ACT Film Collection

Arts Council of Tamworth’s film program started almost as far back as the era of this phanakitoscope, back in the days of projectors and reels of film shipped from who-knows-where to Tamworth for one night only. As technology progressed, ACT began purchasing videos and then DVDs, including many foreign and indie films, and showing them at the Cook Memorial Library and the Moultonborough Library. These showings offered people in the Tamworth area a chance to get out for an evening and watch a movie together somewhere closer to home than Conway or Meredith. The movies, once shown, were added to the ACT film collection, which circulates through six local libraries—Tamworth, Chocorua, Madison, Sandwich, Moultonborough and Tuftonboro—enriching the libraries’ other film offerings. All of these films can be interlibrary-loaned between the libraries at any time. As the world kept changing, and the phanakitoscope was replaced by Netflix, the internet, Tevo and more, audience participation in our public showings dropped, and in 2009 we said a fond goodbye to our film program. The ACT film collection (see below) is still available through the libraries listed above.

Block A

Angel at my Table
Autumn Sonata
Bank Dick
Bon Voyage
Bonnie and Clyde
Brick (DVD)
Caramel (DVD)
Crucible
Duchess (DVD)
Duma (DVD)
Education of Little Tree
Footlight Parade
Gattaca
Grizzly Man (DVD)
History Boys (DVD)
Into the Wild (DVD)
Just Visiting
Legend of 1900
Man Who Came to Dinner
Metropolis
Monsoon Wedding
My Darling Clementine
Nasty Girl
Quiet American
Ridicule
Seven Samurai
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Slums of Beverly Hills
Tampopo
Tao of Steve
Three Seasons
Very Annie Mary

Block B

Afterglow
Away From Her (DVD)
Band’s Visit (DVD)
Barbarian Invasions
Butterfly (DVD)
Children of Heaven
Cries and Whispers
Dinner Rush
East is East
Garden State
Good Night, and Good Luck (DVD)
Graduate
Kagemusha
Koyla
La Lectrice
Little Miss Sunshine (DVD)
Margaret’s Museum
Man from Snowy River
Memento
Men with Guns
Mostly Martha
Painted Veil (DVD)
Ride the High Country
Royal Tenenbaums
Saving Grace
Son of Rambow (DVD)
Starter for 10 (DVD)
To Be or Not To Be
Tree of Wooden Clogs
Twelfth Night
Washington Square

Block C

Amélie
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Boy in the Striped Pajamas (DVD)
Castle, The
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Farewell, My Lovely
General, The  (Buster Keaton)
Ginger and Fred
Greenfingers
Junebug (DVD)
Last Orders
Lavender Hill Mob
Ma Vie en Rose
Nowhere in Africa
Oklahoma Kid
Pelle the Conqueror
Petrified Forest
Quinceanera (DVD)
Russian Ark
Searchers, The (John Wayne)
Secret Life of Words (DVD)
Seducing Dr. Lewis
Some Like it Hot
Station Agent
Story of Adele H.
Thank You For Smoking (DVD)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Under the Same Moon (DVD)
Volver (DVD)
You Can Count on Me

Block D

Black Book (DVD)
Blue (1)
Burnt by the Sun
Closely Watched Trains
Cyrano de Bergerac
Elvira Madigan
Golden Door (DVD)
Goodbye, Lenin!
Happy-Go-Lucky (DVD)
Heavenly Creatures
Iron Island (DVD)
Lost in Translation
Mighty Wind
Month by the Lake
Mozart Don Giovanni
Mrs. Dalloway
My Wife is an Actress
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Queen (DVD)
Red (3)
Shall We Dance?
Sling Shot
Smoke Signals
Songcatcher
Squid and the Whale (DVD)
Sugarbaby
Topsy Turvy
Vanya on 42nd Street
Vermont is for Lovers
Visitor (DVD)
Waiting for Guffman
White (2)

Block E

About Adam
Angels and Insects
Antonia’s Line
Burn After Reading (DVD)
Chasing Amy
Cold Comfort Farm
Cosi
Cup, The
Delicatessen (DVD)
Diving Bell & the Butterfly (DVD)
Everything is Illuminated (DVD)
Fargo
Ice Harvest (DVD)
Il Postino
In America
Jane Eyre
Kinky Boots (DVD)
Lone Star
Love Divided
No Man’s Land
Once Upon…When We Were…
Pan’s Labyrinth (DVD)
Real Women Have Curves
Roots (6 cassettes)
Secrets & Lies
State and Main
Trainspotting
Under the Sun
Whale Rider
Winter Guest

Block F

After Life
Bend it Like Beckham
Billy Elliot
Brideshead Revisited (DVD)
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Central Station
Color of Paradise
Cookie’s Fortune
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dish, The
Elizabeth
Gosford Park
Home at the End of the World
Italian, The (DVD)
Lars and the Real Girl (DVD)
Layer Cake (DVD)
Life is Beautiful
Little Voice
Lives of Others (DVD)
October Sky
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Red Violin
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Story of the Weeping Camel (DVD)
Straight Story
Talented Mr. Ripley
Tea with Mussolini
Two Family House
Waking Ned Devine
White Countess (DVD)