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Events at the Library of Congress

Friday October 18, 2024

Event | film and video screenings

The Shape of Water (Twentieth Century Fox, 2017)
Friday
October 18, 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater A mute cleaning lady working in a secret U.S. government lab in 1962 tries to help an otherworldly, aquatic creature escape from captivity. Color, 119 min. (Digital)

Saturday October 19, 2024

Event | film and video screenings

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (Walt Disney Pictures, 1963)
Saturday
October 19, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater Disguised as the terrifying Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, kindly country clergyman Dr. Christopher Syn defends local villagers from the tyranny and taxes of King George III. Color, 98 min. (Digital)
Event | film and video screenings

Alien (Twentieth Century Fox, 1979)
Saturday
October 19, 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater When the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a mysterious life form that breeds with human hosts. Color, 116 min. (Film)

Thursday October 24, 2024

Event | film and video screenings

Tremors (1990)
Thursday
October 24, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm EDT Pickford Theater (LM-302) Residents of a small desert town find themselves fighting for their lives against giant prehistoric worms...

Friday October 25, 2024

Event | film and video screenings

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Walt Disney Pictures, 1983)
Friday
October 25, 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater A small Midwestern town is visited by a seductive stranger and his nightmarish traveling circus, which harbors a dark and destructive secret. Color, 95 min. (Film)

Saturday October 26, 2024

Event | film and video screenings

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Warner Bros., 2002)
Saturday
October 26, 2024
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione encounter a sinister new terror during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Color, 160 min. (Film)
Event | film and video screenings

Aliens (Twentieth Century Fox, 1986)
Saturday
October 26, 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater Having survived an earlier alien attack, Ellen Ripley journeys to a remote space colony with a team of battle-hardened marines to eradicate a horde of the deadly creatures. Color, 137 min. (Film)

Thursday November 7, 2024

Event | film and video screenings

Lilies of the Field (1963)
Thursday
November 7, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST Pickford Theater (LM-302) Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for this role of an itinerant handyman who helps a group of European nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.