this week in film and television

CRAFTING GENRE: KATHRYN BIGELOW — THE HURT LOCKER

Oscar winner THE HURT LOCKER is part of MoMA retrospective of director Kathryn Bigelow

THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)
MoMA Film
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Sunday, June 5, 5:30
Monday, June 13, 8:00
Saturday, July 23, 5:00
Series runs June 1 – August 13
Tickets: $10, in person only, may be applied to museum admission within thirty days, same-day screenings free with museum admission, available at Film and Media Desk
212-708-9400
www.thehurtlocker-movie.com
www.moma.org

Based on embedded journalist Mark Boal’s experiences in Iraq, The Hurt Locker follows a three-member Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit as they are called in to defuse a series of dangerous situations involving various kinds of bombs, including IEDs and other life-threatening explosive devices. Team leader Will James (Jeremy Renner) is an expert bomb defuser and maverick who doesn’t follow protocol and likes to live on the edge. Spc. Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) is a greenhorn who just wants to survive the last forty days of their rotation. And Sgt. J. T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) likes to go by the book and take no unnecessary chances, which puts him in constant conflict with the unpredictable James. Recalling the second half of Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam drama Full Metal Jacket (1987), The Hurt Locker unfolds in a series of harrowing set pieces in which the EOD unit is called in to either safely detonate or defuse explosive devices while under the eyes of local Iraqis, any of whom could potentially be the bomber or a sniper. Director Kathryn Bigelow (Blue Steel, Point Break) masterfully builds suspense scene after scene, beginning with the edge-of-your-seat opener through to the gripping conclusion. The experiences of the EOD unit serve as a microcosm for modern warfare in general and the U.S. involvement in the Middle East specifically, placing viewers in the midst of a tense, bitter, psychologically and emotionally draining battle that can never be won. The outstanding cast also features Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Evangeline Lilly in small roles; many of the Iraqis were played by actual war refugees. Shot in Jordan not far from the Iraq border, The Hurt Locker is a remarkable story, one of the best war films of the decade.

With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow, who will turn sixty later this year, beat out her ex-husband, Avatar megadirector and producer James Cameron, for the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars at the 2010 Academy Awards. She has made a mere eight feature films in her thirty-year career, all of which will be shown during the MoMA retrospective “Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow.” The series begins June 1 with Bigelow introducing her 1978 short about violence, Set-Up, and her full-length debut, 1982’s The Loveless, followed by a Q&A. Bigelow always adds a twist to her genre pictures, from the vampire thriller Near Dark (1987) and the police procedural Blue Steel (1989) to the futuristic sci-fi fantasy Strange Days (1995) and the historical murder mystery The Weight of Water (2000). And then there’s 1991’s Point Break, a modern surf-camp classic starring Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent determined to catch master bank robber Patrick Swayze; you’ve got to see it to believe it, and even then you’re likely to be completely flummoxed. (Be sure to allow extra time, as MoMA is also displaying storyboards, notes, two of Bigelow’s short experimental works, and other related paraphernalia in conjunction with the screenings.)

DANCEAFRICA2011 — EXPRESSIONS AND ENCOUNTERS: AFRICAN, CUBAN, AND AMERICAN RHYTHMS

Cuba’s Ballet Folklórico Cutumba are part of the annual Memorial Day weekend DanceAfrica celebration at BAM

Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
Through May 30, free – $50 (dance $20-$50, films $12, music and street fair free)
718-636-4100
www.bam.org

Held in conjunction with the ¡Sí Cuba! Festival, BAM’s thirty-fourth annual celebration of African dance continues through Memorial Day with a bevy of great events centered around performances by Cuba’s Ballet Folklórico Cutumba, the Brooklyn-based BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, the Bronx’s Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble, and Philadelphia’s Kùlú Mèlé African Dance & Drum Ensemble in the Howard Gilman Opera House and led by the ever-welcome presence of Baba Chuck Davis; the Sunday show will be followed by an Artist Talk with Davis, Idalberto Banderas, and Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, moderated by Fernando Sáez (after which dancers will take to the streets in impromptu performances). BAMcinématek’s “FilmAfrica” series will screen such works as Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie) (2010), Souleymane Cissé’s Yeelen (Brightness) (1987), and Andrew Dosunmu’s 2011 New York-set Restless City (followed by a Q&A with the director). BAMcafé Live will host a free show by Miami’s the Nag Champayons on Saturday at 9:00, followed by a DanceAfrica Late-Night Dance Party with DJ Cato. And on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, beginning at noon each day, one of the best street fairs of the year will be held on Ashland Pl., the DanceAfrica Bazaar, featuring great food and drink, booths selling statues, clothing, shea butter, arts & crafts, and other cool goods, live music, and much more.

GREAT ADAPTATIONS: PERSEPOLIS

Animated PERSEPOLIS is part of “Great Adaptations” series at Museum of the Moving Image

PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Ave. at 36th St., Astoria
Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, free with museum admission of $10, 1:00
Series continues through July 3
718-777-6800
www.movingimage.us
www.sonypictures.com

France’s official selection for the 2007 Academy Awards, Persepolis brings to animated life Marjane Satrapi’s stunning graphic novels. Codirected by Satrapi and comic-book artist Vincent Paronnaud, Persepolis tells Satrapi’s harrowing life story as she comes of age during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Raised in a well-off activist family, she fights against many of the country’s crippling mores and laws, particularly those that treat women as second-class citizens, trapping them in their veils, denying them any kind of individual freedom. But the progressive Satrapi (voiced first by Gabrielle Lopes, then Chiara Mastroianni) continually gets into trouble as she speaks her mind, experiments with sex, and refuses to play by her country’s repressive rules. Satrapi and Paronnaud do an outstanding job of adapting the books’ black-and-white panels for the big screen, maintaining her unique style and emotional breadth. The first part of the film is excellent as the precocious teenager who talks to God learns about life in some very harsh ways. Unfortunately, the second half gets bogged down in Satrapi’s failures as an adult, focusing too much on her myriad personal problems and taking away the bigger picture that made the first part so entertaining as well as educational. Still, it’s a story worth telling, and well worth seeing. (Interestingly, since the film, which is in French, is subtitled in English, the audience ends up reading it similarly to the way they read the graphic novel.) The closing-night selection of the 2007 New York Film Festival, Persepolis also features the voices of Catherine Deneuve as Marjane’s mother, Danielle Darrieux as her grandmother, Simon Akbarian as her father, and François Jerosme as her radical uncle Anouche. Persepolis is screening May 28-29 at 1:00 as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s “Great Adaptations” series, which continues June 4-5 with Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and June 11-12 with Alfonso Cuarón’s A Little Princess.

LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2011

Theater for the New City
155 First Ave. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
May 27-29, free
www.theaterforthenewcity.net

The sixteenth annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts runs May 27-29, three days of experimental, cutting-edge, and campy performances based at the Theater for the New City. You can catch just about any kind of artistic discipline you want, from music, dance, and poetry to film, comedy, theater, and puppetry, and it’s all free. Held in TNC’s Cabaret Theater, Johnson Theater, Community Space Theater, and lobby as well as outside on East Tenth St., the festival includes Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith performing songs from his upcoming play Woody Guthrie Dreams, Tony-winning actress-singer Tammy Grimes, Maariana Bekerman Dance Company, Ben Harburg singing Songs of Social Comment by his grandfather Yip Harburg, spoken word by Jennifer Blowdryer, Unstuffy Divas Mary Riley and Jennifer Gelber, Reno, Barbara Kahn’s The Book of Merman, Kalpulli Atl-Tlachinolli re-creating an Aztec dance ritual, an excerpt from Jonathan Slaff’s The Adventures of Siggy and Carl about Freud and Jung, an Urban Aerial Fairytale by Suspended Cirque, an excerpt from Stephen Adly Gurgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Josh Fox’s documentary Gasland, Lei Zhou and Natalia Korablina in Alan Ball’s The M Word, Elijah Black’s Fresh Fruit Festival, Micha Lazare’s Lazer Lady and the Buddha Babies, Robert Adanto’s film Pearl on the Ocean Floor, and an unpublished one-act play by Lanford Wilson in addition to the New York School of Rock, JT Lotus Dance Company, Supercute, Yana Schnitzler’s Human Kinetics Movement Arts, the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir’s James Solomon Benn, John J. Zullo Dance, David Amram, the Constellation Moving Company, Roger Manning, Jessica Delfino, Penny Arcade, Taylor Mead, KT Sullivan, the one and only Joe Franklin, and dozens more.

