Friday Night Film Series
Supported by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and Audience Donations
7:00pm in the Large Meeting Room
May 2 Michael Clayton
This fine Hollywood movie about legal shenanigans involving corporations vs.
the little guy is taut and absorbing. GEORGE CLOONEYand Tilda Swinton in a
film that earned 7 Academy Award nominations.
May 9 The Golden Door
A Sicilian peasant and a mysterious Englishwoman meet as they make the
voyage by boat to Ellis Island. This amazing film documents the tests to
enter the New World and gives an intimate sense of the journey for so many
immigrants in this era. Martin Scorsese introduces the film.
The following three films star Romain Duris, multi-Cesar nominated French
actor.
May 16 Moliere
Colorful, fanciful comedy that relates Moliere's life to his great satire
"Tartuffe." Beautiful costumes and settings and love story. Leonard Maldin:
"Richly funny and unexpectedly moving.a masterful love story spiced with
wit."
May 23 L'Auberge Espagnole
A straight-laced student goes to Barcelona for a year to study. Sharing
cramped quarters "with students from all over Europe quickly leads to
multi-cultural chaos as he gets a hilarious, eye-opening lesson on how to
live, laugh, and love.and party."
May 30 Russian Dolls
Five years later the student Xavier from L'Auberge Espagnole is now thirty
years old. "An aspiring novelist, his greatest achievement is a co-credit on
a TV soap, and his romantic life is equally disappointing. .. His lack of
direction (and will-power) threatens to turn his good fortune into ultimate
heartbreak." Fun to watch the now-older students meet again and go on with
their lives.
June 6 The Silk Road
"Based on a best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is a visually
stunning epic spanning two continents. [A young man's] devotion to his
beautiful bride (Keira Knightly) is tested when he must make several
dangerous trade missions in search of silkworms for his town's survival.
From his journeys to Japan, he brings great wealth for his village, but with
each trip he becomes torn by the temptation of a local warlord's sensuous
concubine and his love for his bride."
*The film series started April 7, 2006
