Footcandle Film Society is pleased to announce our September screening of Nicole Holofcener’s indie film “Please Give”.  We’ll start the meeting at 7pm and will hold a discussion immediately following the screening.  Hope you can join us!
About the film:
Manhattan couple Alex (Oliver Platt) and Kate (Catherine Keener) develop a relationship with the granddaughters of the [...]

Growing weary of the summer blockbusters at the multiplex?  Never fear “Micmacs” is here!  Yes it’s the latest film from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Amelie”, “A Very Long Engagement”, “Alien Resurrection”) and we’ve heard it is a visual feast for the eyes.  Come out and join us August 12th at 7pm in the upstairs auditorium of [...]

We are pleased to announce our screening of the independent documentary “Racing Dreams” by Marshall Curry (director of the Academy Award nominated 2005 documentary “Street Fight”).  Due to the July 4th holiday week, we are delaying our next screening until the 15th of July.  It will still be at the Carolina Theater in downtown Hickory and [...]

We are pleased to announce our screening of the award winning foreign film “The White Ribbon”, June 10th at 7pm in the upstairs auditorium of the Carolina Theater.  Hope to see you there.  Be advised this film is rated R and contains adult content and scenes of violence.
Brief Synopsis:
At a rural school in northern Germany [...]

Footcandle film society will be screening the Oscar nominated “The Last Station”, May 13th at 7pm in the upstairs auditorium of the Carolina Theater.  Hope to see you there.
A little about the film:
Set during the last years of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s life, this Oscar nominated film explores the relationship between Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and [...]

We are pleased to announce our screening of the Academy Award winning “Crazy Heart” Thursday, April 15th at 7pm in the upstairs auditorium of the Carolina Theater.  Hope to see you there.
A little about the film:
When reporter Jean Craddock (Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal) interviews Bad Blake (Oscar winner Jeff Bridges) — an alcoholic, seen-better-days country [...]

The Big Read, Catawba County’s community-wide year-long reading project, in association with Footcandle Film Society will be screening the film In the Time of The Butterflies Thursday, April 1st at 7pm.  The film is based on the book of the same name by author Julia Alvarez.  Another of Alvarez’s books How the Garcia Girls Lost [...]

The Hickory Museum of Art & the Hickory International Council have asked Footcandle to help host a screening of the documentary Rain in a Dry Land Tuesday, March 23rd at 7pm.  The screening is free to the public so everyone is encouraged to attend.
A little about the film -
How do you measure the distance from [...]

Footcandle will be screening the 3 time Academy Award nominated (Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay) An Education, Thursday March 11th at 7pm in the upstairs auditorium of the Carolina Theater in downtown Hickory.  Admission for members is free, Non-members $5.
A little about the film -
Jenny’s (Carey Mulligan) Oxford-bound teen life is undistinguished [...]

We are pleased to announce that we will be screening the 3 time Academy Award nominated The Young Victoria, Thursday Feb. 11th at 7pm in the upstairs auditorium of the Carolina Theater in downtown Hickory.  Admission for members is free, Non-members $5.
A little about the film -
Eighteen-year-old British royal Victoria (Emily Blunt) ascends to the [...]