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Meet Me In St Louis (1944; 113 mins.) Dir: Vincent Minnelli. An MGM musical that became a Holiday classic! Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the World's Fair in the spring of 1904. Starring JUDY GARLAND! Lucille Bremer, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor.

Down to Earth (1947; 101mins.) Dir: Alexander Hall. Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show as a chorus girl. Starring Rita Hayworth.

Salome's Last Dance (1988; 89mins.) Dir: Ken Russell. On Guy Fawkes Day 1892 Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome'. The 'theatre' is a brothel and the performers are prostitutes. Starring Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Imogen Millais Scott.

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The Driver's Seat (1974; 102mins.) Dir: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Lise, a mentally unbalanced woman, travels to Rome, where she embarks on a fatal search of her own destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself – a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison. Based on the novella by Muriel Spark. Starring ELIZABETH TAYLOR.

Please join us for Jose Saramago's Nobel Prize winning 1984 novel, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, translated into English in 1992. You can request an NYPL print or e-book copy. To join this online discussion, please register above with your email address. We'll send you the meeting link before the program begins. The US debut of Portuguese writer Saragamo: a novel written in the best classical European tradition, rich in allusions, occasionally surreal, and concerned with the hu…

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

The General (1926; 75mins.) Dir: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War, using various modes of transportation in comedic action scenes. Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Simple craft projects for ages 3 and up

For our January 8, 4:30pm poetry discussion, we are reading Anna Akhmatova’s "Requiem" (1935–40), translated from Russian by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. To access a PDF of this reading, please click on "Download transcript" above. We will also have printed copies available at our second floor desk. Please bring your copy to the discussion; we will be reading aloud and interpreting the writing. Natan Altman, Portrait of Poetess Anna Akhmatova, 1914, State Russian Museum Anna Andreye…

Picture book read aloud with a craft for ages 4 and up

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

One Arabian Night (1920; 85mins.) Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant, which puts her life in terrible danger. Luckily, she is beloved of the rest of the harem, which conspires to bring the true lovers together, while distracting the prying eyes of the eunuchs who serve as palace guards. Silent movie classic! Starring Pola Negri.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Read Proust’s “Swann’s Way:” A New Year’s Resolution! Join first-time readers at the Proust Center-Jefferson Market Library. Six sessions on the second Tuesday of each month, 6-7:30pm. January 14, February 11, March 11, April 8, May 13, and June 10. January 14th: Read Combray I; to page 54 in Carter’s “Swann’s Way.” Alex Klameth, our Proust Center-JML Group Facilitator will oversee the lively discussions. We will read William C. Carter’s fully annotated “Swann’s Way,” by Yale Press. https…

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Please join us for our monthly novella discussion, held on the third Wednesday of each month in the third floor Mae West room. This month, we are reading Denis Johnson's 2011 novella, Train Dreams. We'll have copies available at our second floor desk, while supplies last. You can also request an NYPL e-book or e-audiobook. Train Dreams tells the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the…

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Thursday, January 16 at 6:30pm Photo Credit: Jim Gavenus At age 13, Mitch Greenhill’s life was upended by a series of powerful musicians. As his father Manny Greenhill entered the music business, Pete Seeger, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Joan Baez, Reverend Gary Davis, Doc Watson and a host of others entered the family home. Crucially molded by these encounters, Mitch grew up to inherit that business, to play a lot of guitar, to record albums and to compose for theater. His musical memoir, RAISE…

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Simple craft projects for ages 3 and up

Picture book read aloud with a craft for ages 4 and up

The Prodigal (1955; 102 mins.) Dir: Richard Thorpe. A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well, in this mid-century MGM biblical epic in CinemaScope. Camp madness! Starring LANA TURNER!

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

The Seventh Victim (1943; 71mins.) Dir: Mark Robson. A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance. Starring Kim Hunter, Tom Conway.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Picture book stories, rhymes, and songs for babies and toddlers.

Simple craft projects for ages 3 and up

Picture book read aloud with a craft for ages 4 and up

Join us as we discuss My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. We'll meet in the 3rd floor Mae West Room. All books available to borrow at the 2nd floor Desk!

You'll Never Get Rich (1941; 88mins.) Dir: Sidney Lanfield. In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his male dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real. Starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hawworth.

A Monkey in Winter (1962) 105mins. (Original title: Un Singe en Hiver) Dir: Henri Verneuil. A middle-aged alcoholic with a wife and child swears off drinking if they survive the famous invasion of WW II. When they do, he keeps his promise. But, when sometime later a younger, carefree man comes to town with a penchant for the bottle, the older man finds the temptations coming back... In French with English subtitles. Starring Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmundo.