Summer Matinee Film Series of movie classics!
Who doesn’t like a good post-apocalyptic future, the walking dead, sea creatures, and a superhero in a cape? – especially in the summer! Join the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library as we present our first-ever Summer Matinee Film Series, a program scheduled on Saturdays at 2 p.m. on July 13 and 27, and August 10 and 17.
This FREE series will showcase movie classics, including The Twilight Zone’s Time Enough at Last, the French science fiction favorite La Jetee, and more!The Blade’s staff writers - Kirk Baird will host the films on July 13 and 27, - and Dan Demen will host the films on August 10 and 17. Baird and Demen will provide history and background on each selected feature.
Film Schedule: (due to industry copyright restrictions, we can’t mention some of the titles, but we’re sure these hints will help you figure them out!)
· July 13 – (hosted by The Blade’s Kirk Baird): It’s a bird, it’s a plane! …. Yes, we’re showing that favorite movie classic where the hero dons a red cape and saves the day! You know the one, that 1978 film starring the late Christopher Reeves. Did you know that the film’s fictional superhero, considered an American cultural icon, was first conceived in the early 1930s as a bald comic villain by two high school students in Cleveland, Ohio?
· July 27 – (hosted by Baird): This 1975 classic film (hint: based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name), with a huge cult following, made us all afraid to swim in the pool, dip our toes in Lake Erie, or any of the Great Lakes for that matter. This film’s protagonist is a big fish that appears out of nowhere, eats boats and unsuspecting swimmers and now we all flock to the Discovery Channel to watch a weeklong TV series about this finned mysterious wonder. Can you guess the title of this time-honored film? (The theme music alone is scary – alternating between a dizzying pattern of two simple notes of “E” and “F”).
· August 10 – (hosted by The Blade’s Dan Demen): This 1962 independently released horror film is another cult standard, set to an original score featuring organ music. The film’s director got the idea for the storyline while vacationing in Salt Lake City, and used many locals to star in the production. The main female character experiences terrifying interludes during the film, which critics credit with influencing many of today’s horror flicks and TV series’ which address themes of the supernatural, and the “walking dead.”
· August 17 – La Jetee, and the Twilight Zone’s Time Enough at Last (hosted by Demen): We are able to mention these two film classics by title! We plan to showcase these two movies back to back.
· 1) La Jetee is a 1962 French science fiction classic that tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. Here, a man is a prisoner in the aftermath of the World War III. The 28-minute film has no dialogue aside from small sections of muttering in German and people talking in an airport terminal.
· 2) A favorite among librarians and book lovers alike, this next presentation is The Twilight Zone’s classic Time Enough at Last, which tells the story of a bank teller (played by Burgess Meredith who starred in several Twilight series features). Meredith’s character is confronted with anti-intellectualism and anti-reading from his boss and his own wife, who attempt to ban books from his life. Due to an H-bomb which destroys existence, he deals with living alone in a post-apocalyptic world, where only he and remnants of a public library remain.
“The films we plan to showcase here represent the classics that we believe serve as the foundation for our popular culture now . . . just as our resources at the Library serve as the foundation of information,” said Tracy Montri, manager of the Library’s Audio/Visual department.
Montri adds that the Library’s Summer Matinee Film Series was created to encourage people to remember or learn about the classic films that entertained us all, and that can be found in our Library’s collection.
Grab your friends and family and join us for this fun
and entertaining Library Summer Matinee Film Series.
Free parking and entry!
NOTE: For additional information visit toledolibrary.org, or call the Library’s Audio/Visual department at 419.259.5285.
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Organization Name: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
Organization Address: Toledo, OH