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Fort Washington Library: Friday Matinee “Casablanca”

This week’s screening will be “Casablanca” starring Humphrey Bogart,  Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Considered one of the best films ever made by many critics. Is it because of Bogart, Bergman, or its locale? You decide.

Running Time: 1 hr 42 mins

 

 

 

Fort Washington Library: Family Movie Matinee-Happy Feet 2006

Kick back and relax with a Saturday afternoon movie, Happy Feet 2006, at Fort Washington Library! For children of all ages with caregiver.

Relevant for Children, Infant (0-18 months), Toddlers (18-36 months), Pre-schoolers (3-5 years)

Vengan todos este sabado a relajarse en la bilioteca de Fort Washington viendo una pelicula, Happy Feet 2006. Para ninos de todas edades con sus cuidadores.

Fort Washington Library: Friday Matinee “Airplane!”

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

Fort Washington Library: Teen Movie “Summer of Soul”

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 It features unpublished footage of performances by Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight & the Pips at Mount Morris Park (now Marcus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).

Fort Washington Library: Friday Matinee “To Kill A Mockingbird”

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