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REAR WINDOW - Catamount Community Cinema
Thursday, May 17th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso" (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts" (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers. Of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging, invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife's incessant bray comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries' musings just might happen to be the truth. One of Alfred Hitchcock's very best efforts, Rear Window is a crackling suspense film that also ranks with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) as one of the movies' most trenchant dissections of voyeurism. As in most Hitchcock films, the protagonist is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.

Tin Can / Soul Keeper
Tuesday, May 22nd, 7:00 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: $7 - Public / $5 - Members
Website Link: http://www.tincanmovie.com
Catamount is proud to present this double bill of TIN CAN and SOUL KEEPER, two new films made here in Vermont.
TIN CAN - In the near future, three astronauts endeavor to complete a journey of unprecedented ambition. Though they may leave Earth behind, they will soon discover that the past is not as easy to escape. Three astronauts – PETER BENNETT (Stephen J. Maas), MARK RILEY (Eric Clifford) and ALAN KENNETH (Jayson Argento) – appear on Late Night Saturday with TIM KAVANAGH (Himself) to discuss their monumental journey. Aboard their spacecraft, they fall into a routine. Their clashing personalities begin to reveal themselves and things aboard the ship start to go very wrong. Bennett communicates with BEN WARNER (Sterling Hardy) of ground control, while visions of his former lover MARTY SCHROEDER (Logan Howe) creep into his quiet moments. While the fascinating science behind the ship and theories on terra-forming Mars are discussed, the focus of the story remains on the human element. What is it like to be in a confined space for an extremely long time? What if everything goes wrong? What if you have to remember someone , that you’ve loved and lost, who begged you not to go? SOUL KEEPER - Imprisoned by a mysterious and fanatical old man, Carl Congdon must repent for his sins and find faith if he is to save his life--or save his soul from eternal damnation. Carl Congdon has reached his breaking point. His increasingly religious wife Lucy donates more and more of his paycheck to the church even as she chastises him for his diminishing faith and a return to the bottle. Fed up after their most recent quarrel, Carl speeds away in his car with no intention of returning. His destination is Canada by way of the back roads of Vermont’s sparsely populated Northeast Kingdom. His companion on the road is a bottle of whiskey. But the descending darkness and drunkenness lead to Carl’s unfortunate car accident in the middle of nowhere, Vermont. Carl awakes to find himself in the hands of a mysterious and gun wielding old man who insists that our hero has died in the accident. The crazy old man claims to be a gatekeeper of sorts between the world of the living and the afterlife and offers Carl the chance to repent--to truly repent--to ascend to the more pleasant of afterlives. Locked for days in an upstairs room of the old man’s house, Carl must survive the crazy old man’s torturous ways and bide his time for the perfect chance to escape. A moment of forgetfulness on the old man’s part arrives soon enough, and Carl seizes the chance. What is first perceived as serendipity, however, soon reveals itself as a final test, a test which Carl horribly, irreversibly, fails. Soul Keeper is about faith and the afterlife. Does the soul move for its adjudged destination--be it Heaven or Hell--immediately after death or do we get some final chance to prove our worth? What happens when we fail to do so?

Tin Can / Soul Keeper
Wednesday, May 23rd, 7:00 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: $7 - Public / $5 - Members
Website Link: http://www.tincanmovie.com
Catamount is proud to present this double bill of TIN CAN and SOUL KEEPER, two new films made here in Vermont.
TIN CAN - In the near future, three astronauts endeavor to complete a journey of unprecedented ambition. Though they may leave Earth behind, they will soon discover that the past is not as easy to escape. Three astronauts – PETER BENNETT (Stephen J. Maas), MARK RILEY (Eric Clifford) and ALAN KENNETH (Jayson Argento) – appear on Late Night Saturday with TIM KAVANAGH (Himself) to discuss their monumental journey. Aboard their spacecraft, they fall into a routine. Their clashing personalities begin to reveal themselves and things aboard the ship start to go very wrong. Bennett communicates with BEN WARNER (Sterling Hardy) of ground control, while visions of his former lover MARTY SCHROEDER (Logan Howe) creep into his quiet moments. While the fascinating science behind the ship and theories on terra-forming Mars are discussed, the focus of the story remains on the human element. What is it like to be in a confined space for an extremely long time? What if everything goes wrong? What if you have to remember someone , that you’ve loved and lost, who begged you not to go? SOUL KEEPER - Imprisoned by a mysterious and fanatical old man, Carl Congdon must repent for his sins and find faith if he is to save his life--or save his soul from eternal damnation. Carl Congdon has reached his breaking point. His increasingly religious wife Lucy donates more and more of his paycheck to the church even as she chastises him for his diminishing faith and a return to the bottle. Fed up after their most recent quarrel, Carl speeds away in his car with no intention of returning. His destination is Canada by way of the back roads of Vermont’s sparsely populated Northeast Kingdom. His companion on the road is a bottle of whiskey. But the descending darkness and drunkenness lead to Carl’s unfortunate car accident in the middle of nowhere, Vermont. Carl awakes to find himself in the hands of a mysterious and gun wielding old man who insists that our hero has died in the accident. The crazy old man claims to be a gatekeeper of sorts between the world of the living and the afterlife and offers Carl the chance to repent--to truly repent--to ascend to the more pleasant of afterlives. Locked for days in an upstairs room of the old man’s house, Carl must survive the crazy old man’s torturous ways and bide his time for the perfect chance to escape. A moment of forgetfulness on the old man’s part arrives soon enough, and Carl seizes the chance. What is first perceived as serendipity, however, soon reveals itself as a final test, a test which Carl horribly, irreversibly, fails. Soul Keeper is about faith and the afterlife. Does the soul move for its adjudged destination--be it Heaven or Hell--immediately after death or do we get some final chance to prove our worth? What happens when we fail to do so?

