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From "Story to Screen" at the GoggleWorks Theater, 201
Washington Street, Reading, PA
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Schedule of Events
Opening Night Friday, Oct. 12
Reception w/ Bill Wine, film critic 5:30-7 p.m.
The Godfather 7 p.m.
1972
Based on Mario Puzo's bestselling novel about a
Mafia dynasty, Coppola's The Godfather extracted and enhanced
the most universal themes of immigrant experience in America:
the plotting-out of hopes and dreams for one's successors, the
raising of children to carry on the good work, etc. Francis Ford
Coppola's film is a bona fide classic and a rare cinematic gem.
With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, and
Robert Duvall.
Admission $25
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Saturday,
Oct. 13 12 p.m.
1971
A favorite film of children around the world, Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory is every bit as entertaining now as it was
when originally released in 1971. There's a timeless appeal to
Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory, the story of the impoverished Charlie Bucket, who,
along with four other kids and their parental guests, wins a
coveted golden ticket to tour of Wonka's factory. Gene Wilder
gives a brilliant performance as the eccentric candy man.
Apocalypse Now
Saturday, Oct. 13 2 p.m.
1979
It began as a John
Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story
"Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War. Apocalypse
Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, follows a
battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver
mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon
Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical
insanity.
Army of Shadows
Saturday, Oct. 13
8 p.m.
1969
In this war drama set during the
French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo
headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his group
engage in a series of attacks on Nazi
occupiers. The screenplay is based on Joseph Kessel's novel and
became filmmaker’s Jean-Pierre Melville's magnum opus.
The Motherhood
Manifesto Sunday, Oct. 14 12 p.m.
2007
These and other startling facts are presented in a powerful and
engaging new one-hour documentary, The Motherhood Manifesto,
a film by Laura Pacheco and John de Graaf. The film brings to
the screen many of the characters, experts and stories from the
new book by the same name, written by Joan Blades, and Kristin
Rowe-Finkbeiner. Moving personal stories combined with humorous
animation, expert commentary and hilarious old film clips tell
the tale of what happens to working mothers and families in
America and how enlightened employers and public policy can make
paid family leave, flexible working hours, part-time parity,
universal healthcare, excellent childcare, after-school programs
and realistic living wages a reality for American families.
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenburgen.
The Last Temptation of
Christ Sunday, Oct. 14 3 p.m.
1988
Willem Dafoe
plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial
adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis'
novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting
Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the
inexorability of His ultimate fate.
The
Europeans Sunday,
Oct. 14 8 p.m.
1979
In
this adaptation of Henry James' novel The Europeans, The
Countess Eugenia (Lee
Remick) and her brother Robert (Robin
Ellis) are expatriate Americans who have grown up
mainly in Europe. They have also grown accustomed to living well
and have returned to see their New England relatives to try and
take advantage of their prosperity by contracting an
advantageous marriage with one of their wealthy cousins.
The Motorcycle
Diaries Monday, Oct. 15 7
p.m.
2004
Brazilian director
Walter Salles Jr.
filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The
Motorcycle Diaries stars
Gael García Bernal
(Y
Tu Mamá También,
Amores Perros)
as a young, pre-revolution Guevara, a 23-year-old medical
student in 1952 traveling across South America on a motorcycle
with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo
de la Serna), who co-wrote the source material.
Haydenfilms Tuesday, Oct. 16 7 p.m.
The Green Mile
Wednesday, Oct.
17 11:15 a.m.
1999
Director Frank Darabont ("The
Shawshank Redemption") returns to another novel set in a prison
by Stephen King. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain
Correctional Facility call Death Row "The Green Mile" because of
the dark green linoleum that tiles the floor. Paul Edgecomb (Tom
Hanks) is the head guard on the Green Mile when a new
inmate is brought into his custody: John Coffey (Michael
Clarke Duncan), convicted of the sadistic murder of
two young girls. Despite his size and the fearsome crimes for
which he's serving time, Coffey seems to be a kind and
well-mannered person who behaves more like an innocent child
than a hardened criminal. Soon the guards notice something odd
about Coffey. He's able to perform what seem to be miracles of
healing among his fellow inmates.
Berks Movie
Madness Film Competition Wednesday, Oct. 17 7 p.m.
Strangers on a
Train Thursday, Oct.
18 7 p.m.
1951
Co-adapted by
Raymond Chandler
from a novel by
Patricia Highsmith,
Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies Hitchcock's
favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of
everyday life and ordinary men. Tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley
Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno
Anthony (Robert
Walker) on a train. Having read all about Guy, Bruno
is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy
marriage to wife Miriam (Laura
Elliott) and has been seen in the company of
senator's daughter Ann Morton (Ruth
Roman). Baiting Guy, Bruno reveals that he feels
trapped by his hated father (Jonathan
Hale). Bruno discusses the theory of "exchange
murders." When he reaches his destination, Guy bids goodbye to
Bruno, thinking nothing more of the affable but rather curious
young man's homicidal theories. And then, Guy's wife turns up
strangled to death.
Discussion group questions:
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/9780582418127.pdf
The Blue Eyed
Six Friday, Oct. 19
7 p.m.
2007
A Pennsylvania Historic Drama
Documentary Film
Edna
Carmean’s book The Blue Eyed Six, based on the famous insurance
murder trial and execution in Pennsylvania history. In December
1878, the body of old Joseph Raber was found floating in the icy
waters of Indiantown Creek near St. Joseph’s Spring, PA. The
investigation revealed life insurance policies had been taken
out on Raber who was frail and expected not to live very long.
The gang might have escaped the noose had it not been for one of
them becoming too fond of a local 19 year-old married woman
named Magdelena Peters. Her jealous husband, Joe Peters turned
the men into Hummelstown authorities. The trial was covered by
every major newspaper from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and from
Baltimore to New York.
Written by Bruce W. and Brian W. Kreider, directed by Brian W.
Kreider, and executive produced by Bruce W. Kreider. The cast
includes local actors:
Kevin D’Arco (Josiah Hummel), Coty Martin (Frank Stichler), John
Matarazzi (Charles Drews), Art Moshos (Henry Wise), Craig Norris
(George Zechman) and Frank Pastuck (Israel Brandt).
Visit the PA Historic
Dramas website to learn more about the movie.
Admission $7
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