REVISITING THE QUIET MAN: IRELAND ON FILM — HUNGER

May 28 screening of HUNGER at MoMA will be followed by a conversation with cowriter Enda Walsh and series curator Gabriel Byrne

HUNGER (Steve McQueen, 2008)
MoMA Film, Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Saturday, May 28, 8:00
Monday, May 30, 4:30
Series runs through June 3
Tickets: $10, in person only, may be applied to museum admission within thirty days, same-day screenings free with museum admission, available at Film and Media Desk
212-708-9400
www.moma.org
www.ifcfilms.com/films/hunger

In 2004, we saw Steve McQueen’s fascinating video installation of three short works at Wellesley’s Davis Museum. As entertaining and intriguing as that show was, it never could have prepared us for Hunger, the British-born Turner Prize winner’s brutal and harrowing feature-length debut. Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, Hunger is set amid the Troubles in Northern Island, as IRA members are locked up in the Maze prison. Seeking special category status, the prisoners are on a Blanket and No Wash protest, refusing to wear official garb or clean up after themselves. They wipe their feces all over their cell walls and let their maggot-infested garbage pile up in corners. Meanwhile, the guards, who live in their own kind of daily fear, never miss a chance to beat the prisoners mercilessly. McQueen introduces the audience to the infamous prison through the eyes of one of the high-ranking guards, Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham), and new prisoner Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan). He often lets the camera linger on a scene, with little or no dialogue, composing them as if individual works of art; one particularly gorgeous shot features Lohan having a cigarette outside the prison as snow falls. About halfway through, the film radically changes focus as Father Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham) visits H Block leader Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), leading to sixteen minutes of uninterrupted dialogue, the camera never moving, as the two men discuss Sands’s planned hunger strike. Written with Enda Walsh, McQueen’s film is a visually stunning, emotionally powerful story that will leave audiences ragged.

Hunger is screening May 28 and 30 as part of MoMA’s “Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film” series, curated by Gabriel Byrne and featuring such other works made in and/or about Ireland as Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, 1959), This Other Eden (Muriel Box, 1959), The Informer (John Ford, 1935), In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993), and Into the West (Mike Newell, 1993). The May 28 screening of Hunger will be followed by a conversation with Enda Walsh and Byrne.

WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2011

Multiple venues
June 1-5
www.worldsciencefestival.com

The mind-expanding World Science Festival kicks off June 1 with a gala celebration at Alice Tully Hall as a group of stars (Liev Schreiber, Allison Janney, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and others) will read Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, a new play written by WSF veteran Alan Alda and directed by Bob Balaban. What follows are more than three dozen events over four days that examine the impact of science on today’s world, including panel discussions, lectures, film screenings, live music, magic, and more. Tickets are still available for most programs, including “Spotlight: Women in Science” on June 2 at Galapagos, a cabaret happy hour featuring Joy Hirsch, Jean Berko Gleason, Priyamvada Natarajan, Corina Tarnita, and Tal Rabin, moderated by Faith Salie; “World Science Festival Salon: The Mystery of Dark Matter” on June 3 at the Rosenthal Pavilion, where you can mingle with Elena Aprile, Glennys Farrar, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Katherine Freese, Jocelyn Monroe, and Priyamvada Natarajan; “A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram” June 3 at the Skirball Center, a cutting-edge discussion with John Hockenberry, Gerard ’t Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Raphael Bousso, and Herman Verlinde; “Scents and Sensibilities: The Invisible Language of Smell” June 4 at the New School, with Juju Chang, Leslie Vosshall, Sissel Tolaas, Consuelo De Moraes, and Avery Gilbert; “Music and the Spark of Spontaneity” June 4 in the Great Hall of the Cooper Union, in which Pat Metheny will perform and Jamshed Bharucha, Charles Limb, Aaron Berkowitz, and Gary Marcus will focus on his brain and creativity, moderated by John Schaefer; “Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines” on June 4 at the Kaye Playhouse, as IBM’s Watson supercomputer will be joined by Hod Lipson, David Ferrucci, Eric Horvitz, and Rodney Brooks; and “Chemistry on Canvas: A Revealing Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier” on June 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Garrick Utley, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Harold Varmus, and Roald Hoffmann. There are also several free events, including the opening reception of “BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body” at Eyebeam on June 3 at 6:00, with Chesney Snow, the Theremin Inspectors, Sonic Bed, Optofonica Capsule, and Stone Forest Ensemble; “From the City to the Stars: A Night of Stargazing at Brooklyn Bridge Park” on June 3 at 8:30; “Science on Site: Explorations on Governors Island” on June 4 with Timothy Ferris, Mark Kurlansky, Dean Pesnell, and Robert Naczi; and the 2011 World Science Festival Street Fair in Washington Square Park on June 5.

FREE SUMMER MOVIES 2011

Jacques Deray’s THE SWIMMING POOL appropriately kicks off the Films on the Green series June 3 in Central Park

In general, all of the below film screenings begin around sunset, but you have to show up a lot earlier to grab a prime spot. For the River to River Movies on the Elevated Acre, free tickets are given out beginning at 6:00, and shorts precede the main feature. For the extremely popular HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, the gravel section opens at 4:00, while the lawn opens at 5:00. Doors open for the Intrepid Summer Movie Series at 7:30. Live music at 6:00 kicks off Movies with a View in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Most of the events sponsored by Rooftop Films require a paid ticket, but they will be hosting several free shows as well this summer. Hudson River Park’s Wednesday River Flicks for Grown-ups moves to the Pier 63 Lawn, while the Friday River Flicks for Kids remains at Pier 46. Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City pairs international films with regional cuisine and live music and dance for its Outdoor Cinema series. Films on the Green, which celebrates French cinema, will be held at different locations throughout June and July. Please visit the respective websites for more specific information. And EPIX will be sponsoring weekly screenings in four city parks throughout the summer.

Friday, May 27
Intrepid Summer Movie Series — Heroes of the Big Screen: Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986), Pier 86, 12th Ave. at 46th St.

Friday, June 3
Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: The Swimming Pool (La Piscine) (Jacques Deray, 1969), Cedar Hill, Central Park

Thursday, June 9
Rooftop Films: Battle for Brooklyn (Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, and David Beilinson, 2011), Myrtle Ave. Hill, Fort Greene Park, 9:00

Friday, June 10
Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: Those Happy Days (Nos Jours Heureux) (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano, 2006), Washington Square Park

Friday, June 17
Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: A Summer’s Tale (Conte d’été) (Eric Rohmer, 1996), Washington Square Park

Monday, June 20
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975), Bryant Park lawn

Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985), preceded by shorts by Marie Losier, 55 Water St., free tickets required

Friday, June 24
Intrepid Summer Movie Series — Heroes of the Big Screen: Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002), Pier 86, 12th Ave. at 46th St.

Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: Contempt (Le Mépris) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963), Tompkins Square Park

Saturday, June 25Outdoor Summer Movie Series: Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010), Roosevelt Island


Monday, June 27
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935), Bryant Park lawn

Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974), preceded by shorts by Maria Niro Waiting, 55 Water St., free tickets required

Martin Scorsese’s bruising RAGING BULL screens June 30 in Tompkins Square Park

Thursday, June 30
EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980), Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 1
Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) (Jacques Tati, 1953), Tompkins Square Park

Monday, July 4
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), Bryant Park lawn

