84 Charing Cross Road (1987), PG
84 Charing Cross Road, Columbia Pictures/Photofest, © Columbia Pictures
- DATE:
- TIME:
- 4:30 pm – 6:10 pm
- Director:
- David Jones
Based on the true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books, a New York script reader (Anne Bancroft) answers an advertisement from a rare-book store in London and begins a two-decade romance via correspondence with a man (Anthony Hopkins) in the overseas department.
Film Series: Dear Little Friend
Inspired by the letters featured in the exhibition Dear Little Friend: Impressions of Galka Scheyer, enjoy a series of films that focus on relationships built on correspondence.
EVENT DETAILS
- Fee:
- Free with museum admission.
- Details:
- No reservations needed. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the screening.
- Location:
- Theater
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Tours & Talks:
Dear Little Friend: Impressions of Galka Scheyer
Join a Museum educator for a close look at the portraits and ephemera found in the exhibition Dear Little Friend: Impressions of Galka Scheyer. Learn more about Scheyer’s life, her artist friends and her efforts to bring European modernism to the United States. Afterward, view works by the Blue Four artists in the Museum’s permanent collection. MORE INFO
Films & Performances:
Il Postino (1994), PG
When Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. Mario soon becomes a student of the poet. A firm friendship develops, and the postman turns into a changed man. MORE INFO