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New Britain Public Library this week will show two films, one to commemorate the Chinese New Year, and the other just for fun. On Monday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m., the film is “Eat Drink Man Woman,” directed by the great Ang Lee. The story tells of an aging master Chinese chef with three grown [...]

On Saturday, Dec. 10, the Mitchell Branch of the New Haven Library, at 37 Harrison St., will show an early Soviet propaganda film, which was made to persuade Soviet Jews to move to Siberia. “Seekers of Happiness” is Vladimir Korsh-Sablin’s 1936 drama about impoverished Jews settling on a collective farm, and all achieving happiness. It [...]