Sunday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m.—MIDDLEBURY— The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival presents the compelling drama “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. as its featured January film for the MNFF 2018/19 Winter/Spring Screening Series at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. One distinctive feature will be shown every month, November through May. The series retains its exclusive focus on prominent work by first- and second-time filmmakers.
A deftly made film, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel, in this true story of the best-selling celebrity biographer who made her living in the 1970s and 80s profiling women like Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception and forgery on a grand scale.
Tickets are $13 and available at the Town Hall Theater Box Office, by phone at 802-382-9222 or online at townhalltheater.org. The theater is located at 68 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury.
