Film Club: The Corpse Bride

Philbrick Hall's Film Club is screening The Corpse Bride at the Parkway Central Library on Friday, October 23, at 2 PM. It's a stop-motion feature from Tim Burton, and the session is aimed at adult and young adult audiences.

The story is a gothic comedy of errors. A shy groom practices his wedding vows in the woods, unaware that a deceased young woman is listening in. She rises from the grave convinced he's proposed to her, and from there the plot pulls him between the world of the living and the world of the dead. It's the kind of thing that works well on a big screen, especially with the stop-motion animation that gives the characters their specific, spindly look.

If you haven't spent much time there, the screening is in Philbrick Hall, Room 108, inside the Parkway Central Library at 1901 Vine Street in Philadelphia. It's a public library space, so it's a low-key way to catch a movie in the middle of a weekday afternoon. The session is presented by the library's Film Club, which runs screenings like this for adults and young adults.

It's a Friday afternoon showing, so it's more of a matinee than a night out. The screening starts at 2 PM on October 23 at the Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street.