Film

‘In and Out’ is Darien Library’s Next Pride Film Fest Feature

Darien Library’s Pride Film Fest for Monday Nights in June: ‘Stonewall’ on June 5

‘The Founder’ — About McDonald’s Ray Croc — Is Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature Film

‘La La Land’ Is Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature Film

‘Lion’ Movie: Darien Library Friday Night Feature at 6:30 and 8:45 PM

‘Escalation’ Documentary About Relationship Violence: Screening & Discussion, March 27 & 28

‘Haze,’ Documentary on Alcohol Poisoning and Binge Drinking: Monday Night at Darien Library

Focus on French Cinema Film Fest Kicks Off in Stamford, Then a Weekend of Films in Greenwich

‘Allied’ with Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard: Friday Night Feature at Darien Library

Joe Pantoliano Coming to Darien Arts Center for Screening of Short Films March 12

‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Friday Night Feature at Darien Library, 6:30 and 9 PM

Film on Teen Dating Violence for Parents/Adults Presented Feb 28

‘Equal Means Equal’ Documentary Feb 12 at Darien Library, Sponsored by Darien LWV

Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature: Florence Foster Jenkens, 6:30 & 8:45 PM

Documentary on Darien EMS-Post 53 and Q&A with Filmmakers on Tuesday

Online Talk: ‘Ten Steps to Writing a Successful College Application Essay’

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Movies and those who make them in and around Darien

Darien Library’s “Pride Film Fest” continues with “In & Out” at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 12 in the library’s Community Room. Upon winning an Academy Award, actor Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) honors his high school teacher, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), who he announces, before millions of viewers, is gay. This comes as news to Brackett’s parents (Wilford Brimley, Debbie Reynolds), his principal (Bob Newhart) and especially his fiancée (Joan Cusack). As a media blitz descends upon on his small Indiana town, Brackett attempts to convince everyone that he’s your average straight American male. This 1997 film features Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley; Rated R; 108 minutes; Presented with Captions for the hearing impaired.

Stonewall is a drama about a fictional young man caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) is forced to leave behind friends and loved ones when he is kicked out of his parent’s home and flees to New York. You can watch this film at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 5 in the Darien Library Community Room. Alone in Greenwich Village, homeless and destitute, he befriends a group of street kids who soon introduce him to the local watering hole The Stonewall Inn; however, this shady, mafia-run club is far from a safe-haven. As Danny and his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, we see a rage begin to build.

Businessman Ray Kroc fights for control of McDonald’s, and turns it into a global franchise in “The Founder,” Darien Library’s “Friday Night Feature” at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. Friday in the Community Room. This 2016 movie features Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, John Carroll Lynch; Rated PG-13; 115 minutes; Presented with Captions for the hearing impaired. __________

— an announcement from Darien Library

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Official website | IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia

Trailer:

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A struggling actress and an aspiring pianist fall in love as they both pursue their dreams in L.A. However, their blossoming relationship is challenged when their careers pull them in different directions. This 2016 movie features Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Finn Wittrock, John Legend, J.K. Simmons; Rated PG; 128 minutes; Presented with captions for the hearing impaired. Playing at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m.

— an announcement from Darien Library

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Official website — IMDb — Rotten Tomatoes — Metacritic — map of the film’s locations — Turner Classic Movies — Wikipedia
La La Land, Jazz and Music

Does La La Land Get Jazz or Exploit It? (New York Times)
La La Land Is Clueless About What’s Actually Happening in Jazz (Vulture)
‘La La Land’ seriously misunderstands music. So why are its songs pretty great?

In the film “Lion,” an Indian man who was adopted at the age of 5 by an Australian couple searches for his birth family. This 2016 film stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Pawar, David Wenham; Rated PG-13; 118 minutes; Presented with captions for the hearing impaired. Darien Library is showing the film from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and from 8:45 to 10:45 p.m. on Friday, April 21 in the Community Room. Official website | IMDb |

Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia

Adults and teenagers are invited to two separate screenings of Escalation — a powerful and emotional engaging film that illuminates the warning signs of unhealthy and potentially dangerous relationships. The film has been described as “eye-opening” yet deeply recognizable. The screening (running time: 38 minutes) will be followed by conversations about empowerment and next steps. Students: Monday, March 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Depot, 25 Heights Road
Adults: Tuesday, March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Darien Library, 1441 Post Road

Come see the movie “Haze” on Monday night at Darien Library. The movie is about a college student from Fairfield County who died in September 2004 from alcohol poisoning after passing out on a couch in his fraternity house following a hazing initiation at the University of Colorado. A panel discussion with questions from the audience will follow. In 2008, the Gordie Foundation (named after the student, Gordie Bailey) produced Haze, a documentary telling Gordie’s story and discussing the issues surrounding college drinking and hazing. This program is for parents and mature high-school aged students.

