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Set in 1930, the final entry in the Downton Abbey film trilogy brings back most characters from the Downton saga, with Lady Mary caught up in scandal and financial reversals placing Downton’s future in more jeopardy than ever before.
At first Maudie (Sally Hawkins) tracks as a visibly movement-impaired person being cared for by her Aunt Ida. But Maudie displays grit when Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke), a surly fishmonger, posts an ad at the local store for a housekeeper. Maudie follows him home and gets the position. Before long, they marry. She painstakingly decorates the walls of their house with simple paintings, leading Maudie to a new chapter in life as Maud Lewis, one of Canada’s foremost folk artists. The film gives Sally Hawkins another opportunity to deliver a transcendent performance, as she did in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water (2017). She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars for both films.
Tom Destry (James Stewart), a former gunslinger, arrives in the town of Bottleneck to fill the position of Sheriff after the former sheriff is murdered, but Destry refuses to wear a gun. He intends to use guile to defeat the corrupt powers that have a stranglehold on Bottleneck. With Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy, the provocative saloon singer who falls for Destry.
Studio Ghibli produced this animated coming-of-age story. Shizuko Tsukishima is a 14 year old junior high student in Tokyo, where she is studying creative writing. One day she discovers that all her library books have been checked out previously by someone named Sheiji Amasawa. The two meet just as Sheiji, who is studying to become a violin maker, is leaving for a two month training with a luthier. While he’s away, she pours herself into writing a fantasy about herself and Sheiji. Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Movies, Music & Performance |
