Hillsborough Classic Film Society
Presents Its Holiday
Film . . .
Sunday, December 21 2025
2PM
DATE CHANGE
ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
MARGARET LANE
HILLSBOROUGH, NC
CITY LIGHTS
Criterion Review: “City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form. The result was the epitome of his art and the crowning achievement of silent comedy”
Our Speaker
Francesca Talenti: Francesca is a Professor Emerita of Media Production at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a filmmaker and animator, a director and a media designer who has exhibited her work from The Folger and the Guthrie (design, Hamlet, Pericles), to Sundance, to PBS National, by way of Mumbai, Göteborg, Casablanca, and many others. She has won 18 awards and has received numerous grants. She's led the discussion for us on Vertigo (2019); Top Hat (2022); The Searchers (2023) ; West Side Story (2024); and a Christmas program of Chaplin films back in our second year of operation, 2019.
www.FrancescaTalenti.com
PLEASE REGISTER HERE
FREE! FREE POPCORN TOO!!
SPEAKERS LIST (live link)
CLICK HERE TO MAKE COMMENTS
CLICK HERE TO BE PUT ON MAILING LIST: RSVP
Movie titles that are in bold blue have live links to film information
The 2025-2026 Schedule
Sept. 14 Tarkovsky's Mirror, speaker Gustavo Furtado
Oct. 5 Night of the Hunter, speaker Rose Steptoe
Nov. 2 M, speaker Jeffrey Stern
Dec. 7 City Lights, speaker Francesca Talenti
(The December movie will be shown in the
Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough.)
Jan. 25 The Conformist, speaker Gary Hawkins
Feb. 8 Orson Welles' Macbeth, speaker Diana Newton
March, April, and May. No dates are fixed yet for these films
Gospel According to St. Matthew, speaker Henry Veggian
Au Hazard Balthazar, speaker Tom Whiteside
Taxi Driver, speaker Gray Underwood
We are partnering with the Passmore Center. We are indebted to their staff for their gracious and professional help.
2PM
DATE CHANGE
ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
MARGARET LANE
HILLSBOROUGH, NC
CITY LIGHTS
Criterion Review: “City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form. The result was the epitome of his art and the crowning achievement of silent comedy”
Our Speaker
Francesca Talenti: Francesca is a Professor Emerita of Media Production at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a filmmaker and animator, a director and a media designer who has exhibited her work from The Folger and the Guthrie (design, Hamlet, Pericles), to Sundance, to PBS National, by way of Mumbai, Göteborg, Casablanca, and many others. She has won 18 awards and has received numerous grants. She's led the discussion for us on Vertigo (2019); Top Hat (2022); The Searchers (2023) ; West Side Story (2024); and a Christmas program of Chaplin films back in our second year of operation, 2019.
www.FrancescaTalenti.com
PLEASE REGISTER HERE
FREE! FREE POPCORN TOO!!
SPEAKERS LIST (live link)
CLICK HERE TO MAKE COMMENTS
CLICK HERE TO BE PUT ON MAILING LIST: RSVP
Movie titles that are in bold blue have live links to film information
The 2025-2026 Schedule
Sept. 14 Tarkovsky's Mirror, speaker Gustavo Furtado
Oct. 5 Night of the Hunter, speaker Rose Steptoe
Nov. 2 M, speaker Jeffrey Stern
Dec. 7 City Lights, speaker Francesca Talenti
(The December movie will be shown in the
Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough.)
Jan. 25 The Conformist, speaker Gary Hawkins
Feb. 8 Orson Welles' Macbeth, speaker Diana Newton
March, April, and May. No dates are fixed yet for these films
Gospel According to St. Matthew, speaker Henry Veggian
Au Hazard Balthazar, speaker Tom Whiteside
Taxi Driver, speaker Gray Underwood
We are partnering with the Passmore Center. We are indebted to their staff for their gracious and professional help.
