Sunday Films @ Mid-Manhattan Library: NYC Oscar Nods - Moonstruck

Date and Time
March 4, 2012
Event Details

 

NYC Oscar Nods – Sundays @ 2pm 
Of these flicks, which received an Academy Award or simply a nomination?
 
Moonstruck
March 4th  2012
 
Featuring: Cher, Nicolas Cage;
Directed by Norman Jewison  
[102 minutes; 1987]
 
When the moon is full, anything can happen! And it does in this acclaimed romantic comedy about the lives and loves of an extended Italian-American family in Brooklyn. Cher won the Academy Award® as Best Actress for her outstanding performance in this heart-warming celebration of life, love, and family ties.
 
The Apartment
March 11th 2012
 
Featuring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Directed by Billy Wilder, MGM/UA;
[Black and White; 125 minutes; 1960]
 
An incisive comedy, this is the story of a young office worker (Jack Lemmon) who moves up in status by lending his apartment to his bosses for illicit rendezvous. Shirley MacLaine plays the girl he finds near suicide after her heart is broken by one of those amorous executives (Fred MacMurray).
 
 
Taxi Driver
March 18th 2012
 
Featuring: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Directed by Martin Scorese, Columbia Pictures;
[112 minutes; 1976]
 
A New York City cabbie (Robert De Niro) becomes compulsively involved with the city's "night people" while driving his "beat" through the seamy parts of the city. He moves alone through the crowd—jostled, ignored, abused, hassled, and detached—until he explodes in this controversial movie.
 
Annie Hall
March 25th 2012
 
Featuring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Directed by Woody Allen, United Artists;
[93 minutes; 1977]
 
Chronicles the ups and downs of obsessive, neurotic, NY comedian Alvy Singer’s (Woody Allen) relationship with Midwest ditz Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) in 1970s socialite Manhattan. Allen allows us a glimpse of his personal life in this semi-autobiographical portrait of the amorous partnership between Allen and Keaton.
 
Adult content.
May have language and nudity offensive to some.
 

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