Category: OGT Spotlight

By OGT Blog Squad Member Stacia Woycheck “I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” – The Criminologist On June 1 at 8pm, for one night only, the Old Greenbelt Theatre is going to take you on a strange journey with the screening of the […]

By OGT Executive Director Caitlin McGrath Even four years later, the memory is crystal clear: A cold night in January, 2015. Sitting in Greenbelt City Council Chambers, the room was packed as we quietly waited for the vote. For nearly two years I had been working a plan to transform […]

By Stacia Woycheck, OGT Blog Squad Member On Monday, May 6, the Monthly Monday Matinee features Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery drama, The Man Who Knew Too Much. The film was released in 1956 and stars James Stewart and Doris Day. I settled in to watch The Man Who Knew Too Much […]

By Kelly McLaughlin, OGT Director of Marketing & Development “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The famous Dickensian opening lines are tantamount to cliché, but at the same time vastly appropriate to the life of independent, arthouse movie theaters these days, as two dueling […]

By Tammy Hurley, OGT Volunteer Concessions Team Leader I knew about the theater before I moved to Greenbelt in 2016.  I had no idea of its background or it being non-profit. I did know it showed the kind of movies I was interested in seeing, which was really good enough […]

Watching a movie… on your phone, iPad, or other personal screen means privacy, control, independence.  You can press stop, pause, or play, rewind or fast forward. You can adjust the volume and brightness, or add captions.  You can watch anytime of day or night, anywhere you like. You can be […]

By Kelly McLaughlin, OGT Director of Marketing & Development I’ve always loved movies. I come by it almost genetically. My father taught film production at various universities during my childhood, and I grew up on a steady diet of indie, niche, and foreign films: The Last Unicorn and The Point […]

Movie fans and movie theatre fans who haven’t already seen it will not want to miss the beautifully structured exhibit, Flickering Treasures, on view at the National Building Museum through October of this year.  The exhibit, created by photo-journalist Amy Davis, traces the social and architectural history of Baltimore’s lost […]

OGT is happy to announce our VIP Volunteer for the First Quarter of the year is Stacia Woycheck. Stacia joined our OGT volunteer team this January, and she’s jumped in with both feet. You’ll see her sunny smile at concessions, and we hope you’ve had the pleasure of reading some […]

By OGT Blog Squad Member Stacia Woycheck The OGT Monday Matinee on April 1 is The Women (1939), starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell and is directed by George Cukor. The flick features the work of screenwriter, Anita Loos, of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes fame and is based on the […]

By OGT Blog Squad Member Elizabeth Knutson If you enjoy foreign films and languages, subtitles are familiar territory. If you don’t understand the foreign language of the film, you can simply absorb it as atmosphere while reading the English language subtitles. If you do understand the foreign language, you might […]

By OGT Blog Squad Member Stacia Woycheck The Old Greenbelt Theater features Monday Matinees, a free classic movie the first Monday of each month. This Monday, March 4 at 1pm, Of Human Bondage will be shown, starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard. Since we are just one week past the 2019 […]

By OGT Blog Squad Member Stacia Woycheck What makes a film Oscar worthy? I see films to be entertained, to learn and (being honest) to  escape from my reality. For me an Oscar worthy film hits me in my core, perhaps it creates sadness or elation and hopefully it plays deeply […]

We asked our moviegoers, patrons, members, and donors who they would vote for if they were picking the Oscars. And while we are compiling the results, we wanted to share with you some of our staff member’s picks. The last staff member in our installment is Amy Knesel. Amy is […]

We asked our moviegoers, patrons, members, and donors who they would vote for if they were picking the Oscars. And while we are compiling the results, we wanted to share with you some of our staff member’s picks. Brenna Lauer is our House Manager. She’s the friendly face you see […]

We asked our moviegoers, patrons, members, and donors who they would vote for if they were picking the Oscars. And while we are compiling the results, we wanted to share with you some of our staff member’s picks. Next up is Kelly McLaughlin, our Director of Marketing and Development. See […]

We asked our moviegoers, patrons, members, and donors who they would vote for if they were picking the Oscars. And while we are compiling the results, we wanted to share with you some of our staff member’s picks. We’re kicking it off with our Executive Director Caitlin McGrath! Here’s who […]

By OGT Blog Squad Volunteer Elizabeth Knutson. Playing this week (Feb. 8 – 14) at the Old Greenbelt Theatre is Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, winner of this year’s Cannes Festival prize for Best Director; European Film Award for Best Film of 2018; and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, […]

Cold War, directed, written, and masterminded by Pawel Pawlikowski is a beautiful Polish film and one of the best films I’ve seen in a while. All I knew about it ahead of time was that it was a love story, but watching it love is not the emotion I felt. […]

By OGT Blog Squad Volunteer Polly O’Rourke. Showtimes, trailer, and more available on the Shoplifters film page. Written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters is an affectionate portrayal of an unconventional family, struggling to survive on the margins of Japanese society. Brought together by both family ties and circumstance, the family […]

  As part of a partnership with the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, the Old Greenbelt Theatre will now house over 1400 16mm films. The partnership was made possible through the work of the librarians at the New Carrolton branch and the Old Greenbelt Theatre’s Executive Director, Caitlin McGrath. […]

We are very pleased to announce our newest film series, Film Noir.. This series theme was chosen by our membership in a recent survey (with Musicals and Hitchcock coming in a close second and third – stay tuned for those series to be announced soon). In this first iteration of […]

Studio Ghibli, founded by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, is arguably one of the most prolific animation studios to ever exist. Although more widely known for their films like My Neighbor Totoro,  Princess Mononoke, and more recently Ponyo, Miyazaki’s visionary film Spirited Away was released and took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Picture in 2002. Spirited Away is […]