Lakewood Public Cinema
See a film at Lakewood Public Library every Saturday evening. These free events take place in the cozy confines of the Main Library Basement Auditorium on a digitally-projected big screen. Be sure to pick up a Film Calendar on your next visit. As always, the programs at Lakewood Public Library are free and open to the public.
Lakewood Public Cinema Matinee- Spellbound (1945)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (101 minutes) Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director. Dr. Constance Peterson, (Ingrid Bergman), a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him but cannot recall anything. […] Read More
Lakewood Public Cinema Matinee- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Directed by Tay Garnett (93 minutes) Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway), the middle-aged owner of a roadside diner, hires a drifter, Frank Chambers (John Garfield), to work at his restaurant. Frank quickly begins an affair with Nick's beautiful young wife, Cora (Lana Turner), and the two conspire to kill Nick and seize his assets. When they […] Read More
Lakewood Public Cinema- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (106 minutes) The adventures of three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) are loosely based on Homer’s The Odyssey. Clooney, as Ulysses McGill, encounters many of Homer’s original characters, such as Cyclops, the Sirens and eventually his wife Penelope (Holly Hunter). The Coen Brothers and […] Read More