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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ The AIC: Radio Days
DESCRIPTION:RADIO DAYS 1987\, 88 minutes \nTo do a New York On-Screen series without a Woody Allen film is like depicting FDR without the cigarette holder or the Titanic without the Iceberg. Toxic analogies aside\, he is obviously a problematic figure\, but seeing how there are bigger\, louder New Yorkers who have done nasty things and retired to the Sunbelt\, we might as well show one of his films. The question is–– which Woody? \nThere are the obvious choices: his breakthrough Annie Hall or Manhattan\, which celebrated the city but also presaged his demons. The choice has not been an easy one\, but we decided to go with Radio Days\, a nostalgic comedy-drama about an extended working-class family on Rockaway Beach in Queens during the Golden Age of Radio. Although not part of the cast\, Allen narrates the film from the perspective of Joe\, a boy whose world is shaped by the family radio––its music and programs emanating from glittering\, far-away Manhattan. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated PG with smoking\, drinking\, mild profanity\, off-screen violence\, sexuality\, nudity\, lots of kvetching\, and Woody Allen.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-radio-days/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ The AIC: The Automat
DESCRIPTION:THE AUTOMAT 2021 79 minutes \nBefore there was McDonald’s\, before there was Howard Johnson’s\, there was Horn & Hardart’s Automat\, once the largest restaurant chain in America. The Automats were essentially cafeterias with food portions behind coin-operated glass doors\, which may not sound all that appetizing from today’s perspective\, but from the 1920s to the ‘50s New Yorkers saw them as the height of modernity\, and by most accounts the food was good. This documentary is full of fond memories about the rise and fall of a Gotham institution\, with reminiscences from Mel Brooks\, Colin Powell\, Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, Carl Reiner\, Elliott Gould\, and Howard Schultz. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated TV-PG\, with drinking\, mostly profanity\, sexual overtones\, urban decline\, 5-cent coffee\, well-remembered pie\, and Mel Brooks singing.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-automat/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ The AIC: The Thomas Crown Affair
DESCRIPTION:THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 1999\, 113 minutes \nAs cinematic confections go\, the two Thomas Crown Affairs are notable in that they are windows into the times that made them. The first film\, released in 1968 and set in Boston with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway\, is an exercise in mid-sixties cool. But in the story of a bored tycoon who stages a robbery for kicks\, only to find himself falling for the investigator\, there was a distinct sense ennui from that period. \nIn the 1999 remake with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo\, there is no languor whatsoever\, as the film embraces Giuliani’s New York in all its hubristic glory\, with the city coming across as flush\, fun\, benign\, and safe––an illusion that would be swept away two years later. But the film is undeniably buoyant\, with Brosnan’s unflappable\, unknowable billionaire meeting his match in Rene Russo’s insurance investigator. If Faye Dunaway played the role in 1968 as the embodiment of glam\, Russo is a force of nature\, determined to bring down Thomas Crown––all the while enjoying the chase until their affections catch up with them. The third star of the film is Dennis Leary\, his acerbic persona in top form as a jaundiced but ethical police detective who provides a reality check as Brosnan and Russo’s cat-and-mouse romance grows ever more intense. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated R\, with smoking\, drinking\, profanity\, sexuality\, nudity\, art theft\, corporate leveraging\, musical appropriation\, getting tasered\, and snagging a seat at Cipriani’s without a reservation.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-thomas-crown-affair/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Moonstruck
DESCRIPTION:MOONSTRUCK 1987 102 minutes \nWith broad\, vibrant brushstrokes\, Norman Jewison directed this film starring Cher as an Italian-American widow faced with a second chance at love. Set in Brooklyn Heights amidst a tradition-bound family\, Cher’s character is engaged to Danny Aiello but finds a soul-mate in his brother\, Nicholas Cage and needless to say\, complications arise on the road to Amore. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated PG\, with smoking\, drinking\, infidelity\, mild profanity and lots of red sauce.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-moonstruck/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221229T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221229T160000