Wednesday, July 6
Summer of Music: Harlem Outdoor Music and Screening Series, with music by DJ Laylo & Eli Efi and screening of Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer (Charlie Ahearn, 2011), Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Friday (F. Gary Gray, 1995), McCarren Park

Outdoor Cinema: Celebrating the Cultural Diversity of Queens, Socrates Sculpture Park, with regional cuisine and live music and dance

Thursday, July 7
Movies with a View: Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979, Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by Jessica Edward, with DJ Emch

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Coming to America (John Landis, 1988), Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 8
Passport Fridays: Ecuador, with dance by Ayezamana, music by Sal y Mileto, and screening of Prometeo Deportado (Fernando Mieles, 2010), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: The Karate Kid (Harald Zwart, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: Towards Zero (L’ Heure Zéro), Pascal Thomas, 2007), Riverside Park

Saturday, July 9
Outdoor Summer Movie Series: The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), Roosevelt Island

Monday, July 11
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953), Bryant Park lawn

Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984), preceded by shorts by Henry Hills, 55 Water St., free tickets required, 8:00

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, July 12
Red Hook Summer Movies: Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997), Valentino Pier

Václav Vorlícek’s 1966 flick WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE gets a rare screening on July 13 at Socrates Sculpture Park

Wednesday, July 13
River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Summer on the Hudson Movies Under the Stars — Terror Through the Decades: The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933), Pier 1, Riverside Park at 70th St.

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992), McCarren Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Who Wants to Kill Jessie (Václav Vorlícek, 1966), Socrates Sculpture Park

Thursday, July 14
Movies with a View: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, Das Racist short by Thomas De Napoli, with DJ Ming

Summer Starz: Megamind (Tom McGrath, 2010), East River State Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979), Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 15
Passport Fridays: Africa, with dance and music by Ballet African International and screening of Africa United (Debs Gardner-Paterson, 2010), Queens Museum, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Bronx Museum of the Arts First Fridays! African Film Festival: All I Wanna Do (Michelle Medina, 2010) and Bongo Barbershop (Charlie Ahearn, 2005), Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse

Films on the Green — Summer Vacation: My Father’s Glory (La Gloire de Mon Père) (Yves Robert, 1990), Riverside Park

Movies Under the Stars: Antz (Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson, 1998), Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Monday, July 18
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967), Bryant Park lawn

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, July 19
Red Hook Summer Movies: Bring It On (Peyton Reed, 2010), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 20
River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010, Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Summer on the Hudson Movies Under the Stars — Terror Through the Decades: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956), Pier 1, Riverside Park at 70th St.

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Caramel (Nadine Labaki, 2007), Socrates Sculpture Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001), McCarren Park

Thursday, July 21
Reel Harlem Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: live music by Abby Dobson at 7:30, followed by Night Catches Us (Tanya Hamilton, 2010) at 8:30, St. Nicholas Park

Movies with a View: Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by Felix Massie, with DJ April White

Summer Starz: Free Willy (Simon Wincer, 1993), East River State Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All / Outdoor Cinema: Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009), Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 22
Passport Fridays: Haiti, with dance by the Legros Cultural Arts Dance Project, music by Jocelyne Dorismé, and screening of Children of Haiti (Alexandria Hammond, 2010), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Movies Under the Stars: Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952), Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Saturday, July 23
Outdoor Summer Movie Series: Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009), Roosevelt Island

Monday, July 25
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941), Bryant Park lawn

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, July 26
Red Hook Summer Movies: Lords of Dogtown (Catherine Hardwicke, 2005), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 27
Summer on the Hudson Movies Under the Stars — Terror Through the Decades: The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963), Pier 1, Riverside Park at 70th St.

