Film Series

Wednesday, July 13   8:00 PM   Thunder Road Filmed in Asheville (Optional)

A 1958 drama-crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film and co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself. “. The film became a cult classic and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some Southeastern markets through the 1970s and 1980s.

Wednesday, July 20   8:00 PM   Matewan

In John Sayles’s film, a labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones and Mary McDonnell

Wednesday, July 27 8:00   October Sky

October Sky is a 1999 film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Laura Dern. It is based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 to take up rocketry against his father’s wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.