DTSTAMP:20221228T145432Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Age of Innocence
DESCRIPTION:THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 1993 139 minutes \nFor a man who has made his name depicting the gritty underside of New York\, it would seem strange that Martin Scorcese would want to adapt Edith Wharton’s novel about polite society in 1870s Manhattan\, but beneath the gilded manners of the Victorian Era lurked social instincts as harsh anything found in his gangster films. \nDaniel Day-Lewis plays Newland Archer\, an upstanding attorney engaged to young Winona Ryder and a comfortable\, compartmentalized life lies before them\, with his creative and intellectual interests discretely kept private. But when Archer encounters his fiancé’s cousin\, who is being ostracized for having fled a disastrous marriage to an abusive Polish count\, he takes a stand on her behalf. Archer soon finds a kindred spirit in the radiant Countess\, played by Michelle Pfeiffer\, and with each mannered and mindful interaction they are drawn to each other. But passion––let alone divorce––in that period was the stuff of scandal\, and the cost of social banishment could be dire\, as Scorcese depicts amidst lush imagery and resonant performances. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated R\, with smoking\, drinking\, glimpses of nudity and otherwise nasty behavior among the Four Hundred.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-age-of-innocence/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ The AIC: Bell\, Book and Candle
DESCRIPTION:BELL\, BOOK and CANDLE\,  1958 106 minutes \nIt takes a lot to make New Yorkers flinch\, and in Christmastime Greenwich Village\, a circle of witches amidst the Beatniks and Bohemians raises nary an eyebrow. If anything\, buttoned-down publisher James Stewart stands out\, catching the eye of shop-owner witch Kim Novak\, who casts an enchantment spell on him­ with the help of her bongo-playing warlock brother Jack Lemmon and ditzy aunt\, Elsa Lancaster. Stewart soon finds himself bewitched\, bothered\, and bewildered––learning fast that a sorceress’ love is a complicated thing. \nIs this a silly movie? Absolutely––as it’s a Hollywood take on ‘exotic’ non-conformism playing off against uptight fifties ‘togetherness.’ \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated TV-PG\, with smoking\, drinking and problematic sculpture.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-bell-book-and-candle/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: If Beale Street Could Talk
DESCRIPTION:IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK 2018 117 minutes \nBased on the novel by James Baldwin and set in the early 70s Harlem\, this film tells the story of Tish and Fonnie\, two childhood friends who have started a romantic relationship. Fonnie hopes to be an artist\, but life becomes progressively more difficult when Tish becomes pregnant and Fonnie is arrested on trumped-up charges. At turns heartbreaking and infuriating\, this story about love struggling to prevail amidst oppression proves to be a supremely resonant journey. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated R\, with smoking\, drinking\, and intense moments of profanity\, sexual intercourse\, sexual harassment\, domestic violence as well as chronic structural and institutional racism.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-if-beale-street-could-talk/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Devil Wears Prada
DESCRIPTION:THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2006 109 minutes \nThis look into the New York fashion world has both a sparkle and a distinct edge. The sparkle comes from Anne Hathaway\, who plays a just-out-of-school journalist working for the editor of a prestigious fashion magazine. The edge in this film is Hathaway’s tyrannical editor\, played by Meryl Streep. It has been said that Streep walked away with this film––giving one of the most vibrant performances of her career\, but Stanley Tucci also stands out\, as does Emily Blunt\, who landed a breakout role as Hathaway’s forever exasperated co-worker. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated PG-13\, with drinking\, profanity\, sexual overtones\, work-related stress\, a bad encounter with a taxi\, divas\, but no smoking (the film is notable for not depicting any tobacco use in an otherwise nicotine-ridden industry).
