Senior Cinema
Coolidge Corner Branch Library
31 Pleasant Street, Brookline MA 02446
Telephone 617-730-2380
Thursdays
Refreshments 1:00 p.m.
Film 1:30 p.m.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Aug 5, 2010 Coolidge Corner
Gregory Peck’s most famous role was Atticus Finch, the quiet but courageous lawyer who stands up for what he believes is right amid the racial prejudices of a Depression-era Southern town. As his six-year-old daughter “Scout” looks on and takes in the world around her, Finch puts his career on the line and his values to the test to defend a black man accused of rape. Based on Harper Lee’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last month.
(1962, B&W, 2 hr 9 min, CC)
Gigi
Aug 12, 2010 Coolidge Corner
Gigi, a Parisian girl on the edge of womanhood, is being groomed by her grandmother and aunt to play the role of courtesan to a wealthy young man named Gaston. But Gaston has another- some would say preposterous- idea: after watching her transform from a tomboy into an elegant lady, he wants to marry her! Vincente Minnelli directed this lavish musical starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan.
(1958, 1hr 55 min, CC)
Mrs. Miniver
Aug 19, 2010 Coolidge Corner
At the onset of World War II, the strong and steadfast matriarch Kay Miniver struggles to hold her middle-class English family together. As her husband fights in the battle of Dunkirk, her son courts the granddaughter of an aristocrat, and bombs fall around them, Mrs. Miniver personifies grace under pressure. Greer Garson leads an award-winning cast in this film that Winston Churchill proclaimed did more for the war effort than a flotilla of battleships.
(1942, B&W, 2 hr 14min, CC)
The Philadelphia Story
Aug 26, 2010 Coolidge Corner
Three of the best-loved movie stars of all time come together in this sophisticated romantic comedy about a spoiled Philadelphia socialite. Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is about to be married for the second time when her ex-husband (Cary Grant) shows up with a cynical reporter (James Stewart) in tow, putting a damper on her wedding plans and making her re-consider herself and want she really wants.
(1940, B&W, 1 hr 52 min, CC)