STRONG! - Independent Lens
Thursday, May 24th, 7 pm
Theater One
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.itvs.com
Please join us for the Independent Lens presentation of STRONG! at 7:00 pm Thursday, May 24. Independent Lens is the showcase program for independent documentaries on Public Television. Each month Independent Lens: Community Cinema previews upcoming documentaries in selected communities in order to generate feedback and suggestions. Catamount Arts is proud to bring this rare opportunity to preview major independent films before they are shown nationally to our area. Each monthly screening will be followed by a panel discussion and the opportunity for the audience to contribute their points of view. And, what is more important, EACH SCREENING IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us for this exciting event each month.
Strong!: A formidable figure, standing at 5'8" and weighing over 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. STRONG! chronicles her journey and the challenges this unusual elite athlete faces, exploring popular notions of power, strength, beauty and health.

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Monday, May 28th, 7:00 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence, and while he visits his aunt at a nursing home every week, Evelyn is not permitted to come into the room because the old women doesn't like her. One week, while waiting out Ed's visit, Evelyn meets Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy), a frail but feisty old woman who lives at the same nursing home and loves to tell stories. Over the span of several weeks, she spins a whopper about one of her relatives, Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson). Back in the 1920s, Idgie was a sweet but fiercely independent woman with her own way of doing things who ran the town diner in Whistle Stop, Alabama. Idgie was very close to her brother Buddy (Chris O'Donnell), and when he died, she wouldn't talk to anyone except Buddy's girl, Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker). Idgie gave Ruth a job at the cafe after she left her abusive husband, Frank Bennett (Nick Searcy).
Between her habit of standing up for herself, standing up to Frank, and serving food to Black people out the back of the diner, Idgie raised the ire of the less tolerant citizens of Whistle Stop, and when Frank mysteriously disappeared, many locals suspected that Idgie, Ruth, and their friends may have been responsible. Evelyn finds herself looking forward to her weekly visits with Ninny, and is inspired by her story to take a new pride in herself and assert her independence from Ed. Fried Green Tomatoes was based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by actress-turned-author Fannie Flagg, who makes a cameo appearance as the leader of a self-help group.

PRECIOUS - Courageous Conversations
Monday, June 4th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding poverty which is the focus for June. This month’s live conversation on poverty will be held at 6 pm Thursday June 14 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
“Monster’s Ball” producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire's best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American teen from Harlem who discovers an alternate path in life after she begins attending a new school. Clareece "Precious" Jones is only a teenager, yet she's about to give birth to her second child. Unable to read or write, Clareece shows little prospect for the future until discovering that she has been accepted into an alternative school. There, with a little help from a sympathetic teacher (Paula Patton) and a kindly nurse (Lenny Kravitiz), the young girl receives something that most teens never get -- a chance to start over. Mo'nique co-stars in an inspirational drama featuring the debut performance of screen newcomer Gabourey "Gabbie" Sidibe.

CAMELOT - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, June 5th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Joshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero in the lead roles originally portrayed on Broadway by Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet. The musical, based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King, chronicles the legend of King Arthur (Richard Harris) and his tortured love affair with his queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave). Arthur first encounters Guenevere, on the day of their wedding, in the enchanted forest surrounding Camelot. After the wedding, Arthur's bliss at his marriage to the lovely Guenevere prompts him to establish the Knights of the Round Table, a lofty order of chivalry in which all the member knights are bound by a desire the help the oppressed, keeping faith with trust and honor. Such is the fame of the Knights of the Round Table that a young French knight, Lancelot Du Lac (Franco Nero), seeks to join the order. Lancelot quickly becomes the most celebrated of all the knights, and Guenevere, aloof at first, falls in love with him. Although both have a deep love for Arthur, their passion knows no bounds, and they begin an illicit love affair behind Arthur's back. Arthur ignores the rumors circling around him, but when his illegitimate son, Mordred (David Hemmings) arrives at Camelot, he exposes Lancelot and Guenevere during a tryst. Lancelot escapes, but Guenevere is sentenced to be burned at the stake. Lancelot rescues her at the last minute, and Arthur prepares for battle, his dreams of an idealistic Camelot shattered.

WINTER'S BONE - Courageous Conversations
Monday, June 11th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding poverty which is the focus for June. This month’s live conversation on poverty will be held at 6 pm Thursday June 14 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Her family home in danger of being repossessed after her meth-cooking dad skips bail and disappears, Ozark teen Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) breaks the local code of conduct by confronting her kin about their conspiracy of silence. Should she fail to track her father down, Ree Dolly, her younger siblings, and their disabled mother will soon be rendered homeless.

Courageous Conversation - Poverty
Thursday, June 14th, 6 pm
Cabaret Room
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Every month, as part of its on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS, Catamount will host a live conversation concerning a topic of national and local interest. These live conversations will include a panel discussion and interaction with the audience. These live conversations will generally be held at 6 pm on the second Thursday of each month in the Cabaret at Catamount Arts. These forums are free and open to the public. Catamount Arts cordially invites you to join us each month for a COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION.
The topic of Catamount's live COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION for June is poverty. The panel leading the conversation will include Melissa Bourque, of the Vermont Worker's Center, Greg MacDonald, the field director for the Agency on Human Services, Joe Patrissi, the executive director of NEKCA, Pru Pease, representing Bridges Out of Poverty, Wilhemina Picard, of the Corrections High School, and local resident Margaret Drew. Steve Gold, the interim president of Lyndon State College and former Commissionere of Corrections for Vermont, will moderate the panel. While the members of this panel will lead the discussion, members of the audience are invited and encouraged to join in this vital conversation. Representatives for other local and area organizations will also be preent to participate in the discussion.

