Foreign language film plays Friday

The Library of Congress Mount Pony Theater inside the Packard Campus of the National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper presents its first foreign language film Friday night at 7:30.

The molto bello (very beautiful) selection is the Oscar-winning “Cinema Paradiso,” (1988, Cristaldfilm) an endearing Italian film about the movies by director Giuseppe Tornatore.

Yes, there will be subtitles.

A film of love and longing, “Cinema Paradiso” is magic too, told in flashbacks through the eyes of young boy, teen and young man and then in real time as our protagonist, now a filmmaker, returns home to the theater of his youth. With Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi and Jacques Perrin. Two hours and three minutes.

Saturday at 2 in the Mount Pony Theater, it’s “Since You Went Away” (United Artists, 1944) with Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotton and Shirley Temple. Part of the LOC series, “Women in Wartime, Part I: the World War II Years,” the movie focuses on life on the home front.

Coming soon:
May 19, 7 p.m. “A Town Like Alice” (1956, Rank Organisation)
Memorial Day Weekend: NO SHOWS
May 26, 7 p.m. “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975, Allied Artists Pictures)
May 29, 7:30 p.m. “Three Came Home” (1950, 20th Century Fox)
May 30, 2 p.m. “The Sound of Music” (1965, Robert Wise Studios)
May 31, 2 p.m. “Sparrows” (1926, Pickford Corporation)

Make your free reservations Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. up to one week in advance of each show by calling: (540) 827-1079 ext. 79994 or (202) 707-9994. Don’t have reservations? Show up early to get on stand-by.