"A Thousand Clowns" Featured At Maryknoll Film Fest

A Thousand Clowns will be the featured film for December in the 2014-2015 International Film Festival sponsored by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The film will be shown Friday, December 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Maryknoll Mission Center, 55 Ryder Road in Ossining. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.

A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 U.S. film from director Fred Coe. The film is about a middle-aged heretic avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, and facing the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.

The film festival provides nine monthly offerings on Friday evenings from September to April. The current series, Life through Death: In Black and White, includes an introduction by a Maryknoll missioner and a brief discussion after the screening.

Upcoming films in the 2014-2015 Maryknoll film series:

January 16 – Nothing But a Man
February 20 – Pleasantville
March 20 – Au Revoir les Enfants
April 17 – Nebraska
May 15 – Judgment at Nuremberg

For more information, visit the Maryknoll website, or contact Nancy Kleppel (914-941-7590 or nkleppel@maryknoll.org).