Friday Night Film Series
Friday Night Films
The Friday Night Films Series, entering its fourth year, has shown 170 films from 18 countries such as the USA, Mongolia, France, Spain, Denmark, and Sweden. The Friends of the Library subsidize the public viewing license and the audience's donations provide the films which then go to the library's film collection. Most films are shown closed captioned.
| Date | Film Title and Description |
| May 4 | Enchanted April (93 minutes) Oscar nominations and Golden Globe Award-Winning 1993: Best Actress, comedy, Miranda Richardson and Best Supporting Actress, Joan Plowright. Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Michael Kitchen, and Jim Broadbent. If you love Italy or films set in Italy, Enchanted April pictures the ideal Italy. Set in contrast to cold, grey, rainy England, the film features four ladies who seek warmth and love. This is the second time we have shown this film because of its beauty. |
| For those who enjoyed our Detective Brunetti series set in Venice, we now start another series, the first three episodes, set in Sicily--Detective Montalbano--written by Andrea Camilleri and played by Luca Zingaretti. | |
| May 11 | The Snack Thief Italian 1 hour 50 minutes An elderly import-export merchant is found murdered and a young woman who may have been mixed up with him disappears the same day. With terrorist involvement suspected, Detective Montalbano has to tie it all together. |
| May 18 | The Voice of the Violin Italian 1 hour 50 minutes Dozing off en route to a funeral, Montalbano is awakened when his driver crashes next to a seemingly abandoned villa. He later investigates the property alone, finding a corpse and, ultimately, uncovering the secret lives of many people in Vigata. |
| May 25 | The Shape of Water Italian 1 hour 50 minutes When a prominent citizen is found dead in an embarrassing position in his car, the coroner rules heart attack, but Montalbano isn't buying it or the very circumstantial case built up against the Swedish daughter-in-law of the local MP, either. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: “ Masterful.” |