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Kim Jee-woon, 2008), Socrates Sculpture Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986), McCarren Park

Forget the sequel and the remake — the original ARTHUR will be screening July 27 in Tompkins Square Park


Wednesday, July 27
Reel Harlem Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: live music by DJ Cool Gee at 7:30, followed by Gasland (Josh Fox, 2010) at 8:30, West Harlem Piers Park

River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: The Other Guys (Adam McKay, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

EPIX Movie Free-for-All / Outdoor Cinema: Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981), Tompkins Square Park

Thursday, July 28
Reel Harlem Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: live music by DJ Cool Gee at 7:30, followed by What’s on Your Plate? (Catherine Gune, 2009) at 8:30, West Harlem Piers Park

Movies with a View: Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by Bill Brand, with DJ David Last

Summer Starz: Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), East River State Park

Friday, July 29
Passport Fridays: Taiwan, with dance by H. T. Chen & Dancers, music by Drum Spirit of China, and screening of Kung Fu Dunk (Gōngfū Guànlán) (Yen-ping Chu, 2008), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Movies Under the Stars: Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987), Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Monday, August 1
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967), Bryant Park lawn

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, August 2
Red Hook Summer Movies: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 3
River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: The Fighter (David O. Russell, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Canceled: EPIX Movie Free-for-All / Outdoor Cinema: The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999), Socrates Sculpture Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson Movies Under the Stars — Terror Through the Decades: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (John De Bello, 1978), Pier 1, Riverside Park at 70th St.

Thursday, August 4
Movies with a View: An American Tail (Don Bluth, 1986), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by Felix Massie, with DJ David Last

Summer Starz: How to Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois, 2010), East River State Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: The Pope of Greenwich Village (Stuart Rosenberg, 1984), Tompkins Square Park

Friday, August 5
Passport Fridays: Dominican Republic, with dance by Ballet Folklorico Group of the Father Billini Association, music by Chepe & su conjunto tipico, and screening of Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2009), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Saturday, August 6
Outdoor Summer Movie Series: Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 2009), Roosevelt Island

Movies Under the Stars: Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996), Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Monday, August 8
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker, 1980), Bryant Park lawn

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, August 9
Red Hook Summer Movies: The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984), Valentino Pier

Michal Marczak’s AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA will have a special screening August 10 at Socrates Sculpture Park

Wednesday, August 10
River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Summer on the Hudson Movies Under the Stars — Terror Through the Decades: The Return of Swamp Thing (Jim Wynorski, 1989), Pier 1, Riverside Park at 70th St.

Rooftop Films / EPIX Movie Free-for-All / Outdoor Cinema: At the Edge of Russia (Michal Marczak, 2010), Socrates Sculpture Park, live music at 7:00, postscreening Q&A with the director

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993), McCarren Park

Thursday, August 11
Movies with a View: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by Albert and David Maysles, with DJ April White

Summer Starz: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Thor Freudenthal, 2010), East River State Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010), Tompkins Square Park


Friday, August 12
Passport Fridays: Egypt, with dance and music by Zikrayat and screening of Heliopolis (Ahmad Abdalla, 2009), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Sunday, August 14
Outdoor Summer Movie Series: Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010), Roosevelt Island

Monday, August 15
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941), Bryant Park lawn

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, August 16
Red Hook Summer Movies: The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen, 2001), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 17
River Flicks — Wednesdays for Grown-ups: The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Summer on the Hudson Movies Under the Stars — Terror Through the Decades: Mars Attacks (Tim Burton, 1996), Pier 1, Riverside Park at 70th St.

EPIX Movie Free-for-All / Outdoor Cinema: Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2010), Socrates Sculpture Park

Thursday, August 18
Movies with a View: Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by A. Sayeeda Clarke, with DJ Emch

Summer Starz: Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010), East River State Park

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968), Tompkins Square Park

Friday, August 19
Passport Fridays: Colombia, with dance by Estampas Negras, music by Pablo Mayor & Ensemble, and screening of The Accordion Kings (Alan Tomlinson, 2008), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

River Flicks — Fridays for Kids: Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard, 2010), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 lawn, West 23rd St.

Saturday, August 20

Asian American International Film Festival: Never Stop Believing shorts program, Big Screen Plaza, 851 Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts., 5:00

HarlemWeek ImageNation Outdoor Film Festival: Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone, 1943) and Rubber Soles (Christine Turner, 2005), St. Nicholas Park

Summer Movie Nights: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968), Big Screen Plaza, 851 Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts.

