The Fishers Island Community Center hosts Classic Movie Night in the Great Room on the big screen on Fridays in the off-season. Donations are most welcome and snacks are for sale. Each film is introduced by David Hoch, a former film class teacher.
“Classic Movie Night” at the Community Center, 6pm
Friday, May 1- White Witch Doctor (1953)- adventure, 96 min, Guilty Pleasure!
Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak. D: Henry Hathaway.
In 1907 Congo, a trapper leads a nurse thru the jungle to her mission to chaos.
Friday, May 8- Scent of a Woman (1992)-comedy/drama, 156 min. Rated R
Al Pacino (Oscar), Chris O’Donnell, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bradley Whitford.
Prep student takes a short job as a companion to a retired, blind, Army colonel.
Friday, May 15- Sergeant Rutledge (1960)- western, 111 min. D: John Ford.
Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Juano Hernandez.
Black soldier in 1881 is charged with rape and murder of a white woman. Controversial.
Friday, May 22- Sideways (2004)-comedy, 127 min. Rated R. D: Alexander Payne.
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh.
Two forty-ish men take a road trip into wine country, one depressed, one getting married.
Friday, May 29- Zulu (1964)- historical drama, 139 min. D: Cy Endfield.
Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Caine, James Booth.
True saga of the 1879 battle in S. Africa of a small British Army unit and hordes of Zulu’s.
Friday, June 5- The Third Man (1949)- film noir, 104 min. D: Carol Reed.
Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard. Written by Graham Greene.
After post-WWII occupied Vienna, a friend learns as a new job that his friend has died.
Friday, June 12- Hair (1979)- musical comedy-drama, 121 min, Rated R. D: Milos Forman.
John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright.
Duing the Vietnam War, a “tribe” of hippies befriend a draftee on his way to his induction.
Friday, June 19- The Hunter (2011)- adventure/mystery, 102 min, PG-13. Australian.
Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Francis O’Connor. Only commercial film filmed on Tasmania.
Philosophical thriller as a mercenary hired by a bio-tech co. to find the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
Friday, June 26- Network (1976)- satire, 121 min, Rated R, D: Sidney Lumet.
Faye Dunaway (Oscar), Peter Finch (Oscar), William Holden, Robert Duvall.
Written Paddy Chayefsky, a TV network with poor ratings finds a surprise show.
