Middlebury Community Classic Film Club kicks off fall series

Steve Gross is the Middlebury Classic Film Club Convener.Maybe it’s because we live in Middlebury, but the first thing that hit me when I thought about this film series was Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.” Frost’s neighbor insists, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Yet this seems hardly self evident to Frost who asks, “Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it where there are cows? But here there are no cows.” He wonders whom he is walling out and whom he is walling in. He further asks who he might be o … (read more)

Join in: Fall film series hosts a talk

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Community Classic Film Club will convene for the second film in the fall series today, Nov. 5 to view and discuss “La Strada” (1954). The film will be available on Kanopy, which allows viewers to screen the film at their conven … (read more)

Film club concludes fall screening series

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Community Classic Film Club will screen it’s final film, “Roman Holiday,” in the fall season’s screenings on Dec. 5, from 6-8:30 p.m., at the Ilsley Library’s Community Meeting Room. “Roman Holiday” (1953), is the story of a pr … (read more)