LitFlix Spicy Sampler 2008 (Part 1)

If variety is the spice of life, LitFlix at the James V. Brown Library presents extra spicy!

From now until the end of the year LitFlix will present a wide range of selections with literary flavor, guaranteed to appeal to a variety of tastes. This cinematic sampling offers something for everyone – from the most discriminating palate to the strongest stomach.

Dates marked *** are Adult Summer Reading special selections – it’s all about the bugs!

In the Family Place Room  - Saturday night features start at 7:30 PM  - Sunday matinees start at 2 PM
All shows are Free to the Public – No registration required. Must be 18 years of age or older to attend R-rated films.


May 10 and 11
TWELFTH NIGHT: OR WHAT YOU WILL
Imogen Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Kingsley
Fine Line Features; Directed by Trevor Nunn
Rated PG; 134 minutes; 1996
Never send a boy to do a man’s job, especially if he’s a girl.
An outstanding all-star ensemble cast brings one of William Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies to life. The outlandish tale of troublesome twins who win the hearts of an entire kingdom is as relevant and funny today as it was when it was first performed almost four hundred years ago.


May 17 and 18
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Rupert Everett, Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon
Miramax Films; Directed by Oliver Parker
Rated PG; 97 minutes; 2002
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men no afraid to bend the truth to overcome the dullness of their lives. When they both adopt an alter ego named Earnest a series of comedic mistaken identities ensues. The plot spirals into insanity when both men fall in love with women using the same name.


May 31 and June 1
Simon Birch
Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Ian Michael Smith
Hollywood Pictures; Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
Rated PG; 114 minutes; 1998
Inspired by John Irving's 1989 best selling novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, this coming-of-age saga takes place in rural New Hampshire. Two boys learn what it takes to be friends and remain headstrong in an often cruel and challenging world.


***June 14 and 15
ANGELS AND INSECTS
Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patsy Kensit
Samuel Goldwyn; Directed by Philip Haas
Rated R; 117 minutes; 1996
Returning from the Amazon, penniless naturalist and explorer William Adamson finds an unlikely patron in Reverend Harald Alabaster, who invites him into his stately home. William falls in love with and marries the Reverend’s daughter (Patsy Kensit). As he settles into his new life with the eccentric Alabaster clan, William uncovers the decay and corruption that lurks beneath the decorous surface of his aristocratic family.


June 28 and 29
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Sean Connery, Michael Caine
Warner Brothers; Directed by John Huston
Rated PG; 129 minutes; 1975
Based on the Rudyard Kiling story, two engaging soldiers of fortune, Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine) and Daniel Dravot (Sean Connery) ply their less than respectable trade in 19th century India where they contrive and carry out a daring plan to become rulers in the isolated land of Kafiristan.


***July 12 and 13
STARSHIP TROOPERS
Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey
TriStar Pictures; Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Rated R; 126 minutes; 1997
A group of dedicated soldiers must rise to the challenge of intergalactic warfare when a species of alien bugs declare war on humanity in this action adventure. The story is based on a youth-oriented book by sci-fi visionary Robert Heinlein and features groundbreaking visual effects from Phil Tippett, who created the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.


July 26 and 27
WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York
New Line Cinema; Directed by John Duigan
Rated R; 99 minutes; 1993
John Duigan's adaptation of Jean Rhys's strange and memorable 1966 novel is set in the West Indies of the mid-nineteenth century. The hero, a young Englishman named Edward Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), arrives in Jamaica sick with fever after his long ocean passage; his stay on the island, during which he marries a ravishing Creole heiress named Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard), is a blur of heightened perception and disordered reason. As the marriage goes bad, events take on a nightmarish inevitability, as if they were moving toward a preordained end – one that will intrigue admirers of "Jane Eyre."


***August 9 and 10
IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos, Mia Maestro, Pilar Padilla, Edward James Olmos, Marc Anthony
MGM / Showtime Pictures; Directed by Mariano Barroso
Rated PG-13; 95 minutes; 2001
An idealistic young woman wages a daring struggle for freedom against a murderous dictator in this moving thriller. For generations, General Rafael Trujillo (Olmos) has ruled the Dominican Republic with a mixture of terror and savagery until Minerva Mirabal (Hayek) dares to oppose him. Inspired by her love for a rebel leader (Marc Anthony), Minerva and her sisters, known as Las Mariposas ("The Butterflies"), endure unimaginable hardships in a battle for the very soul of a nation. But as their acts of bravery gain notoriety, Trujillo's forces close in, determined to put an end to Minerva's heroics.


August 23 and 24
FIGHT CLUB
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
20th Century Fox; Directed by David Fincher
Rated R; 139 minutes; 1999
In this cult favorite, a ticking time-bomb insomniac (Edward Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Brad Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground “fight clubs” forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.


In the Family Place Room
Saturday night features start at 7:30 PM
Sunday matinees start at 2 PM
All shows are Free to the Public – No registration required

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