AMERICAN VIOLET - Courageous Conversations
Monday, June 18th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding poverty which is the focus for June. This month’s live conversation on poverty will be held at 6 pm Thursday June 14 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton and Xzibit headline this fact-based drama about an innocent Texas mother caught up in a high-profile drug raid, and unjustly accused due to the uncorroborated testimony of a single informant. Dee Roberts (Beharie) is a young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma (Alfre Woodard), and rejects the plea-bargain that would free her from jail, but brand her as a felon for life. As word begins to spread that similar incidents are occurring in poor communities all across the country, Dee realizes that there are more mothers out there like her, and decides to take a stand against powerful district attorney Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe). Now, despite being well aware of District Attorney Beckett's fierce reputation, Dee enlists the aid of ACLU attorney David Cohen (Nelson) and former narcotics officer Sam Conroy (Patton) in overcoming the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that, if not navigated with the greatest of caution, now threaten to destroy her life. With the custody of her children on the line, one brave mother wages a valiant battle to strike at the very heart of the corrupt Texas justice system.

ROMAN HOLIDAY - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, June 19th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is mummified by "affairs of state." On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who, recognizing a hot news story, pretends that he doesn't recognize her and offers to give her a guided tour of Rome. Naturally, Joe hopes to get an exclusive interview, while his photographer pal Irving (Eddie Albert) attempts to sneak a photo. And just as naturally, Joe falls in love with her. Filmed on location in Rome, Roman Holiday garnered an Academy Award for the 24-year-old Hepburn; another Oscar went to the screenplay, credited to Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton but actually co-written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. The 1987 TV movie remake with Catherine Oxenberg is best forgotten.

Pipsqueak Jamboree - A Whirled Class Funiesta
Saturday, June 23rd, 2:00pm
Haskell Opera House, 93 Caswell Avenue, Derby Line, Vermont / 1 Church Street, Stanstead, QC
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.haskellopera.com
Join Pipsqueak the Clown and Friends for an afternoon of music, storytelling, and fun, fun, fun for the youngster or the young at heart! Underwritten by QNEK Productions, The International Theatre Company in Residence at the Haskell Opera House
The Haskell Opera House is located at 93 Caswell Avenue, Derby Line, VT.

FROZEN RIVER - Courageous Conversations
Monday, June 25th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding poverty which is the focus for June. This month’s live conversation on poverty will be held at 6 pm Thursday June 14 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Ray Eddy is in an impossible position; it's two days before Christmas and her husband has suddenly disappeared with all of the family savings. Now, as the newly single mother of two realizes the futility of attempting to cover the house payments on her meager Yankee One Dollar Store wages, her children are forced to exist on a nutritionally devoid diet of popcorn and Tang. Deciding that her only hope for survival is to find a man who will support her and her children, Ray sets out to find a husband but instead makes the acquaintance of street-smart Mohawk Lila Littlewolf. Lila, too, has been struggling to keep her head above water amidst economic despair, and has recently stumbled across a rather unconventional solution to her dire financial situation. Lately, Lila has been earning a living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., but her tribal elders vehemently disapprove of the scheme and have recently attempted to stop it by forbidding the local auto dealers from selling her a car. As fate would have it, Ray's Dodge Spirit may just be the only thing the destitute mother can count on anymore, and as this unlikely pair gas up the tank for a daring dash across the iced-over St. Lawrence River, their fates become forever intertwined in ways that neither could have ever anticipated.

AWAY FROM HER - Courageous Conversations
Monday, July 2nd, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding mental health which is the focus for July. This month’s live conversation on mental health will be held at 6 pm Thursday July 12 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan -- a longtime onscreen collaborator with the gifted young actress Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) -- executive-produced Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, and Wendy Crewson. Adapted by Polley from a short story by Alice Munro, this small-scaled two-character drama concerns Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Christie), a long-married couple, well into their golden years, who are much in love and connected to one another on every level. "Soul mates" in the purest sense of the term, the two feel a sense of ease and tranquility in their rural home. But when Fiona's memory begins to slip away and she insists on being taken to a rest home, the decision stirs up torrents of guilt and regret in Grant's heart. The rules of the center only complicate matters, as they forbid visitation and communication with Fiona for an interminable period of time. He determines to support his wife at all costs, even if must happen at the expense of his own peace of mind.

CABARET - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, July 3rd, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of German society sliding toward the Nazis, and this intertwining of entertainment with social history marked a new step forward for the movie musical. Michael York plays a British writer who comes to Berlin in the early 1930s in hopes of becoming a teacher. He makes the acquaintance of flamboyant American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli. Sally works at the Kit Kat Klub, a George Grosz-like Berlin cabaret where each night the smirking, androgynous Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) introduces a jazz-driven "girlie show" to his debauched audience. Virtually all the film's musical numbers are staged within the confines of the Kit Kat Klub, and each song comments on the plot and on Germany's "progression" from hedonism to Hitlerism. Most of the Broadway score by John Kander and Fred Ebb was retained, with the welcome addition of "The Money Song." Although it lost Best Picture to The Godfather, Cabaret won eight Oscars, including awards to Minnelli, Grey, and Fosse. A heavily expurgated 88-minute version of Cabaret has been prepared for commercial TV presentations, regarded by many as dramatically inferior to the full cut.

