Triangle of Sadness
2023-02-10 19:30 | WI
Triangle of Sadness is a 2022 satirical black comedy film written and directed by Ruben Östlund in his English-language feature film debut. The film stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson. It is the last film Dean starred in before her death in August 2022. The film follows a celebrity couple on a luxury cruise with wealthy guests.
Rated R
140 min.

Triangle of Sadness
2023-02-10 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806

Decision to Leave
2023-01-27 19:30, 2023-01-27 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Decision to Leave (Korean: 헤어질 결심; Hanja: 헤어질 決心; RR: Heeojil gyeolsim; lit. Resolution to Break Up) is a 2022 South Korean romantic mystery film produced, co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook. It stars Tang Wei and Park Hae-il.
Not Rated
138 min.

Moonage Daydream
2023-01-13 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Moonage Daydream is a 2022 documentary film about English singer-songwriter David Bowie. Written, directed, produced and edited by Brett Morgen, the film uses previously unreleased footage from Bowie’s personal archives, including live concert footage. It is the first film to be officially authorized by Bowie’s estate, and takes its title from the 1972 Bowie song of the same name.
Rated PG-13
135 min.

Bowie Dance Party
2023-01-13 18:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
