Current & Upcoming Film Programs

at the Princeton Public Library

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Fall 2009 Films at the Princeton Public Library

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November 9, 7:30 p.m.

World Cineclub Series: Children of Heaven

This 1997 Iranian film by Majijd Majidi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. Shot in Tehran, its filming was kept secret in order to capture a realistic picture of life in that city.

Persian with English subtitles Series co-sponsored by the library and L’ Association Francophone de Princeton

 

November 13, 4:00 p.m.

Anime Film Series -- Film title to be announced.
The Princeton High School Anime Club will screen and lead discussions of classic and new Japanese Anime films.

 

November 17, 7:00 p.m.

Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist

This documentary tells an intensely dramatic story about a trio of graduate students in a doctoral training program guided by a tough but genial mentor. It was filmed over a three-year period in the molecular biology laboratory of Lawrence Shapiro, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Columbia University.

A panel discussion featuring Shapiro will follow the film.  

Co-sponsored by the library and the local chapter of the New Jersey Association of Women in Science.

 

 

 

November 22, 3:00 p.m.

Alice's Restaurant

Just in time for the Thanksgiving holidays! You can still get everything you want (even on the 40th Anniversary year of its release in 1969) at Alice's Restaurant. This film, co-written and directed by Arthur Penn, was adapted from Arlo Guthrie's song and stars Guthrie. The film was released shortly after Guthie's appearance at Woodstock.

Read a review of the film -- (Vincent Canby, NY Times, 1969)

 

 

November 23, 7:00 p.m.

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

It was Nov. 23, 1968, and the football teams of Harvard and Yale were undefeated as they met for their final game. Harvard’s lineman was Tommy Lee Jones, who was Al Gore’s roommate. Yale’s captain and quarterback was Brian Dowling, later satirized in classmate Garry Trudeau’s comic strip. This funny film of recollections by the 50 men who played in one of college football’s most famous games is by Kevin Rafferty. 

More info on the film

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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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