The Telluride Film festival will be screening free films the first Monday of every month at the Wilkinson Public Library for the summer season.  The summer theme will be classic screwball comedies.  This month we are showing a double feature of Trouble In Paradise and My Man Godfrey.  A reception with food will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by the feature presentations at 6:00 p.m.  Accoding to co-director of the film festival, Gary Meyers, these are some of the funniest films ever made.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise follow a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket as they join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner.

My Man Godfrey is one of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s.  Nominated for six Oscars, and “one of the treasures of 1930’s screwball comedy,” wrote Roger Ebert of director Gregory La Cava’s masterpiece, it “doesn't merely use Lombard and Powell, it loves them.”  During a socialite scavenger hunt, Irene (Carole Lombard) wins a contest to see who can find a ‘forgotten man’ when she brings home the homeless man she found living at the city dump.  She takes a liking to the down-and-out Godfrey (William Powell) and hires him as the family butler, but Godfrey turns out to be far more than anyone originally expected.