Lakewood Public Library | Event Calendar

Peruse the full schedule of each series by clicking the buttons above. All films are digitally projected and accompanied by our fairly awesome sound system. Light snacking encouraged!

Bright Star (2009)  
Directed by Jane Campion
Rated PG <imdb>
Poet John Keats left behind a brilliant body of work. He also left behind Fanny Brawne. After a magical three year love affair, his life was cut tragically short at the age of twenty-five. This moving period piece explores the tenderness and innocence of their love in lyrical strokes reminiscent of his ageless poetry. A fitting end to National Poetry Month...
Saturday, April 28 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Directed by William Wellman <imdb>
After a long, dusty cattle drive, two trail-weary cowboys, Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan, stop in the town of Bridger Wells, Nevada, tie up their horses and head to Darby’s Saloon. They get word that three suspicious outsiders have been accused of cattle rustling and a lynch mob is on the move. Since they are outsiders themselves, what should they do? The studio shelved this movie for two years because it qualified as neither wartime propaganda nor escapist entertainment.
Saturday, May 5 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)  
Directed by John Ford  
Rated PG <imdb>
The legendary director of such gritty fare as The Searchers and Stagecoach makes the perfect Shirley Temple film, setting her otherworldly sweetness and curls against a grim backdrop of weary British soldiers occupying a hostile foreign land. Singing and dancing is kept at a minimum so you'll have to settle for a genuinely uplifting story, short on cloying sentiment. Shirley's favorite!
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Simone (2002) 
Directed by Andrew Niccol 
Rated PG-13 <imdb>
Desperate film producer Al Pacino has a movie to make but no star. His ex-wife, studio chief Catherine Keener, is less than sympathetic. Then, somewhere out of the shadows, a dying genius appears with a CD containing a secret computer program. He begs the filmmaker to take it. What’s on the disc is nothing less than manna from heaven. Her name is Simone.
Saturday, May 19 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Directed by Gus Van Sant  
Rated R <imdb>
River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves are professional hustlers prowling the streets of Portland. Phoenix searches desperately for the mother who appears during his epileptic black outs while Reeves bides his time, waiting for a sizable inheritance from a father he seeks to annoy with his daily tricks. From Portland to Idaho to Italy, Van Sant, Phoenix and Reeves create an unrequited love story road movie like no other that countless indie directors have been trying to top since.
Saturday, May 26 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Lakewood Public Library
15425 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
(216) 226-8275

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