Friday Night Film Series

Harold and Maude

July 15, 2011

7 P.M.

Death-obsessed teen Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is being hassled by his domineering mother (Vivian Pickles) to play the dating game, but he'd much rather attend funerals, which is where he meets the feisty Maude (Ruth Gordon), a geriatric widow who's high on life. The seemingly mismatched pair forms a bond that turns into a highly unconventional --but ultimately satisfying--romance in this comical cult favorite from director Hal Ashby.

Artists and Authors Among Us - - July 2011

Pam Parsons

Wednesday, July 6

7 P.M.

Pamela Moore Parsons is Associate Professor of Art at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She teaches and serves as coordinator of upper level painting programs. She earned a BFA from Boston University and an MFA in Painting from Indiana University in Bloomington. Parsons is a summer resident of Thomaston where she paints and maintains a studio. Currently her works are represented by the Watson Gallery in Stonington, Maine.

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

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

June 24, 2011
7:00 P.M.

On a serene New England campus, emasculated professor (Richard Burton) and his rancorous wife, Martha, (Elizabeth Taylor), turn an evening of cocktails into an unrelenting onslaught of wrenching disclosures and bellowed epithets. Soon, the couple's guests--junior professor Nick (George Segal) and his wife, Honey (Sandy Dennis)--get sucked into the vortex of the warring duo's unbounded fury. Taylor won an Oscar for her role--as did Sandy Dennis. The film won 5 Oscars in all.

Charcoal Grill Raffle - $100 value!

The Friends of the Thomaston Library
and
Lowes of Thomaston

are partnering in a summer fundraiser for the Thomaston Library. From now until August 10th, you can buy a ticket to enter our raffle - the winner will receive this Char-Broil Grill, a $100 value. Each raffle ticket costs $5.

The winner will be announced during the August 10th Authors and Artists Among Us lecture. To enter the raffle, purchase a raffle ticket at the library or from a member of the Friends of the Library. Tickets will be on sale at the Library's 4th of July book sale and during each lecture in the Authors and Artists Among Us series (beginning July 6th).

This raffle is made possible by a generous donation from Lowes of Thomaston. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.

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.