FILMTALK Wheeler Auditorium Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral St. June 14   10AM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington In their second collaboration (after 1938's You Can’t Take It With You), director Frank Capra and star James Stewart create the character of Jefferson Smith, an altruistic, naïve small-town newspaperman who becomes an erstwhile Senator forced to deal with corruption in politics. The film received an Academy Award (Best Original Story), a New York Film Critics Circle Award (Best Actor), and was placed on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry in 1989. (USA, 1939, 130 min., b&w) _link_s: Movie Review Query Engine http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?Mr.+Smith+Goes+to+Washington Internet Movie Data_base_ http://www.imdb.com/_title_/tt0031679/ Pacific Film Archives http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cine_film_detail.pl/cine_img?24225 TCM/AFI Movie Data_base_ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/_title_.jsp?stid=3771 Coffee, tea, and sweets provded. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I've compiled a list of summer films in the Baltimore area.  To access the list, go to my blog: terminalflicker.blogspot.com I hope putting all this in one place is helpful. If you have any additions or corrections, please e-mail me, and/or add a comment on my blog. Please feel free to pass this info along.  Thanks! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For more information, contact: Marc Sober Humanities Department The Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD 21201 ph: (410)396-5487 fax: (410)396-1410 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Just a friendly last-minute reminder about the first of our election year specials (The Candidate shows in October): (Hopefully, there'll be a good discussion after; in response to my Facebook invtation I received a note from a local writer who plans to come because he wants to see if he still hates Mr. Smith...!!) FILMTALK Wheeler Auditorium Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral St. June 14   10AM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington In their second collaboration (after 1938's You Can’t Take It With You), director Frank Capra and star James Stewart create the character of Jefferson Smith, an altruistic, naïve small-town newspaperman who becomes an erstwhile Senator forced to deal with corruption in politics. The film received an Academy Award (Best Original Story), a New York Film Critics Circle Award (Best Actor), and was placed on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry in 1989. (USA, 1939, 130 min., b&w) _link_s: Movie Review Query Engine http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?Mr.+Smith+Goes+to+Washington Internet Movie Data_base_ http://www.imdb.com/_title_/tt0031679/ Pacific Film Archives http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cine_film_detail.pl/cine_img?24225 TCM/AFI Movie Data_base_ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/_title_.jsp?stid=3771 Coffee, tea, and sweets provded. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I've compiled a list of summer films in the Baltimore area.  To access the list, go to my blog: terminalflicker.blogspot.com I hope putting all this in one place is helpful. If you have any additions or corrections, please e-mail me, and/or add a comment on my blog. Please feel free to pass this info along.  Thanks! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For more information, contact: Marc Sober Humanities Department The Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD 21201 ph: (410)396-5487 fax: (410)396-1410 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it