Movie Lovers
The Movie Lovers Club meets once a month, on the second Tuesday of the month, in the Senior Lounge, first floor of the Ridgewood Village Hall at 1:30pm. We will watch little-known but excellent movies.
Everyone is invited to attend.
The club chairman is: Dick Oswald 447-4053.
Movie Lovers Club News
The next Movie Club Meeting is scheduled for TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2026 at 1:30pm in the Senior Lounge of the Ridgewood Village Hall.
This month we will watch "The Lady in the Van" starring Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings and Jim Broadbent.
Directed by Nicholas Hytner (2016, 104 min.)
This movie tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman who Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden house.
She stayed there for fifteen years. As the story develops, Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot.
She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.