INGRID BERGMAN WEDNESDAY MATINEE FILM SERIES AT LIBRARY

Chase the winter blues away at the movies, as librarian Doug Swiszcz presents Ingrid Bergman: A Celebration, a film lecture series held every Wednesday in March (and the first Wednesday in April) at 1:00 PM at the Barrington Public Library.

The selection of movies is designed to show the versatility of the three-time Academy Award-winning actress. Bergman plays a married woman torn by her rekindled feelings towards a former lover in Casablanca; a newly wed woman who begins to question her sanity in Gaslight; and, a coldly clinical psychoanalyst who learns about love in Spellbound. She is also seen as an amnesiac woman who claims to be the lone living offspring of Russian czar Nicholas II in Anastasia, and as a British missionary in northern China in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Mr. Swiszcz will offer commentary before each week’s screening. The series is free and open to all.

The series begins on March 5th with Casablanca. This 1942 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and is arguably one of the best-loved movies that Hollywood has ever produced. Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine, an exiled American who runs a “gin joint” during World War II in Casablanca, a city in unoccupied Morocco—which serves as a crossroads for spies, traitors, Nazis and the French Resistance. Bergman plays Ilsa, Rick’s former lover who arrives with her French resistance leader husband. Rick has obtained a pair of “letters of transit” that will allow two people to leave Casablanca for Portugal and freedom. Who will use these letters? The fine ensemble cast includes Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. (Black and white; 102 min.)

Here’s the rest of the lineup: 

March 12th:  Gaslight
March 19th:  Spellbound 
March 26th:  Anastasia 
April 2nd:   The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Barrington Public Library is located at 281 County Rd., Barrington, RI. Visit on the web at www.barringtonlibrary.org or call 401-247-1920 or find on Facebook.