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Central Library Community Meeting Room

Super Cinema, October 2024

Dark Comedies

 

Thursday, October 3     The Ladykillers     

 

1955 / 91 min. / NR

“Professor” Marcus  (Alec Guinness) plans a huge heist in King’s Cross, London. Posing as a string quintet, his gang rents rooms in the ramshackle home of an unsuspecting woman named Mrs. Wilberforce. Also with Peter Sellers.

 

Thursday, October 10       Knives Out       

2019 / 130 min. / PG13

After the murder of its patriarch, an eccentric British family hires a detective (Daniel Craig) to find his killer.  Also with Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas, Don Johnson and several others.

 

Thursday October 17        In Bruges        

2008 / 108 min. / R

Crime boss Harry sends two fledgling Irish hitmen to hide in Bruges, Belgium after they bungle a hit on an Irish priest. Roger Ebert says it is an ”endlessly surprising, very dark, human comedy, with a a plot that cannot be foreseen but only relished.’ With Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleason.

 

 

Thursday, October 24       Some Like It Hot       

 

1959 / 121 min. / NR

Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are jazz musicians who witness one crime boss’s slaughter of another’s gang. Terrified, they flee Chicago by train, disguised as members of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators. Ladies’ man Joe immediately falls for Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), the band’s singer, which kicks off a cascade of side-splitting situations. Widely considered among the best films of all time. Co-written, produced and directed by Billy Wilder.

 

 

Thursday, October 31       Young Frankenstein      

 

1974 / 105 min. / PG

Playing the American grandson of Dr. Frankenstein, Gene Wilder leads a cast of superb comic actors, They all bring another dead body to life as the Frankenstein monster. Directed by Mel Brooks.

 

Super Cinema, November 2024

The Many Faces of Love

 

Thursday, Nov. 7   Places in the Heart.  1984 / 111 min. / PG

In North Texas in 1935, a newly widowed woman with two small children (Sally Field) tries to save her 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder John Malkovich) and an itinerant Black handyman (Danny Glover). The film is very moving, dramatically rich and visually lush. Sally Field won her second Best Actress Academy Award for the role. 

 

Thursday Nov. 14.    The Iron Giant.     1999 / 86 min. / PG

In this cleverly animated feature a Maine boy named Hogarth discovers a giant robot in the woods near his house The problem is that a demented government agent is trying to destroy the Giant at all costs. Hogarth finds a clever hiding place for his friend, and the plot thickens. Voice actors include Harry Connick Jr., Cloris Leachman and Jennifer Anniston. Based on a novel called The Iron Man by the English poet Ted Hughes. He wrote it to comfort his children after the death by suicide of their mother, American poet Sylvia Plath. Directed by Brad Bird.

 

Thursday, Nov. 21.    Planes, Trains & Automobiles.    1987 / 86 min. / PG

Advertising executive Neal (Steve Martin) and shower curtain rings salesman  Del (John Candy) have meet several days before Thanksgiving, Each is trying to get from New York City to Chicago. A series of transportation screw-ups force them to team up, but every conveyance they try falters. The comic chemistry between these two actors has made the film a favorite film for Thanksgiving. Directed by John Hughes.

 

Thursday, November 28 THANKSGIVING DAY No film, Library Closed 

 

 

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