A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lbofriend. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, this classic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper.
It's Dublin in 1985 and Conor feels like an outsider after family financial difficulties force him to transfer to a new high school. Casting about for reasons to talk to a fellow student, Conor invents a band and a need for a music video star as a reason to talk to her. When she says yes, he forms a rock band. Join us for a fun musical night out when we watch this film favorite by writer/director John Carney.
Following his mother's death, Edwardian gentleman Louis Mazzini plots to avenge her by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family. To gain this inheritance, Louis must first murder a line of eccentric heirs to the title. This comedic gem stars a young Alec Guinness.
Noah Baumach (The Squid and the Whale) directs and Greta Gerwig stars in this modern comic fable that explores New York, friendship, class, ambition, failure, and redemption.
We're showing kids' movies on the last Saturday of July and August.
Come enjoy Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile on July 29 and Vivo on August 26.
There will be popcorn and it will be very chill.
For kids 8 and upBoth movies are rated PG
Berkeley Public Library West Branch
1125 University Ave
Berkeley CA
Attend a live film screening of the award-winning documentary, Afro-Punk ,followed by a live virtual presentation and Q&A session with the filmmaker, James Spooner. This event is in the 3rd Floor Community Meeting Room at the Central Library.
Join us for our third film clebrating Pride month at the Claremont Branch. Spoiler Alert tells the true story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan and is based on Ausiello's 2017 memoir. The young couple is in love and ready to spend the rest of their lives together. When Kit is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the couple's future is thwarted in unexpected ways. What follows is a tale portraying the power to rise above every obstacle in the face of love.
Bros is a big Hollywood rom-com that tells the story of Bobby, a struggling podcast host who hates commitment and Aaron, a detached lawyer who likes to play the field. Repeatedly drawn to each other, both men begin to show their vulnerable sides as their undeniable attraction turns into something resembling a commitment.
Join us for a free in-person movie at the Claremont Branch Library to celebrate Pride month. Through Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, lesbian filmmakers built visibility and transformed the social imagination. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they've expressed queer identity through film
The first of our films celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month and an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her. This movie is part of an in-person series happening on Wednesdays at Claremont Branch Library.