Centennial Family Movie Night - Newsies

Newsies Movie Night 

 

30 Nov 2015 at 6:30 p.m.

Go back in time a take a glimpse of the world in 1899 at a family movie night.

Did you know?

In 1897 Mansfield S. Snow, editor of the Brigham City Bugler, proposed building a public reading room. 

In 1898 four LDS wards took on the project and . . .

In December of 1898 a one-story frame building was completed. The first library in Brigham City was open for business.

Read more about the early history of the Brigham City Library at bcpl.lib.ut.us/history.html

Newsies [©Walt Disney Pictures 1992 125 min Rated PG]

Centennial Movie Events

 

100 years ago the Brigham City Carnegie Library opened its doors to the community. Since that time is has expanded to include an addition to the original structure and its collections have grown and diversified in formats to include books, eBooks, audiobooks on CD, MP3 discs and players, and downloads. We've got video games and movies too. Internet terminals and our free public wi-fi are always popular. We've got events for children, teen and adults and meeting rooms the public may use for non-profit events when they are not needed for library programs.

So much has changed over the last hundred years and for our centennial we've been showing movies to see how the world's changed and how it has stayed the same over the last hundred years.

We're nearly halfway through the year with 100 Years on the Silver Screen movie series, but it's not to late to jump in and start enjoying. May's movie takes a look at the 1950s with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz!

Check out the list of movies on our 100 Years on the Silver Screen movie series by clicking here. If you've missed the first few, maybe you can catch up at home.

We're so grateful for our centennial movie sponsors: Hansen Motors for paying the movie licensing and Winger's for providing the yummy popcorn.

We've also got an afternoon movie series going on this year with movies based on books. Check out the list of movies on our Off the Pages movie series by clicking here.

What to Expect When You Are Expecting

From the website earlyworld http://www.earlyword.com/


Here’s something difficult to imagine - the ever-popular pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You Are Expecting, is being adapted for a movie.
According to Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch blog, it’s being planned as a “series of intertwining vignettes” à la Love Actually and Valentine’s Day. It’s the early stages; no director or cast has been announced yet.
If it’s a success, they might consider following up with What Color is Your Parachute?

Finally!

Most have you will have already heard the news that came out last week about the 7th Harry Potter book and the making of two movies from it, instead of just the one as they've done with the others. I was really happy when I logged onto Yahoo! last Thursday night and the news popped up in front of me. The Yahoo! article said something about movie makers feeling like there was too much in the 7th book that couldn't be cut out (as they obviously felt they could just snip away in the other movies).

Well, finally!

I've been waiting for longer movie versions of these books since they started. I don't agree that the others could have so much of the story cut out. My favorite book of the series, The Goblet of Fire, was hacked down to the point that it became an "action highlights of" film. That's not to say that they didn't do a great job with the action, because they did, but where was the rest of the story? I wish all of the books in the series could get longer movie adaptions than they currently have. Harry Potter has such a huge following, it's not like people wouldn't sit through a six or eight hour telling of one of the books. Personally, I wish the BBC made the Harry Potter movies and made them into some nice long films that did the books a greater amount of justice. At least now I can look forward to the 7th and 8th films with greater anticipation.

Click here to read the article from Reuters yourself.

Picky about film adaptations, as always,

Elizabeth

Classic Children's book becomes Animated Feature Film

Due out on March 14th is the classic tale from Dr. Seuss, Horton hears a who! Starring Jim Carrey as Horton the elephant. From the makers of Ice Age, this film promises to bring Suess's film to life on the big screen.

Check out the films trailer at http://movies.aol.com/movie/horton-hears-a-who/24695/video/exclusive-trailer-no-1/1947796

It makes me wonder what Theodore Giesel would think of his best selling children's books on the big screen. Does Hollywood do the timeless pieces justice? I was not a big fan of Carrey in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Too much crazy adlibbing, which of course, is what Carrey is known for.

In any event, I think that the movie will be fun for the kids who love Dr. Seuss, and that includes all of us kids at heart who grew up with his wonderful imaginative worlds. If you see it, review it here! Thanks, Michele

Read It Before You See It! - Valkyrie

Here's a theatrical release that I, for one, am very excited about. I've never been a big Tom Cruise fan, in fact, I've only seen about two, maybe three, of his movies, but I just chanced upon this when I was looking at some of my RSS feeds.

Operation Valkyrie was the name given to secret plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It was planned and carried out by high ranking officers in the German Army. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who will be played by Cruise, was among the main players in this assassination attempt. He carried a small bomb around in his briefcase on several occasions, but something always happened to stop the attempt. It was on 20 July 1944 that Stauffenberg was able to carry out Operation Valkyrie. It happened in East Prussia (now part of Poland) at what was called the Wolf's Lair. The bomb went off, but without the planned damage. Hitler had survived.

It was that same night that Stauffenberg, along with some of his fellow conspirators were executed in the courtyard of the Bender Block (see a satellite image of this courtyard as it is today), a group of office buildings in downtown Berlin. Many other were arrested. Filmmakers were able to get permission from the German government, after initially being turned down, to shoot some of the film in this historic courtyard and the adjacent building. The courtyard, and some of the Bender Block buildings - including Stauffenberg's office, which still includes his old desk - is now part of The German Resistance Memorial. The memorial looks at resistance groups from throughout Germany and has a marvelous collection which includes photographs and and pamphlets produced by many of the resistance groups throughout Germany.

I'm very excited to sew how I like the movie. As an undergrad I researched Valkyrie as part of one of my papers and it was a very exciting chapter of World War II history to read about. We don't have a book in our collection that is specifically about Stauffenberg or Operation Valkyrie, but we have several books that will touch on the events of 20 July 1944. I'll be looking forward to seeing what they do with the story, and hope it's good. I don't know if I can wait!

Elizabeth

The Jane Austen Book Club Trailer

City of Ember to become a Movie

By: Michele, Children's Librarian

Lights shine in the city of Ember—but at the city limits the light ends, and darkness takes over. Out there in the Unknown Regions, the darkness goes on forever in all directions. Ember—so its people believe—is the only light in the dark world.
And now the lights of the city are beginning to fail.
Is there a way to save the people of Ember? No one knows. But Lina Mayfleet has found a puzzling document, and Doon Harrow has made discoveries down in the Pipeworks. With these clues, they start their search.




The City of Ember contains a satisfying mystery, a breathtaking escape over rooftops in darkness, a harrowing journey in the unknown, and cryptic messages for readers to decipher.



Bill Murray will star in a film adaptation of Jeanne DuPrau's YA novel City of Ember, to be directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House) and written by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands, The Secret Garden and Corpse Bride). Murray will play the Mayor of Ember. Production begins in Belfast this summer, with an October 2008 release date planned. Playtone and Walden Media will co-produce.



Fans of the book will want to check it out. Those who are new to the series will want to catch up before the movie debut. The series includes the following titles: The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood and coming in the fall of 2008 the fourth and final book of Ember which the author describes below.

"That first winter in the village of Sparks was desperately hard. Doon decided he had to do something. He told Lina his plan. "And I want you to come with me," he added. So they went. But what they found was not what they expected at all. "