Friendswood Library
flicks is an ongoing movie series held every other Thursday evening in
the Friendswood Public Library Activity Room.
Films are shown on an 8 X 10 ft. screen.
Movies are free and begin at 6:20pm.
Refreshments provided.
When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham
(David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary
funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered in the form of a handsome,
personable guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). Establishing himself as a
Yuletide guest in the Brougham home, Dudley arouses the ire of Henry, who,
unaware that his visitor is from Up Above, assumes that Dudley has designs on
the bishop's wife Julia (Loretta Young). Eventually, the lives of both Henry
and Julia are agreeably altered by the presence of the affable angel: He
regains the "common touch" he'd almost lost, while she realizes anew
how much she truly loves her husband.
(Rotten Tomatoes)
Holiday classic still charms. ---Steve Crum
Not rated: 1948:
109 minutes
Thursday, December 18 at 6:20pm
Astaire plays doctor—a shrink, of all things—in
Mark Sandrich’s Carefree
(1938), a little-known screwball comedy gem as antic and goofy as Howard Hawks’
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
with dance. And what dance! Accompanied by an Irving Berlin score, Astaire and
Rogers are at the top of their game in the tale of a therapist (Astaire) who
must find the root of the commitment phobia that plagues his new patient
(Rogers)... Ginger is funnier and
lovelier than ever. Together, their chemistry is undeniable, and their
dancing—captured in full-length, full-body shots with the barest hint of
editing—is sublime. --Livia Bloom (Filmmakermagazine.com)
Not Rated: 1938: 83 minutes
Thursday,
January 8 at 6:20pm
The recipient of seven Oscar (R) nominations, this
film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor
Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the
death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an
earlier marriage. Thompson won the film's sole Oscar (R) for her screenplay
adaptation of Austen's novel. (Rotten Tomatoes)
PG: 136 minutes: Directed by Ang Lee: 1998
We need no further proof that this material is
ageless. ~Janet Maslin, New York Times
Thursday,
January 22 at 6:10pm
A
British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a
celestial court. IMDb
What today's audiences will
find amazing is the sheer energy of its invention. –Roger Ebert
(The filmmakers') creativity
is both fantastic and organic, their imagery spellbinding and gorgeous, and
their scripting clever and witty. –Sean Axmaker
#90 on the
British Film Institute Critics’ Top 250 Films
In 2004, a poll by the magazine Total Film of 25
film critics named Stairway to Heaven
the second greatest British film ever made.
104 minutes: Not Rated: 1946: Technicolor
