Category: Film Screening

Fright Fest Movie Marathon

Get your scare on and celebrate Halloween the right way with an all-day movie marathon on Thursday, October 31st. See the dark side of urban legends with this collection of Frightful Films. Snacks served throughout the day.

Slender Man (2018)
Curse of La Llorona (2019)
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Boo 2! (2017)
Pet Sematary (2019)

Slender Man (2018)

Start Time: 10:00 a.m.

In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, attempt to prove that he doesn’t actually exist – until one of them mysteriously goes missing.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 33 mins.
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.

  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 33 mins.
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)

Ernest accidentally unleashes an ugly troll that plots to transform children into wooden dolls in the town of Briarville, Missouri.

  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 31 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017)

Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 41 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
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Pet Sematary (2019)

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.

  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 41 mins.
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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October Film Series – Ma

Wednesday, October 30th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn’t get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 39 mins.
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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October Film Series – Once Were Warriors

Wednesday, October 23rd at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 1994
  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 42 mins.
  • Genre: Crime, Drama
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October Film Series – The Hustle

Wednesday, October 16h at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Two con women – one low rent and the other high class – team up to take down the men who have wronged them.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 33 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Crime
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October Film Series – Stand & Deliver

Wednesday, October 9th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 1988
  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 43 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama
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October Film Series – Cesar Chavez

Wednesday, October 2nd at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2014
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 42 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama
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First Amendment Film Festival

American Library Association provided graphic. 2019.

Film and video productions can vividly depict the impact of censorship on individuals and society. A First Amendment film festival for Banned Books Week will be hosted in the Meeting Room of the Main Library.

Join us for film screenings based on book titles that have been censored.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Film Screenings:

Footloose (2011)

Monday, September 23rd
at 5:30 p.m.

City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 53 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

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Color Purple (1985)

Tuesday, September 24th
at 5:30 p.m.

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 2 hrs. 34 mins.
  • Genre: Drama

View trailer HERE

Bless Me Ultima (2012)

Wednesday, September 25th
at 5:30 p.m.

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 46 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, History

View trailer HERE

Precious (2009)

Thursday, September 26th
at 5:30 p.m.

In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 50 mins.
  • Genre: Drama

View trailer HERE

Importance of celebrating Banned Books Week:

Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. The OIF tracked 347 challenges to library, school and university materials and services. Overall, 483 books were challenged or banned in 2018.

A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.

Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

Traditionally the ALA releases a Top Ten List within the State of America’s Libraries Report each April. This year 11 books were selected, since two titles were tied for the final position on the list, and both books were burned by a religious activist to protest a Pride event.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

September Film Series – Escape Room

Wednesday, September 18th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 39 mins.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
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September Film Series – Every Day

Wednesday, September 11th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A shy teenager falls for a spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2018
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 37 mins.
  • Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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Virtual Reality Film Screening

Ways of Knowing

OFPL, El Morro Theatre, and Bombshelltoe proudly presents on Friday, September 6th at El Morro Events Center from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A Navajo Nuclear Histories Project with Sunny Dooley, Tina Garnanez, Tommy Rock, Janene Yazzie, Bobby Leonard Mason, and Arnold Clifford. Ways of Knowing is a multimedia project about Navajo Nation’s health and tradition through its enduring and traumatic encounter with uranium mining.

This history began in the 1940s, as the U.S. government’s need to sustain its nascent nuclear weapons program became a top national security priority. After perfecting nuclear weapons technology under the Manhattan Project, the United States could no longer depend on the Belgian Congo and Canada for uranium; the supply had to be closer to home.

Uranium mining for weapons production started in the western region of Navajo Country – in the stunning crimson sandstones of the Colorado Plateau – under the auspices of the Vanadium Corporation of America as “sale of carnotite and other related materials” to preserve secrecy.

Produced by: Lovely Umayam, Adriel Luis & Sunny Dooley
Directed, shot, and edited by: Kayla Briët
Still photography by: Carmille Garcia
Navajo Nation, USA

Year Release: 2019
Duration: 17 min 03 sec
Format: 360 film, color