Best of 2000's
Memento
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. September 8: Memento directed by Christopher Nolan, 2000, 113 minutes. Early masterpiece from the director of The Dark Knight in which a man (Guy Pearce) suffering from short-term memory loss uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
 

Explore Brazil in Film
Thursday, September 9, 2010
2 pm to 5 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
Have you read the book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die? Now, there's a Travel Channel series of films based on the book to take you through the beauty and cultures of well-known locales as well as destinations off the beaten path. Join newlyweds Albin and Melanie Ulle who soak up all the best sights the world has to offer on a dream honeymoon. On this afternoon, experience Brazil's pulsating nightlife to amazing sights along the Amazon River from the film 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. If you've been to Brazil, bring your own stories and photos and mementos to share. Come enjoy some airchair traveling with us. This free event is part of the Active Agers series.
 

Twain Film: Tom Sawyer and More
Thursday, September 23, 2010
2 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
Mark Twain has often been portrayed in film while Mark Twain's novels and stories have been portrayed in film even more often. Film historian Doug Deuchler has chosen a variety of films and will examine the popular American writer's life and words through screenings and discussions beginning September 23. All six films will be shown on Thursday afternoons at 2 pm. Deuchler will lead discussions of each film following each screening. Two shorter films will kick off the series: Tom Sawyer (1917) a 59-minute silent movie with musical accompaniment, directed by William Desmond Taylor; and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1984) a 40-minute film starring Robert Preston. The second film is based on Twain's short story about a town that enjoys a national reputation for protecting every citizen against all temptation from infancy through death. But then a mysterious stranger, who has nursed a grudge against the town, plots revenge.
 

Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice
Sunday, September 26, 2010
2 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library

 

Best of 2000's
City of God (Cidade de Deus)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. September 29: City of God (Cidade de Deus) directed by Fernando Meirelles, 2002, 130 minutes. Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. In Portuguese with English Subtitles.
 

Twain Film: Mark Twain Tonight!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
2 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
In this 1967 film, Hal Holbrook portrays the author late in his life. Holbrook received an Emmy Award for this television performance on CBS. 90 minutes. Discussion to follow.
 

Best of 2000's
A History of Violence
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. October 13: A History of Violence directed by David Cronenberg, 2005, 96 minutes. A mild-mannered man (Viggo Mortensen) becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
 

Best of 2000's
Zodiac
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. October 27: Zodiac directed by David Fincher, 2007, 147 minutes. A San Francisco cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal) becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. Also stars Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey, Jr.
 

Best of 2000's
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. November 10: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind directed by Michel Gondry, 2004, 108 minutes. A couple (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet) undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. Elijah Wood and Kirsten Dunst also star.
 

Best of 2000's
Grizzly Man
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. December 8: Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog, 2005, 103 minutes. An award-winning, devastating, and heartrending documentary about grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
 

Best of 2000's
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. January 12: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee, 2000, 120 minutes. Oscar winner in which two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
 

Best of 2000's
Inglourious Basterds
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. January 26: Inglourious Basterds directed by Quentin Tarantino, 2009, 153 minutes. Oscar nominated film where in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
 

Best of 2000's
Lost in Translation
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. February 9: Lost in Translation directed by Sofia Coppola, 2003, 102 minutes. Oscar winner in which a movie star with a sense of emptiness (Bill Murray) and a neglected newlywed (Scarlett Johansen) meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond.
 

Best of 2000's
Amélie
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. February 23: Amélie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001, 122 minutes. Amélie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and discovers love along the way. In French with English Subtitles.
 

Best of 2000's
Wall-E
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. March 9: Wall-E directed by Andrew Stanton, 2008, 90 minutes. Oscar winner where in the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
 

Best of 2000's
Mulholland Drive
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. March 30: Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch, 2001, 147 minutes. After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
 

Best of 2000's
Pan's Labyrinth
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. April 13: Pan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro, 2006, 119 minutes. Oscar winner where in the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. In Spanish with English Subtitles.
 

Best of 2000's
25th Hour
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. April 27: 25th Hour directed by Spike Lee, 2002, 135 minutes. Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
 

Best of 2000's
The Lives of Others
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. May 11: The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006, 119 minutes. Oscar winner where in 1984 East Berlin a secret police agent conducting surveillance on a writer and the writer's lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. In German with English Subtitles.
 

Best of 2000's
There Will Be Blood
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. May 25: There Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2008, 158 minutes. A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered on a turn-of-the-century prospector (Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis) in the wild early days of the business.
 

Best of 2000's
Requiem for a Dream
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
6:30 pm Veterans Room, Second Floor, Main Library
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. June 8: Requiem for a Dream directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2000, 102 minutes. The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. Stars Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, and Marlon Wayans.
 

Best of 2000's
Brokeback Mountain
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
1:30 pm Maze Branch
It's an ongoing film festival as Oak Park Viewers screen and discuss some of the most interesting films of the decade. Popcorn will be served. A discussion moderated a by librarian and film historian will follow each film in the series. June 29: Brokeback Mountain directed by Ang Lee, 2005, 134 minutes. Oscar winner Based on the E. Annie Proulx story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.