Films
| Classic Film: Love is News (1937, 78 minutes) |
May 28, 2013
7:00 pm
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Screwball comedy Love is News features those two stalwarts of 1930s comedies: The brash reporter and the giddy heiress. Tyrone Power is the reporter, who makes his living writing about the foibles of the idle rich. His special target is heiress Loretta Young, the daughter of an influential financier. Young gets even by announcing her engagement to Power; now it's his turn to have his every movement scrutinized by the Public as both reporter and heiress connive to embarrass one another. Power is aces as the anything-for-a-story newshound while Young has the talent and the timing to pull off the ditzy heiress role. And Don Ameche is perfect as the editor that keeps Power coming and going.—All Movie
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| Documentary: First Position (2011, 90 minutes) |
June 03, 2013
2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
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Six dance students follow the same dream against long odds in this documentary from filmmaker Bess Kargman. The Youth America Grand Prix is a competition for young ballet students between the ages of 9 and 19; it's one of the world's leading proving grounds for new talent, and most major dance companies and schools pay close attention to who fares well in the annual contest.--All Movie.
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| Classic Film: So Proudly We Hail! (1943, 126 minutes) |
June 04, 2013
7:00 pm
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So Proudly We Hail! is a moving, stirring, and powerful World War II film, and unusual (although not unique) in the emphasis it places on the role of women during the war.
The film is a tribute to the Red Cross nurses trapped behind enemy lines in the early days of the Pacific war. Claudette Colbert is the self-sacrificing head nurse, struggling to minister to the wounded and to keep her staff (including Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake and Barbara Britton, all of them giving better than usual performances) from buckling under the pressure. The story culminates with the fall of Bataan, ending on a resigned but optimistic note.—All Movie
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| Classic Film: We're No Angels (1955, 103 minutes) |
June 11, 2013
7:00 pm
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At Christmas, three prisoners - Joseph, Albert and Jules - escape from Devil Island to a French small coastal town. They decide to rob a store, to get some money and clothes and travel by ship to another place. They pretend to be there to fix the roof, but pretty soon they realize that the financial condition of the family Ducotel is not good and Andre Tochard, the selfish and mean owner of the establishment, exploits the family. The three prisoners decide to help them out of their predicament. This assured, entertaining black comedy is both warm and sophisticated, combining witty, carefree humor with more unabashedly evil undertones and would be the last time Humphrey Bogart would work with director Michael Curtiz.—All Movie
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| International Film: Elsa & Fred (Spain, 2005, 106 minutes) |
June 17, 2013
2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
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Reserved, recently widowed Alfredo “Fred” Ponce Cabeza de Vaca has just moved into a handsome apartment in downtown Madrid, where he catches the eye of live-wire Elsa Oviedo de Riveros. Fred has lived his life for others: his by-the-book wife, his brittle daughter Cuca, her husband, Paco, who’s always dreaming up pie-in-the-sky business ventures; and their spoiled son, Javier. Argentina-born Elsa, on the other hand, has always done exactly as she pleased, often to the dismay of her proper son, Gabriel. Widowed for 27 years (or maybe 25; who cares about such trifling details?), Elsa has only one regret. She always dreamed of recreating the Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960). By all reports Elsa was a bombshell a la Anita Ekberg in her youth, but she never found her Marcello Mastroianni. Can she make over the hypochondriac Fred into the man of her dreams?--TV Guide.
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| Classic Film: Pursued (1947, 101 minutes) |
June 18, 2013
7:00 pm
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the arrival of the men tracking them, as they try to reason out what has gone wrong in their lives. Jeb can't remember anything about his early childhood except for a horrible incident in which the people around him were killed by a mysterious stranger. He was raised by Ma Callum, alongside her two children, as one of her own. But every time Jeb seemed poised to find peace,lurking nearby was Grant, a one-armed stranger who seemed bent on tormenting Jeb -- Jeb doesn't know who he really is, much less who Grant is, but Grant knows enough about him and is good enough at manipulating human nature to make Jeb a target for jealousy and murder. Making Jeb's life even more complicated is the fact that he and his adopted sister Thorley fell in love with each other. The machinations around Jeb and Thorley come home to roost in multiple shootings and murder, a deadly chase and a long-planned lynching. – All Movie
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| Classic Film: Gun Crazy (1949, 87 minutes) |
June 25, 2013
7:00 pm
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The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John Dall plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival sharpshooter Peggy Cummins, who is equally disturbed -- but a lot smarter, and hence a lot more dangerous. Beyond their physical attraction to one another, both Dall and Cummins are obsessed with firearms. They embark on a crime spree, with Cummins as the brains and Dall as the trigger man. – All Movie
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| Classic Film: The Gang's All Here (1943,103 minutes) |
July 02, 2013
7:00 pm
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| Classic Film: Old Yeller (1957, 84 minutes) |
July 09, 2013
7:00 pm
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| Classic Film: Bell, Book, & Candle (1958, 106 minutes) |
July 16, 2013
7:00 pm
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| Classic Film: The Naked City (1948, 96 minutes) |
July 23, 2013
7:00 pm
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| Classic Film: Ziegfield Follies (1946, 109 minutes) |
July 30, 2013
7:00 pm
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For more information about these films, visit the Rovi Movie Guide
(http://www.allrovi.com/movies) or the Internet Movie Database
(http://imdb.com).
Above Films will be shown
in the Audio-Visual Room at the Cranford Community Center (220
Walnut Avenue). Free admission.
All are welcome. Wheel-chair accessible. Sponsored by the Friends of the
Cranford Public Library.
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