The Packard Campus Theater will be closed Labor Day weekend.
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
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Archive: August 2018 (6 Posts)
Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (August 23 – August 25, 2018)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, August 23 (7:30 p.m.) The Age of Innocence (Columbia, 1993) Martin Scorsese, in a departure from his usual gritty crime epics, directed this opulent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of manners and social mores in 19th-century New York. …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (August 16-18, 2018)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, August 16 (7:30) Christopher Strong (RKO, 1933) After making a striking film debut in Bill of Divorcement (1932), RKO signed Katharine Hepburn to a long term contract and selected a story about a headstrong, individualistic woman for their new star’s follow-up feature. …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Voices of the Great Migration
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This is a guest post by Tenesha Hare and Jasmyne Post, 2018 summer interns with the Junior Fellows Program in the Library’s Recorded Sound Section. Tenesha is a senior at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, studying Political Science with a concentration in Government and Public Relations. Jasmyne is a sophomore at the University of Louisville, majoring …
Posted in: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Recorded Sound, Uncategorized
At the Packard Campus — September 2018
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The Library of Congress Packard Campus celebrates 10 years of free film screenings with eleven Hollywood classics from the National Film Registry that were shown in the theater’s inaugural month of September, 2008. Since that time, more than 1400 events have been presented at the theater, ranging from feature films spanning two centuries with …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Aug. 9 – 11, 2018)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, August 9 (7:30 p.m.) La Strada (Dino de Laurentis Distribuzione, 1954) The legendary Federico Fellini directs his wife, Giulietta Masina, as Gelsomina in the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater