CINEMA AT CENTRAL!
| First come, first seated |
Film screenings |
Free snacks and admission! |
The Forest Park Branch also has exciting ongoing film programming;
Check out the filmlists on our Recommended Reading List page,
including our list of new videos.
Saturday, April 28, 2:00 pm
Central Library Community Room
The Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Three guys, one dead playwright, and 37 plays, all in under two hours. In this universally acclaimed theater experience, Adam Long (one of the troupe's founding members), Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor manage to compress the complete works of Shakespeare into about an hour and 40 minutes of high-speed over-the-top hilarity.
America at a Crossroads is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world — including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on America’s role overseas.
Advance Community Screenings:
Saturday, March 24, 12:00 noon
Community Room, Forest Park Branch Library, 380 Belmont Avenue
FAITH WITHOUT FEAR
Irshad Manji is the internationally best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in her Faith. Through a new lens, this questioning Muslim takes a journey to reconcile her faith in Allah with her love of freedom. Along the way, she reveals the personal risks — emotional and physical — that come with such an urgent mission.
The result is FAITH WITHOUT FEAR.
Wednesday, March 28, 7:00 pm
Community Room, Springfield City Library, 220 State Street
OPERATION HOMECOMING is a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For more information about this series, visit www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/
One Book, One Springfield!
Tuesdays With Morrie Movie Screenings
The award winning movie Tuesdays with Morrie, starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria, will be shown at three library locations. This movie was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and first aired on television in 1999. Among its many nominations and wins, it received four Emmy awards, including best actor, best supporting actor and best made for television movie.
Saturday March 31: 2:00 p.m., Central Library
Wednesday April 11: 6:00 p.m., Central Library
Friday April 13: 11:00 a.m,. Indian Orchard Branch
Saturday April 14: noon, Forest Park Branch Library
Past Film Movement Screenings
Award-winning independent and foreign films.
Click here to search the online catalog for all available
titles from Film Movement
AALTRA
Written, directed by, and starring Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern (Belgium, 2004); 92 minutes; in French with English subtitles.
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in a farm tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki.
ANYTOWN, USA
A documentary by Kristian Fraga, 2005, 93 minutes.
A funny and eye-opening look into a hard-fought mayoral race between a legally blind, blunt-speaking, conservative Republican incumbent, a retired Democrat brought back into the fray and a legally blind write-in candidate, in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey.
ART OF THE SHORT FILM
106 minutes.
A sampling of live action and animated featurettes from India, Japan, Australia, Germany and the USA.
Includes Academy Award nominees Inja, Das Rad and Mt. Head.
EL BOLA (Pellet)
Directed by Achero Mañas (Spain, 2003) 88 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles; starring Juan José Balleta and Publo Galán.
El Bola, a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and unforgiving environment, meets a new classmate and learns a new definition of friendship.
BUDDY
A film by Morten Tyldum (Norway), 100 min. In Norwegian with English subtitles. Released September 2004; starring Nicolai Cleve Broch, Pia Tjelta and Aksel Hennie.
Kristoffer’s love life is on the rocks. But what can you expect from a guy who likes to videotape himself and his friends pulling outrageous stunts? So when Kristoffer’s video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it’s not just his love life that turns upside down. A vibrant young cast explores the true meaning of friendship and love in a heart-warming story about hi jinks, crazy roommates and reality television.
CAMPFIRE / MEDURAT HASHEVET
Directed by Joseph Cedar (Israel); 96 minutes; In Hebrew with English subtitles; starring Michaela Eshet, Hani Furstenberg, and Moshe Ivgy.
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding
group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with
the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
CAROL'S JOURNEY
Directed by Imanol Uribe (Spain), 100 min. In Spanish with English subtitles; starring Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta and Alvaro de Luna.
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village teacher and a young local boy.
LE GRAND VOYAGE
Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi (France, 2004) 108 minutes. In French, Arabic, and others, with English subtitles; starring Nicolas Cazalé and Mohamed Majd.
A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Réda finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca.
HAWAII, OSLO
Directed by Eric Poppe (Norway), 125 minutes; in Norwegian with English subtitles.
The story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo.
HOP
Directed by Dominique Standaert (Belgium, 2002) 104 minutes. In French and Dutch with English subtitles. Starring Jan Declein, Antjie de Boeck, and Alexandra Vandernot.
All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act between father and son sparks a chain of events leading to Justin’s father’s deportation. On the run Justin must embark on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But in order to fight the system, he must enlist the help of a former anarchist. Together they will need to apply the secret of the HOP.
INCH'ALLAH DIMANCHE
Directed by Yamina Benguigi (France/Algeria, 2001) 98 minutes. In French with English subtitles. Starring Fejria Deliba and Zinedine Soualem.
A passionate immigrant story of a woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY
A film by Mina Shum (Canada), 91 min. Released January 2004; starring Sandra Oh and Valerie Tian.
The story of Kin, a young divorced mother raising her 12-year-old daughter Mindy. When Mindy sets her sights on finding her mother a new boyfriend by using ancient Chinese magic, the results are unexpected and funny.
MAN OF THE YEAR = O HOMEM DO ANO
Directed by José Enrique Fonseca (Brazil, 2003) 116 minutes. In Portuguese with English subtitles; starring Murilo Benicio and Cláudia Abreu.
Maiquel lost a bet and had to dye his hair blonde. This triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw-- all in 24 hours.
MANITO
Directed by Eric Eason (2003)
78 minutes; starring Franky G. and Leo Minaya.
On the night of his graduation party, Manny faces an ill-fated decision that could change his life forever, while Junior tries to prevent his little brother from becoming another casualty. Manito reflects a community when it transformed from drugs and violence to one of the most vibrant Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD
Directed by Vicente Amorim (Brazil, 2003), 85 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles; starring Cláudia Abreu and Wagner Moura.
A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles in search of a better life. Based on a true story.
OT: OUR TOWN
Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy; 75 min.
OT: Our Town is the story of an against-all-odds drama production at Compton California's Dominguez High, a school best known for its basketball team and gang activity.
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
Directed by Tony McNamara (Australia), 89 minutes; Starring Benny Lee and Rose Byrne.
A comedy drama about two parentally neglected teenagers, Placid Lake and Gemma, who find the courage to believe in themselves.
REPUBLIC OF LOVE
Directed by Deepa Mehta (Canada / UK), 96 min; starring Emilia Fox and Bruce Greenwood.
A romantic comedy about the barriers facing lovers in the 21st century.
WHO'S CAMUS, ANYWAY?
Written and directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 2005; 115 minutes; in Japanese with English subtitles.
Set on the campus of a university in Tokyo, a group of film students prepare to start shooting their movie The Bored Murderer.
Directed by Daniel MacIvor (Canada, 2004) 99 minutes.
Wilby Island is just a few minutes by ferry from the mainland, but where a loyal Islander is concerned it might as well be years away from the fast-lane living of the mainland.
WITNESSES
A film by Vinko Bresan (Croatia), 88 min. In Croatian with English subtitles. Released November 2004
The stories of the people in a small town in the Balkans confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities, focusing on the various character's viewpoints and the complexities of war and humanity.
Films will be shown in the Community Room at the Central Library, 220 State Street.
The community room is wheelchair accessible.
For more information about the series, please contact the Adult Services Department
at 413-263-6828 x213.
Film programming at the City Library is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Springfield City Library
220 State Street
Springfield MA 01103
413-263-6828
This page last updated: May 1, 2007