Do you like to chat about movies? Participants view each film on their own and then join a group discussion and critique via Zoom. Movies are selected through discussion and a decision of Chat participants. Join the Movie Chat and bring your recommendations! This week’s movies are:

The Big Sleep rated 7.9/10 (1946) Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy general to stop his daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed over gambling debts. With help from another daughter, he finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, and organized crime.

• Director: Howard Hawks

• Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Becall and John Ridgely

The Third Man rated 8.1/10 (1949) Pulp novelist Holly Martins is invited to shadowy, postwar Vienna by an ex-school friend Harry Lime who has offered him a job. When Holly arrives and discovers Lime dead, he gets conflicting replies to questions and decides to investigate Lime’s death himself.

• Director: Carol Reed

• Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton and Alida Valli

Copies of these movies are usually available on DVD at the Edgewater Branch library for checkout with your library card or you can watch them online through a streaming service of your choice.

Registration is required. You will receive an email with the link to join the online Zoom discussion group.

This program is offered in partnership with the Edgewater Branch Library.