Summer Movie Schedule Finalized

...and here it is:

French Movie Night, Tuesday, June 17th at 6:30 p.m.Join us for a screening of François Truffaunt’s Masterpiece of French New Wave cinema, Jules et Jim.Here are a couple of quotes about the movie:
"Truffaunt’s greatest achievement...a celebration both of love and cinema. Moreau gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history." The Movie Guide "Age has not withered François Truffaunt’s 1962 masterpiece… Few films capture life’s bittersweet rush and tumble so completely, so profoundly as Jules et Jim. It is the cinematic equivalent of catching lightning in a bottle." The Guardian

Family Movie Night, Thursday July 19th at 6:00 p.m. Our family movie night features a fantasy epic with more than a passing resemblance to the Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia blockbusters, The Golden Compass. Please note the movie's PG-13 rating.


Cinema Club, Tuesday July 1^st at 6:30 p.m. We’re continuing Cinema Club, our night for classic and art movie buffs, with Spike Lee’s 25^th Hour. Described as “a powerful and poignant film,” 25th Hour is a eulogy, mourning the New York of post-September 11, 2001, and the regrettable life of one of the city's least reputable citizens. Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) isn't a bad guy--in fact he's a mensch, adopting a battered dog in the film's mood-setting opening scene, and leading a decent life with his girlfriend (Rosario Dawson)... when he's not dealing narcotics. Facing a seven-year prison term, Monty spends his last free night with pals (Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman) and visiting his understanding father (Brian Cox), while a Russian drug lord pressures him for getting busted. “Spike Lee is a masterful filmmaker and 25th Hour is one of his best.”

Family Movie Night, Thursday July 17^th at 6:30 p.m. Our family movie night features another great fantasy book adaptation, from Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's bestselling children's series, The Spiderwick Chronicles. The tale of three young siblings -- and the goblins, fairies, griffins and ogres they find lurking in their backyard -- is a work of both modest enchantment and enchanting modesty, grounded in a classically Spielbergian realm where childlike wonderment crosses paths with the tough realities of young adulthood. MPAA Rating PG - for scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements.

Cinema Club, Tuesday August 5^th at 6:30 p.m. A real classic for Cinema Club: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not. You can virtually see Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall falling for each other in this Howard Hawks variation on Casablanca but adapted from--as legend has it--Ernest Hemingway's self-declared "worst novel." (The story goes that Hawks told Hemingway he could make a movie of the author's least work, and Hemingway gave him the rights to this story.) The script by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman finally resulted in one of Hawks's and Bogart's greatest films. Bogart plays a boat captain who reluctantly agrees to help the French Resistance while wooing chanteuse Bacall. Hoagy Carmichael, wry at the piano, adds a delicious accent to an already wonderful mood.

Family Movie Night, Thursday August 14^th at 6:30 p.m. Nicholas Cage and Diane Kruger star in the “rip-roaring scavenger hunt” that is National Treasure. Like a Hardy Boys mystery on steroids, National Treasure offers popcorn thrills and enough boyish charm to get the audience cheering. The movie serves up an enjoyable dose of PG-rated entertainment, full of musty clues, skeletons, deep tunnels, and harmless adventure in the old-school tradition MPAA Rating PG - for some violence and action.

Keep an eye on the Library website for any other movie events we may put together over the summer.