Current & Upcoming Film Programs

at the Princeton Public Library

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Summer 2009 Films

June Schedule	July Schedule	August Schedule

The Princeton Public Library kicks off a summer of film in June with documentary and feature films tying into our summer reading club theme of the arts & creativity.

Life.Support.Music. is the first film of the summer season on June 10, 2009 with post-screening Q&A with its director, Eric Daniel Metzgar (photo above). This acclaimed documentary chronicles the remarkable story of Jason Crigler, a guitarist (and friend of the filmmaker's) who was suddenly struck with a severe brain injury and the remarkable support his family provides in his recovery. This screening is in advance of its broadcast on PBS as part of the POV 2009 Season.

Next up in June is Surviving Picasso, one of several feature films with an arts theme; It stars Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso.

In July the feature film screenings continue with Vincent and Theo on July 6; don't miss Caroline Harris, curator of education and academic programming at the Princeton University Museum of Art, who will present a talk Artists on Film: Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

There are more terrific documentaries in July, including the 2008 film Beautiful Losers on July 1 about the generation of exciting DIY outsider artists who have had a big impact on arts and culture, one of the film's producers follows the screening for Q&A; Who the Bleep is Jackson Pollock? is a humorous documentary following the journey of a painting purchased at a thrift store and whether it is really an authentic Jackson Pollack work, on July 27; And Back Home Tomorrow is about the organization EMERGENCY who aids war victims, on July 29.

We also have a simultaneous blast from the past with a reprise screening on July 15 of The Dark Side of Oz, and the return on June 22 & 23 of the ever-popular Princeton Student Film & Video Festival, now in its 6th year -- there's still time to submit -- the deadline is June 15.

 

In August find out where to draw the line -- North or South Jersey --  about what part of the state you live in with the new documentary New Jersey: The Movie; travel back (40 years) for some vintage Woodstock; And learn more about the lasting artistic legacies of New Jersey artists George Segal and Ben Shahn. Also catch the rest of the "arts" features with screenings of Basquiat, Frida and Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

 

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Free admission.

All films are screened in the library's Community Room on the first floor.

65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ

For more info about these films and screenings please contact Susan Conlon at sconlon@princetonlibrary.org.

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