Concerts in the Park Exhibit Opening Reception and Video Premiere
2022-05-26 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join us at the opening reception for the Library’s Concerts in the Park exhibit. There will also be a premiere of a short documentary, produced by Coronado based Emmy winner, Jane Mitchell, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Concerts in the Park.

FILM FORUM Coronado: "Yesterday"
2022-06-01 18:00 - 20:45 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM Coronado, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:45 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph de Lauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
June 1: “Yesterday” (2019)
1 hour, 56 minutes
Romantic comedy starring Himesh Patel as struggling musician Jack Malik, who suddenly finds himself the only person who has ever heard of The Beatles and becomes famous after reintroducing their songs to the world. Also starring Lily James, Ed Sheeran, and Kate McKinnon; directed by Danny Boyle with screenplay by Richard Curtis, based on a story by Curtis and Jack Barth.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Mr. Arkadin"
2022-06-15 18:00 - 20:45 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
June 15: Mr. Arkadin (1955, 95 minutes)
One of cinema’s greatest mysteries. Orson Welles directed and stars in this baroque, globe-trotting meditation on truth and identity. Playing like a pulp-noir Citizen Kane, the film focuses on the daunting efforts of a hired American smuggler to reconstruct the murky past of financier Gregory Arkadin (Welles). Has the reclusive magnate something to hide? (Co-starring Michael Redgrave, Paola Mori and Katina Paxinou)

Classic Series: "The Glenn Miller Story" (1953)
2022-06-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join us every month for our Classic Film Series!

Enjoy watching Classic Films on the Big Screen the way they were meant to be seen!
Doors open at 5pm | Film start at 5:30pm.
Tickets are on sale now for all movies.
Price includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer or a non-alcoholic beverage.
CIFF HAS A NO REFUND POLICY (ticket transfers are allowed)

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan
Director: Anthony Mann
Writer: Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
Length: 115 minutes

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Ugetsu"
2022-07-06 18:00 - 20:45 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
July 6: Ugestsu (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) (1953, 94 minutes)
Kenji Mizoguchi crafts an eerie netherworld for his exquisite supernatural fable about the folly of men and the women who suffer. The delirious narrative concerns two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. (In Japanese w/ English subtitles)

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "The Trial"
2022-07-20 18:00 - 20:45 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
July 20: The Trial (1962, 118 minutes)
Glittering with a surreal sheen, Orson Welles directed this nightmarish version of Kafka’s apocalyptic novel. An ineffectual bank clerk (Anthony Perkins) is trapped in the absurdist mechanisms of an unforgiving bureaucracy. Co-stars Welles and Jeanne Moreau. (60th Anniversary)

Screening of "A Plastic Ocean"
2022-07-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join Emerald Keepers for a screening of an award-winning film in the Village Theater at 5:30pm. A Plastic Ocean explores the fragile state of our oceans and uncovers alarming truths about the consequences of our disposable lifestyle. The film documents the global effects of plastic pollution and highlights workable technologies and innovative solutions that everyone – from governments to individuals – can do, to create a cleaner and greener ocean.
Panel discussion immediately following.
For tickets, click here.

All proceeds will be donated to Emerald Keepers!

In 2009, a team of researchers traveled deep into the Pacific Ocean to study a solid mass of plastic. Instead, they stumbled upon a soup of free-floating microplastics, a discovery that shocked the team and defied all expectations.
The discovery prompted a four-year global odyssey and “deep dive” into the issue of plastics in our oceans, and a search for the solutions that can save us. A Plastic Ocean is the telling of this team’s winding and courageous journey.

CIFF July Classic Series Screening: "Cinema Paradiso" (1989)
2022-07-27 17:00 - 19:30 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Enjoy watching Classic Films on the Big Screen the way they were meant to be seen!
Doors open at 5pm | Film start at 5:30pm.
Tickets are on sale now for all movies.
Price includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer or a non-alcoholic beverage.
CIFF HAS A NO REFUND POLICY (ticket transfers are allowed)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema’s projectionist.

Cast: Antonella Attili, Enzo Cannavale, Philippe Noiret
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer: Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli
Length: 155 minutes

Spoilers Book Club: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
2022-07-30 14:30 - 17:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
“Cyrano”

2021
PG-13
2h 3m

Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Paperhouse"
2022-08-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
August 3: Paperhouse (1989, 92 min)
Bernard Rose’s striking and surreal fable blurs the line between dream and reality. An artistic, disillusioned girl(Charlotte Burke) immerses herself in a world of notebook illustrations. Through her feverish dreams, she can enter this otherworld of her own creation. Co-stars Ben Cross and Glenne Headly.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Saboteur"
2022-08-24 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
August 24: Saboteur (1942, 108 min)
Alfred Hitchcock’s slyly satirical musings on patriotism and paranoia. A beleaguered defense plant worker (Robert Cummings) is ensnared in a wartime espionage plot that carries him on a coast-to-coast trek from the California desert to the Statue of Liberty. With Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger and Norman Lloyd.

Spoilers Book Club: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
2022-08-27 14:30 - 17:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Spoilers Book Club
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been made into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
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Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression.
The film adaptation is from 1992 and stars John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Floating Weeds"
2022-09-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
September 7: Floating Weeds (1959, 118 min) Japanese with English subtitles
A Technicolor masterwork of profound humanity, filled with striking compositions, buoyant humor and sublime poetry. Yasujiro Ozu creates a dreamy, quietly simmering atmosphere of emotional tension in his tale of the master of a traveling troupe of actors who reunites with an old flame and their son, enraging his current mistress.