GIRL, INTERRUPTED - Courageous Conversations
Monday, July 9th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding mental health which is the focus for July. This month’s live conversation on mental health will be held at 6 pm Thursday July 12 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and the bizarre world of the institution. Susanna bonds with several other patients, including Lisa (Angelina Jolie), Polly (Elizabeth Moss), and Georgina (Clea DuVall). As she realizes that Lisa is potentially dangerous and truly needs help, Susanna begins to work harder with her psychiatrist (Vanessa Redgrave) and the nurse on the ward (Whoopi Goldberg). But Susanna soon learns that getting out of the hospital is not as easy as getting in. Girl, Interrupted was based on the autobiography of Susanna Kaysen, who really did spend a year-and-a-half in the McLean Psychiatric Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL - Courageous Conversations
Monday, July 16th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding mental health which is the focus for July. This month’s live conversation on mental health will be held at 6 pm Thursday July 12 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Lars (Ryan Gosling) and Gus (Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a father who died recently and a mother who died giving birth to Lars. But as brothers, they couldn't be more different. While Gus lives in the family home and has a loving wife (Emily Mortimer) and a child on the way, Lars leads a more reclusive existence in the family's garage, hiding in plain sight of his small, wintry hometown. Painfully shy and eccentric, Lars fails to recognize that his co-worker Margo (Kelli Garner) has a major crush on him, and he picks up on a casual reference made by his cubicle mate, who mentions a website where you can order life-sized, anatomically correct sex dolls. But instead of seeing a sex object, Lars sees in this doll a potential life partner and the only kind of social "peer" he can relate to. So Lars orders a doll, whom he names Bianca, and begins treating her with utmost gentlemanly respect -- and as though she's his real-life, flesh-and-blood girlfriend. As he begins bringing Bianca with him everywhere he goes, the townspeople have to find just the right balance between supporting Lars' unusual romance and trying to introduce him to a more conventional partner. Lars and the Real Girl was written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver and directed by Mr. Woodcock's Craig Gillespie.

CHINATOWN - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, July 17th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940s film noir detective movies. In 1930s Los Angeles, "matrimonial work" specialist Gittes is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to tail her husband, Water Department engineer Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling). Gittes photographs him in the company of a young blonde and figures the case is closed, only to discover that the real Mrs. Mulwray had nothing to do with hiring Gittes in the first place. When Hollis turns up dead, Gittes decides to investigate further, encountering a shady old-age home, corrupt bureaucrats, angry orange farmers, and a nostril-slicing thug (Polanski) along the way. By the time he confronts Cross, Evelyn's father and Mulwray's former business partner, Jake thinks he knows everything, but an even more sordid truth awaits him. When circumstances force Jake to return to his old beat in Chinatown, he realizes just how impotent he is against the wealthy, depraved Cross. "Forget it, Jake," his old partner tells him. "It's Chinatown." Reworking the somber underpinnings of detective noir along more pessimistic lines, Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne convey a '70s-inflected critique of capitalist and bureaucratic malevolence in a carefully detailed period piece harkening back to the genre's roots in the 1930s and '40s. Gittes always has a smart comeback like Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, but the corruption Gittes finds is too deep for one man to stop. Other noir revisions, such as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) and Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), also centered on the detective's inefficacy in an uncertain '70s world, but Chinatown's period sheen renders this dilemma at once contemporary and timeless, pointing to larger implications about the effects of corporate rapaciousness on individuals. Polanski and Towne clashed over Chinatown's ending; Polanski won the fight, but Towne won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Chinatown was nominated for ten other Oscars, including Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes, and Score.

ORDINARY PEOPLE - Courageous Conversations
Monday, July 23rd, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding mental health which is the focus for July. This month’s live conversation on mental health will be held at 6 pm Thursday July 12 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Robert Redford’s directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Michigan. Despite intensive therapy sessions with his psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch), Conrad can't shake the belief that he should have died instead of his brother; nor do his preoccupied parents (Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore) offer much in the way of solace. The boy is brought out of his doldrums through his romance with Jeannine (Elizabeth McGovern). A winner in every respect, Ordinary People (adapted from the novel by Judith Guest) scores highest in the scenes with Mary Tyler Moore, who superbly and perceptively portrays a blinkered, ever-smiling suburban wife and mother for whom outward appearance is all that matters.

Stanstead Project - Or How To Cross The Border, Part 2
Saturday, July 28th, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Haskell Opera House, 93 Caswell Avenue, Derby Line, Vermont / 1 Church Street, Stanstead, QC
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
Website Link: http://www.haskellopera.com
Please join artist Althea Thauberger for this all-day event as the Haskell Opera House celebrates its unique location in two countries.
The Haskell Opera House pays tribute to Derby Line's sister city of Stanstead, Quebec, with this free happening. Bring the family! No tickets needed.

AS GOOD AS IT GETS - Courageous Conversations
Monday, July 30th, 7 pm
Theater Two
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding mental health which is the focus for July. This month’s live conversation on mental health will be held at 6 pm Thursday July 12 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News) directed this $50 million-plus romantic comedy, set in Manhattan. Dysfunctional, acid-tongued romance novelist Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes pride in his ability to offend. At a nearby cafe, the only waitress willing to stand up to his sarcastic tirades is Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), a single mother struggling to raise her chronically asthmatic son. In Melvin's West Village apartment building, talented contemporary artist Simon Nye (Greg Kinnear) lives across the hall from Melvin. Simon is the current darling of the New York art world, reason enough to draw Melvin's verbal fire, but Simon's gay lifestyle is further grist for the novelist's malicious mill. These three New Yorkers, none of whom appears to have a chance in hell at finding true happiness, discover their fates intertwined because of the fourth complicated character in the piece, Verdell, a tiny Brussels Griffon dog (played by newcomer Jill, after a 15-week training program). Melvin seems to have no friends or family, and he lives alone, working on his 62nd book. When Simon goes into the hospital after a brutal mugging, Melvin has to take care of Verdell, and the dog actually warms Melvin's cold heart -- to the degree that he sets up unsolicited medical care for Carol's son. Eventually, Melvin is cornered into driving Simon and Carol to Baltimore, and during a hotel stopover, Melvin confesses to Carol, "You make me want to be a better man." The trip becomes an odyssey of self-realization for all three. Locations included Brooklyn's Prospect Park (Carol's neighborhood) and Greenwich Village (where Melvin's building is on 12th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues). Other exteriors were shot in downtown Los Angeles, where a dilapidated transient hotel at the corner of 4th Street and Main was transformed into the chic cafe where Carol works. Sets for the Simon/Melvin apartment interiors were erected on a soundstage at the Sony Pictures lot. Simon's paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan, whose work is part of the modern art collection at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

TEMPLE GRANDIN - Courageous Conversations
Monday, August 6th, 7 pm
Theater Two
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding disabilities which is the focus for August. This month’s live conversation on disabilities will be held at 6 pm Thursday August 9 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Director Mick Jackson teams with screenwriters Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson to tell the story of autistic icon Temple Grandin, a woman who refused to let her disorder limit her true potential. Adapted from Grandin's own writings, the film allows the audience to experience the world much like she does while recounting her colorful life and remarkable achievements from childhood to adulthood.

