Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy!
The week we’re focusing on upbeat and light hearted movies with a political bent; an upbeat album the celebrates America and a fall ambient video.
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First off the music, this week an album:
America, The Dream Goes On (1985) by The Boston Pops with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Williams conducting
The first song on the album is:
Fanfare for the Common Man
The other songs on the album are, in order of playback: America, The Dream Goes On, The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, This Land Is Your Land, America, The Beautiful, Rodeo: Hoe-Down, American Salute, American Medley, When The Saints Go Marchin’ In & Prayer Of Thanksgiving.
Available Formats: You can stream the album through the library app Hoopla.
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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week, as mentioned, we’ve got two light hearted movies from the 1990s:
My Fellow Americans (1996) Trailer:
Available Formats: You can check out the DVD from the library or stream the movie from the usual online sources.
About The Movie: My Fellow Americans is a lighthearted film thatopens by introducing two political rivals Russell Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner). The two men run against each other for president twice; Kramer wins the first time and at the end of his term is defeated by Douglas who serves his term and is then defeated by Kramer’s former vice president William Haney (Dan Aykroyd).
When a bribery scandal involving Haney and a defense contractor threatens to become public, Haney and his advisers attempt to shift the blame onto the two former presidents. Before Kramer and Douglas can defend themselves, they become targets of an assassination attempt and are forced to flee for their lives.
The two longtime rivals reluctantly join forces and embark on a cross-country journey to uncover evidence that will clear their names and expose the corruption within the current administration. Along the way, their misadventures bring them into contact with ordinary Americans, giving them an unexpected opportunity to see how their presidential policies have affected the people they once governed.
So, the movie really is a road trip film following Kramer and Douglas as the try and get out of the mess they are in! The film also starts Lauren Bacall and Wilford Brimley
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Dave (1993) Trailer
Available Formats: You can check out the DVD from the library or stream the movie from the usual online sources.
About The Movie: The film Dave is a light-hearted film, like My Fellow Americans. It stars Kevin Kline as Dave Kovic a man who runs a temp agency and also, by a fluke of fate, bears an uncanny resemblance to the current president of the United States – Bill Mitchell. Because of his resemblance to the president the White House hires him to occasionally impersonate the president at public events.
And then President Mitchell, who has been involved in an affair; has a stroke and his scheming chief of staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) asks Dave to impersonate the president while he recovers as a matter duty and doing what is best for the country – while really Alexander is scheming to expand his power – and Dave goes along with being instructed by Alexander for a little while and then decides to make his own decisions and do the presidential job as he sees fit much to Alexander’s chagrin (to say the least!)
In addition to Kline and Langella, the film stars Sigourney Weaver as the first lady and Ben Kingsley as Mitchell’s Vice President Gary Nance.
Background Viewing
(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)
And this week I had a hard time picking just one ambient video – so here are three of them!
Have a great weekend!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)
The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/
The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!
All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month.
Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.
The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org
Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.
Have questions about any of the catalogs?
Give us a call!
You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/
