Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last […]

WED—December 4—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 97 min. In English. When the hardboiled late 19th-century rancher Zandy (Gene Hackman) decides to take a mail-order bride, he isn’t especially interested in love; instead, he wants a woman who can bear his child and aid him in the daily struggles of country living, whether tending cattle or […]

FRI—December 6—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 103 min. In English. Based on the powerful play by Ruth Wolff about Queen Christina, who abdicated the throne to convert to Catholicism, Liv Ullmann and Academy Award-winner Peter Finch (Network) star as a queen and cardinal who share a forbidden love in this compelling true story of lust […]