Glen Lake Film Festival launches Monday nights

From staff reports

The Glen Lake Film Festival, a new addition to Glen Arbor this summer, will celebrate four “book-to-movie” screen classics on Monday nights at 8 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Township Hall.

The festival launches July 17 with Legends of the Fall. Michigan’s own, Jim Harrison wrote this book in Leelanau County. The 1994 film takes place in the 1900s and follows three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana and how they are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.

July 24 features The Big Sleep. The first film version of the classic noir novel by Raymond Chandler was created in 1946 and starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he’s seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

On July 31, catch Charlotte’s Web. 
E.B. White’s classic story was made into an animated classic in 1973. A gentle and wise grey spider with a flair for promotion pledges to save a young pig from slaughter for dinner food. This film is sure to please all ages.

August 7 features Breakfast at Tiffany’s. This classic film starring Audrey Hepburn with music by Henry Mancini is based on the book written by Truman Capote. A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

The Glen Lake Film Festival is sponsored in partnership by Forest Gallery, the Cottage Book Shop and the Glen Lake Community Library.