You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
A scene from Juggling Life.<br />
Monsieur Verdoux<br />
Charlie Chaplin became an<br />
iconic figure throughout the<br />
world as “The Little Felllow”<br />
in films over a three-decade<br />
span. So it was quite a<br />
departure when, in 1947,<br />
he unleashed this “comedy<br />
of murders” with himself<br />
as a French banker turned<br />
ruthless bluebeard. While<br />
both a critical and financial<br />
failure at the time, Verdoux<br />
has since been recognized as<br />
one of Chaplin’s finest and<br />
most sophisticated creations,<br />
as well as ahead of its time in<br />
its subtle indictment of the<br />
system and social structure.<br />
Thursday, July 3, 7 p.m. 2 hours, 4 minutes<br />
Great Artists Change…can you?<br />
Bruce Lawton, film archivist and historian will present Chaplin, Welles and the Beatles in films<br />
that defined their change. Nothing is more attention-grabbing than when a world famous artist<br />
decides to make a change in image, style or approach to their work. Usually considered a risky<br />
move, but one that often defines the adventurous maverick. The three films in this series are<br />
examples of bold — going out on a limb or going for broke - changes in art, film and music.<br />
Let It Be<br />
No one changed more — or influenced more change<br />
around them — than The Beatles did during their<br />
relatively short time together. Following on the heels<br />
of the all-encompassing-engulfing White Album, the<br />
Beatles looked for an alternate approach to continue<br />
creatively together as a unit, writing, rehearsing,<br />
recording and performing a brand new album for the<br />
public, all the while filming the process.<br />
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m. 1 hour, 21 minutes<br />
Ben Saltzman<br />
F For Fake<br />
The great Orson Welles, never one to rest on his<br />
laurels, masterfully interweaves tales of trickery<br />
involving Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Howard<br />
Hughes, Pablo Picasso and himself, a brilliant<br />
tour de force that has not been duplicated and<br />
is a very worthy bookend to Citizen Kane.<br />
Wednesday, July 23, 7 p.m. 1 hour, 28 minutes<br />
The film screening will<br />
be followed by a Q&A<br />
session with filmmaker<br />
Ben Saltzman and NJ<br />
is Beautiful Juggling<br />
Program Coorindator<br />
Lou De Lauro and a liveaction<br />
performance by De<br />
Lauro and other jugglers.<br />
JULY 16-17<br />
Details, Page 6<br />
Unless otherwise noted, all progamming is in the Community Room, first floor connections THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 23
Change language