Program of Activities

- Wednesday Night at the Movies  

  All Movies start at 18:00 and will be followed by a discussion

May 2008 - Mafia Month

May 7 The Godfather
Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three, including Best Picture of 1972. The movie is a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America; masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged.

May 14 Goodfellas
From the true-life bestseller by Nicholas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, "Goodfellas" was named 1990's best film by the National Society of Film Critics Goodfellas" immortalizes the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill, from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program.

May 21 Casino
The movie is a riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation where fortunes and lives were made and lost with the roll of the dice.

May 28 The Departed
Rookie cop Billy Costigan grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello. It's Costigan’s job to win Costello's trust and help his detective handlers bring Costello down. Meanwhile, officer Colin Sullivan has everyone's trust. No one suspects he is Costello's mole.

How these covert lives cross, double-cross and collide is at the ferocious core of the widely acclaimed "The Departed". Martin Scorsese directs, guiding an all star cast in a visceral tale of crime and consequences.

June 2008

June 4 Dances With Wolves
Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching U.S. Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice - one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.

June 11  Babel
Pain is universal... but so is hope.  "Babel,” is a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind. A tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain of events that will link four groups of people who, divided by cultural differences and vast distances, will discover a shared destiny that ultimately connects them.

June 18  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Based on the best-selling book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room" details the shocking inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals. Unimaginable personal excesses, and an utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy, led to top executives of America's seventh largest corporation walking away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything.

June 25 Casablanca
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one... especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance.