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Five Things to Do in Collingswood This Week: 11/26/12 to 12/1/12

This week in Collingswood you can: catch a meaningful film, learn how to be a better listener, share fellowship and suds, help the needy and help yourself to some new duds!

Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library Bob Pileggi will present on the fundamental aspects of mindfulness, and how learning to be "more present to ourselves and the other person we’re speaking with" can help us "more compassionately and effectively say what we really mean, and how we can listen more effectively to others."  Patch's own GLBTQ blogger Robb C. Sewell wrote more about this event here. Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library Collingswood Movie Club is led by Patch cinema blogger Robert Castle, who hosts a monthly presentation and discussion of meaningful movies on the fourth Tuesday of every month in the Collingswood Public Library. This month's selection is the 1991 Richard Linklater film, …

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Five Things for This Week: 9/24/12 to 9/30/12

There's lots of stuff to do this week, from the $27 shopping event to the Blessing of the Animals. Plus: a school board meeting, movie night, and marching band contest.

1. Collingswood Board of Education Monthly Meeting Monday, Sept. 24 - 7 p.m. at Zane North All-Purpose Room Come find out the latest from the elected and appointed leaders of your school district. The meeting agenda is typically published a few hours before the meeting, so check back on the board website throughout the day Monday. 2. Collingswood Movie Club Tuesday, Sept. 24 - 7 p.m. at the Collingswood Public Library Patch movie blogger Robert Castle takes you inside one of his favorite films, Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, the existential drama starring Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, and Anjelica Huston. Allen netted two Oscar nominations for the film, one each for writing and directing. 3. $27 on the 27th Shopping Event Thursday, …

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Five Things for This Week: 8/27/12 - 9/1/12

Your weekly calendar of events includes a pair of important borough meetings Monday night and a pair of great movies.

Most of the action this week happens early on this week, with the Planning Board and School Board meetings running head-to-head Monday night after a blood drive. The week rounds out with a pair of great movies, one for grown-ups and one for kids. 1. Blood Drive Mon., Aug. 27: 2-7 p.m., St. John's Church Pre-register online or call the parish office at 856-858-0298 to schedule your donation. Bring ID and drink plenty of fluids beforehand. Eat iron-rich foods (red meat, fish, poultry, broccoli, beans, raisins and prunes) before and after your donation. 2. Planning Board Meeting Mon., Aug. 27: 7 p.m., Borough Hall, 3rd Floor Come see what the Planning Board has in store for the future of the borough at its monthly meeting. 3. School Board …

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Five Things for This Week: 6/24/12 to 6/30/12

This week: movie club, mummers performance, and possibly the final word on basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin.

1. Collingswood Board of Education Meeting Monday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. Zane North School All-Purpose Room Among the issues on the agenda tonight could be a decision on the fate of high school basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin. 2. Collingswood Movie Club Tuesday, June 26 at 7 p.m. Collingswood Public Library This month's selection is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Come for the movie, and stay for the discussion led by Collingswood Patch cinema blogger, Robert Castle. 3. Summer Mummers Wednesday, June 27 at 7 p.m. Powell Lane Plaza at the Lumberyard Featured performers are the Fralinger String Band. Bring a chair and enjoy special discounts for Powell Lane shoppers. 4. Mr. Malcolm Presents Wednesday, June 27 at 7 p.m. Collingswood…

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Kubrick's "The Killing": 7 P.M. at the Public Library

Tonight's film, an early Kubrick movie, deconstructs the heist genre, says Movie Club founder (and Patch blogger) Robert Castle.

The Killing isn't a typical heist movie, says Collingswood Movie Club founder Robert Castle. Rather than glorifying an elaborately planned crime caper and the daring personalities who would execute it, the 1956 film, one of Kubrick's earliest commercial works, deconstructs the genre. "It's about what happens when people get in the way," Castle says. Even in classifying The Killing as film noir—although it was released before the genre had even been so termed—Castle says critics reward Kubrick's instincts in breaking down the elements of the form. The story is told in a nonlinear fashion, there's a femme fatale, and yes, there are bloody consequences for being caught up in such a crime, but in Kubrickian fashion, he manages to subvert the …

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Movie Club Treats Collingswood to Classic Cinema

Local critic Bob Castle believes in connections, conversations, and bringing people a taste of the new and unexpected.

Too short on cash to make a night at the Loews--or just can't fnd anything on the marquee worth taking in? The Collingswood arts community is getting a new monthly freebie with Movie Club. On the fourth Tuesday of every month, Collingswood resident Bob Castle presents a classic film in the the meeting room at the Collingswood library followed by a brief discussion. To call Castle a film buff almost seems insufficient. For a quarter-century, he's been delivering film criticism, whether in his own fanzine, top film journals, or the high school classroom in which he teaches. Castle was even invited to comment on the most recent DVD release of The Caine Mutiny. The idea for movie club arose from a night course on film he taught at Haddon …

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