Arts & Entertainment

What's Playing at the Movies Around Greenwich

New movies this weekend in our area: "Dallas Buyers Club," "The Best Man Holiday," and "Blue Is the Warmest Color."

SOME RECENT MOVIES:

New movies this weekend in our area: Dallas Buyers Club, The Best Man Holiday, Blue Is the Warmest Color

New movies last weekend: Thor: The Dark World, Kill Your Darlings, Last Vegas

AT GREENWICH LIBRARY

8 p.m. (doors open at 7:40 p.m.), Friday, Nov. 15, Cole Auditorium: 

  • Apartment for Peggy (1948) — "with Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart. Directed by George Seaton. Young marrieds move in with a college instructor who is convinced his best years are behind him. Their enthusiasm rubs off and creates this delightful paean to life and optimism. Beautiful color highlights this look at postwar adjustments and housing shortages that resonates even today. 99 min." (from Greenwich Library website description) — excerpt — Wikipedia — Rotten Tomatoes —IMDb — Facebook


AT DARIEN LIBRARY

6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15:

AT NEW CANAAN LIBRARY


4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in the Plaut Room
  • The Way Way Back — "Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park. (103 mns.)" -- an announcement on the New Canaan Library website — trailerWikipediaRotten TomatoesIMDbFacebook

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    Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. — Alfred Hitchcock






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