Last Updated on July 6, 2024

Movies

Film Library

Main Street in Maple Terrace
Phone: 443-297-3117
Monday – Friday
11 am – 1 pm
Rental limit: 4 videos at a time per household

The library maintains a collection of DVDs [movies and TV series] to check out. The library has many viewing lists organized by such topics as award-winners and genre.  They also have small collections of children’s and foreign films. There is a notebook in the Film Library of movies shown in the Auditorium. Ask the volunteers for suggestions, as they are knowledgeable and can offer great choices that meet your viewing interests. Check The Sunburst for articles that highlight various holdings in their collection.

Volunteers are needed for the Charlestown Film Library and Night at the Movies. Training will be provided for film previewers and projectionists. Contact Phil Benzil. Contact information can be found in the Resident Directory, available on MyErickson.

Weekend Night at the Movies

Saturday, 7 – 9 p.m. – Auditorium

For additional film reviews see:  MRQE, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes

Continental Cinema** (Foreign Films)
2nd Friday of each month, 7 – 9 p.m. – Auditorium

Charlestown Movies for October 2024

WEEKEND MOVIES

Saturday, Date – Month Day TITLE, (Year Rating Length) Description
Saturday,
October 5
In The Heat Of The Night (1967 Approved 1h 50 m)
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD’s number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. 
Friday,
October 11
Continental Cinema
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000 PG12 2h)
In early nineteenth-century China, in the waning years of the Qing dynasty, the renowned swordsman who yearns for enlightenment, Li Mu Bai, decides to give up his legendary Green Destiny sword.
Saturday,
October 12

Wicked Little Letters (2023 R 1 h 40 m)
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark, absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story, “fantastically funny.”

Saturday,
October 19

Sliding Doors (1998 PG13 1h 30 m)
Helen is fired from her position in a PR firm. While returning home, she misses the train. In an alternate version, she catches her train. Follow this clever post showing her two possible lives.

Saturday,
October 26

Midnight In The Garden Of Good & Evil (1997 R 2h 35m)
This panoramic tale of Savannah, Georgia’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of James Arthur Williams (Kevin Spacey): self- made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant, and semi-closeted homosexual.

Faith on Film

2nd Tuesday of each month | 1 PM | Emmaus Room in Pastoral Care

See OLOA/Faith on Film for details for each month’s movie.

 

2024 – 2025 Showings

DATE FILM
2024  
July 9 Where Hope Grows
August 13 Third Man on the Mountain
September 10 Beware of Christians
October 8 Clare & Frances
November 12 Father Stu
December 10 Front of the Class
2025  
January 14 I Am Israel
February 11 Breakthrough
March 11 The Reason
April 8 5 Flights Up
May 13 Though None Go with Me
June 10 Hope Bridge

League of Women Voters

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