Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The 'Audrey in the Afternoon' flim-lecture series continues today at 1 pm in the Barrington library auditorium.
“Audrey in the Afternoon,” the multi-week film lecture series celebrating actress Audrey Hepburn, continues today with “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” The film series is being presented by librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz on Wednesdays at 1 pm in the Barrington Library auditorium. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is director Blake Edward’s 1961adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella. Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, a seeming urban sophisticate who lives off the gifts of New York City gentlemen, but who is really a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability, said Swiszcz. George Peppard plays a struggling writer whose livelihood, like Holly’s, depends on the generosity of others, he said. Can these “two drifters” break away …
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Barrington Public Library has a quilt hanging just inside the front door that you must see to believe.
You probably won’t believe it’s a quilt. The Barrington Public Library has received on permanent loan a quilt that looks more like painting on fabric. Or stained glass. It hangs just inside the front door on the right. The quilt was created by Sally Boynton of South Kingstown, whose best friend is the weekend children’s librarian. That’s how Debbie Barchi, Barrington’s library director, discovered Boynton and her quilts. “Sally just decided she'd like to make and donate the handmade quilt to Barrington library,” said Barchi. “We will mostly use it in winter to help shelter the staff and public from some of the strong arctic blasts that come in through our doors. “ Boynton is a 1973 Rhode Island School of Design graduate in sculpture and …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The "Audrey in the Afternoon' film-lecture series continues today at 1 pm in the Barrington library auditorium.
“Audrey in the Afternoon,” a multi-week film lecture series celebrating actress Audrey Hepburn, continues today with 'Nun's Story." The film series is being presented by librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz on Wednesdays at 1 pm in the Barrington Library auditorium. "The Nun’s Story is based on the true story of a young woman in 1930s Belgium who joins the convent and faces a great spiritual struggle with her vows of charity, humility and obedience," said Swiszcz. "Hepburn’s portrayal proved her dramatic acting abilities after a series of lighter roles, and earned her the New York Film Critics Best Actress award," he said. Fred Zinnemann, who directed such classics as High Noon and From Here to Eternity, directed this film, Swiszcz …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The film-lecture series, 'Audrey in the Afternoon,' plays tribute to the work of Audrey Hepburn; it includes insights and commentary from film buff Doug Swiszcz.
“Audrey in the Afternoon,” a film and lecture series celebrating the work of actress Audrey Hepburn, continues Wednesday afternoon, May 8, in the Barrington library auditorium. The film this week is Funny Face. Librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz will present the film at 1 pm. "The 1957 film is a frothy, colorful musical about a drab Greenwich Village bookstore clerk who is whisked away to Paris, where she becomes a beautiful haute couture model thanks to fashion photographer Fred Astaire," Swiszcz said. "But will Hepburn’s preoccupation with a young philosopher stand in the way of a romance with Astaire?," he said. Kay Thompson turns in a bravura performance as fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott. Paris landmarks, a chiefly …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz debuts his latest film-lecture series in the Barrington library auditorium on Wednesday May 1.
“Audrey in the Afternoon,” a six-week film lecture series celebrating the work of actress Audrey Hepburn, will be presented by librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz at the Barrington Public Library starting Wednesday afternoon. All the films air at 1 pm in the theater-like library auditorium. "Hepburn was a movie star nonpareil, possessing stylish elegance and grace, unconventional beauty, and genuine warmth and vulnerability," said Swiszcz. "You would think that someone of Hepburn’s stature would have a swelled head, but she knew humility. "Incredibly, she didn’t find herself particularly attractive," he said. "And she never hesitated to credit the directors and co-stars of her movies for helping her to learn her craft as she went…
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Barrington library continues its series, Teacher Movies Through the Years, with the film starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
The Barrington library continues its series of Teacher Movies Through the Years today with "Dangerous Minds," starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The series has been screening one teacher-themed movie a month. Each show starts at 7 pm with a follow-up discussion led by Gino Sangiuliano of the RI Department of Education. Sangiuliano has 20 years of experience as an educator and brings his knowledge and passion of teaching and his love of films to the library. Today's movie features Pfeiffer as Louanne Johnson, an ex-Marine who gets her first teaching job in an inner-city school. She is assigned to teach bright students who are failing. Johnson has recently separated from her husband. Her friend, also a teacher in the school, got the temporary job …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Barrington librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz wraps his 'Fond of Fonda' film and lecture series today.
Librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz wraps up his Fond of Fonda film and lecture series saluting actor Henry Fonda today at the Barrington Public Library. The film Swiszcz features this week is "Clarence Darrow." It starts at 2 pm in the auditorium. "Fonda won acclaim in 1974 playing the famed lawyer on stage," said Swiszcz. "This slightly shortened version was videotaped for television and earned the actor an Emmy nomination," he said. "Essentially a tour-de-force, one-man performance, Clarence Darrow allowed the actor to find common ground with the attorney in their shared liberal philosophies and their identification with and support of the common man." The program is in color and runs for 81 minutes. Swiszcz will provide …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The film is part of the movie and lecture series, 'Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda,' at the Barrington library.
Join librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz for another Henry Fonda film today at 2 pm in the Barrington Library -- the fifth installment in Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda. The film Swiszcz features this week is 12 Angry Men. The 1957 move is based on a play shown on television earlier in the decade, said Swisczc. "Fonda stars as the lone dissenting juror in the case of a young ethnic man who stands trial for murdering his father," Swiszcz said. "The majority of the movie takes place within the sweltering confines of the jury room, where Fonda and his fellow jurors thrash out their divergent opinions about whether the defendant can be considered guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," he said. A strong ensemble …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The matinee film series on Henry Fonda presented by Barrington librarian Doug Swiszcz continues Wednesday with one of John Ford's westerns.
Join librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz for Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda on Wednesday at 2 pm at the Barrington Public Library. The film Swiszcz features this week is My Darling Clementine. “John Ford, one of the great directors of westerns, imbues the movie with his usual mythic sense of Americana, eschewing factual accuracy for a kind of cinematic poetry,” said Swiszcz. “Fonda plays Wyatt Earp, who agrees to be marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, after one of his brothers is killed by the cattle-rustling Clanton gang. Victor Mature is the self-loathing, consumptive Doc Holliday, who joins forces with Earp and his brothers at the famous shootout at the O.K. Corral against the Clantons.” “Linda Darnell is …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Barrington librarian Doug Swiszcz airs the second film, 'The Lady Eve,' in his five-part series on Henry Fonda on Wednesday afternoons.
Join Barrington librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz for the second film in his five-movie series, Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda. “The Lady Eve” will air Wednesday, March 13, at 2 pm in the Barrington Public Library auditorium. The matinee series runs for four more weeks. Swiszcz describes the film as “a delightful screwball comedy directed by Preston Sturges, it casts Fonda as Charles Pike, the gullible heir to his family’s ale brewing fortune who falls—literally—for card sharp Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck).” “Her plan is to bilk him out of his money by seducing him, but she ends up falling in love with him,” he said. “The plot takes a labyrinthine turn when Pike learns of Jean’s ruse, and rejects …
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