Join us Friday nights at 8PM for a unique experience with a small friendly group of film lovers. Some refreshments provided, and feel free to bring your own.
Nov. 1 ~ A Little Romance
From the days of Romeo and Juliet, the subject of innocent, early teen romance has proved its irresistible allure. This George Roy Hill charmer is set in the lovers’ cities of Paris and Venice, with Diane Lane in her first starring role. Homage to earlier screen sizzlers, it is a pure delight, even before the scene-stealing entrance of Laurence Olivier as the young couple’s benefactor, a beguiling con man.
1979 108 min
Nov. 8 ~ Il Postino
This is a deeply subversive movie about the idealistic nature and subtle failings of poetic genius. Chilean bard Pablo Neruda is exiled to the Isle of Capri, where he, a man-of-the-people communist, meets real working class people for the first time. The humble postman who delivers Neruda’s mail becomes fascinated with the great man, only to learn that greatness is not sainthood. But along the way, the postman also learns how poetry operates its special magic on the human heart.
1994 113 min
Nov. 15 ~ Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ~ Karel Reisz director
The angry young man became a British cliche during the late Fifties and early Sixties. Karel Reisz further complicated this stereotype by making Morgan, his angry young man, crazier than a Bessie Bug. David Warner's Morgan, with Vanessa Redgrave as his estranged wife, is the saga of a daft and troubled artist and his gorilla suit. A much darker version was televised in England as A Suitable Case for Treatment.
1966 97 min
Nov. 22 ~ Harold Lloyd medley
Along with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the silent film era’s “third genius” was Harold Lloyd. We begin our tribute with Number Please (1920 25 min). While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, the young man sees her with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors try to help catch it. Then, the girl’s uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two. She offers to take along the first admirer who can gain her mother’s consent.
Next up is Safety Last (1923 70 min), a Horatio Alger-style story of a country boy trying to make good in the big city. He leaves his sweetheart to pursue his fortune, landing a job as a clerk at a department store. But, in his letters home to his beloved, he pretends to be the store’s manager and spends all of his earnings to send lavish gifts. His friend, the “human fly,” performs stunts for money. In a urn of events, the boy must instead make an arduous climb up his department store, dodging a variety of obstacles, climbing higher and higher and eventually dangling from the store’s clock tower, in the film’s most memorable image.
