Hello movie lovers! We are excited about our first movie night, which will occur on the third Tuesday of every month. On March 20, we will meet in the library to watch and discuss one of the following three films. You need to choose which one and email it to Gail Sergenian (
[email protected]) with the subject MOVIE NIGHT by Monday March 12th. For our first evening, Edythe Salzman offers three fine films. Select the one you would like to see and discuss with others. SIDEWAYS, directed by Alexander Payne, 2004 With Sideways, Paul Giamatti has become an unlikely but engaging romantic lead. Struggling novelist and wine connoisseur Miles (Giamatti) takes his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church, Wings) on a wine-tasting tour of California vineyards for a kind of extended bachelor party. Almost immediately, Jack's insatiable need to sow some wild oats before his marriage leads them in into double-dates with a rambunctious wine pourer (Sandra Oh) and a recently divorced waitress (Virginia Madsen)--and Miles discovers a little hope that he hasn't let himself feel in a long time. Sideways is a modest but finely tuned film; with gentle compassion, it explores the failures, struggles, and lowered expectations of mid-life. Giamatti makes regret and self-loathing sympathetic, almost sweet. Bret Fetzer STAND BY ME, directed by Rob Reiner, 1986 From Left, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, Corey Feldman and River Phoenix. ]In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends--sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O'Connell)--are in search of a missing teenager's body.