To register for any of the programs below, please call 860-434-2272 or email programreg@lymepl.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY MOVIE CLUB

Back for it’s third season, mark your calendars and join us to view a variety of great movies.  On two Sundays in December, January and February and March we will be showing a feature length movie at the Library at 2 o’clock.   A wonderful opportunity to escape for a couple of hours and share a movie with friends and neighbors.  After each movie there will be time to socialize and discuss the film.  There is no charge for the event.   Feel free to bring your own (non-alcoholic) refreshments. Reservations are not required.  For any updates, please call the Library 860-434-2272 or consult our website at lymepl.org.

 

 

December 16, 2018  2:00 P.M.   HIS GIRL FRIDAY

Take actors Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell;  add writers Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and Charles MacArthur, then turn them all over to director Howard Hawks and what you get is a classic--one of the funniest screwball comedies of all time.  Famous for rapid-fire dialogue, this 1940 Columbia Pictures release is an adaptation of Hecht and MacArthur’s prize-winning play, The Front Page.  Even today it remains relevant for its depiction of the deadline-driven, event-consuming world of newspapering.  Grant plays Walter Burns, the hard-boiled editor of The Morning Post. Russell is Hildy Johnson, his star reporter.  And his ex-wife.  She is about to be re-married, this time to a bland insurance man, and settle down as a wife and mother in the hinterlands—an eventuation Grant is determined to sabotage.  The result is a fun-house ride involving attraction, ambition, an innocent man, a bumbling sheriff, a corrupt mayor, a stern prospective mother-in-law and the lure of what may be the biggest scoop of Hildy and Walter’s careers.  1 hour, 32 minutes.

 

January, 6, 2019   2:00 CINEMA PARADISO

(1988)   One of the all-time favorite films of many film critics. Written and directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, it has as its leading star the French actor Philippe Noiret. It won the Grand Prix at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Foreign Movie in the same year. It deals with the memories of a successful filmmaker (Salvatore Cascio), when he hears of the death of his mentor, the projectionist Alfredo (Noiret). It sets into motion a series of flashbacks and slowly it becomes clear how much he owes to the movies he saw, when he was young, in the old 'Cinema Paradiso'. 124 minutes.

 

 

January 20, 2019  2:00 P.M.  THE LADY EVE

 

 

(1941) Preston Sturges is at it again. The ingenious writer-director spins out a sinfully romantic comedy in The Lady Eve, and the "lady" of the title is Barbara Stanwyck. She's a calculating card shark who fleeces passengers on transatlantic ocean liners. When she discovers that an ingenious young millionaire (Henry Fonda) is on board, the scheming Stanwyck figures he'll be a pushover if she plays her cards right. Sure enough, he does fall for her, but surprise-she also falls for him.  Then it gets exciting.  The Lady Eve has snap, crackle and plot and, with famous character actors also on deck, the movie is a winner, hands down."  94 minutes.

 

February 3, 2019  2:00 P.M.   MEETING VENUS

 

 

 

(1991)   A deliciously biting satire set in Paris at just the moment when Europe faces unification and is struggling not only with differing languages and cultures, but also with divergent ideas about work, love and art.  The world of Grand Opera serves not just as the backdrop, but also as a political parable filled with vivid, wise and witty moments of insight into the challenges of both uniting Europe and staging Richard Wagner’s Tannhauser with a cast of prickly international egos.  “This is the Opera Europa,” says one character.  “Here you can be misunderstood in six different languages.”  There is also a seventh language in play:  the language of love.  Glenn Close, at her best, plays the temperamental Swedish diva. (Kiri Te Kanawa provides the diva’s voice.) Niels Arestrup plays the married Hungarian conductor whose job requires that he navigate the nationalities, politics, eccentricities, ambitions and affairs swirling all around him.  Istvan Szabo directs. 2 hours.  Warner Bros. Release.

 

February 17, 2019 2:00 P.M.  THE PALM BEACH STORY

 

 

(1942) Vintage Preston Sturgis, with Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor in a screwball romp guaranteed to make you laugh. McCrea plays Tom Jeffers, an inventor whose pie-in-the-sky concoctions haven't yet made a dime.  Colbert is Gerry, Tom's wife.  They are on their uppers, and about to be thrown out of their New York apartment.  Which inspires Gerry to decide to divorce Tom, find someone new and wealthy to marry and use her second husband's money to finance more of Tom's inventions.  Borrowing some money for train fare, Gerry heads for Palm Beach--where there are plenty of rich men for her to target.  En route, she's adopted by the Ale & Quail Club and meets a likeable stuffed shirt (Rudy Vallee) who may be just the man she's looking for.  Poor Tom follows Gerry to Florida in hopes of dissuading her from divorce only to fall into the clutches of the stuffed shirt's sister (Mary Astor).  Revelry, confusion, complications and witty dialogue ensue.  A sure way to brighten a winter Sunday afternoon.  88 Minutes.  Universal Pictures. 

 

March 3, 2019   2:00 P.M.    RABBIT-PROOF FENCE

 

(2002) Three mixed-race girls are torn brutally from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away to a training camp for domestic workers as part of a government policy to integrate them into white society. Linking the camp and their distant home territory is a vast rabbit-proof fence, which stretches from one coast to another and just might help the girls find their way back. 94 minutes.

 

March 17, 2019  2:00 P.M.  WAKING NED DEVINE

 

 

(1998) When best friends Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) and Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) discover someone in their small Irish village has won the lottery, they immediately set off to see if the winner is in a sharing mood. Deducing that Ned Devine is the lucky man, O'Shea and O'Sullivan pay him a visit, only to find him dead from shock. Since Devine is the only one who can claim the prize, the townsfolk band together to convince the claim inspector that O'Sullivan is really Devine, and split the cash. Great fun! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! (92 minutes)

 

 

Photos from Past Events

 

Nancy Ballek at her program about attracting birds and butterflies to your garden, April 30, 2018

 

 

 

Author Ann Bausum posing next to copies of her book about Sergeant Stubby the Dog, April 12, 2018

 

 

 

Kevin Stahley of Stahley Farms discusses the various wines sold at the Friends of the Library Meet & Greet on March 15, 2018