Adult and Senior Programming Ideas
Your adults and seniors will appreciate entertaining programs based on their unique interests. With a public performance license from Movie Licensing USA, you can be copyright compliant while enhancing your library programs with ideas like these:
Book to Movie Discussion Groups
Below are three classic authors and the associated movies based on their books. Visit our Books to Movies page for a more comprehensive list.
Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
Tortilla Flat
The Red Pony
Cannery Row
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Gun Runners
To Have and Have Not
A Farewell to Arms
Film Lectures by Local Experts
Contact your local university or film guild to get experts to teach your adult patrons the behind the scenes stories of famous films.
Dinner and a Movie Program
Celebrate the culinary arts with Ratatouille and No Reservations. Coordinate the night with a local cooking school or create your own easy treats easy enough for your guests to make and enjoy during the movie.
Historical Fiction Program
These movies will not only educate your patrons about historical events, they will provide great entertainment. Try The Aviator, The Alamo, Apollo 13, Evita, Finding Neverland, Hotel Rwanda, Pearl Harbor, Ray or Gangs of New York.
Holiday Movie Programs
Celebrate the holidays by showing classic movies such as It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker; or celebrate with more recent movies such as Elf, The Polar Express, Scrooged or Jack Frost.
Classic Movie Series
A classic movie series is sure to please movie buffs of all ages. Show the greats like Arsenic and Old Lace, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Oceans Eleven (1960), All the King’s Men (1949), Casablanca or Vertigo. Visit our genre list to see more films to round-out your film schedule.
Independent, Foreign and Award Winning Films
Start a unique movie program and discussion group revolving around award winning, independent and foreign films. Some of our recent examples are:
Foreign Films
Amelie
Baran
Saawariya
City of Men
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ladron Que Roba a Ladron
Award Winning
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There will be Blood
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Atonement
Love in the Time of Cholera
Away From Her
Documentary Features
Use these films to expose your patrons to timely social issues. A few movie title suggestions are Darfur Now, American Teen, Bowling for Columbine, An Inconvenient Truth, The 11th Hour and Deep Blue.
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