Join us for a celebration of movies with interesting or significant music. Movies range from dramas, musicals, comedies, and more! Hosted by music enthusiast, Annis Scott.
2nd Thursday of Each Month, 2-5pm:
October 12 – Bel Canto: Roxane Coss (Julianna Moore), a famous American soprano (Renee Fleming as her singing "voice") travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of a rich Japanese industrialist. Just as a gathering of local dignitaries convenes at Vice-President Ruben Ochoa's mansion, including French Ambassador Thibault and his wife, Hosokawa's faithful translator Gen and Russian trade delegate Fyorodov, the house is taken over by guerrillas led by Comandante Benjamin, demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. Their only contact with the outside world is through Red Cross negotiator Messner. A month-long standoff ensues in which hostages and captors must overcome their differences and find their shared humanity and hope in the face of impending disaster.
November 9 – Phantom of the Opera: From his hideout beneath a 19th century Paris opera house, the brooding Phantom (Gerard Butler) schemes to get closer to vocalist Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum). The Phantom, wearing a mask to hide a congenital disfigurement, strong-arms management into giving the budding starlet key roles, but Christine instead falls for arts benefactor Raoul (Patrick Wilson). Terrified at the notion of her absence, the Phantom enacts a plan to keep Christine by his side, while Raoul tries to foil the scheme.
December 14 – Joyeux Noel: The 1914 WW1 Christmas Eve truce actually happened, although not on quite the scale suggested in this film, which was nominated for the foreign film Oscar. Officers and troops were punished for fraternizing with the enemy in wartime. On Christmas Eve, the Danish singer Anna Sorensen (Diane Kruger) is brought to a support this war area to sing for German officers and the Crown Prince, but insists on being taken to the front lines as her real hope is to see Sprink, her lover. Reaching the lines, she is surprised to find that thousands of little Christmas trees have been supplied by Berlin and form a decoration on top of the German trenches. The Scots and the French are equally surprised by the trees, and by the sound of singing as Sprink and Sorenson sing "Silent Night" and "Adeste Fidelis." Slowly, tentatively, soldiers begin to poke their heads up over the ramparts, and eventually they lay down their arms as they listen to the bagpipes of the Scots, and join in the singing. The next morning, Christmas Day, there is even a soccer game. Precious bits of chocolate are shared and they bury their dead, whose bodies have been rotting between the lines.
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