Film Screenings
The Sting
Potpourri FridayWinner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as con artists who take on the 1930's Chicago mob, and take them down! A fun fast paced movie. 1973 Color
Friday, March 22, 2019
12:00 pm
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Out of Mayberry Film SeriesRunning through most of Ron Howard’s films, Vulture recently noted, is a thread of good-heartedness. “Even when his movies are dark, they express the fundamental view that the world is going to turn out okay.”
Celebrating his 65th birthday—Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, on March 1, 1954—the Library screens five of the best and most popular big-screen works by the cute child actor on TV’s The Andy Griffith Show turned Oscar-winning director.
SATURDAYS AT 1:30 P.M.
Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
| March 2 | Night Shift (1982; R) |
| March 9 | Parenthood (1989; PG-13) |
| March 16 | Backdraft (1991; R) |
| March 23 | A Beautiful Mind (2001; PG-13) |
| March 30 | Cinderella Man (2005; PG-13) |
Monday Matinee March Madness
Monday Matinee: March Madness
Every Monday @ 1:00 PM
3/4 He Got Game (1998;R)
3/11 Uncle Drew (2018;PG-13)
3/18 Hoop Dreams (1994,PG-13 )
3/25 Love & Basketball (2000;PG-13)
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Whose Streets? (2017, NR)
March!An account of the Ferguson uprising as told by the people who lived it. The filmmakers look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.
Central Cinema Nights is a movie screening in the Central Library’s Durwood Film Vault taking place Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Join us as we watch and discuss documentaries and feature films in a socially conscious setting, chosen to fit a monthly theme. This month's theme: March!
This March we are showcasing documentaries about events that made folks take to the streets. From Ferguson to the Wisconsin state capital, these films spotlight people and groups who stood up for their beliefs and changed the American Narrative.
Everyone is welcome! Movie screenings at the Central Library are always FREE and open to the public.
Roma
Join the Refugee & Immigrant Services & Empowerment (RISE) division and the Consulado de México en Kansas City to watch the Oscar-winning film Roma. The movie will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.
From Netflix: "Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker's journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico."
Doors will open at 5:30 with remarks from the Head Consul, Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi at 6:00.
Cinderella Man (2005)
Out of Mayberry Film SeriesRunning through most of Ron Howard’s films, Vulture recently noted, is a thread of good-heartedness. “Even when his movies are dark, they express the fundamental view that the world is going to turn out okay.”
Celebrating his 65th birthday—Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, on March 1, 1954—the Library screens five of the best and most popular big-screen works by the cute child actor on TV’s The Andy Griffith Show turned Oscar-winning director.
SATURDAYS AT 1:30 P.M.
Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
| March 2 | Night Shift (1982; R) |
| March 9 | Parenthood (1989; PG-13) |
| March 16 | Backdraft (1991; R) |
| March 23 | A Beautiful Mind (2001; PG-13) |
| March 30 | Cinderella Man (2005; PG-13) |
All Quiet on the Western Front
First Friday Film ClassicThe original Universal version, this 1930 Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a powerful anti-war film. Young idealists enlist in the German Army only to be sent to the western front and all the horrors of the trench warfare of World War I. Digitally remastered by the Library of Congress. B&W
Friday, April 5, 2019
12:00 pm
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Book 'Em Film SeriesMany great movies are adaptations of books. Some make books the stars. Commemorating National Library Week (April 7-13), the Library screens three films this month in which books aren’t just seen or mentioned. They’re major plot elements, even characters.
SATURDAYS AT 1:30 P.M.
Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
| April 6 | Stranger Than Fiction (2006; PG-13) |
| April 20 | Finding Forrester (2000; PG-13) |
| April 27 | The Help (2011; PG-13) |
Charm City
Indie Lens Pop-upNightly news cameras trained on the flames, the looting, and the chaos that gripped Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015. Filmmaker Marilyn Ness sought, and found, more.
Her documentary Charm City offers an intimate portrait of those on the front lines of an epidemic of violence. For nearly three years—before, during, and after the rioting sparked by Gray’s fatal spinal injury in the back of a police van—Ness followed residents, community advocates, police, and government officials struggling to effect positive change in the troubled city. Their humanity became common ground, fostering hope amid the unrest.
The Library and KCPT-Kansas City PBS screen the 2018 film as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up community cinema initiative. A discussion follows.
