Emmy Award-winning actor Gordon Clapp won’t need to travel far for his next gig: On Aug. 17 in Norwich, where Clapp now lives, he and director Jay Craven will introduce and discuss Craven’s most recent feature film, Peter and John.

The movie, shot and set on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, is adapted from Guy de Maupassant’s 1870s novel Pierre et Jean, in which a sibling rivalry is inflamed by an unexpected inheritance and by the arrival of a woman whom both brothers covet. Clapp, who co-starred to acclaim as a cop in NYPD Blue, plays the father of the title characters and the husband of Peter and John’s mother, played by Jacqueline Bisset.

“Gordon jokes that he put in the call to his agent to co-star with her in 1968,” Craven said this week. “It took a while to come to fruition.”

The movie will be screened at the Norwich Congregational Church at 7 p.m. To learn more, visit kingdomcounty.org.

On the House

Continuing its weekly series of free classic movies, the Mascoma Film Society screens two Academy Award-winning films over the next two Wednesday nights in the auditorium of Mascoma Regional High School in West Canaan.

This coming Wednesday brings the Merchant-Ivory team’s 1992 adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel Howard’s End, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

And on Aug. 16, the society shows one of the best documentaries of the new century: Searching for Sugarman. Director-writer Malik Bendjelloul follows the efforts of two South African men to track down 1970s musician Sixto Rodriguez, who fell into obscurity after a brief career, and without realizing it developed a rabid following in apartheid-era South Africa.

Both screenings start at 6:30. The series concludes on Aug. 30 with Ang Lee’s martial-arts fable Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Pentangle Arts concludes its “Thank You Thursdays” series next week with a free screening, at 7:30, of the sing-along version of Mamma Mia! starring Meryl Streep. While admission is free, donations to Pentangle are welcome.

From Stage to Screen

Twice in August, Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center screens the high-definition recording of the National Theatre’s revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, starring Andrew Garfield as the AIDS-plagued protagonist and Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn. Part 1 is on Aug. 13 and part 2 on Aug. 20, each starting at 4 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in Hanover. For tickets ($23) and more info, visit hop.dartmouth.edu or call 603-646-2422.

Coming Attractions

The Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center in Plymouth, N.H., is inviting devotees of the 1939 fantasy classic The Wizard of Oz to an Aug. 10 screening of the silent, 1925 adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novel about a Kansas farm girl transported to an alternative universe.

The cast includes pre-Laurel and Hardy actor Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man, director Larry Semon as the Scarecrow and Semon’s wife, Dorothy Duan, as Dorothy. Pianist and silent-film expert Jeff Rapsis will play the music accompanying the movie. The program also will include an earlier short film about Oz, based on stories and characters that Baum created.

The lights go down at 6:30. Admission is $10.

David Corriveau can be reached at dcorriveau@vnews.com and at 603-727-3304.