November Movie Matinees

The Main Library screens your favorite films on Wednesdays at 2PM in the Community Meeting Room

This Month’s Screenings:

November 1 | Smoke Signals (1998)

Based on the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie. Arnold  rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold’s son Victor resents his father’s alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family. Uneasy rivals and friends, Thomas and Victor spend their days killing time on a Coeur d’Alene reservation in Idaho and arguing about their cultural identities. Rated PG-13.

Runtime: 89 minutes

November 15 | Indian Horse (2017)

A Native Canadian boy grows up in a Canadian-Indian residential school in the 1970s, isolated from his tribe and Ojibwe heritage. With the help of a kind clergyman, he strives to overcome the racism and stereotypes he faces on the ice hockey pitch.

Runtime: 101 minutes

November 22 | Woman Walks Ahead (2017)

A widowed portraitist travels alone to North Dakota in the 1890s to paint Sioux Chief Sitting Bull. There, she confronts antagonism from US Army officers and empathizes with the tribes’ desperate struggle for ownership of their ancestral lands. Rated R.

Runtime: 102 minutes

November 29 | Wind River (2017)

A wildlife officer and a FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman at Wyoming’s Wind River Native American reservation. In order to crack the case, the pair must brave the harsh winter terrain and the local criminal underworld.

Runtime: 107 minutes