Films

Halloween Movie Matinee

Celebrate Halloween (or Christmas?) with Tim Burton's classic, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and decide for yourself. Masks are required, regardless of vacinnation status, for this indoor showing. Space is limited to provide a comfortable, safe environment for attendees. Registration is not required. All ages are welcome, free.

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.  PG 1993 1h 16 min

Sensory Saturday

Join us for a special sensory-friendly showing of Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow.

Travel along with Tim & Annie on their wild adventure to a place without technology that includes monster legends and stolen turkeys! 

Sensory-friendly features will include: low-lighting, softer volume, relaxed guidelines and subtitles. Please feel free to bring your own fidgets or comfort items. Social Story with photos is available upon request.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Celebrate Thanksgiving in classic Charlie Brown style: do simple crafts, share in the "traditional" Snoopy feast of jellybeans, popcorn, pretzels and toast and watch "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving."

This program is recommended for kids ages 3+. Registration opens on November 5. Space is limited to provide a safe environment for all attendees.  

Masks are required for all library visitors 2+ regardless of vaccination status.

Film Lecture: The Others

The Others 

2001 – 104 minutes – Color – PG-13

A mother (Nicole Kidman) lives with her photosensitive children in a dark old house on one of the Channel Islands near the end of World War II. Strange occurrences lead her to fear that the house may be haunted.  

Part of Librarian Doug Swiszcz's film lecture series, From Beyond the Grave, with pre-film commentary by Doug and a short discussion to follow.

Free and open to all, registration not required.

Film Lecture: The Innocents

The Innocents 

1961 – 100 minutes – Black & white – Not rated

A repressed woman (Deborah Kerr) is hired as governess to two orphans. She becomes convinced that the ghosts of the former governess and her brutish lover are trying to possess the children. Do these spirits really exist, or are they the hysterical imaginings of the governess? This film is an adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. 

Film Lecture: Les Diaboliques

Les Diaboliques 

1955 – 120 minutes – Black & white – Not rated

Classic thriller directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Both the wife and mistress of a cold, abusive headmaster of a boys’ school conspire to murder him. Once he has been killed, however, his body disappears. (In French, with English subtitles) 

Part of Librarian Doug Swiszcz's film lecture series, From Beyond the Grave, with pre-film commentary by Doug and a short discussion to follow.

Free and open to all, registration not required.

Film Lecture: Rebecca

Rebecca

1940 – 130 minutes – Black & white – Not rated

Hitchcock classic about a new bride who comes to live at her husband’s English seaside manor, where she finds herself competing with the memory of his late first wife, Rebecca. Why does this woman cast such a large shadow from beyond the grave? Starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders. 

Part of Librarian Doug Swiszcz's film lecture series, From Beyond the Grave, with pre-film commentary by Doug and a short discussion to follow.

Jaws Movie Night at the Beach!

Join us for a Community Movie Night at Barrington Town Beach! We will be showing Jaws (1975, 2hr 10mins, rated PG) with pre-film commentary by Doug Swiszcz, our resident film buff. We will also have some fun shark headbands (while supplies last), a raffle for some awesome shark squirt guns, and a photo booth!

Popcorn will be provided by the Barrington Recreation Department.

Bring your own blanket or chair as well as bug spray. The movie will begin at dusk.

Recommended for teens and adults but open to all.

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