For the last 2-3 years, Rick Winston has brightened our winter nights with provocative and fun films, followed by interesting and informative discussions - he’s agreed to another round this year. Six films, once a month, every second Friday evening. Please join us and your neighbors for these special nights - if you’ve done this before, you know how much fun these evenings are, and if you haven’t, this is a great time to start.

The first film will be Friday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m., at the Maple Corner Community Center, and will be The Philadelphia Story:

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian:
“George Cukor’s 1940 movie The Philadelphia Story, now rereleased, is also utterly beguiling, funny and romantic; it is based on the same stage play, by Philip Barry, as the 1956 musical High Society. It features three stars from the studio era who are the aristocrats, or deities, of the Hollywood golden age: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart. Part of the fascination in watching this movie again is savoring those three extraordinary voices, highly imitable but entirely unique. Hepburn is the statuesque heiress Tracy Lord, acrimoniously divorced from her first husband, CK Dexter Haven (Grant), and now preparing to remarry; Haven, quite clearly still in love, gets prickly journalist Macaulay Connor (Stewart) and his photographer, Elizabeth Imbrie (Ruth Hussey), to gate-crash the ceremony posing as cousins. Amiable chaos ensues. The fun and wit rise like champagne bubbles, but there is a deceptive strength in the writing and performances. It is an effortlessly classy piece of work.”

Feb 15, 2025, 11 AM to 12 PM

Feb 15, 2025, 12 to 2 PM

Feb 18, 2025, 6:30 PM