Upcoming Films -- Occasionally a film can change without notice.
 

Tuesday, November 18, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the Brunswick Library

“My Father’s Glory.” France, 1990, directed by Yves Robert. Based on the turn of the century childhood of Marcel Pagnol, the French novelist and filmmaker whose twinned novels, Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, were turned into wonderful films a few years ago. This film takes Marcel from his birth through his unusual childhood -- he is a boy prodigy, reading at a remarkably early age, and encouraged to be precocious by his enthusiastic schoolteacher father and his beautiful, doting mother. In French with English subtitles; 105 minutes; Rated G.

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Friday, November 21, 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“Sweetland.” USA, 2005, directed by Ali Selim. Set in 1920, a mail order bride travels from Germany to rural Minnesota meet the man destined to be her husband. Bureaucracy and social morality cause major complications. 110 minutes; Rated PG.

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Saturday, November 22, 10:30 a.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“The Razor’s Edge.” USA, 1946, directed by Edmund Goulding. Adapted from Somerset Maugham’s novel, Tyrone Power stars as Larry who renounces ambition and marriage to search for self-knowledge and inner peace, while his ex-fiancée Isabel (Gene Tierney) marries a wealthy man, who loses it in the crash. 145 minutes; Not Rated. (There is a book discussion of The Razor’s Edge at the St. Simons Library on Saturday, November 15, at 10:30 a.m.)

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Wednesday, December 3, 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“Ira and Abby.” USA, 2006, directed by Robert Cary. Funny romantic-comedy about a mismatched pair whose instant love match gives way to second thoughts after they take their wedding vows. 104 minutes; Rated R.

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Friday, December 12, 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“The Girl in the Café.” UK, directed by David Yates. An aging, reserved and lonely civil servant (Bill Nighy) falls for an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by his professional obligations. 94 minutes; Rated PG 13.

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Wednesday, December 17, 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“Nowhere in Africa.” Germany, 2001, directed by Caroline Link. Winner of the Academy Award’s Best Foreign Film in 2003, this is the story of a Jewish family in Germany who emigrate short before WW II. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life. Shortly after their departure, things are changing in Germany very quickly, and a turning back seems impossible. So everyone has to arrange himself with the new life in a new continent. In German with English subtitles; 141 minutes; Rated R.

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Wednesday, January 7, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“Young at Heart.” USA/UK, 2007, directed by Stephen Walker. Over the last 25 years, there has existed a group of senior citizens living in Northampton, Massachusetts, who refuse to let age and ill health get them down. This is a documentary based on the lives of the current singing group of 24 senior citizens. 109 minutes; Rated PG.

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Thursday, January 8, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

“The Great Debaters.” 2007, directed by Denzel Washington. A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College in Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school’s first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. 126 minutes; Rated PG 13.
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Wednesday, January 14, 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“Capote.” 2005, directed by Bennett Miller. In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story material, Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and his partner and childhood friend, Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. 114 minutes, Rated R.
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Thursday, January 15, 7:00 p.m. at the Ritz Theater

“Infamous.” 2006, directed by Douglas McGrath. Another version of Capote’s journey to research and write In Cold Blood. In this Capote is played by the British actor Toby Jones and Sandra Bullock is Harper Lee. 110 minutes; Rated R.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. 

“Tender Mercies.” 1983, directed by Bruce Beresford. Robert Duvall won an Oscar for his role as an Alcoholic former country singer who makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career. The story was written by Horton Foote who won an Oscar for Best Adapted screenplay for To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962. 100 minutes; Rated PG
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Saturday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. at the Southeast Georgia Conference Center of the College of Coastal Georgia

“The Grass Harp.” 1995, directed by Charlie Matthau. Walter Matthau and Sissy Spacek star in this adaptation of Truman Capote’s nostalgic autobiographical novella that recalls his boyhood spent with two eccentric maiden cousins in a small Southern town in the 1940s. 107 minutes; Rated PG.

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Wednesday, January 28, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater

“Under the Same Moon.” Mexico/USA, 2007, directed by Patricia Riggen. Parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos, living in Mexico, and his mother, Rosario, working in the U.S. Unexpected circumstances drive them to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. In Spanish and English with subtitles; 106 minutes; Rated PG 13.

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Thursday, January 29, 7:00 p.m. at the Ritz Theater

“To Kill a Mockingbird.” 1962, directed by Robert Mulligan. Gregory Peck shines as Atticus Finch, a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. 129 minutes; Rated PG.