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  • Dame Maggie Smith at Her Best (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Linda Derosier
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 9/22/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Fee: $45.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-110
    Seats Available: 22 | Max Enroll: 30
    SKU: FalCFILM661
    One of the greatest female actors of our age passed away in September 2024 age 89. This class is a tribute to her extensive career on stage and on screen both large and small lasting over seven decades. Join us to watch and discuss these outstanding movies: Room with a View 1985; Travels With My Aunt 1972; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2011 and extras!
    *Class Dates: 9/8, 9/15, & 9/22.
 

  • Dame Maggie Smith at Her Best (Lincoln Public Library-Twelve Bridges)
  • Instructor: Linda Derosier
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 9/22/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Fee: $45.00
    Location: Lincoln Library at Twelve Bridges
    Building-Room: Lincoln Public Library-Redwood
    Seats Available: 0
    SKU: FalCFILM662
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    One of the greatest female actors of our age passed away in September 2024 age 89. This class is a tribute to her extensive career on stage and on screen both large and small lasting over seven decades. Join us to watch and discuss these outstanding movies: Room with a View 1985; Travels With My Aunt 1972; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2011 and extras!
    *Class Dates: 9/8, 9/15, & 9/22.
 

  • Fall In Love with these Rom Coms that feel like Autumn (Lincoln Public Library-Twelve Bridges)
  • Instructor: Sam Schlafer
    Dates: 10/31/2025 - 11/21/2025
    Days: F
    Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    Sessions: 4
    Fee: $55.00
    Location: Lincoln Library at Twelve Bridges
    Building-Room: Lincoln Public Library-Redwood
    Seats Available: 10 | Max Enroll: 30
    SKU: FalCFILM711
    Love and intimacy are something all human beings crave, and so many of our favorite films are about the search for it. There’s a comfort in the familiar tropes of the genre, starting with the “Meet Cute,” and knowing that love will overcome all obstacles. So, as it gets colder outside, let’s take a journey to New York (where so many favorite rom coms take place) in search of some romance (and a few good laughs). In this class we will watch and discuss “You’ve Got Mail” (1998); “Moonstruck” (1987); “One Fine Day” (1996); and “When Harry Met Sally” (1989).
    *Class Dates: 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, & 11/21.
 

  • Food In Film - From the Village to the Presidency (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/4/2025 - 10/9/2025
    Days: Th
    Times: 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: D-12
    Seats Available: 21 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83733

    Traditional food prepared in harmony with the seasons nurture, heal, and evoke the senses of time and place. This cinematic selection studies the cultural placement of food in the rural, the cosmopolitan, and the palace. 

    Films: Bread of Happiness, Little Forest, My Favorite Cake, Big Night, Secret of the Grain, Haute Cuisine.

    *Class Dates: 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, & 10/9.

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  • Food In Film - From the Village to the Presidency (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 10/20/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N12-103
    Seats Available: 25 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83734

    Traditional food prepared in harmony with the seasons nurture, heal, and evoke the senses of time and place. This cinematic selection studies the cultural placement of food in the rural, the cosmopolitan, and the palace. 

    Films: Bread of Happiness, Little Forest, My Favorite Cake, Big Night, Secret of the Grain, Haute Cuisine.

    *Class Dates: 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, & 10/20.

    *No class: 10/13

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  • More Dame Maggie Smith at Her Best (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Linda Derosier
    Dates: 11/10/2025 - 11/24/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Fee: $45.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-110
    Seats Available: 25 | Max Enroll: 30
    SKU: FalCFILM671
    One of the greatest female actors of our age passed away in September 2024 age 89. Join us to watch and discuss these outstanding movies: Love, Pain & the Whole Damn Thing 1973; Gosford Park 2001; The Lady in the Van 2015 and extras!
    *Class Dates: 11/10, 11/17, & 11/24.
 

  • More Dame Maggie Smith at Her Best (Lincoln Public Library-Twelve Bridges)
  • Instructor: Linda Derosier
    Dates: 11/10/2025 - 11/24/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Fee: $45.00
    Location: Lincoln Library at Twelve Bridges
    Building-Room: Lincoln Public Library-Redwood
    Seats Available: 2 | Max Enroll: 30
    SKU: FalCFILM672
    One of the greatest female actors of our age passed away in September 2024 age 89. Join us to watch and discuss these outstanding movies: Love, Pain & the Whole Damn Thing 1973; Gosford Park 2001; The Lady in the Van 2015 and extras!
    *Class Dates: 11/10, 11/17, & 11/24.
 

  • Our Time Is Now - Part 1 (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/2/2025 - 10/7/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 22 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83735
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines class, gender, politics, and the development of the welfare state from 1945-1950. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, & 10/7.

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  • Our Time Is Now - Part 1 (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/3/2025 - 10/8/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N12-103
    Seats Available: 28 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82521
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines class, gender, politics, and the development of the welfare state from 1945-1950. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 9/3, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, & 10/8.

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  • Our Time Is Now - Part 2 (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 10/28/2025 - 12/9/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 22 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83736
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines political organizing and the rising of the welfare state in tandem with gender identity and the individual in society, 1955-1962. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, & 12/9.

    *No class: 11/11

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  • Our Time Is Now - Part 2 (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 10/29/2025 - 12/3/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N12-103
    Seats Available: 28 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82523
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines political organizing and the rising of the welfare state in tandem with gender identity and the individual in society, 1955-1962. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, & 12/3.

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  • The Versatile Meryl Streep - Part 2 (Lincoln Public Library-Twelve Bridges)
  • Instructor: Gloria Beverage
    Dates: 9/3/2025 - 9/17/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Fee: $45.00
    Location: Lincoln Library at Twelve Bridges
    Building-Room: Lincoln Public Library-Redwood
    Seats Available: 20 | Max Enroll: 30
    SKU: FalCFILM651
    One of the best actors of her generation, Meryl Streep has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including three Oscars and eight Golden Globes. Streep claimed top honors for these three films: "Silkwood," "Sophie's Choice" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
    *Class Dates: 9/3, 9/10, & 9/17.
 

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