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-devil-wears-prada/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T133000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Man On Wire
DESCRIPTION:MAN ON WIRE (2008)  94 minutes \nIf this documentary comes across as a heist film\, it is totally intentional\, because when Phillipe Petit set out to tight-rope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 — it was an illegal undertaking. Petit and his collaborators planned the stunt like a clockwork robbery and the film covers every nail-biting detail. Man on Wire also offers a fascinating window into a time when the towers were not venerated\, as the majority of New Yorkers considered them an ungainly eyesore\, but Petit took the first steps to change that perception by giving the buildings a human dimension. \nBE ADVISED: This film is rated PG-13 for some sexuality and nudity\, depicting what transpired on August 7\, 1974\, and does not address events that took place on September 11\, 2001. \n 
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-man-on-wire/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Apartment
DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK ON-SCREEN \n  \nTHE APARTMENT  1960  125 minutes \n  \nVienna-born director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard\, Double Indemnity\, Stalag 17\, Some Like It Hot)\, was known for nothing if not his sardonic style and this film is considered one of his sharpest. Set in a mammoth insurance company\, Jack Lemmon plays a humble office schlub who pines for Shirley MacLaine’s elevator operator\, but he is at the mercy of his bosses\, who sing his praises so long as they can use his Manhattan apartment for their affairs. Enter head boss Fred MacMurray\, who finds out about the arrangement––only to use it for his own affair with MacLaine. \nThe Apartment is a ribald comedy with some hard scenes\, and it should be noted that Fred MacMurray was so convincing as a heel that he was repeatedly accosted by angry fans after the film was released—prompting him to play the lovable father in My Three Sons. \n  \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated TV-PG\, and contains smoking\, drinking\, period sexual references\, a punch in the nose\, an attempt at self-harm and Eisenhower-era office dynamics.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-apartment/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T160000
DTSTAMP:20221007T151750Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC
DESCRIPTION:ON BROADWAY  2019  82 minutes \nReleased just before the pandemic shut public venues down for over a year\, this buoyant documentary by Oren Jacoby offers an overview of Broadway from its nadir in the late 60s to the present. With interviews from a range of luminaries such as Alec Baldwin\, August Wilson\, Helen Mirren\, Christine Baranski\, and Tommy Tune\, the film makes a point to show how art and commerce went hand in hand as various shows revived the theatre experience while larger trends co-opted the culture––as seen in the parallel fortunes of Times Square\, which went from a red-light district to a tourist magnet. \nBE ADVISED: This film depicts New York in all its glamour and grit\, involving urban violence\, profanity\, sexuality\, corporate and municipal avarice––as well as some singing and dancing.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-2/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Wedding Banquet
DESCRIPTION:THE WEDDING BANQUET  1993  106 minutes \nDirected by Ang Lee\, this film offers a bittersweet tale about\, Wai-Tung Gao\, a gay Taiwanese man living happily in New York while also trying to appease the traditional obligations of his family back home. Set in a time before same-sex unions were recognized in the U.S.\, Wai-Tung hatches a plan with his American partner to please his parents by having a lavender marriage with a Chinese neighbor in need of a green card. The Gao family arrives to provide a very elaborate traditional wedding\, complicating the lives of everyone involved as the cultural and generational divides are laid bare. \nBE ADVISED: This film is rated R\, with drinking\, profanity\, sexuality\, brief nudity and a superb performance by Nelson Chao as Wai-Tung Gao. \n 
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-wedding-banquet/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T160000
DTSTAMP:20220914T150952Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: My Man Godfrey
DESCRIPTION:MY MAN GODFREY (1936) \n94 minutes \nAn American screwball comedy\, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Set during the Great Depression. Godfrey “Smith” Parke is unemployed\, living with other homeless men down on their luck at a New York City\, while Irene Bullocks is a frivolous socialite who\, on a lark\, hires him as a butler.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-my-man-godfrey/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220901T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220901T160000
DTSTAMP:20220829T140015Z
CREATED:20220829T140015Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: A Good Year