The annual Focus on French Cinema film festival, which takes place in a few weeks in Stamford, Greenwich and Manhattan, has notable French directors and actors coming for a visit, along with at least 19 films, many shown in the area for the first time. The festival kicks off with an initial screening at the Avon Theater in Stamford on Monday, March 27, then moves to Manhattan events that Tuesday through Thursday. Starting Friday, the festival offers showings of the films all weekend long at the Bow Tie Cinemas in Greenwich. The festival will have award-winning films not only from France, but Quebec, Switzerland, Belgium and African French-speaking countries — all presented with English subtitles. Celebrated French Director Claude Lelouch will attend the festival as “the Honored Guest.”

Allied, tonight’s Darien Library Friday Night Feature, will be shown at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. In this WWII spy thriller, Canadian airman Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) and French Resistance operative Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) pose as a married couple for a dangerous mission in Casablanca. Their cover story soon leads to an actual love affair and their starting a family together, but Max’s happiness is shattered when he’s told that he must take part in an investigation to determine whether Marianne is really a double agent working for the Nazis. (2016) Starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan, Jared Harris, Simon McBurney, Daniel Betts; Rated R; 124 minutes; Presented with captions for the hearing impaired. — an announcement from Darien Library

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More information from Darienite.com:

Official website | IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia

“How Accurate Is the Movie ‘Allied’?” (Smithsonian Magazine, Nov.

Actor Joe Pantoliano, along with founders of the Manhattan Film Institute will be part of a special event at the Darien Arts Center on Sunday, March 12 from 4 to 5 p.m.

The DAC is screening students’ short films created under professional supervision at Manhattan Film Institute. The screening is free of charge and open to the public. The event features a Q&A after the screening with Pantoliano and MFI founders. ___________

— an announcement from Darien Arts Center

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Manhattan Film Institute, a film school, nurtures aspirations for both budding and established artists. Their summer program provides individualized instruction in a challenging and safe environment.

Here’s everything you need to know about Darien Library’s “Friday Night Feature” film, Hacksaw Ridge, playing at 6:30 and 9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24. Mel Gibson directed this biopic about World War II Army medic Desmond Doss (played here by Andrew Garfield). A conscientious objector who refused to take a life or even carry a weapon, Doss was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 75 soldiers on the battlefields of Okinawa. (2016) Starring Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Luke Bracey, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn; Rated R; 138 minutes. Presented with captions for the hearing impaired.

Parents and other adults are invited to a conversation and film screening of Escalation, a film that highlights the earliest warning signs of relationship violence. The YWCA Greenwich, in partnership with the One Love Foundation, is presenting the film. According to a release from the YWCA, the statistics are staggering: 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men will be in a violent relationship in their lifetime. Nearly 50 percent of these women and 40 percent of these men experience relationship violence for the first time between ages 18 and 24. Young women ages 16 to 24 are at a three times greater risk for abuse. Escalation has been shown in over 500 high schools and colleges.

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On Sunday Feb. 12 the Darien League of Women Voters and the Darien Library will sponsor the film: Equal Means Equal directed by Kamala Lopez. The program begins at 2 p.m. at the Darien Library. Equal Means Equal offers an unflinching look at how women are treated in the United States today. It’s a provocative documentary on the challenges faced by women, not only in the work place, but in every aspect of their daily lives.

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Heiress Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) longs to become an opera star in 1940s New York, despite possessing a horrible singing voice. With the help and encouragement of her husband (Hugh Grant) and a talented musician (Simon Helberg), she finds a very strange kind of success as a performer and recording artist. The 2016 movie features Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Nina Arianda, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Helberg, Stanley Townsend; Rated PG-13; 110 minutes; Presented with captions for the hearing impaired.

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Darien Library will host a screening of the new documentary High School 9-1-1 followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers at 4 and 6:30 p.m., this Tuesday, Dec. 20.

High School 9-1-1 chronicles a year in the life of the only ambulance service in Darien, Connecticut that just happens to be run by high school teenagers?! This one-of-a-kind organization services 20,000 residents 365 days a year, 24/7 and responds to over 1,500 emergency calls annually. ______________

— an announcement from Darien Library

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The foundation of Darien EMS–Post 53 is the empowerment of young people through adult and peer mentorship. “Posties” are taught a multitude of managerial, critical thinking and emergency medical skills and then given the responsibility to implement what they have learned by actually running their own EMS organization.

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