CHICAGO - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, August 7th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. In the mid-'20s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus dancer married to a well-meaning dunderhead named Amos (John C. Reilly). Roxie is having an affair on the side with Fred Casley (Dominic West), a smooth talker who insists he can make her a star. However, Fred strings Roxie along a bit too far for his own good, and when she realizes that his promises are empty, she becomes enraged and murders Fred in cold blood. Roxie soon finds herself behind bars alongside Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sexy vaudeville star who used to perform with her sister until Velma discovered that her sister had been sleeping with her husband. Velma shot them both dead, and, after scheming prison matron "Mama" Morton hooks Velma up with hotshot lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), Velma becomes the new Queen of the scandal sheets. Roxie is just shrewd enough to realize that her poor fortune could also bring her fame, so she convinces Amos to also hire Flynn. Soon Flynn is splashing Roxie's story -- or, more accurately, a highly melodramatic revision of Roxie's story -- all over the gutter press, and Roxy and Velma are soon battling neck-to-neck over who can win greater fame through the headlines. A project that had been moving from studio to studio since the musical opened on Broadway in 1973, Chicago also features guest appearances by Lucy Liu and Christine Baranski.

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY - Courageous Conversations
Monday, August 13th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding disabilities which is the focus for August. This month’s live conversation on disabilities will be held at 6 pm Thursday August 9 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Scaphandre et la Papillon), then in Jean-Jacques Beineix's half-hour 1997 documentary of Bauby at work, released under the same title, and, ten years after that, in this Cannes-selected docudrama, helmed by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) and adapted from the memoir by Ronald Harwood (Cromwell). The Schnabel/Harwood picture follows Bauby's story to the letter -- his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of "diving bell" for Bauby -- one with no means of escape. With the editor's mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the "butterfly" of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby's physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world: ocular activity. By moving his eyes and blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but -- astonishingly -- authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet. In Schnabel's picture, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby; the film co-stars Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, and Patrick Chesnais.

DOOR TO DOOR - Courageous Conversations
Monday, August 20th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding disabilities which is the focus for August. This month’s live conversation on disabilities will be held at 6 pm Thursday August 9 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Bill Porter is a cripple, handicapped since birth. His rather wealthy ma drives him around to indulge his ambition to become a door to door salesman. After endless refusals at sight, he is granted a test period on Watkins's worst round, and somehow survives, probably due to his good-mannered helpfulness as much as tireless persistence, becoming a trusted household adviser for lonely people. During his ma's senility ending in death, a Mormon couple helps Bill out, but his pride gets in the way of accepting, leading to a battle of charity.

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, August 21st, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who appears on-camera, typecast as a symphony conductor). Though the locale of the opening scenes shifts from Switzerland to French Morocco in the newer version, the basic plot remains the same. American tourists James Stewart and Doris Day are witness to the street killing of a Frenchman (Daniel Gelin) they've recently befriended. Before breathing his last, the murder victim whispers a secret to Stewart (the Cinemascope lens turns this standard closeup into a truly grotesque vignette). Stewart knows that a political assassination will occur during a concert at London's Albert Hall, but is unable to tell the police: his son (a daughter in the original) has been kidnapped by foreign agents to insure Stewart's silence. The original script for Man Who Knew too Much was expanded and updated by John Michael Hayes and Angus McPhail.

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH - Catamount Community Cinema
Wednesday, August 22nd, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who appears on-camera, typecast as a symphony conductor). Though the locale of the opening scenes shifts from Switzerland to French Morocco in the newer version, the basic plot remains the same. American tourists James Stewart and Doris Day are witness to the street killing of a Frenchman (Daniel Gelin) they've recently befriended. Before breathing his last, the murder victim whispers a secret to Stewart (the Cinemascope lens turns this standard closeup into a truly grotesque vignette). Stewart knows that a political assassination will occur during a concert at London's Albert Hall, but is unable to tell the police: his son (a daughter in the original) has been kidnapped by foreign agents to insure Stewart's silence. The original script for Man Who Knew too Much was expanded and updated by John Michael Hayes and Angus McPhail.

CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD - Courageous Conversations
Monday, August 27th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Catamount’s on-going series of COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS takes on some of the most important social questions facing our national and local society today. This week’s film focuses on the conversation surrounding disabilities which is the focus for August. This month’s live conversation on disabilities will be held at 6 pm Thursday August 9 in the Cabaret Room. The conversations are free of charge and the public is cordially invited to attend.
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her feelings change over time

FUNNY GIRL - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, September 4th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
"Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny Brice. This is also her first line in the film itself, the catalyst for a movie-long flashback. Repeating her Broadway role, Streisand stars as legendary comedienne Brice (1891-1951), whose life until the mid-1920s is romanticized herein. A gawky New Yawker, Brice fast-talks her way into show business, certain that she's destined to be "The Greatest Star." Hired as a "dramatic" singer by impresario Flo Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon), Brice defies orders to play it straight, turning a "Beautiful Bride" tableau into a laugh riot by dressing herself up as an extremely pregnant newlywed. The stratagem turns Brice into an overnight star and the toast of Broadway. But all is not roses for Brice, especially in her turbulent private life as the wife of big-time gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif). Nicky at first finds it amusing to be referred to as "Mr. Brice," but he begins to resent his wife's fame and fortune and starts taking foolish risks with other people's money. The film was nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture and Kay Medford for her portrayal of Brice's mother, Rose. Funny Girl was produced by Ray Stark, Brice's real-life son-in-law, who had enough material left over for a sequel, 1975's Funny Lady.

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, September 18th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married psychology-professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), who, with murderous results, meets and falls in love with another woman. Wanley first sees the portrait of a beautiful woman, Alice (Joan Bennett), and then meets the woman herself. After committing murder in self-defense, he finds himself blackmailed by Heidt (Dan Duryea). The script, written by Nunnally Johnson, is carefully structured with crisp dialogue and a convincing ending. Lang is at his best, getting excellent performances from Robinson, as the doomed, naive professor, and Bennett both. The Woman in the Window shows that good and evil are present in all, and that circumstances frequently dictate moral choices. Based on J.H. Wallis' novel Once Off Guard, the film gives viewers their money's worth with not one but two logical and satisfying surprise twists at the end.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Tuesday, October 2nd, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Director Richard Lester uses the Burt Shevelove/Larry Gelbart/Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical hit as a launching pad for some of his wildest slapstick gaggery. Zero Mostel repeats his stage role as Pseudolus, the cunning Roman slave who'll do anything to win his freedom. The plot hinges on three Roman houses next door to each another. One is the home of Pseudolus' masters: the philandering Senex (Michael Hordern), his domineering wife, Domina (Patricia Jessell), and their handsome but empty-headed son, Hero (Michael Crawford). The second house is a brothel belonging to unctuous procurer Lycus (Phil Silvers). The third house has long been empty, in that its owner, the senile Erronius (Buster Keaton), has gone on a long journey to find his children, who were kidnapped in infancy by pirates. Other principals include Pseudolus' fellow slave, the aptly named Hysterium (Jack Gilford); vain warrior Miles Gloriosus (Leon Greene), who marches triumphantly into Rome declaring "I am a parade!"; and the virginal Philia (Annette Andre), a resident of Lycus' "domicile" who is loved by Hero but who has been promised in marriage to Miles Gloriosus. There are also acrobats, transvestites, a phony funeral, and an outsized climactic chase.

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, October 16th, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best film. Immediately after the credits roll, we are introduced to Groucho Marx as penny-ante promoter Otis B. Driftwood. After a sumptuous dinner with a beautiful blonde at a fancy Milan restaurant, Driftwood tries to cadge another free meal from his wealthy patroness, Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont). The dignified dowager complains that Driftwood had promised to get her into high society, but has done nothing so far. Otis B. counters by introducing Mrs. C to pompous opera entrepreneur Gottleib (Sig Rumann); all Mrs. Claypool has to do is invest several hundred thousand dollars in Gottleib's opera company, and her entree into society is in the bag. Contingent upon this plan is Driftwood's signing of Rodolfo Lassparri (Walter Woolf King), a self-important tenor. Backstage at the opera, Driftwood meets Fiorello (Chico Marx), who poses as a manager and offers to sell Driftwood the "world's greatest tenor"-not Lassparri, as Driftwood assumes, but Fiorello's pal Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones). Instantly the two sharpsters try to draw up a contract ("The party of the first part shall hereafter be known as the party of the first part..."), which they proceed to tear up piece by piece whenever coming across a clause that displeases them (Driftwood: "That's a sanity clause"; Fiorello: "You no foola me. There ain't no Sanity Claus"). Having lost Lassparri to Gottleib, Driftwood sails back to America with Mrs. Claypool and the opera company. Gottleib arranges for Driftwood to get the tiniest, least accessible stateroom on the ship. Unpacking his trunk, Driftwood discovers that he's got to share his postage-stamp quarters with Ricardo Baroni, who has stowed away because he's in love with the opera troupe's leading lady Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Also hiding out in Driftwood's trunk is Fiorello, who's come along because he's still Ricardo's manager, and the wacky Tomasso (Harpo Marx), Lassparri's former dresser, who has come along for the hell of it. Anxious to arrange a tete-a-tete with Mrs. Claypool in his stateroom, Otis finds out that his unwelcome guests won't leave until they're fed ("Do you have any stewed prunes? Well, give them some black coffee, that'll sober 'em up"). After ordering a huge dinner, Otis and his new friends are crowded even farther by a steady stream of intruders, including an engineer and his assistant, a cleaning lady, a manicurist, a girl looking for her Aunt Minnie, and a dozen waiters. The celebrated "stateroom scene" comes to a rollicking conclusion when Mrs. Claypool has the misfortune of opening the door. On the last night of the voyage, Fiorello, Tomasso and Ricardo sneak out of their stateroom to enjoy an impromptu ethnic festival in steerage. Ricardo sings, Fiorello "shoots the keys" on the piano, and Tomasso plays the film's theme song Alone on the harp. The stowaways are caught and thrown in the brig, but with Driftwood's help they escape. To avoid recapture, the stowaways don heavy beards and pose as three famed Russian aviators. After making a shambles of a public reception, the three reprobates hide out in Driftwood's New York apartment, where everyone conspires to drive an investigating detective (Robert Emmet O'Connor) crazy. Driftwood is fired from the opera company for associating with the stowaways, while Rosa is dismissed for refusing Lassparri's affections. In order to restore Rosa's job and put the deserving Ricardo in Lassparri's place during the opening performance of La Traviata, Driftwood, Fiorello and Tomasso concoct a scheme that will reduce the opera to comic chaos. The actual night at the opera in A Night at the Opera must be seen to be believed, but the spirit of the scene can be summed up by Gottleib's anguished cry "A battleship in Il Trovatore!" Opera was the Marx Brothers' first film for MGM, and they dearly coveted a hit after the disappointing box-office showing of their final Paramount films. With the blessing of MGM production chief Irving Thalberg, the Marxes went on the road with their brilliant writing staff (including George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Al Boasberg) to test their comedy material before live audiences. As a result of this careful preplanning, Night at the Opera was a smash-hit gigglefest, grossing over $3 million and putting the Marxes back on top in the hearts and minds of filmgoers everywhere.

