Happy Halloween!

CELEBRATE WITH A SCARY MOVIE…

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Blair Witch (2016)

The Boy

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie (1976)

CELEBRATE WITH A SCARY MOVIE…

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Blair Witch (2016)

The Boy

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)

Cloverfield

The Conjuring

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

Deliver Us from Evil

Don’t Look Now

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

1408

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Fright Night

Get Out

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Goodnight Mommy

The Grudge

Halloween

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

The Innkeepers

The Innocents

Insidious

The Invisible Man

It Follows

Jaws

Kwaidan

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Lights Out

Magic

Mama

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

The New Daughter

Night of the Living Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Poltergeist (1982)

Poltergeist (2015)

The Possession

Quarantine

The Ring

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rosemary’s Baby (2014)

The Ruins

Shutter

Silent Hill

Sinister

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

Train to Busan

The Uninvited (1944)

The Uninvited (2009)

Vacancy

Vampyr

We Are What We Are

White Noise

The Witch

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

Skulls

American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time

1. Casablanca – 1942

2. Gone with the Wind – 1939

3. West Side Story – 1961

4. Roman Holiday – 1953

5. An Affair to Remember – 1957

6. The Way We Were – 1973

7. Doctor Zhivago – 1965

8. It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946

9. Love Story – 1970

10. City Lights – 1931

1. Casablanca – 1942

2. Gone with the Wind – 1939

3. West Side Story – 1961

4. Roman Holiday – 1953

5. An Affair to Remember – 1957

6. The Way We Were – 1973

7. Doctor Zhivago – 1965

8. It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946

9. Love Story – 1970

10. City Lights – 1931

11. Annie Hall – 1977

12. My Fair Lady – 1964

13. Out of Africa – 1985

14. The African Queen – 1951

15. Wuthering Heights – 1939

16. Singin’ in the Rain – 1952

17. Moonstruck – 1987

18. Vertigo – 1958

19. Ghost – 1990

20. From Here to Eternity – 1953

21. Pretty Woman – 1990

22. On Golden Pond – 1981

23. Now, Voyager – 1942

24. King Kong – 1933

25. When Harry Met Sally – 1989

26. The Lady Eve – 1941

27. The Sound of Music – 1965

28. The Shop Around the Corner – 1940

29. An Officer and a Gentleman – 1982

30. Swing Time – 1936

31. The King and I – 1956

32. Dark Victory – 1939

33. Camille – 1937

34. Beauty and the Beast – 1991

35. Gigi – 1958

36. Random Harvest – 1942

37. Titanic – 1997

38. It Happened One Night – 1934

39. An American in Paris – 1951

40. Ninotchka – 1939

41. Funny Girl – 1968

42. Anna Karenina – 1935

43. A Star is Born – 1954

44. The Philadelphia Story – 1940

45. Sleepless in Seattle – 1993

46. To Catch a Thief – 1955

47. Splendor in the Grass – 1961

48. Last Tango in Paris – 1972

49. The Postman Always Rings Twice – 1946

50. Shakespeare in Love – 1998

51. Bringing Up Baby – 1938

52. The Graduate – 1967

53. A Place in the Sun – 1951

54. Sabrina – 1954

55. Reds – 1981

56. The English Patient – 1996

57. Two for the Road – 1967

58. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – 1967

59. Picnic – 1955

60. To Have and Have Not – 1944

61. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – 1961

62. The Apartment – 1960

63. Sunrise – 1927

64. Marty – 1955

65. Bonnie and Clyde – 1967

66. Manhattan – 1979

67. A Streetcar Named Desire – 1951

68. What’s Up, Doc? – 1972

69. Harold and Maude – 1971

70. Sense and Sensibility – 1995

71. Way Down East – 1920

72. Roxanne – 1987

73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – 1947

74. Woman of the Year – 1942

75. The American President – 1995

76. The Quiet Man – 1952

77. The Awful Truth – 1937

78. Coming Home – 1978

79. Jezebel – 1939

80. The Sheik – 1921

81. The Goodbye Girl – 1977

82. Witness – 1985

83. Morocco – 1930

84. Double Indemnity – 1944

85. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing – 1955

86. Notorious – 1946

87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – 1988

88. The Princess Bride – 1987

89. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – 1966

90. The Bridges of Madison County – 1995

91. Working Girl – 1988

92. Porgy and Bess – 1959

93. Dirty Dancing – 1987

94. Body Heat – 1981

95. Lady and the Tramp – 1955

96. Barefoot in the Park – 1967

97. Grease – 1978

98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – 1939

99. Pillow Talk – 1959

100. Jerry Maguire – 1996

From the American Film Institute.

Featured Display: Exploring Mars

Did you love the new movie The Martian, or the book by Andy Weir it’s based on? Then come check out our display of books and movies, both fiction and nonfiction, on the exploration of Mars!

Did you love the new movie The Martian, or the book by Andy Weir that it’s based on? Then come check out our display of books and movies, both fiction and nonfiction, on the exploration of Mars!

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Titles on display:

Mars Life by Ben Bova

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman

Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet by Rod Pyle

Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration by Buzz Aldrin

Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, From Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens

The Last Days on Mars (dvd)

The Martian Chronicles (dvd)

The Universe Season One (dvd)

The Universe Season Five (dvd)

