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April 26, 2012
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April 23, 2012
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April 18, 2012
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Editorial: Just hold it?
May 17, 2012
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May 12, 2012
Posts by Jack Monaghan:
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Movies at the Library: A classic plays on Shelter Island
Movies at the Library (at the firehouse) will present one of the finest films every produced, “Inherit the Wind,” next Tuesday, March 13 at 7 p.m. at the Center firehouse cinema upstairs. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this superb film is based on the stage play of the notorious Scopes monkey trial. A...
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Movies at the Library: ‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’ headline at movie night
Movies at the Library (at the Center firehouse) will present Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” a very different western, next Tuesday evening, February 28, at 7 p.m. The setting is a dreary and muddy town in the Pacific Northwest toward the end of the 19th century, a town with few...
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Movies at the Library: A cinematic Valentine
Movies at the Library (now at the Center firehouse) has presented a wide variety of interesting and great movies from all over the world these past eight years, but the next one, on Tuesday, February 14, at 7 p.m., “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” is way out...
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Movies at the Library: Murder, music and all that jazz
Murder, music, media and all that jazz — put them all together and what do you get? The Academy Award-winning musical from 2002, “Chicago,” a Movies at the Library selection — at the Center firehouse — on Tuesday, January 31, at 7 p.m. “Chicago” is an entertaining masterpiece, one of the...
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Movies at the Library: A lighthearted satire opens film season
In the 1930s and early 1940s, with the economy in the doldrums and the war drums of Europe getting louder, Americans turned to Hollywood to lighten their lives. Director Preston Sturges was there to provide light and joy in the form of his “screwball” films and social comedies, and among...
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Movies at the Library: They’re baaaack!
Movies at the Library is returning, but not yet to the library. While the library facilities on the lower level are being expanded and updated, the movies program has been sidelined. But — once again, the Fire Department to the rescue! The popular Movies at the Library will be the guests...
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Movies at the Library: All-star cast marks D-Day landing
Movies at the Library will present “Foreign Field” on Tuesday, May 24 — a film that is most fitting with the anniversary of D-Day coming soon and given our heightened awareness of the experiences of war veterans. Three Allied soldiers, determined to revisit the spot that most changed their lives, return...
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Movies at the Library: Film classic on library screen
Movies at the Library will present on Tuesday, May 10 at 7 p.m. one of the very few movies ever to win all the major Academy Awards. “It Happened One Night,” made in 1934, is still considered one of the greatest romantic comedies in film history. Clark Gable stars as a...
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Movies at the Library: ‘Don Quixote’ revisited
Movies at the Library will present “Nazarin” on Tuesday, April 26 — a film that is both simple and profound, as well as beautiful, satiric and heartbreaking. This remarkable film by Luis Bunuel, one of cinema’s master filmmakers, is a clever variation on the Don Quixote theme, applied to religion...
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Movies at the Library: 7th season at the movies
Movies at the Library will celebrate its seventh season of “great movies, known and unknown,” next Tuesday, April 12, with the presentation of the delightful musical, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” Howard Keel, the oldest brother, decides it’s time to do some shopping in town and, while he’s at it, pick...
