Join us for a movie screening and discussi on that is part of the 2021 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival\, co-spo nsored by Montgomery County Public Libraries. \; John Edgar Wideman is this year's Festival Honoree.
\nFor more information on all the Fes tival events\, which run through October 30\, 2021\, please see \;http://fscottfestival.org/ \; Reg istration via the festival web site is encouraged\, but not required.
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\nThe Festival will show \;Gatsby in Connecticut \, \;followed by a discussion between film-maker Robert Steven William s and Fitzgerald scholar Walter Raubicheck\, a featured participant in the film. The discussion will be moderated by Jackson R. Bryer. \;
\n< p>Gatsby in Connecticut: \;The Untold Story\, covers F. Scott and Zeld a Fitzgerald's summer of 1920 in Westport\, Connecticut. \; It feature s Sam Waterston (who played Nick Carraway in the 1972 Robert Redford film version of \;The Great Gatsby) and is narrated by Keir Dullea (star of such famous films as \;2010: A Space Odyssey \;and \;David an d Lisa). Selected by \;The New Yorker \;as one of the 36 Best Film s of 2020\, the documentary explores the connection between the Fitzgerald s and Westport. One of the settings for Fitzgerald's second novel\, \; The Beautiful and Damned\, has long been acknowledged to be Westport\; but \, as the documentary shows\, when the recently married Fitzgeralds spent five-months in the summer of 1920 in Westport\, they lived in a small hous e next door to a gigantic mansion on Long Island Sound whose wealthy owner threw extravagant parties. Most scholars and readers have assumed that Fi tzgerald's inspiration for \;The Great Gatsby\, published in April 192 5\, was based on the time he and Zelda lived on Long Island from October 1 922 to April 1924\; but \;Gatsby in Connecticut \;poses the intrig uing question: what if the events of \;The Great Gatsby \;can be t raced instead to Westport\, Connecticut? It is a controversial subject and the film presents the argument for Westport and lets the viewer decide. T he film was selected for ten film festivals in 2020&ndash\;&ndash\;includi ng those in Las Vegas\, South Europe\, Madrid\, and Garden State&ndash\;&n dash\;and it won the Best New England Film Award at the Mystic Film Festiv al. \; Since its release\, \;Gatsby in Connecticut \;has becom e a much-discussed film among Fitzgerald scholars and the general public.& nbsp\;\n\nTo check out other MCPL virtual programs - \;< a href="https://mcpl.link/VirtualPrograms">https://mcpl.link/VirtualProgra ms \;
\nMany of Mr. Wideman's works are in electronic and/or paper format in the MCPL Collection. \; Search our catalog at \;< a href="http://montgomerycountymd.gov/library">http://montgomerycountymd.g ov/library \;
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