Sunday at the Movies with Janet Roach

Our new series of Sunday movies is starting up on January 26th.

Academy award winning screenwriter Janet Roach will be hosting her popular Sundays @ the movies series again at the Lyme Library. This series will be focused on stunning international and American films. Not to be missed this series is a visual gift to the community

Refreshments will be served free of charge (but…donations are always welcome ;-))

The schedule is:

3/9/2025 @ 1:00pm-“The Playboys”.  (2002 Ireland)  An unwed mother defies her rural community by refusing to reveal the identity of the father of her child.  When a troupe of roving theatrical players rolls into town, the possibility of escape rears its lovely head.  Will she or won’t she?

3/23/2025 @ 1:00pm-“House of Sand and Fog”  (2002 United States). Directed by Vadim Perelman. Recently becoming homeless due to a misunderstanding, Kathy Nicolo (played by Jennifer Connely) becomes locked in a life and death battle for repossession of her former home. House of Sand and Fog is much more than just a story of real estate gone wrong but confronts racist and xenophobic views in modern culture.

3/30/2025 @ 1:00pm – Fitzcaraldo Fitzcaraldo (1982) Directed by Werner Herzog. Fitzcarldo is the story of an opera-loving Irish immigrant, named Brian Sweeny Fitzgerald (played by Klaus Kinski) who attempts to build an opera house in Iquitos, Peru during the rubber boom of the early part of the 20th century. An over-the-top adventure story fueled by obsession and art.

4/6/2025 @ 1:00pm-“Tea with Mussolini” (1999) 999 semi-autobiographical comedy -drama war film directed by Franco Zeffirelli telling the story of a young Italian boy’s upbringing by a circle of British and American women before and during the Second World War.