Spoilers Book Club: "The Pursuit of Happyness" by Chris Gardner
2022-09-10 14:00 - 17:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
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At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city’s working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, “HO-tels,” soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.
Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city’s invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.
More than a memoir of Gardner’s financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family’s cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris"
2022-09-28 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month (*except this month, which will be the first and fourth Wednesdays) at 6:00 p.m. in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.

September 28: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022, 115 min, rated PG)
Lesley Manville headlines this whimsical, effervescent frock fantasy. A plucky housekeeper (Manville) treks to the chic halls of haute couture to realize her dream of owning a Dior gown. Co-starring Isabelle Huppert and Jason Isaacs. Director Anthony Fabian based this film on the 1958 novel Mrs. ‘Arris Goes To Paris written by Paul Gallico.

RELATED:
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”: A Fun Retro Contrasting Adventure

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "The Hawks and the Sparrows"
2022-10-05 18:00 - 20:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
October 5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966, 90 min, Italian with English subtitles)
Controversial Pier Paolo Pasolini directed this subversive comic odyssey focused on a father (Italian screen legend Toto) and his slow-witted son who take a time-traveling stroll through life accompanied by a talking “left-wing intellectual” crow spouting Marxist philosophies and social critiques.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Loves of a Blonde"
2022-10-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
October 19: Loves of a Blonde (1966, 90 min, Czech with English subtitles)
A beguiling blend of humor and heartbreak, this fresh and funny satire of generational restlessness from Milos Forman was a high point of the Czech New Wave. A naïve girl from a provincial industrial town is seduced by a rakish piano player and journeys from the first pangs of love to eventual disappointment.

Coronado Island Film Festival 2022
2022-11-09 | Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Island, a place that has long served as home away from home to Hollywood’s finest since the golden era of film, continues to uphold and celebrate its chic charm and rich cinematic history even today. The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) is proud to be a part of the Island’s movie magic legacy and is back for its 7th year with a five day event running November 9-13, 2022.
The festival, returning as a fully in-person event, has curated a slate of immersive programming including studio and independent films, engaging panels, parties, and of course the premiere event, the Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards Gala, hosted in the Hotel del Coronado’s iconic Crown Room, all of which thread together a wonderful celebration of the art and science of cinematic storytelling.
LEARN MORE:
The Coronado Island Film Festival Announces 2022 Program Slate

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "The Manchurian Candidate"
2022-11-16 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
November 16: The Manchurian Candidate (1962, 126 min)
Visionary director John Frankenheimer’s jazzy, daring, delirious, and wickedly satirical political thriller. A U.S. Army sergeant (Laurence Harvey), a POW during the Korean War, is programmed to become a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy. Frank Sinatra is a fellow POW who uncovers the sinister plot. Angela Lansbury gives a bravura performance as the Machiavellian wife of a staunch anti-Communist senator. With Janet Leigh.

Totally '90s Teen Movie
2022-11-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Watch a throwback teen movie from the 1990s and eat ’90s snacks!
This event is only for teens in 6th through 12th grades.

Free Thanksgiving Day Movie
2022-11-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Enjoy a free movie on Thanksgiving Day presented by the Optimist Club of Coronado.
Movie starts at noon. Doors open at 11:15am.

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CIFF Classic Film Series
2022-11-30 17:30 - 19:30 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join us every month for our Classic Film Series!

Enjoy watching Classic Films on the Big Screen the way they were meant to be seen!
Doors open at 5pm | Film starts at 5:30pm.
Tickets are on sale now for all movies.
Price includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer or a non-alcoholic beverage.
CIFF HAS A NO REFUND POLICY (ticket transfers are allowed)

November 30: “The Holiday” (2006)

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "The Magician"
2022-12-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
December 7: The Magician (1958, 102 min)
Ingmar Bergman has a few tricks up his sleeve with this lusty, darkly comic tale of chicanery that blends bawdy bedroom farce with a diabolically clever battle of wits between faith and reason. An itinerant mesmerist (Max von Sydow) has his magic confronted by a skeptical, rational medical adviser (Gunnar Bjornstrand). With Ingrid Thulin. Swedish with English subtitles.

Children's Movie Mondays: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
2022-12-19 15:30 - 17:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s tale by Dr. Seuss, the reclusive green Grinch (Jim Carrey) decides to ruin Christmas for the cheery citizens of Whoville. Reluctantly joined by his hapless dog, Max, the Grinch comes down from his mountaintop home and sneaks into town to swipe everything holiday-related from the Whos. However, the bitter grump finds a hitch in his plans when he encounters the endearing Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen).
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "My Tender and Affectionate Beast"
2022-12-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.
December 21: My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1958, 102 min)
Rich in imagery and atmosphere, Emil Loteanu’s feature is an adapted version of Anton Chekov’s novel of innocence corrupted, The Shooting Party. A naïve but ambitious peasant girl is willingly led astray by the bored gentry in this subtle critique of an aristocracy steeped in decadence, lust, deceit, and corruption. This film is in Russian with English subtitles.

CIFF Classic Series: "Love Actually" (2003)
2022-12-28 17:30 - 20:00 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
runtime 135 minutes
