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Sidewalk Film Center And Cinema Week - June 12, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
June 13, 2023
From: Sidewalk Film Center and CinemaThis Week at the Sidewalk Cinema
Everything we have playing the next seven days at the Sidewalk Cinema, including Father's Day Western Weekend
Slavery by Another Name Screening + Panel w/ Burdock Book Collective (Free!)
Dir. Sam Pollard
The first event in the series, Locked Up & Locked Out: Civil Rights, Social Justice and the Alabama Prison System, which will feature a screening of Slavery by Another Name, followed by a brief discussion led by Dr. Martha Bouyer. This event is first come first served; RSVP is strongly recommended due to limited seating. Film at 6:00pm, brief discussion and Q&A at 7:30pm.
6/3 - 6:00pm
Sidewalk Salon: Talking Theatre to Screen From An Actor's Point of View w/ Rachel Buttram (FREE!)
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Join professional actor Rachel Burttram for a candid conversation about working as a full-time actor both on the stage and screen. Q & A to follow.
6/14 - 7:00pm
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
Starring Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson
Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
6/15 - 2:00pm (Early Bird Special)
6/15 - 4:50pm (Early Bird Special)
6/15 - 7:40pm
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Dir. Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels
Starring John Lennon, Yoko Ono, May Pang
A love story that took 50 years to tell, "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story" explores the 18-month romantic relationship between John Lennon and his Chinese-American assistant May Pang.
6/15 - 2:30pm (Early Bird Special)
6/15 - 4:45pm (Early Bird Special)
Networking Nights (FREE!)
Each month join us in the lobby to network with other filmmakers, local crew, industry professionals, and creatives. Come out, grab a drink, and network! Stick around afterward for Sidewalk's Monthly Movie Trivia at 8pm.
6/15 - 5:00pm
Sidewalk Film 101: All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Dir. Douglas Sirk
Starring Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
6/15- 7:00pm
6/18 - 2:00pm
Monthly Movie Trivia (FREE!)
Every third Thursday of the month, join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Networking Nights from 5-7pm and then Monthly Movie Trivia from 8-10pm. Network, pitch ideas, school your contemporaries with movie trivia, and enjoy some drinks. We'll see you there!
6/15 - 8:00pm
Western Weekend: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Dir. George Roy Hill
Starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
6/16- 2:00pm
6/17 - 3:00pm
6/17 - 6:00pm
6/18 - 7:00pm
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Dir. George Miller, George Ogilvie
Starring Mel Gibson, Tina Turner
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
6/16 - 2:00pm
6/18 - 2:00pm
Staff Picks: Climax (2018)
As picked by Rental and Special Events Coordinator Allan Monterrubio
Dir. Gaspar Noé
Starring Sofia Boutella
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
6/16- 4:30pm
6/17 - 8:30pm
6/18 - 12:15am
6/18 - 7:30pm
Western Weekend: Young Guns (1988)
Dir. Christopher Cain
Starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamound Phillips
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
6/16 - 4:30pm
6/17 - 2:00pm
6/17 - 7:30pm
6/18 - 4:30pm
Let the Right One In (2008)
Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
6/16- 7:15pm
Western Weekend: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
6/16 - 7:30pm
6/17 - 4:30pm
6/18 - 4:30pm
Midnight Madness!: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. Tarantino wants you to know that this was his 4th film.
6/17- 11:59pm
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