Monday, August 22
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971), Bryant Park lawn

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu, 2011), Luna Park, Coney Island

New York International Latino Film Festival — Cinema Under the Stars: To Be Heard (Roland Legiardi-Laura, Edwin Martinez, Deborah Shaffer & Amy Sultan, 2010), St. Nicholas Park

Tuesday, August 23
Red Hook Summer Movies: The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999), Valentino Pier

Summer Movie Nights: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), Big Screen Plaza, 851 Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts.

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: El Cantante (Leon Ichaso, 2006), Sheep Meadow, Central Park

Wednesday, August 24
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988), Sheep Meadow, Central Park

Outdoor Cinema: Celebrating the Cultural Diversity of Queens, Silent Film Festival, Socrates Sculpture Park, with regional cuisine and live music and dance

Thursday, August 25
Movies with a View: Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00, short by Don Hertzfeldt, with DJ Ming

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972), Tompkins Square Park

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Dreamgirls (Bill Condon, 2006), Sheep Meadow, Central Park

Solar-Powered Film Series: An Evening with Matthew Modine, Solar One, East 23rd St. & FDR Dr., 8:00

Friday, August 26
Passport Fridays: Venezuela, with music by Los crema paraiso and Big Mandrake! and screening of Libertador Morales, el justiero (Efterpi Charalambidis, 2009), Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 6:30

KidFlix: The Wiz (Sidney Lumet, 1978), preceded by Dance Like Michael workshop with Aamir Smith, Fulton Park, 7:00

Summer Movie Nights: True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2010), St. Joseph Parish Schoolyard, 43-19 30th Ave., Astoria, free BBQ at 7:00

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese, 2008), Sheep Meadow, Central Park

Solar-Powered Film Series: Dirty Business (Peter Bull, 2010), Solar One, East 23rd St. & FDR Dr., 8:00

Saturday, August 27
HarlemWeek ImageNation Outdoor Film Festival: Michael Jackson This Is It! (Kenny Ortega, 2009) and Say It Loud (Jason Scott Jones), St. Nicholas Park

Summer Movie Nights: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977), Big Screen Plaza, 851 Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts.

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival Viewers’ Choice: A Star Is Born (Frank Pierson, 1976), Sheep Meadow, Central Park

Solar-Powered Film Series: Home (Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2010), Solar One, East 23rd St. & FDR Dr., 8:00

Monday, August 29
Vienna Music Film Festival, Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: How She Move (Ian Iqbal Rashid, 2007), Luna Park, Coney Island

Tuesday, August 30
Red Hook Summer Movies: Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle, 1990), Valentino Pier

Movies Under the Bridge: Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud, 2010), Little Bay Park

Summer Movie Nights: Viewers Choice, Big Screen Plaza, 851 Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts.

Wednesday, August 31
Parks’ Outdoor Summer Movies: Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010), Betsy Head Memorial Playground

Rescheduled: EPIX Movie Free-for-All / Outdoor Cinema: The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999), with live performance by the Lo Frequency, Socrates Sculpture Park

Thursday, September 1
Movies with a View: Public Vote winner — Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994), Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, live music at 6:00

EPIX Movie Free-for-All: Stake Land (Jim Mickle, 2010), Tompkins Square Park

Parks’ Outdoor Summer Movies: How to Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois, 2010), St. Mary’s Park

Friday, September 2
Summer Movie Nights: Invictus (Clint Eastwood, 2009), St. Joseph Parish Schoolyard, 43-19 30th Ave., Astoria, free BBQ at 7:00

Saturday, September 3
Outdoor Summer Movie Series: The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004), Roosevelt Island

Tuesday, September 6
Red Hook Summer Movies: Highlander (Russell Mulcahy, 1986), Valentino Pier

Thursday, September 8
Films on the Green @Columbia University: Two Days in Paris (Deux Jours à Paris) (Julie Delpy, 2007), Low Library Steps

Sunday, September 11
ImageNation at the Sundae Sermon: Mooz-Lum (Qasim “Q” Basir, 2010), Morningside Park, 3:00

Tuesday, September 13
Red Hook Summer Movies: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985), Valentino Pier