Films

Coco Family Matinee

Rated PG 1h 45min (2017) Directed by Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina.  Starring:  Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt.

Come see movies the way they were meant to be seen...on the big screen with amazing surround sound in the Library's newly renovated Salem Family Auditorium.

"Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer." 
Registration not required.  Recommended for ages 4+.  Free for all communities.

Documentary Film: JANE

JANE
Rated PG (2017) 90 minutes

Directed by Brett Morgan
Starring: Jane Goodall

Come see movies the way they were meant to be seen...on the big screen with amazing surround sound in the Library's newly renovated Salem Family Auditorium.

Real-Life Couples on the Silver Screen:That Hamilton Woman

Not Rated (1941) 128 minutes Black & White

(Make Up Date from 3/2/2018)

Directed by Alexander Korda. 
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh.

Join librarian Doug Swiszcz for another of his lecture series on classic movies, this one highlighting real life couples who performed together on screen.

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hart, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

RARI 2018: Film Screening of Fruitvale Station

This year's Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI) selection is The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. The selection deals with themes of identity, race relations, police shootings/violence, gang life, Tupac and hip-hop/rap music, and family. The film Fruitvale Station deals with similar themes in a moving and thoughtful portrait of a true life event. We will conduct a post-film discussion about the film, and how it relates to The Hate U Give. Find more about RARI here.

Real-Life Couples on the Silver Screen: Woman of the Year

Not Rated (1942) 114 minutes Black & White 

Directed by George Stevens. 
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn.

Join librarian Doug Swiszcz for another of his lecture series on classic movies, this one highlighting real life couples who performed together on screen.

Two reporters for the same newspaper--one (Tracy) a sports writer, the other (Hepburn) a political journalist--meet, clash, and fall in love. But can the relationship survive their vastly different ways?

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