Events
Thursday, March 18th ~ 6pm
Film screening ~ No Tomorrow: A Unique Exploration of the Death Penalty, by Roger Weisberg
No Tomorrow focuses on the murder of Risa Bejarano, the principal subject of Aging Out, an earlier film about teenagers leaving foster care.
Thursday, April 1st ~ 6pm
Book reading and signing with Mark Kurlansky ~ The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Marcoris
Tuesday, April 6th ~ 6pm
Alfred in April film fest ~ Rear Window
Wheelchair-bound photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) and his beautiful fiancée Lisa (Grace Kelly) spy on their neighbors and then solve a brutal murder no one else believes occurred. Rear Window is an eloquently entertaining, exhilarating and bittersweet film.
Tuesday, April 13th ~ 6pm
Alfred in April film fest ~ North by Northwest
From Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) being chased by the crop dusting bi-plane, to the climax atop the faces of Mount Rushmore, this Hitchcock classic never lets up. One of Hitchcock’s personal favorites, the film combines a tense, harrowing pace with the fear of calamity lurking behind every door – truly the work of a master.
Tuesday, April 20th ~ 6pm
Alfred in April film fest ~ Strangers on a Train
Hitchcock’s favorite “doubles” theme is thoroughly explored in this story of two men who meet on a train and whose destinies become forever linked. Bruno and Guy both want someone dead. Bruno proposes that they exchange murders to eliminate motive and suspicion. The two become trapped in a web of guilty secrets that can only be escaped by death.
Tuesday, April 27th ~ 6pm
Alfred in April film fest ~Psycho
Certainly Hitchcock’s most unrelenting exercise in terror, Psycho remains one of the most terrifying films of all time. Often imitated but never equaled, Psycho’s tale of a strange young man and his possessive mother feature the sinister Bates Motel, and the creepy house that overlooks it.
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