The Talbot Cinema Society wants to make new friends. There are three meetings still on the Society’s 2015-2016 calendar. Everyone is invited to see one of the following movies free of charge:
- One of the most unforgettable war movies, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), is slated for the Cinema Society’s Feb. 21 meeting. Adapted from German author Erich Maria Remarque’s seminal novel, Lewis Milestone’s film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through their eyes. The film is not about heroism, but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the real thing. This early talkie won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
- Three-time Academy Award winner Frank Capra won his final Oscar for the Cinema Society’s March 6 feature, You Can’t Take it With You (1938). Lionel Barrymore James Stewart, Edward Arnold and Jean Arthur star in this madcap comedy about a man from a family of wealthy snobs who becomes engaged to his stenographer, whose family is good-natured but decidedly eccentric. Hilarious culture clash ensues when the snobs drop in unexpectedly on the eccentrics. Academy Awards were won for Best Picture and Best Director.
- The 2015-2016 season finale, scheduled for April 3, reminds us that truth is stranger than fiction. The Counterfeiters is based on the true story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by the Germans during World War II. Karl Marcovics stars as Salomon “Sali” Sorowitsch, the king of the counterfeiters, who is forced to mastermind the production of millions of fake American dollars. The Counterfeiters won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2008.
The Talbot Cinema Society meets at Easton Premier Cinemas. Doors will open at 3:30 on Feb. 21 and March 6, and 4 p.m. on April 3. Free cookies and crackers will be served, and moviegoers will have access to the theater’s full-service concession stand, including the Encore Cinema Special: a small popcorn and a small soda for just $2.
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