DESCRIPTION:A GOOD YEAR  2006  117 minutes \nDirected by Ridley Scott of Alien and Blade Runner fame\, this comparatively “small” film came about when Scott and his neighbor in Provence\, the writer Peter Mayle collaborated on a fish-out-of-water story involving an Englishman who inherits a French vineyard. \nThe premise of the English abroad could be a genre of its own\, with Enchanted April\, A Room with a View\, and The Durrells of Corfu being prime examples. In A Good Year\, the Englishman is of a particularly arrogant variety\, played by Russell Crowe\, a high-wire London financial trader looking to make a quick sale of his uncle’s dilapidated chateau and vineyard. Some very French complications soon arise\, miring Crowe’s character in the nuances of the local culture\, while memories of his curmudgeonly uncle (Albert Finney) and romance with a restauranteur (Marion Cotillard) awaken his better instincts. \nBE ADVISED:  This film is rated PG-13 with smoking\, drinking\, profanity\, sexuality\, and a rather uncomfortable swim in an empty pool. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-a-good-year/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T160000
DTSTAMP:20220819T122835Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ Weston Public Library: On The Basis of Sex
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this film will NOT be screened at the AIC but at the Weston Library Community Room on Thursday\, August 25th at 1:30. \nON THE BASIS OF SEX  2018  120 minutes \nAs a companion piece to the documentary RGB\, this solid biopic stars Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in two crucial periods of her life. The first part is set in 1956 when she was attending Harvard then Columbia Law Schools\, graduating at the top of her class––only to be denied employment at the all-male law firms of the period. The second part jumps forward to 1970 when she and her husband appealed a tax case on the grounds of sexual bias against a man to set a precedent for overturning the layers of entrenched sexist legal code. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated PG with smoking\, drinking\, profanity\, references to sexuality\, and fusty chauvinists in judicial robes. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-wpl-on-the-basis-of-sex/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220818T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220818T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Journey
DESCRIPTION:THE JOURNEY  2016  94 minutes \nIn 2006\, after years of stalled initiatives\, the Protestant Unionist and Catholic Nationalist leaders of Northern Ireland met in Scotland to hammer out a power sharing agreement. Then Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern were desperate to avoid another impasse\, and they contrived a meeting between former IRA hardliner Martin McGuiness (Colm Meaney) and the ferociously doctrinaire politician Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall)\, two men who had never once spoken to each other. What was said in their arranged journey back to Ulster has not been disclosed\, but this film surmises how their encounter played out––all the while under the frantic watch of the British Intelligence establishment. \nBE ADVISED–– This film is rated PG-13 with archival images of sectarian violence\, terse parochial language\, and all manner of political scheming––whether Hibernian or Britannic. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-journey/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220811T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220811T160000
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ The AIC: Leave No Trace
DESCRIPTION:LEAVE NO TRACE  2018  109 minutes \nDebra Granik\, an alumni of Brandeis and Mass Art\, follows up on her directorial debut Winter’s Bone with an adaptation of the Peter Rock novel My Abandonment\, a story about a teenage girl (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) living in an urban forest with a father haunted by his combat experiences. \nBE ADVISED: This film is rated PG with depictions of drug use and PTSD\, as well as fraught\, off-the-grid situations. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-leave-no-trace/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220804T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220804T160000
DTSTAMP:20220727T173356Z
CREATED:20220727T172228Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: This Beautiful Fantastic
DESCRIPTION:THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC  2016  92 Minutes \nWith some challenging films planned for the coming weeks\, it seemed only right to start August with a confectionary fable starring Downtown Abbey alum Jessica Brown Findlay as an obsessive-compulsive librarian struggling to cope with her curmudgeonly neighbor. \nBE ADVISED­: This film is rated PG\, with very mild British profanity and brimming with twee stylization. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T160000
DTSTAMP:20220719T133057Z
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UID:24302-1659015000-1659024000@westonaic.org
SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Babette's Feast
