OGT Spotlight
What to Expect: COLD WAR (2018)
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, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. […]
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Curtain Call with Phoebe McFarb: COLD WAR
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. Reading the summary from the […]
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What to Expect: SHOPLIFTERS (2018)
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 subsists on meager wages, supplemented […]
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Member Spotlight: Michael G. Stewart & Julie Boynton
The Old Greenbelt Theatre Members are pretty amazing, and we want to tell the world! So we have started a blog series shining a spotlight on a specific member. Thank you to our 1,000+ members–we can’t do this without you! Want to join? Fill out a membership form today. Name Michael G. Stewart & Julie Boynton (filled […]
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Member Spotlight: Dr. Gettie Audain & Denna Lambert
The Old Greenbelt Theatre Members are pretty amazing, and we want to tell the world! So we have started a blog series shining a spotlight on a specific member. Thank you to our 1,000+ members–we can’t do this without you! Want to join? Fill out a membership form today. Name Dr. Gettie Audain & Denna Lambert (submitted by […]
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Member Spotlight: Aaron Fuller
The Old Greenbelt Theatre Members are pretty amazing, and we want to tell the world! So we have started a blog series shining a spotlight on a specific member. Thank you to our 1,000+ members–we can’t do this without you! Want to join? Fill out a membership form today. Name Aaron Fuller City/Town of Residence Columbia, MD […]
Read MoreRagtime and Revelry: A Night at the Moving Picture Ball!
On Saturday, June 11th at 6:00 PM the Old Greenbelt Theatre, will celebrate its Grand re-opening anniversary in style with Ragtime and Revelry: A Night at the Moving Picture Ball. The 12-piece Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra will accompany a program of silent films, including Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer and Snooky’s Twin Troubles. The night will […]
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The New OGT Film Archive!
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. Due to its upcoming renovation, […]
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Film Noir Series
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 the series (because there are […]
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Spirited Away
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 also listed among the British […]
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Dispatch From the Other Side: Art House Convergence 2016
Hey all! This past week Caitlin and I ventured all the way to Midway, Utah for Art House Convergence 2016! Art House Convergence is an organization committed to helping art house theaters like ours grow. We got to dialogue with many single-screen theaters like ours and speak to many theaters that were formerly singles […]
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Top Ten Films of 2015 (Pt.1)
Our top 10 films of 2015 (excluding Family Series, Cult Series etc.) as determined by staff member, Sean: Sicario Steve Jobs Best of Enemies Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Brooklyn Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Rosenwald Joy The End of the Tour Time Out of Mind
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Top 10 Films We Hope to Bring in 2016
2016 looks to be a great year for cinema and we hope to bring you some really great films! Our top 10 films that we hope to get in 2016: Carol – Now playing! The latest from Director Todd Haynes (I’m Not There, Safe), it’s gotten great reviews ( “4 stars” – Washington Post, 94% […]
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