It's a Wonderful Life

December 16

6:30 P.M.

It's a wonderful film. Frank Capra's inverted take on A Christmas Carol stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a good man who's spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off a bridge, he shows George what life would've been like had he never been born. This classic is a holiday favorite.

Friday Night Film Series

Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory

December 9

6:30 P.M.

*Due to a scheduling conflict, the Friends of the Thomaston Library are moving their Friday Night Film Night to St. John's Church, on this date only.

In this award-winning adaptation of an autobiographical story by Truman Capote, Eric Lloyd plays Buddy, who at age 7 is dumped by his parents at the home of some elderly spinster relations. Luckily for Buddy, he becomes fast friends with one of them, embarking on a series of adventures in the Depression-era rural South. Patty Duke and Piper Laurie co-star in this charmingly nostalgic tale.

Miracle on 34th Street

December 2, 2011

6:30 P.M.

When Santa falls down drunk in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, reluctant Macy's supervisor Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara) offers the job to a bearded Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) purporting to be the real Santa! During the Christmas season, he shares a flat with Doris's neighbor (John Payne), who has eyes for Doris. Kris hopes to unite the two while winning over Doris's skeptical 6-year-old daughter (Natalie Wood).

Niagara

November 25, 2011

6:30 P.M.

Marilyn Monroe's a shameless hussy who wears skin-tight sweaters and flirts with anybody in long pants. Joseph Cotten's her long-suffering husband who, nonetheless, remains obsessed with her. On a vacation trip to Niagara Falls, everything unravels: Marilyn and her lover plot to kill Cotten by flinging him over the falls, but their plans go awry in this fine noirish thriller. This time around, Marilyn even ... sings!

Friday Night Film Series

Gilda

Friday, November 18

6:30

Curvy bombshell Rita Hayworth "Puts the Blame on Mame" in this South American thriller that became her biggest hit and forever linked the stunning actress to the specter of her most popular character. Hayworth, Glenn Ford and George Macready comprise the three sides of a steamy love triangle that threatens to destroy Macready's thriving casino and wreck all their lives. Hayworth's sinuous vamp of the aforementioned tune is a classic moment.

Library Announcement

The Friday Night Film Series is on hold for the month of October.

Film showings will resume in November.

Friday Night Film Series

Big Fish

July 29

7:00 P.M.

In this Tim Burton fantasy based on the novel by Daniel Wallace, William Bloom (Billy Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward, by piecing together disparate facts from a lifetime of fantastical tales and legends of epic proportions. Ewan MacGregor co-stars as the young Edward, a traveling salesman, with Albert Finney playing him as an older man. Jelena Bonham Carter and Steve Buscemi also star.

Friday Night Film Series

Some Like It Hot

7 P.M.

When musicians Jerry (Jack Lemmon) and Joe (Tony Curtis) accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, they get out of town the only way they know how--dressed as women. But things heat up on the road when they meet a curvy blonde (Marilyn Monroe) who plays the ukulele. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, Some Like It Hot is a madcap farce and one of the greatest of all film comedies.

Bringing Up Baby

July 1, 2011

7 P.M.

Love runs wild for a hapless scientist and an unstoppable heiress in Howard Hawke's classic screwball comedy that ranks high on the American Film Institute's list of the funniest Hollywood films ever made. With her eye on paleontologist David (Cary Grant), heiress Susan (Katharine Hepburn) lures him to her home. But the hilarity begins when Susan's dog steals David's prize dinosaur bone and her pet leopard, Baby, is mistaken for a zoo escapee.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:

Suddenly, Last Summer

Friday, June 17th

7:00 PM

Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building

In Tennessee Williams's tale of sexual repression set in 1937 New Orleans, rich widow Mrs. Venable (Katharine Hepburn) is distraught over the death of her son Sebastian during his vacation to Europe, where the two had traveled together every summer. This time, Sebastian had taken his cousin Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor), who appeared to go mad the day sebastian died. Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) is called in to assess her mental state, and at Mrs. Venable's urging, perform a lobotomy on Catherine . . .

Friday Night Films are presented free of charge but donations are gratefully accepted. The library and bookstore will be open prior to the screening of the film. The Thomaston Academy building is handicapped accessable from the parking lot entrance. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

A Place in the Sun

June 10, 2011

7:00 P.M.

Dirt-poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) lands himself a factory job thanks to a well-to-do uncle's largess and has a tryst with co-worker Alice (Shelley Winters) to combat his loneliness. But he forgets the uncultured Alice when he becomes smitten with a stunning socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Alice can't forget George, however, because she's expecting his baby. Their dilemma sets off a course of events that can only end in tragedy.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library present:

National Velvet
Friday, June 3
7:00 P.M.
Thomaston Academy Building
Room 208


Although it's a vintage flick resurrected from Hollywood's vaults, National Velvet is first-rate entertainment. Among its highlights are a young and beguiling Elizabeth Taylor as the horse-crazy Velvet Brown; Mickey Rooney as the peripatetic lad who coaches her to greatness; and a thrilling race finale as Taylor and her horse go undercover to compete in England's famed Grand National Steeplechase race!

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. Donations are gratefully accepted. For more information call the library at 354-2453. The Thomaston Academy Building is handicapped accessable from the rear entrance.

Friday night film series

My Mother's Castle

Friday, May 20

6:30 P.M.

Yves Robert directs this film based on the humorous best-selling memoirs of French novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, which highlights the alluring, magical country life of turn-of-the-century Provence. Young Marcel's mother longs for the tranquility of Bastide Neuve after spending a summer there and encourages her family to make the nine-mile trek on foot. They shorten the journey by cutting across a private estate, which lands them in trouble. Charming and suitable for the whole family.

Friday night film series

The Girl on the Bridge

Friday, May 13
6:30 P.M.
Room 208, Thomaston Academy

A despondent girl named Adele (Vanessa Paradis) is about to take a swan dive off a bridge into the Seine River when she is rescued by Gabor (Daniel Auteuil), a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The luckless Adele agrees, and together the pair thrives. They win a fortune gambling when not performing their act, but fate conspires to separate the duo, who find they need each other to maintain their lucky streak. An utterly engaging story about two down-and-outers who become each other's good luck charm.

Friday night film series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:

Monsieur Ibrahim
Friday, May 6th
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy

1960s Paris is the backdrop for Francois Dupeyron's heartwarming drama about Momo (Pierre Boulanger) , a teenage boy who lives in a working-class neighborhood and has very few friends--save for the kindly local prostitutes who adore him. Eventually, Momo finds a father figure in the older and wiser shopkeeper, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), who takes him on a journey of self-discovery that will change both of their lives. A beautiful testament to the power of love.

Admission is free. Donations gratefully accepted. The Library and the Book Store will be open prior to the start of the movie. Light refreshments will be served.

The Thomaston Academy building is handicapped-accessible from the parking lot entrance.

For more information call the Library at 354-2453.

Friday night film series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:

Without Love
Friday, April 29th
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy

Convinced that two people can have a meaningful partnership without the trappings of romance, pragmatic widow Jamie Rowan (Katharine Hepburn) asks scientist Pat Jamieson (Spencer Tracy) to marry her on condition that the relationship remain platonic. But Jamie's plan falls apart when love enters the scene. Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn also star.

Admission is free. Donations gratefully accepted. The Library and the Book Store will be open prior to the start of the movie. Light refreshments will be served.

The Thomaston Academy building is handicapped-accessible from the parking lot entrance.

For more information call the Library at 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:

Holiday

Friday, April 15th

6:30 PM

Room 208, Thomaston Academy

Engaged to wealthy Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), free-thinker Johnny Case (Cary Grant) discovers that her family wants to remake him into their idea of the perfect son-in-law - and he's beginning to consider compromising his values. But as he gets to know Julia's headstrong sister (Katharine Hepburn), he realizes she is the one for him. George Cukor directs this 1938 comedy.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. Donations are gratefully accepted. The Thomaston Academy building is handicapped accessable from the parking lot entrance. For more information call the library at 354-2453.

Friday night film series

the Friends of the Thomaston Library present:

Enchanted April
Friday, April 8th
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy

Stifled British wives Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson) rent an Italian villa for a husband-less vacation. Sharing the retreat are acerbic widow Mrs. Fisher (Oscar nominee Joan Plowright) and socialite Caroline (Polly Walker). The four spend a month savoring new-found freedom and the opportunity for self-discovery. Alfred Molina co-stars in this tale of 1920s English manners.

Friday night films are presented free of charge but donations are gratefully accepted. The Library and Hallway bookstore will be open before the film. The Thomaston Academy Building is handicapped accessible from the parking lot entrance. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.

Friday night film series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library Present:

Love Among the Ruins
Friday, April 1st
6:30 PM
Thomaston Academy, Room 208

An aging actress (Katherine Hepburn) is being sued for breach of promise, and so she hires as her lawyer her former lover. He is still in love with her, yet she is unaware of it. The only option she has to save her assets is to ruin her reputation and have this man do it for her. Katherine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier shine in this George Cukor classic.

Friday night films are presented free of charge, but donations are gratefully accepted. The Thomaston Academy is handicapped accessable by the parking lot entrance and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call the library 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston public Library present:

The King of Masks
Friday, March 25th
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building


Nearing the end of his life, Wang --a locally renowned street performer and wizard of the venerable art of mask magic -- yearns to pass on his technique. But custom decrees that he can only hand down his craft to a male successor. Anxious to preserve his unique art, the heirless Wang buys an impoverished 8-year-old on the black market. But when the child divulges a dreaded secret, Wang faces a choice between filial love and societal tradition.

Friday Night Films are presented free of charge but donations are accepted. Light refreshments will be served. The Thomaston Academy Building is handicapped accessable from the parking lot entrance. For more information call the library at 354-2453.