American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time

1. Casablanca – 1942

2. Gone with the Wind – 1939

3. West Side Story – 1961

4. Roman Holiday – 1953

5. An Affair to Remember – 1957

6. The Way We Were – 1973

7. Doctor Zhivago – 1965

8. It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946

9. Love Story – 1970

10. City Lights – 1931

1. Casablanca – 1942

2. Gone with the Wind – 1939

3. West Side Story – 1961

4. Roman Holiday – 1953

5. An Affair to Remember – 1957

6. The Way We Were – 1973

7. Doctor Zhivago – 1965

8. It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946

9. Love Story – 1970

10. City Lights – 1931

11. Annie Hall – 1977

12. My Fair Lady – 1964

13. Out of Africa – 1985

14. The African Queen – 1951

15. Wuthering Heights – 1939

16. Singin’ in the Rain – 1952

17. Moonstruck – 1987

18. Vertigo – 1958

19. Ghost – 1990

20. From Here to Eternity – 1953

21. Pretty Woman – 1990

22. On Golden Pond – 1981

23. Now, Voyager – 1942

24. King Kong – 1933

25. When Harry Met Sally – 1989

26. The Lady Eve – 1941

27. The Sound of Music – 1965

28. The Shop Around the Corner – 1940

29. An Officer and a Gentleman – 1982

30. Swing Time – 1936

31. The King and I – 1956

32. Dark Victory – 1939

33. Camille – 1937

34. Beauty and the Beast – 1991

35. Gigi – 1958

36. Random Harvest – 1942

37. Titanic – 1997

38. It Happened One Night – 1934

39. An American in Paris – 1951

40. Ninotchka – 1939

41. Funny Girl – 1968

42. Anna Karenina – 1935

43. A Star is Born – 1954

44. The Philadelphia Story – 1940

45. Sleepless in Seattle – 1993

46. To Catch a Thief – 1955

47. Splendor in the Grass – 1961

48. Last Tango in Paris – 1972

49. The Postman Always Rings Twice – 1946

50. Shakespeare in Love – 1998

51. Bringing Up Baby – 1938

52. The Graduate – 1967

53. A Place in the Sun – 1951

54. Sabrina – 1954

55. Reds – 1981

56. The English Patient – 1996

57. Two for the Road – 1967

58. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – 1967

59. Picnic – 1955

60. To Have and Have Not – 1944

61. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – 1961

62. The Apartment – 1960

63. Sunrise – 1927

64. Marty – 1955

65. Bonnie and Clyde – 1967

66. Manhattan – 1979

67. A Streetcar Named Desire – 1951

68. What’s Up, Doc? – 1972

69. Harold and Maude – 1971

70. Sense and Sensibility – 1995

71. Way Down East – 1920

72. Roxanne – 1987

73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – 1947

74. Woman of the Year – 1942

75. The American President – 1995

76. The Quiet Man – 1952

77. The Awful Truth – 1937

78. Coming Home – 1978

79. Jezebel – 1939

80. The Sheik – 1921

81. The Goodbye Girl – 1977

82. Witness – 1985

83. Morocco – 1930

84. Double Indemnity – 1944

85. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing – 1955

86. Notorious – 1946

87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – 1988

88. The Princess Bride – 1987

89. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – 1966

90. The Bridges of Madison County – 1995

91. Working Girl – 1988

92. Porgy and Bess – 1959

93. Dirty Dancing – 1987

94. Body Heat – 1981

95. Lady and the Tramp – 1955

96. Barefoot in the Park – 1967

97. Grease – 1978

98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – 1939

99. Pillow Talk – 1959

100. Jerry Maguire – 1996

From the American Film Institute.

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate with a scary movie…

Celebrate with a scary movie…

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Birds

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)

Cloverfield

The Conjuring

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

Deliver Us from Evil

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

1408

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Fright Night

The Grudge

Halloween

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

The Innkeepers

The Innocents

Insidious

The Invisible Man

Jaws

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Magic

Mama

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

The New Daughter

Night of the Living Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Poltergeist

The Possession

Quarantine

The Ring

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rosemary’s Baby (2014)

The Ruins

Shutter

Silent Hill

Sinister

