Posted by: Julie Chautin on: February 26, 2012
His name is Blu and you’d be too, if your species were dwindling away. This Thursday the Murphy Library is showing the family-friendly animated comedy, Rio, about a sweet blue parrot in Minnesota who is needed in Rio de Janeiro to save his species from dying out. In English with a few Portuguese words for [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: February 20, 2012
The place is a small hotel in a South American country. The guests are six American women waiting for the paperwork to adopt a baby. They all have stories to tell, as do the local women who give up the children. Human feelings and hope of the soon-to-be mothers fill the screen and a few [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: February 12, 2012
Hana is an actress in Prague who finds her film career taking off. Meanwhile her husband Emil stays in the background. But it is 1938 and soon the Nazis march into Czechoslovakia. There is one more item of importance: Hana is Jewish. The Murphy Library is showing “Protektor”, a Film Movement selection from the Czech [...]
