Movie/Book Club Announces Selections

RFH 2010, Arts

Fri, Jul 02, 2010

The Colgate Bookstore and Hamilton Theater announce the Summer 2010 season of the Hamilton Book & Movie Club, beginning on Thursday, July 29 at 5:30 p.m. The theme of the season is “The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen” taken from popular movie critic

The selected books/movies for the Summer 2010 (July - September) season are:

July 29 – The Door in the Floor – Adapted from the novel A Widow for One Year by John Irving; 2004 film starring Jeff Bridges & Kim Basinger. The film chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife Marion, their once-great marriage strained by tragedy. Marion's equation of love with loss, coupled with Ted's infidelities, points towards a much-needed change in the relationship – change which may come in the form of Ted’s young new assistant Eddie.

August 26 – Love & Death on Long Island – Novel by Gilbert Adair; 1997 film starring John Hurt and Jason Priestley.
When a cerebral British author becomes enamored of an American teenage pop icon (his first attraction to another male), his life spirals out of control. He eventually travels to Long Island to meet his idol face-to-face.

September 30 – The Maltese Falcon – Novel by Dashiell Hammett; 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade searches for his partner’s murderer and an elusive black bird statuette. His job is complicated by a host of strangers: a beautiful and treacherous woman named Brigid, a perfumed grafter named Joe Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man.

Members are encouraged to read the selected book in advance and then meet on the selected date at the Hamilton Theater to view the film based on that book. Club members have the opportunity to discuss the book and the movie at a dinner in the Colgate Bookstore immediately following the film screening.

The Book & Movie Club offers two subscription plans. Full members will receive their own copy of all three books for the season, free admission to the screening of all three films, and dinner during the three after-movie discussions, for a one-time fee of $48/season. Basic members receive free admission to the film screenings, and dinner during the after-movie discussion, for a one-time fee of $24/season.

For more information about these options or to join the club, visit www.colgatebookstore.com/bookmovie or call the Bookstore at 228-7480.