Art House Café Film Series (click to see this weeks film)

This film series brings art house film flavor to your Tuesdays. Plus, meet new friends, hear from special guests who are film experts, enjoy light refreshments, and have a discussion after the film. 

Nov. 5: Thelma (2024) PG-13 – When a 93-year-old woman is conned by phone scammers, she hops on her scooter and goes in search of the thieves. This feel-good comedy stars June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, and Parker Posey under the direction of Josh Margolin. 1hr 38min  Watch trailer here.

Nov. 12: Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds (2001) TV-14 – This American Masters documentary showcases the life and vibrant career of the legendary Broadway composer. Interviews and archival performances of his timeless collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein reveal a complicated man whose life didn’t mirror his joyful, emotional art. 1hr 57min

Nov. 19: No film

Nov. 26: Treasure (2024) R – A journalist (Lena Dunham) plans a trip to Poland with her perpetually upbeat father (Stephen Fry), a Holocaust survivor, to investigate their family history. The trip doesn’t go as planned due to his increasingly unusual behavior. 1hr 51min Watch trailer here.

December: Dame Maggie Smith Tribute Month 

Dec. 3: My Old Lady (2014) PG-13  – A mordant New Yorker (Kevin Kline) in Paris to sell a home he inherited is horrified to discover that it is occupied by an elderly woman (Maggie Smith) and her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas) under an obscure French legal arrangement that prevents them from being evicted. This witty drama with doses of humor features another great performance by Dame Maggie. 1hr 47min Watch trailer

Dec. 10: Film plus a Christmas tea party 

• 2-3:30 pm: Tea with the Dames (2018) NR. Four legends of British stage and screen spill the tea in this documentary: Dames Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, and Joan Plowright share their thoughts on everything from art to aging to love to life in the spotlight. 1hr 24min  Watch trailer
• 3:30 pm: Join us in the library gallery for a small British-themed tea party in honor of Maggie Smith. Tea, cookies, and scones will be served. 

Dec. 17: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) PG – Dame Maggie Smith won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as an eccentric Scottish school teacher who has an unsettling influence over the impressionable girls in her charge. Ronald Neame directed with Robert Stephens, Gordon Jackson, and Pamela Franklin costarring. 1hr 56min  Watch trailer

Dec. 24: No film. Library closed for Christmas Eve. 

Dec. 31: Ladies in Lavender (2004) PG-13 – Maggie Smith and Judi Dench play sisters living together in a seaside village in Cornwall in the 1930s. One day a mysterious young foreigner washes up on the beach. They take him into their home and befriend him, despite the concerns of their suspicious neighbors. 1hr 44min Watch trailer