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August 2019
FREE Family Movie Night
It’s Friday night at the movies at the Arts Center. This month’s selection for the whole family is "The Empire Strikes Back" The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space-opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay, with George Lucas writing the film's story and serving as executive producer. The second installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, it was…
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Film: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Join us for this Academy Award - winning classic (Best Foreign Language Film, 1971), setting the context for historian Robert Maryks’ talk the next day, which will include correspondence from the Finzi-Continis. Amid the ravages of WWII, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, live in aristocratic splendor on their Eden-like estate in Ferrara, Italy. As the political atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile to its Jewish citizens, the handsome and carefree Finzi-Contini children, Micol (Dominique Sanda) and Alberto (Helmut Berger), turn their…
Find out more »November 2019
FREE MOVIE NIGHT FOR GROWN-UPS with Potluck Dinner
The James Mason/Judy Garland feature A Star is Born is this season's selection. Bring a dish to share and the beverage of your choice. The audience can discuss the merits of the four different versions of this story. Run time 178 minutes or just shy of 3 hours.
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