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

The Twilight Zone: Essential Episodes

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

We Are What We Are

White Noise

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

Skulls

Most Anticipated Book-to-Movie Adaptations of 2014

Everyone loves to see a great story modified for and celebrated on the silver screen. In a recent article, Publishers Weekly listed some of the most anticipated book-to-movie adaptations of 2014.

Everyone loves to see a great story modified for and celebrated on the silver screen. In a recent article, Publishers Weekly listed some of the most anticipated book-to-movie adaptations of 2014.

 

These highly anticipated titles include:

 

bodyartist

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

FarFrom

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (audio download)

gonegirl

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (audio download, CD book, eBook, large print book)

inherentvice

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

mostwantedman

A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré (CD book)

serena

Serena by Ron Rash (audio download)

twofacesofjanuary

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

unbroken

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (audio download, CD book, eBook, large print book)

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie

Cloverfield

The Conjuring

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

1408

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Fright Night

The Grudge

Halloween

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

House of Wax (1953)

House of Wax (2005)

The Innkeepers

Insidious

The Invisible Man

Jaws

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Magic

Mama

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

The New Daughter

Night of the Living Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Poltergeist

The Possession

Quarantine

The Ring

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby

The Ruins

Shutter

Silent Hill

Sinister

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

White Noise

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

Skulls

Or, enjoy a book about the paranormal and supernatural!

Oscar Nominees 2013: From Books to Movies

And the Nominees are…

And the Nominees are…

Did you know: You can place a reserve on a book even if it’s on order. You’ll be higher on the list when it arrives in our library!

dvdLincoln based on the book

bookTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Dearks Goodwin

dvdArgo based on the book  

bookArgo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most

Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio Mendez

and Matt Balglio

dvdLes Misérables based on the book

bookLes Misérables by Victor Hugo

dvdThe Silver Linings Playbook based on the book

bookThe Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

dvdLife of Pi based on the book

bookLife of Pi by Victor Hugo

dvdBeasts of the Southern Wild based on the book

bookJuicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar

Additional nominees:

dvdDjano Unchained

dvdZero Dark Thirty

dvdAmour

 

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie

The Cave

Cloverfield

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

The Descent

Devil

The Devil Inside

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Drag Me to Hell

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

Final Destination

1408

The Fourth Kind

Friday the 13th

Fright Night

The Grudge

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

House of Wax

Insidious

The Invisible Man

Jaws

Land of the Dead

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Magic

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

My Soul to Take

The New Daughter

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Piranha

Poltergeist

Quarantine

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby

The Ruins

Saw: The Final Chapter

Shutter

Silent Hill

The Sixth Sense

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

The Unborn

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

White Noise

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

 

Or, enjoy a book about the paranormal and supernatural!

