Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Matinee Movies.
Enjoy a variety of movies all month long in the Herrick Room. Come early for Popcorn.
THE HIRED HAND (1971; Peter Fonda, director; starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom)
Following the success of Easy Rider, Fonda made this “moody, expressionistic and autumnal” western about a man who, after spending several years roaming the west, decides to return home to his family. A commercial and critical flop in 1971, it has been restored, re-released, and reassessed in recent years, building a sizable following of admirers. Featuring excellent performances by Verna Bloom and Warren Oates, breathtaking cinematography, and a perfect score by Bruce Langhorne.
CONCLAVE (2024; Edward Berger, director; starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini)
Ralph Fiennes turns in a great performance as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, charged with organizing a conclave to elect the next pope. Secrets and scandals about the major candidates emerge throughout the film, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. Nominated for eight Academy Awards at last year’s ceremony.
MY MAN GODFREY (1936; Gregory La Cava, director; starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Eugene William Pallette)
Williams Powell stars as Godfrey Smith, a down-and-out Hooverville resident, and Carole Lombard plays a spoiled socialite who hires him to be her loony family’s butler…and then falls in love with him. A nearly implausible plot does nothing to detract from the laughs, performances, charm, and artful look of this classic screwball comedy from the Golden Age of the genre.
HOPSCOTCH (1980; Ronald Neame, director; starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty)
In this beloved spy comedy, Walter Matthau is Miles Kendig, a CIA agent who, after being grounded with a boring desk job by incompetent superiors, threatens to write and publish a memoir exposing the dirty tricks and incompetence of the agency. The CIA set out to end to the plan by whatever means necessary. Kendig provokes his pursuers by sending them incendiary chapters and periodically informing them of his location, and an entertaining game of cat and mouse between a fumbling CIA and a cunning Kendig follows.
