In celebration of Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday on November 11, Pitkin County Library presents a series of events to honor the late, great American novelist.
Join Aspen's favorite cinephile, Jon Busch, for two screenings of the 1972 film adaptation of Vonnegut's seminal novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 19, 7:30-9:30pm, in the Dunaway Community Room. Doors open at 7:00pm.
Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Award and directed by George Roy Hill, Slaughterhouse-Five "is a wild, noisy, sometimes very funny film that eventually becomes as unstuck in its own exuberance as its hero, Billy Pilgrim, the Illium, N. Y., optometrist, is unstuck in time... it's about the epic travail of Billy himself, through marriage, childhood, nervous breakdown, death and war (sometimes in that order, sometimes not)." New York Times, 1972.