Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Friday Night Film Series



Eat Drink Man Woman

September 2

6:30 P.M. (new time!)

Distracted by their complicated love lives and secret ambitions, three adult sisters reluctantly humor their widower father (Sihung Lung) by enduring the elaborate, traditional Taiwanese dinners he insists on having every Sunday. Ang Lee directs this charming tale that humorously examines the clash between modernity and tradition within the contemporary Taiwanese family. Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu and Kuei-Mei Yang co-star.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Friday Night Film Series


12 Angry Men

August 26

7 P.M.

Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means death, a jury of 12 men (including Jack Warden, Lee J. Cobb and Jack Klugman), must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his father. But only one juror (Henry Fonda) wants to take the time to coolly deliberate the case. Sidney Lumet (Network) made his directorial debut with this Oscar-nominated drama that illuminates all the petty impediments on the path to justice.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Artists and Authors Among Us - - August 2011


Patrick Guyer

August 24

7 P.M.

Patrick nolan Guyerr, Chief Statistician witht he American Human Development Project, has been with the Project since 2009 and has also worked as a consultant to UNICEF. Patrick's first major publication with the Project was The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, published last year by New York University Press. He is a graduate of GVHS and went on to earn a BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal and an MA in international affairs from the New School University in New York.


Friday Night Film Series


The Incident

August 19

7 P.M.




In this drama set in 1944, small-town lawyer Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau) must defend the most hated man in town--a man who represents pure evil--when Cobb's friend Doc Hansen (Barnard Hughes) dies at the local POW camp and a Nazi prisoner is accused of his murder. Cobb, whose son is overseas fighting for the Allies, is talked into representing the accused. The town is out for blood, but Cobb finds evidence that may prove the man's innocence. Harry Morgan co-stars. Directed by Joseph Sargent.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Artists and Authors Among Us - - August 2011


Jim Nichols

August 10

7 P.M.

Jim Nichols was born in Brunswick, raised in Freeport and now lives in Warren with his wife, Anne. He has published work in numerous magazines, including Esquire, Portland Monthly, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Night Train, Paris Transcontinental, Narrative and The Clackamas Review. He is a past winner of the Willamette Fiction Prize and has received an Independent Artists Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. His collection Slow Monkeys and Other Stories was published in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon Press, and Hull Creek, a novel of the Maine coast, was published this April by Down East Books.

Friday Night Film Series


Witness for the Prosecution

August 12

7 P.M.

Based on an Agatha Christie play, this Oscar-nominated mystery directed and co-written by Billy Wilder concerns an esteemed and aging lawyer (Charles Laughton). On the eve of retiring, he takes on the defense of an alleged murderer (Tyrone Power, in his final performance) accused of killing a wealthy widow. Things get complicated dwhen the accused's only alibi, his wife (Marlene Dietrich), decides to testify for the prosecution.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Artists and Authors Among Us - - August 2011


Colin Page

August 3

7 P.M.



Colin Page does the majority of his work outside, working from life to capture the light and atmosphere of his subject matter. "Through painting, I share unexpected moments of beauty that I find in the space around me. Painting is how I share the poetry of experience." Page studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and Cooper Union, receiving his BFA in 2000. He recently had a solo show at the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, ME and has also participated in numerous group shows internationally. For several years Page has been living in Maine focusing on painting the landscape.

Friday Night Film Series


Inherit the Wind

August 5

7 P.M.

Spencer Tracy (in an Oscar-nominated role) and Fredric March square off as opposing attorneys Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady, respectively, in this blistering courtroom drama about the famed 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial", in which a Tennessee teacher was taken to task for teaching Darwinism in the classroom. The film also earned Oscar nods for its editing, screenplay and cinematography. Gene Kelly co-stars as a newspaper reporter.Directed by Stanley Kramer.