Guilderland Library Notes for Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Voulez-vous voir un film?

Among the 18,000 or so DVDs that you can borrow from Guilderland Public Library’s collection are some 800 videos in languages other than English. These are not English-language works overdubbed in, for example, Korean or Russian, but native-language productions from around the world.

To make it easy for you to find and browse these videos, GPL has established a special “World Cinema Collection” as part of the DVD section you’re already familiar with.  This collection features videos in Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indic (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish), and Spanish.  Most are subtitled in English.

An International section offers films in Albanian, Arabic, Bhutanese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kazajo, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Mongolian, Northern Sotho, Pashto, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Thai, Tamashek, Tupi, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Zulu. Many of these, too, are English subtitled.

Please come in and browse the world, or go online to www.guilpl.org, and search for your favorite foreign-language title. We are sure you’ll enjoy.

“Do you want to see a movie?” in my best high school French. 

Classic film

On Thursday, June 26, at 6:30 p.m., join us for one of Billy Wilder’s more manic movies, The Flat on the big screen in GPL’s Helderberg room.

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray are the stars in this film.

The plot is simple, a corporate middle-manager tries to rise in his company’s hierarchy by allowing its executive to use his apartment for, er, midday meetings.  Complications naturally follow, and our hero unwittingly ends up in a romance of his own.

Popcorn? Of course!

Library info

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