Mondaynite Jazz Orchestra plays terrific modern and traditional big band music with a variety of other styles. This 18 piece mid-coast based band knows how to throw a party. Relax, sing out, or dance the away! The featured film at the Monday Night Movie series is “The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain” (1995, PG, 1 hr 39 min). The concert and the movie are free; bring blankets or chairs for comfortable seating. The movie is a 1995 British film with a story by Ifor David Monger and Ivor Monger, written and directed by Christopher Monger, and starring Hugh Grant. The film is based on a story Christopher heard from his grandfather about the real village of Taff’s Well (Ffynnon Taf in Welsh), Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales, and its neighbouring Garth Hill.
The film revolves around two English cartographers, the pompous Garrad and his junior, Anson. They visit the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw, to measure what is claimed to be the “first mountain inside of Wales”. It’s 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their “mountain”, and are understandably disappointed and furious to find that it is in fact a “hill”. Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Englishmen who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep the English from leaving before the job is done.Roger Ebert says, “In plot and atmosphere, ‘The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain’ is a fond throwback to the British comedies of the 1950s in which earnest citizens went about their daily lives little realizing how eccentric they were. The British dote on eccentricity . . . Every character in this movie, with the possible exception of the fresh-cheeked local lass Betty of Cardiff (Tara Fitzgerald) is crazy as a bedbug, and none of them know it, and that is why they are so funny.
“Reginald is played by Grant as another of his self-effacing, shy, stuttering, apologetic, and hapless chaps who bumble through somehow. He wants most desperately not to offend. The locals are most definitely offended, especially when additional surveys do not succeed in raising the height of the mountain to more than 986 feet.”
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