Join us at the Fort Washington Library in our Community Room as we screen films that may make you laugh,cry or just recall a memory from back in the day . This week’s feature is Airplane! Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Kareem Abdul -Jabbar, and Lloyd Bridges.
This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot with a drinking problem must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess to bring the plane to a safe landing.
Running Time 1hr 28 mins
Summer of Soul (…or, when the revolution could not be televised)
This music documentary explores and reclaims the legacy of the six-week 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. It features unpublished footage of performances by Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight & the Pips at Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park).
Join us in our Community Room where we will show you films that will make you laugh, cry, scream, or sing.
This week we will screen ” To Kill a Mockingbird” based on the best-selling Pulitzer Prize novel by Harper Lee.
Starring : Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, and Robert Duvall ( in his first feature film).
The film follows lawyer Atticus Finch in Depression -era Alabama educating his children against the Jim Crow laws while defending a black man who is wrongfully indicted for the rape of a white woman
Join us at Fort Washington Library for Fiesta with Flor Bromley.
Join GRAMMY® Latin GRAMMY® nominee Flor Bromley in a multicultural musicalcelebration! Kids and families will join in the fun as they learn about different musical genresthrough dance, storytelling and songs, traveling with Flor to the countries where the rhythms wereborn. This is not your typical children’s concert, it’s a whole family fiesta!
Join us in our Community Room where films that will make you laugh, cry, scream, or sing.
We are showing the classic “Singing in the Rain” with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor.
When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies’, everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.