DESCRIPTION:BABETTE’S FEAST  1987 102 minutes \nIn the spirit of the Film Club’s series “641.5 Food on Film\,” we are now able to present this adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s short story about two sisters in a desolate 19th century Danish fishing village. Devoted to their minister father\, they turn away all romantic overtures\, but take in Babette\, a well-regarded chef who has fled the 1871 Siege of Paris. Years pass and when Babette comes into money that could take her home\, she devises an elaborate thank you to the sisters who offered her sanctuary. \nNOTE: Unlike previous screenings this year\, there are no cautions required for this heartfelt G-rated film. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-babettes-feast/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T160000
DTSTAMP:20220718T134628Z
CREATED:20220718T134628Z
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UID:24299-1658410200-1658419200@westonaic.org
SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Honeyland
DESCRIPTION:HONEYLAND  2019  87 minutes \nOn first impression\, this documentary would strike the viewer as an exceptionally realistic dramatic feature\, as the filmmakers Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov shot 400 hours of footage over three years documenting Hatidže Muratova\, the last of the wild honey gatherers in the North Macedonian mountains. With evocative imagery offering glimpses of nature and human nature\, this film ponders the uneven balance between traditional subsistence and the modern world’s encroachment. \nPlease Note­- this film is in Balkan Turkish\, Macedonian & Serbo-Croatian with subtitles. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-honeyland/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T160000
DTSTAMP:20220712T164908Z
CREATED:20220712T164908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220712T164908Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Namesake
DESCRIPTION:THE NAMESAKE  2006  122 minutes \nBased on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by Mira Nair\, this film tells the story of a Bengali couple (Irrfan Khan and Tubu) who emigrate to suburban New York. As they try to adjust to their new country and the years pass\, their teenage son Gogol (Kal Penn) struggles to reconcile his Indian heritage with the American culture he has grown up in. \nPlease Note: This film is rated PG-13 with smoking\, drinking\, mild sexuality\, and a transportation calamity. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-namesake/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220707T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220707T160000
DTSTAMP:20220701T141914Z
CREATED:20220701T141914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220701T141914Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Wings of The Dove
DESCRIPTION:THE WINGS OF THE DOVE 1997 102 minutes \nThis film could be described as one of the best “Merchant & Ivory” films––even if neither of them had anything to do with it. Based on the Henry James novel and with cinematography that could have been by John Singer Sargent\, this film catches both the élan and squalor of the Edwardian era––when falling from society often meant utter destitution. Helena Bonham Carter is at her incandescent best as Kate\, a debutante facing a precarious choice: she can marry the poor journalist she loves (Linus Roache)\, or stay in the good graces of her benevolent but dominating aunt (played by an icy Charlotte Rampling). Instead Kate contrives a third path when she befriends a dying American heiress who is kind\, generous\, and smitten with Kate’s lover. A devil’s bargain is struck when they travel to Venice and Kate steers the man she loves into a relationship with the heiress\, and her pragmatic instincts soon collide with loyalties and desires. \nThis is a radiant film­­––as glorious as it is bittersweet––with the Italian locations never more sublime. \nBE ADVISED\, this film is rated R\, with smoking\, drinking\, drug use\, and brief nudity. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-wings-of-the-dove/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T160000
DTSTAMP:20220628T193610Z
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UID:23911-1656595800-1656604800@westonaic.org
SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Carol
DESCRIPTION:CAROL  2015 118 minutes \nBased on novel The Price of Salt and set in 1952\, when same-sex love stories were expected to end in shame and tragedy\, Patricia Highsmith’s tale broke with convention in its depiction of two very different women drawn into an affair. Therese\, as played by Rooney Mara\, is a young department store clerk who encounters Cate Blanchett’s very glamorous but indifferently married Carol. As their attraction develops\, they must navigate the social constraints of the period\, balancing their love against the costs that come with their relationship. \nBE ADVISED– This film is rated R\, with copious amounts of 50’s era smoking and drinking\, brief nudity\, profanity and Eisenhower-era ennui. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-carol/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T160000
DTSTAMP:20220617T135819Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: The Birdcage