Between the Covers: Film Noir

Get Between the Covers with one of these classic film noir movies and join the adult summer reading program!

Get Between the Covers with one of these classic film noir movies and join the adult summer reading program!

Act of Violence (1948)
An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men’s planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.

Angel Face (1952)
A psychotic woman planning on killing her stepmother for a large inheritance seduces a man into marriage hoping to blame him for the murder.

The Asphalt Jungle: City Under the City (1950)
An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist.

The Big Sleep (1946)
L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case…and a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.

Crime Wave (1954)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

Dark Passage (1947)
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Decoy (1946)
A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.

Detour (1945)
Hitchhiker Al Roberts encounters two sinister characters — one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman.

Dial M for Murder (1954)
A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man.

D.O.A. (1950)
A complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last few days of his life trying to find out who killed him–and why.

Double Indemnity (1944)
A woman seduces an insurance agent and convinces him to kill her husband so they can collect the insurance money.

House of Strangers (1949)
A favored son seeks revenge on his brothers after he is jailed and they drive the father to his death.

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
When a model is murdered, her sister joins forces with the chief suspect to find the real killer.

Illegal (1955)
After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele.

In a Lonely Place (1950)
A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi.

Key Largo (1948)
A disillusioned returning WWII veteran goes to visit the widow and father of an old war buddy in a Florida island hotel and finds that an infamous gangster has moved in and taken over the place.

Killer Bait (1949)
A bickering couple finds a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea.

Laura (1944)
Investigating the murder of a beautiful woman, a police detective finds himself falling in love with her.

Little Caesar (1931)
A career-criminal abandons small-time holdups to become a powerful mob boss.

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.

Marked Woman (1937)
A young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict a gang of racketeers, its czar, and his underlings.

Murder, My Sweet (1944)
A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict’s missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.

The Naked City (1948)
A squad of homicide detectives roams through the seamier parts of New York City as they solve a murder case.

Nightmare Alley (1947)
A dark story revolving around a carnival troupe, that features a carnival barker who turns into The Great Stanton, a mind-reader. His career and ambition get the best of him as he heads downward fast.

Possessed (1947)
A middle-aged woman gets involved with a callous lover, whose inattention finally drives her crazy.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A hitchhiker falls in love with a cafe waitress. Together they murder her husband and then their troubles begin.

The Prowler (1951)
A nefarious cop stalks a lonely, repressed Los Angeles housewife and decides to win her by killing her husband.

Scarlet Street (1945)
Homely, henpecked Chris Cross leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with the dangerously seductive young Kitty.

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
A young woman discovers her visiting “Uncle Charlie” may not be the man he seems to be.

Side Street (1950)
A struggling, young father-to-be gives in to temptation and steals money belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers. Every move he makes plunges him deeper into trouble, as he’s pursued and pursuing through the shadowy, sinister side of New York

Strangers on a Train (1951)
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other’s victim.

The Street With No Name (1948)
An undercover agent is sent to penetrate the inner circle of the notorious Stiles gang. Everything goes according to plan, until an informant inside the police department tips off Stiles.

Sudden Fear (1952)
A wealthy woman playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.

Suspicion (1941)
A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.

Tension (1949)
A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife’s lover.

They Live By Night (1949)
An escaped convict is injured and is helped by a woman with whom he has an ill-fated relationship.

Touch of Evil (1958)
In a bustling border town, a Mexican narcotics agent on his honeymoon investigates a car bombing to find a tangled web of corruption.

Where Danger Lives (1950)
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, becomes involved in the death of her husband, and has to flee with her to the Mexican border.

Whirlpool (1949)
A habitual shoplifter falls prey to a fraudulent hypnotist and winds up accused of murder, leaving her psychoanalyst husband to figure it out.