Friends Friday Films
Friends Friday Films
When: Friday, September 24, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
HOLES IN MY SHOES (2009)
Directed by David Wachs. With Jack Beers. Inspiring story of 94-year-old Greenwich resident Jack Beers who could still tear telephone books in half with his bare hands. Jack tells of his early days from the teeming tenements of Depression-era New York to becoming a teenage strongman and then working on the Radio City and Empire State Building sites and the Atomic Bomb. He moved on to movies with directors Arthur Hiller and Woody Allen. Includes footage at Jack's Greenwich home. 90 min.
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Show time is 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:40 p.m.
When: Friday, October 01, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
500 DAYS OF SUMMER (2009)
Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon Levitt. Fascinating love story in which boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't. This post modern love story is a comedy that overturns all the rules of courtship to give a deeper but bittersweet spin enhanced by two appealing actors. 95 min.
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When: Friday, October 08, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
DETOUR (1945)
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. With Tom Neal, Ann Savage. A hitchhiker gets involved with an ultra femme fatale and murder. One of the first film noirs and has a cult following. Return engagement after being snowed out last February. 69 min.
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When: Friday, October 15, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009-Swedish)
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev. With Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre. A Goth computer hacker tangles with an investigative journalist trying to unravel a long-hidden pattern of bizarre sexual violence against women at a gloomy isolated mansion. Based on the international best-seller by Stieg Larsson. In Swedish with English subtitles. 148 min. Recommended for adults.
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When: Friday, October 22, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers. Outrageous and quirky Hitchcock comedy/mystery about Vermont villagers who have no qualms about repeatedly digging up and hiding a corpse. Hitch's personal favorite. 100 min
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When: Friday, October 29, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
Everlasting Moments (2008-Sweden)
Directed by Jan Troell. With Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt. An unsophisticated woman wins a camera in a lottery and has her inner life transformed through her photography, providing a means for dealing with her alcoholic husband. It is 1911 in Malmo, Sweden. A film of startling humanism with exquisite images. 131 min. In Swedish and Finnish with English subtitles.
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When: Friday, November 05, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
UP IN THE AIR (2009)
Directed by Jason Reitman. With George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman. In his job as a Termination Facilitator (he fires people) Clooney is constantly in the air flying from city to city. Not quite a comedy in these tough economic times but not quite a tragedy either; rather an observant look at how a man does his job. 83 min. Rated R
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When: Friday, November 12, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
KANDAHAR (2001-Iran/France)
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. With Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri. An Afghan journalist, who left Afghanistan for Canada, goes back home to find her troubled sister. Filmed pre 9/11 it portrays the Taliban culture in forceful and dramatic terms and with astonishing imagery. In both Farsi with English subtitles and spoken English. 85 min.
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When: Friday, November 19, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
CRAZY HEART (2009)
Directed by Scott Cooper. With Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell. Mr. Bridges' portrayal of a broken-down boozy country singer won him an Academy Award. This clichéd idea is a staple of country music films but it's done so well it seems like it's happening for the first time. 112 min. Rated R
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When: Friday, December 03, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
THE YOUNG VICTORIA (2009 Great Britain)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee. With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent. Young Queen Victoria portrayed as an irresistible young woman. A fine British historical drama showing Victoria at the center of a mighty struggle. 100 min.
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When: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (2009)
Directed by Michael Moore. With Mr. Moore himself. Blocking off Wall Street with yellow police crime scene tape and advancing with bullhorn in hand, Mr. Moore tries to accost bailed-out corporations and financial institutions in their lairs. Funny but trenchant view of the economic meltdown and its causes and effects. 117 min. Rated R
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When: Friday, December 17, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999)
Directed by David Lynch. With Richard Farnsworth, Sissey Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton. Revisiting an overlooked classic, we follow a 73-year old man on a 300-mile odyssey through the Midwest behind the wheel of a tractor. This is a trip to visit his dying brother and a voyage into his past. Based on an actual event. A movie full of uplifting and treasured moments. 111 min.
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When: Friday, January 07, 2011 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
CITY ISLAND (2010)
Directed by Raymond De Felitta. With Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer. A blue collar Bronx prison guard has a many faceted secret life with many diverse characters. A human comedy where discoveries and revelations drop like explosives. 103 min.
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When: Friday, January 14, 2011 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
GREY GARDENS (2009)
Directed by Michael Sucsy. With Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, Grey Gardens tells the tender intimate story of an eccentric mother and daughter raised as Park Avenue debutantes but now living in a rundown mansion in East Hampton. This is a remake of an earlier documentary and should be seen for the incredible performances of the two leads. 104 min.
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When: Friday, January 21, 2011 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
THE WHITE RIBBON (2009-Germany)
Directed by Michael Haneke. With Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner. In a rural German village in the years before World War I fearful and terrible events happen. Perhaps harbingers of events to come later in time? A masterful film bringing forward large issues from ordinary people. Multinational award winner and nominated for two Oscars. 145 min. In German, Italian. Polish, and Latin with English subtitles. Rated R
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When: Friday, January 28, 2011 - 8:00 PM
Where: Greenwich Library at Cole Auditorium
THE BEACHES OF AGNES (2008-France)
Directed and hosted by Agnes Varda. The famous film director takes stock of her life and her films ( Le Bonheur, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners, One Sings-the Other Doesn't) and her marriage to the late Jacques Demy (Lola, Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Naturally charming at 82, her remarkable creativity still bubbles over. 109 min. In French with English subtitles.
Admission to the Friends Friday Films is free
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Show time is 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:40 p.m.