DESCRIPTION:THE BIRDCAGE  1996 117 minutes \nGiven the recent “Don’t say Gay” initiative of Florida’s governor\, here is a film set on Miami’s South Beach belting the word out in grand style. Based on the 1978 La Cage aux Folles\, the film features Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as Armand and Albert Goldman\, two life-partners who own a drag club where Albert is the star attraction. The managed chaos of their daily life is upended when Armand’s son announces he wants to marry the daughter of an ultra-conservative senator played by Gene Hackman. To please the son they both adore\, Armand and Albert set out to pass as straight for their new in-laws. What could possibly go wrong?   Few remakes manage to transcend their source material\, but under the direction of Mike Nichols\, this film is a big-hearted send-up of the culture wars\, with love and compassion offering a lesson for the current decade. \nBE ADVISED- The film is rated R with smoking\, drinking\, profanity\, semi-nudity\, and utter outrageousness. \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-the-birdcage/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T160000
DTSTAMP:20220609T180741Z
CREATED:20220609T180741Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Sunday Bloody Sunday
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, BLOODY SUNDAY 110 minutes \nAlthough shot in 1970\, this film is years ahead of its time with its naturalistic depiction of a gay relationship. Directed by John Schlesinger fresh off of Midnight Cowboy\, the film stars Peter Finch and Dame Glenda Jackson as middle-aged Londoners who are both in love with the same twenty-something artist. \nBE ADVISED- This film is rated R with smoking\, drinking\, profanity\, nudity\, depictions of intercourse\, and precocious children smoking pot (1970 was still part of the Sixties). \nPlease RSVP by calling  (781) 786-6165
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-sunday-bloody-sunday/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T153000
DTSTAMP:20220512T174327Z
CREATED:20220413T160944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T174327Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Julia
DESCRIPTION:Dame Vanessa Redgrave is the title character in this adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s problematic memoir Pentimento. With Jane Fonda cast as Hellman\, the film relates the author’s 1937 journey across Europe to help her childhood friend\, an anti-Nazi activist. With Jason Robards as Dashiell Hammett\, Hal Holbrook\, and a very young Meryl Streep. This film is Rated PG w/smoking\, drinking\, profanity\, and violence involving Nazis\,  117 minutes 1977. \nThis free screening will be held in the beautiful Reading Room of the Weston Art and Innovation Center at 356 Boston Post Rd. This event is free and open to the public\, but registration is required\, please click here.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-julia/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Filmmaking,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T153000
DTSTAMP:20220413T161126Z
CREATED:20220413T161126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220413T161126Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Howard's End
DESCRIPTION:Dame Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter CBE star opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins in Merchant & Ivory’s adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel about two progressive sisters  drawn into a chauvinistic upper-class Tory family. This film is Rated R  with smoking\, brief violence\, and English bloody-mindedness\,  105 minutes 1992.  \nThis free screening will be held in the beautiful Reading Room of the Weston Art and Innovation Center at 356 Boston Post Rd. This event is free and open to the public\, but registration is required\, please click here.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-howards-end/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events,Filmmaking,WPL Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T153000
DTSTAMP:20220413T142029Z
CREATED:20220413T142029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220413T142029Z
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SUMMARY:WPL Film Club @ the AIC: Tea with Mussolini
DESCRIPTION:In an encore of the WPL Film Club’s debut screening\, Dames Maggie Smith\, Judi Dench\, and Joan Plowright star alongside Cher and Lily Tomlin in Franco Zeffirelli’s heartfelt account of his boyhood in fascist-era Florence and the English and American expatriate women who looked after him. Rated PG with smoking\, brief violence\, and English Scorpioni\, 117 minutes 1999 \n\nThis free screening will be held in the beautiful Reading Room of the Weston Art and Innovation Center at 356 Boston Post Rd. This event is free and open to the public\, but registration is required\, please click here.
URL:https://westonaic.org/class/wpl-film-club-the-aic-tea-with-mussolini/
LOCATION:Reading Room\, 356 Boston Post Road\, 2nd floor\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Filmmaking,WPL Film Club
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