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA - Catamount Community Cinema
Wednesday, October 17th, 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best film. Immediately after the credits roll, we are introduced to Groucho Marx as penny-ante promoter Otis B. Driftwood. After a sumptuous dinner with a beautiful blonde at a fancy Milan restaurant, Driftwood tries to cadge another free meal from his wealthy patroness, Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont). The dignified dowager complains that Driftwood had promised to get her into high society, but has done nothing so far. Otis B. counters by introducing Mrs. C to pompous opera entrepreneur Gottleib (Sig Rumann); all Mrs. Claypool has to do is invest several hundred thousand dollars in Gottleib's opera company, and her entree into society is in the bag. Contingent upon this plan is Driftwood's signing of Rodolfo Lassparri (Walter Woolf King), a self-important tenor. Backstage at the opera, Driftwood meets Fiorello (Chico Marx), who poses as a manager and offers to sell Driftwood the "world's greatest tenor"-not Lassparri, as Driftwood assumes, but Fiorello's pal Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones). Instantly the two sharpsters try to draw up a contract ("The party of the first part shall hereafter be known as the party of the first part..."), which they proceed to tear up piece by piece whenever coming across a clause that displeases them (Driftwood: "That's a sanity clause"; Fiorello: "You no foola me. There ain't no Sanity Claus"). Having lost Lassparri to Gottleib, Driftwood sails back to America with Mrs. Claypool and the opera company. Gottleib arranges for Driftwood to get the tiniest, least accessible stateroom on the ship. Unpacking his trunk, Driftwood discovers that he's got to share his postage-stamp quarters with Ricardo Baroni, who has stowed away because he's in love with the opera troupe's leading lady Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Also hiding out in Driftwood's trunk is Fiorello, who's come along because he's still Ricardo's manager, and the wacky Tomasso (Harpo Marx), Lassparri's former dresser, who has come along for the hell of it. Anxious to arrange a tete-a-tete with Mrs. Claypool in his stateroom, Otis finds out that his unwelcome guests won't leave until they're fed ("Do you have any stewed prunes? Well, give them some black coffee, that'll sober 'em up"). After ordering a huge dinner, Otis and his new friends are crowded even farther by a steady stream of intruders, including an engineer and his assistant, a cleaning lady, a manicurist, a girl looking for her Aunt Minnie, and a dozen waiters. The celebrated "stateroom scene" comes to a rollicking conclusion when Mrs. Claypool has the misfortune of opening the door. On the last night of the voyage, Fiorello, Tomasso and Ricardo sneak out of their stateroom to enjoy an impromptu ethnic festival in steerage. Ricardo sings, Fiorello "shoots the keys" on the piano, and Tomasso plays the film's theme song Alone on the harp. The stowaways are caught and thrown in the brig, but with Driftwood's help they escape. To avoid recapture, the stowaways don heavy beards and pose as three famed Russian aviators. After making a shambles of a public reception, the three reprobates hide out in Driftwood's New York apartment, where everyone conspires to drive an investigating detective (Robert Emmet O'Connor) crazy. Driftwood is fired from the opera company for associating with the stowaways, while Rosa is dismissed for refusing Lassparri's affections. In order to restore Rosa's job and put the deserving Ricardo in Lassparri's place during the opening performance of La Traviata, Driftwood, Fiorello and Tomasso concoct a scheme that will reduce the opera to comic chaos. The actual night at the opera in A Night at the Opera must be seen to be believed, but the spirit of the scene can be summed up by Gottleib's anguished cry "A battleship in Il Trovatore!" Opera was the Marx Brothers' first film for MGM, and they dearly coveted a hit after the disappointing box-office showing of their final Paramount films. With the blessing of MGM production chief Irving Thalberg, the Marxes went on the road with their brilliant writing staff (including George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Al Boasberg) to test their comedy material before live audiences. As a result of this careful preplanning, Night at the Opera was a smash-hit gigglefest, grossing over $3 million and putting the Marxes back on top in the hearts and minds of filmgoers everywhere.

BRIGADOON - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, November 6th, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who stumbles upon an enchanted Scottish village. Every 100 years, the people of Brigadoon awaken for a 24-hour period, then go back to sleep for another century while Brigadoon itself vanishes in the mists. Tommy Albright (Kelly) falls in love with village lass Fiona Campbell (Cyd Charisse) while his hard-drinking pal, Jeff Douglas (Van Johnson), dismisses the legend -- and indeed the existence of Brigadoon as a result of delirium. Fiona's betrothed Harry Beaton (Hugh Laing), upset by Kelly's intervention, threatens to leave Brigadoon -- an act that will spell doom for its residents. When this crisis has passed, Tommy is persuaded against his better judgment to escape Brigadoon himself and return to his own fiancée (Elaine Stewart) in New York. But the love between Tommy and Fiona results in a miraculous finale. Most of the Lerner-Loewe score remains intact, including the hit songs "Almost Like Being in Love," "Heather on the Hill," and "Come to Me Bend to Me."

BRIGADOON - Catamount Community Cinema
Wednesday, November 7th, 7 pm
Theater Two
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who stumbles upon an enchanted Scottish village. Every 100 years, the people of Brigadoon awaken for a 24-hour period, then go back to sleep for another century while Brigadoon itself vanishes in the mists. Tommy Albright (Kelly) falls in love with village lass Fiona Campbell (Cyd Charisse) while his hard-drinking pal, Jeff Douglas (Van Johnson), dismisses the legend -- and indeed the existence of Brigadoon as a result of delirium. Fiona's betrothed Harry Beaton (Hugh Laing), upset by Kelly's intervention, threatens to leave Brigadoon -- an act that will spell doom for its residents. When this crisis has passed, Tommy is persuaded against his better judgment to escape Brigadoon himself and return to his own fiancée (Elaine Stewart) in New York. But the love between Tommy and Fiona results in a miraculous finale. Most of the Lerner-Loewe score remains intact, including the hit songs "Almost Like Being in Love," "Heather on the Hill," and "Come to Me Bend to Me."

