The City of Rancho Mirage Public Library is presenting Murder and Mirth:  Movies with Peter Lorre.

The Monday afternoon programs will feature films which showcase the talents of actor Peter Lorre, who portrayed everything from menacing murderousness to merry mirth. The programs will also feature discussion and trivia, led by Jason Bruecks, General Manager of the Camelot Theatres. Free refreshments will be provided.

The following films will be featured:

October 10: The Raven (1963): Starring Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff
October 24: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): Starring Peter Lorre and Cary Grant       more info...

Cost:  Free   (Seating is limited and available only a on a first-come, first-served basis.) 

The Palm Springs Art Museum presents an encore screening of the popular Global Lens 2009 film series for free on Thursdays in October, November and December in its Annenberg Theater. The series was screened in the summer and will be offered
again in the fall for those who missed some of the films or would like to see them again. The Global Lens series consists of ten award-winning feature films from
Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique. 

Sunday, October 9, Blast from the Past, Director: Hugh Wilson, 1999  Adam Weber is the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family. He meets Eve, who reluctantly agrees to help him out.

Thursday, October 13, Belvedere, Country: Bosnia & Herzegovina Language: Bosnian, with subtitles in English (90 minutes)  A widow yearning to forget the tragedy of war spends her days caring for her family and searching for the remains of her husband and son, but her precarious hope is tested when her nephew is selected to participate in a reality show in a former enemy enclave.

Thursday, October 20, Dooman River Country: China (2009)
Language: Korean and Mandarin, with subtitles in English (89 minutes)  This compelling story of compassion and strife in an uneasy geopolitical border portrays a Chinese boy in a rural area that befriends a Korean illegal immigrant but must turn on his new friend after his sister is unexpectedly attacked.

Thursday, October 27, The Invisible Eye, Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish, with subtitles in English (95 minutes)
A lonely and deeply repressed teacher at an elite school accepts unquestioningly the school's rigid code of conduct but develops an unhealthy obsession with one of her students, leading to an ensuing spiral of degradation and breakdown in discipline.    more info...

Oct 9, 2011 to Dec 15, 2011 

Cost:  Free  

Classic Car Show Benefiting Desert Charities Comes to Palm Springs on the grounds of the Indian Canyons Golf Resort South, 1097 East Murray Canyon in Palm Springs.  All proceeds will go to three desert charities - Desert AIDS Project, Desert Outreach Foundation, and the Golden Rainbow Center.

A classic 1965 Imperial LeBaron will be given away at the show.  Raffle tickets will be available at the Desert AIDS Project, Desert Outreach Foundation and the Golden Rainbow Center for $5 each or five for $20. They will also be available at the show, and the winner does not need to be present to win.

"We are expecting more than 150 classic, exotic and special interest vehicles to be showcased on the golf course green." 

For more information, contact pscarshow@greatautos.org