FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Saboteur"
2022-08-24 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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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.

Village Theatre Movie Times / Schedule (619-437-6161)

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

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Sweet Smell of Success"
2023-01-04 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.
January 4: Sweet Smell of Success (1957, 96 min)
A scathing, pungent, energy-charged dispatch from the dark wilds of 1950s Manhattan. An immoral press agent(Tony Curtis) sells his soul to a treacherous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) beginning a Machiavellian struggle for power, money and survival.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Seven Days in May"
2023-01-18 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 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.
January 18: Seven Days in May (1964, 117 min)
Rod (The Twilight Zone) Serling penned this suspenseful and provocative conspiracy thriller. A Colonel (Kirk Douglas) stumbles upon a deep-state plot led by a rogue General (Burt Lancaster) to nix a U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty. This film co-stars Frederic March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien and Martin Balsam.

CIFF Classic Film Series: "Casablanca" (1942)
2023-01-25 17:30 - 19:30 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Length: 102 minutes

Spoilers Book Club: "It's Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
2023-01-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Inspired by his own experiences, Ned Vizzini‘s 2006 novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story follows the adventures of a teenage Craig Gilner, who is checked into a psychiatric hospital after reaching out for help. Vizzini’s book, which critics found believable and honest, was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults in 2007. It was brought to film audiences in 2010’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story, starring Keir Gilchrist, Emma Roberts, and Zach Galifianakis. As Craig, Gilcrist brought the character’s struggles and warmth to the screen in a film that sidestepped psych-ward comedy clichés and leaned into its strong cast and the tender moments between the three.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Day for Night (La Nuit Americaine)"
2023-02-01 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.
February 1: Day for Night (La Nuit Americaine) (1973, 115 min)
Francois Truffaut celebrates the chaos and creativity of moviemaking in his irreverent love letter to the cinema. Truffaut stars as a seasoned director of a tawdry melodrama who must navigate the off-screen dramas that swirl around him – an impetuous leading man (Jean-Pierre Leandro), a fading diva (Valentina Cortese) and a troubled starlet (Jacqueline Bisset). French with English subtitles.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Lightning (Inazuma)" Primary tabs
2023-02-15 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.
February 15: Lightning (Inazuma) (1952, 90 min)
Mikio Naruse’s eloquent, slow-burn rebellion against social conventions is considered his masterpiece. Hideko Takamine portrays a perky bus conductor frustrated with the tensions in her squabbling family who breaks free to make a go of it on her own. This film is in Japanese with English subtitles.

Spoilers Book Club: "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
2023-02-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that are 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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Three female African-American mathematicians provide crucial calculations for NASA’s space race against the Soviets, all while dealing with the racist and sexist assumptions of their white co-workers.
Director
Theodore Melfi
Production year
2016
Rating
PG
Studio
Twentieth Century Fox
Runtime
127 minutes
Cast
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons

"Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story" Screening & Q&A
2024-07-13 10:30 - 22:30 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) is thrilled to present “Gidget Comes to Coronado,” a special weekend featuring two events with Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman, the iconic surfer girl and real-life inspiration for the Gidget novel, TV shows, and film.

The celebration continues on Saturday, July 13, with a screening of the 2010 documentary, Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story at Coronado’s Village Theatre. Filmmaker Brian Gillogly, Kohner-Zuckerman, and surf legend Jericho Poppler will participate in a post-screening Q&A. Limited VIP tickets include a copy of the bestselling book Gidget, written by Kohner-Zuckerman’s father Frederick Kohner and inspired by Kathy’s teenage summer in Malibu, along with a book signing. The doors open at 10:30 am and the film begins at 11 am.
“Growing up in Southern California, Gidget was a part of our pop culture,” states Merridee Book, CIFF CEO & Artistic Director, “Hosting the ‘real’ Gidget is such an honor! These events represent a quintessential blend of the California surf culture of the ’50s and ’60s, breaking the barrier of a male-dominated sport, inspiring a new generation of female surfers, and celebrating an era gone by.”
Proceeds from these events and the raffle will benefit the Coronado Island Film Festival, a 501(c)(3) organization. Raffle items include a Surf Bike from Shaka Surf Bikes. Those who cannot attend can support CIFF by donating online; through July 11, every $25.00 donation will receive one raffle entry.

Animation Celebration: Short Film Festival
2024-07-17 18:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library’s First Annual ANIMATION CELEBRATION, dedicated to showcasing an eclectic spectrum of styles and techniques in this vibrant and imaginative art form. This celebration will take place in two parts. The first will take place Wednesday, July 17 at 6 p.m. The second, all-ages focused celebration will take place on Saturday, July 20 at 2 p.m. and feature shorts to entertain the young and old.
Highlights of the festival include:

Closed Mondays (1974), Will Vinton’s groundbreaking, Oscar-winning claymation;
Paradise (Paradis) (1984), a surreal fable utilizing multiple exposures, cell animation and pinholes;
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975), a psychedelic trip to an amusement park traversing time, dreams and memories; and
Betty Boop in Snow White (1933), the Boop-oop-adoop girl stars in this wacky take featuring the rotoscoping of Cab Calloway.

Other titles include: Hunger (1974); The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979); Is it Always Right to be Right (1970); Logorama (2016); Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992).
This event will supersede Film Forum for this week only.

AI International Film Festival Shorts - "AI in Films - What Next"
2024-07-18 18:30 - 21:30 | Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Thursday, July 18, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Coronado’s Village Theatre, film enthusiasts will gather to honor independent short films in “AI in Films – What Next,” an AI International Film Festival Shorts event.
With judges from around the globe, the AI International Film Festival showcases international independent films, bringing creative filmmakers together to share their visions and skills about how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping our lives and reshaping cinema.
Tickets for the AI International Film Festival Shorts are now available at tickettailor.com and aifilmfest.org. Students 17 and older, as well as faculty, AI and film professionals can order tickets free of charge.
“14 great films have been selected to be screened out of the 73 films from 24 countries which were submitted for the month ending June 2024. Film crews will discuss their films and the future of AI in filmmaking with the audience, followed by an Awards Show,” says Bert Holland, AI International Film Festival Executive Director.
“The AI International Film Festival Shorts offers a diverse selection of international independent films that focus on the societal effects of Artificial Intelligence, as well as those produced using AI tools. Highlights include a plot-twisting experimental film from Iran, a poetic art film from China, a robotic LGBT film from USA, a captivating music video from an Azerbaijani filmmaker, and a prescient flick about mind-bending AI from Argentina,” says Holland.

The AI International Film Festival is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports creative independent and student filmmakers whose work educates the public and students about the potential effects of Artificial Intelligence on Society and Filmmaking. The festival strongly supports the rights and fair treatment of content creators and talent regarding compensation and intellectual property everywhere in acting, screenwriting, animation, directing, production, and all other filmmaking-related activities.
The AI International Film Festival encourages open discussion regarding the use of AI tools and how they affect people in the industry. The festival is committed to nurturing talent and providing opportunities for independent and student filmmakers from diverse communities worldwide.
