Movie Night

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Cost: Free
Location:
Friends Program Room

Every other Wednesday evening the Canmore Library shows a movie in the Friends of the Library Program Room starting at 7:00pm. Selections vary between classics and new releases.

Admission is FREE, donations accepted.

We'll supply the popcorn, so just bring a pillow and your friends! Make yourself at home and enjoy the cinematic experience.

This program is supported by Gift Funds Canada.

Upcoming Movie Night Dates & Films:

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 39m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.

Directed by Dustin Hoffman. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 38m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. He follows a structured everyday life and dedicates his free time to his passion for music and books. Hirayama also has a fondness for trees and photographs them. More of his past is gradually revealed through a series of unexpected encounters.

Directed by Wim Wenders. Rated PG. Runtime: 2h 4m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

Past Films:

A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.

Directed by John Krasinski. Rated G. Runtime: 1h 44m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo team up with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to examine the modern food industry's efficiency and vulnerabilities.

Directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 34m. Click here to visit the IMDb listing.

Cady Heron is a hit with the Plastics, an A-list girl clique at her new school. But everything changes when she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 52m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.

Directed by Paul King. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 56m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

Directed by Sofia Coppola. Rated 14A. Runtime: 1h 53m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

With the 2014 World Cup qualifiers approaching, down-on-his-luck coach Thomas Rongen tries to turn the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team into winners.

Directed by Taika Waititi. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 45m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.

"An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to ʼ70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room — Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature." - tonimorrisonfilm.com

Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Rated PG. Runtime: 2h. Click here for the IMDb listing.With the 2014 World Cup qualifiers approaching, down-on-his-luck coach Thomas Rongen tries to turn the American Samoa soccer team into winners.

When Peter Wohlleben published his book "The Hidden Life of Trees" in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.

"Branching off of his bestselling book, renowned forester and writer Peter Wohlleben guides us through his most precious ideas and understanding of how trees work in this enlightening documentary. Presenting ecological, biological and academic expertise with matter of fact candor, Peter inspires us to really see the forest for the trees. Traveling through Germany, Poland, Sweden and Vancouver, Peter discusses, debates and explains the amazing process of life, death and regeneration he has observed in the woodland, and the amazing scientific mechanisms behind these wonders of which we are too often blissfully unaware." - Rotten Tomatoes

Directed by Jörg Adolph & Jan Haft. Rated PG. Runtime:1h 41m. Click here for the IMDb listing.  Interviews in German and English.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

Directed by Celine Song. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 45m. Click here for the IMDb listing.

In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 43m. Click here for the IMDb listing.

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

Directed by Nicole Holofcener. Rated PG. Runtime: 1h 33m. Click here for the IMDb listing.

Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene.

Directed by Clement Virgo. Rated 14A. Runtime: 1h 59m. Click here to view the IMDb listing.

Event dates

  • Wednesday, January 17, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, January 31, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 13, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, May 8, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, September 18, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, October 2, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, October 16, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, October 30, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, November 13, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, November 27, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2024 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.