Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Lunch and Lit - June 11- Salvage the Bones
Monday, March 5, 2012
Casino Royale
This is NOT the 1967 version with multiple Bonds. This is the 2006 version with Daniel Craig in his first film starring as James Bond. Appropriately enough, it's Bond's first case. Bond has just earned his 00/license to kill status. He prevents a terrorist attack at Miami International Airport, falls for his first Bond girl- Vesper Lynd- and matches wits with terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high stakes poker game. Movies at Main will be presenting this film on March 8 at 5:30 PM in the Hicks Auditorium. Note the earlier start. You won't want to miss any of the action!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Roxanne -Thursday February 9- 5:45 PM - Main Library - Hicks Auditorium
Steve Martin gives us a 20th Century version of Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in this tale of hero meets girl, handsome rival interests girl, hero helps handsome rival woo girl, handsome rival dumps girl, and (finally) hero wins girl (literally) by a nose.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Lunch and Lit: February 13th - The Night Circus
This was my Christmas read this year and hated to see it end. To say it was magical and highly visual is understating it. I read the jacket blurb to a friend and she was captivated. As the 19th century transitions into the 20th, a mysterious and unique circus open only at night and closing before dawn pops up at various places around the world. But the circus is much more than it seems- it is the moving venue for the ultimate contest of magical skills whose contestants have fallen in love.Experience the book and join us on February 13th at 1:00 PM to discuss and share.
Groundhog Day, January 26, 5:45 PM
The Ultimate Do-Over Movie! Bill Murray stars as an arrogant weatherman who finds himself living and reliving the same day over and over and over again. Does he learn anything along the way?
Well, of course he does!
Prepare for February 2nd by seeing this movie. Thursday, January 26th. 5:45 PM Hicks Auditorium on the Conference Level of the Main Library- Jacksonville Public Library.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Stangers on a Train- Movies @ Main, January 12, 2012
A basic tenet of police procedurals is that the murderer is most likely someone the victim knew. But what if there's no connection between the victim and the murderer?A couple of fellow passengers meet on a train in the dining car. One man strikes up a conversation with the other- who happens to be a sports celebrity with very public marital woes. The conversation comes around to the topic of how to plan the perfect murder. One man proposes to kill the celebrity's wife and then- to return the favor- the celebrity would kill the man's father. The celebrity doesn't take the proposal seriously. That is, until the wife is murdered. Then comes the phone call urging him to keep to his part of the bargain....
If this all sounds familar, it's because this plot has been appropriated by writers of movies and TV shows. It inspired Throw Mama From the Train, a 1987 comedy film, Horrible Bosses, a 2011 comedy film, and episodes of Castle, Modern Family, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Masterpiece Theatre - The Hound Of the Baskervilles- January 23, 2010
Come join us for the Masterpiece Theatre Book discusssion (January 23 in room 219, the Main Library) of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Some Hound trivia:At the time this book came out, the author hadn't written a Sherlock Holmes book in eight years. The events depicted in this book occurred before Sherlock was "killed off".
There are various legends about "ghost dogs" in British folklore that Conan Doyle may have tapped in creating the story of the Hound and the doomed heir of Baskerville Hall.
Sherlock Holmes never uttered the oft-quoted lines: "Elementary, my dear Watson." in any of the Sherlock Holmes books. The phrase was first used by P. G. Wodehouse, in Psmith Journalist, in 1915.
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