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, November 20th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's witty play of mistaken identities stars Michael Redgrave as rich bachelor Jack Worthing. Jack's friend is Algernon Moncrieft (Michael Denison), a poor bloke living on credit. Jack refers mysteriously to Algernon about his country retreat, which drives Algernon to distraction, trying to figure out where Jack goes on the weekends. Jack is also in love with Algernon's attractive cousin Gwendolen (Joan Greenwood). He also has a ward, Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin), who lives at the country estate and studies with local spinster Miss Prism (Margaret Rutherford). When Algernon learns of Cecily, he arrives at the country home claiming to be Jack's brother Earnest, knowing Jack had previously regaled Cecily with tales of having to bail the fictitious Earnest out of scrapes so he could sneak out to the city. Having set her eyes on "Earnest" in the flesh after having heard countless tales of his intrigues, Cecily immediately falls in love with Earnest. Meanwhile, Jack comes back to the country dressed in black, determined to announce to the group the demise of the fictional Earnest. As a result, Jack is stupefied when he sees Earnest standing in front of him. Meanwhile, Algernon's aunt, Lady Bracknell (Edith Evans) refuses to grant permission for Jack and Gwendolen's engagement. However, when Lady Bracknell finds out that Algernon is in love with Cecily, she asks Jack for his blessing on their marriage. Of course, Jack won't give his blessing until Lady Bracknell gives her blessing to his proposed marriage to Gwendolen. All is at a standstill until Lady Bracknell recognizes Miss Prism as a governess from the past who holds secrets concerning both Jack and Algernon.

HOLIDAY INN - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, December 4th, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Theater Two
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby decides to retire from the hustle-bustle of big city showbiz. He purchases a rustic New England farm and converts it to an inn, which he opens to the public (floor show and all) only on holidays. This barely logical plot device allows ample space for a steady flow of Irving Berlin holiday songs (including an incredible blackface number in honor of Lincoln's Birthday). Oddly enough, the most memorable song in the bunch, the Oscar-winning White Christmas, is not offered as a production number but as a simple ballad sung by Crosby to an audience of one: leading lady Marjorie Reynolds. Fred Astaire's best moment is his Fourth of July firecracker dance. Ah, but what about the plot? Well, it seems that Astaire wants to make a film about Crosby's inn, starring their mutual discovery Reynolds. Bing briefly loses Reynolds to Astaire, but wins her back during the filming of a musical number on a Hollywood soundstage (eleven years earlier, Bing enjoyed a final clinch with Marion Davies under surprisingly similar conditions in Going Hollywood). As with most of Irving Berlin's "portfolio" musicals of the 1940s, the song highlights of Holiday Inn are too numerous to mention. This delightful film is far superior to its unofficial 1954 remake, White Christmas.

WHITE CHRISTMAS - Catamount Community Cinema
Tuesday, December 18th, 1:30 pm
Theater Two
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which "What Can You Do With a General?" is the least memorable. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (replacing an ailing Donald O'Connor) play nightclub entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, while Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen are cast as singing-sister act Betty and Judy. The foursome travel to Vermont to visit Bob and Phil's WII commanding officer, General Waverly (Dean Jagger, who looks and sounds like Dwight D. Eisenhower!), who now runs a rustic old inn. Discovering that the general is in dire financial straits, the four entertainers secretly make plans to bail the old guy out with a big musical show, enlisting the aid of Bob and Phil's army buddies. Corny in the extreme, White Christmas evidently struck a responsive note with film fans; it was the high-grossing picture of 1954, and a decade later proved to be a ratings bonanza when it was given its network-TV premiere. Of the four stars, Crosby comes off best, especially when singing the title song at the beginning and end of the film; Kaye is a bit overshadowed this time out, though he's quite funny camping it up in a "drag" version of Irving Berlin's "Sisters." Still a big favorite on the home-video circuit, White Christmas may not be the best Bing Crosby musical on the market, but it's certainly one of the most heartwarming.

WHITE CHRISTMAS - Catamount Community Cinema
Wednesday, December 19th, 7 pm
Theater Two
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Enjoy one of the great films from the past at Catamount’s Community Film Series which brings the best of Hollywood’s past back to the big screen. Catamount’s Community Film Series is made possible through the generosity of the Community National Bank and is also a partnership with several other local organizations, including the Good Living Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging and RCT – Rural Community Transportation. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Free transportation to the screenings may also be available from RCT – please contact Jerry at Catamount for more details.
White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which "What Can You Do With a General?" is the least memorable. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (replacing an ailing Donald O'Connor) play nightclub entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, while Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen are cast as singing-sister act Betty and Judy. The foursome travel to Vermont to visit Bob and Phil's WII commanding officer, General Waverly (Dean Jagger, who looks and sounds like Dwight D. Eisenhower!), who now runs a rustic old inn. Discovering that the general is in dire financial straits, the four entertainers secretly make plans to bail the old guy out with a big musical show, enlisting the aid of Bob and Phil's army buddies. Corny in the extreme, White Christmas evidently struck a responsive note with film fans; it was the high-grossing picture of 1954, and a decade later proved to be a ratings bonanza when it was given its network-TV premiere. Of the four stars, Crosby comes off best, especially when singing the title song at the beginning and end of the film; Kaye is a bit overshadowed this time out, though he's quite funny camping it up in a "drag" version of Irving Berlin's "Sisters." Still a big favorite on the home-video circuit, White Christmas may not be the best Bing Crosby musical on the market, but it's certainly one of the most heartwarming.

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