In search of free flicks this summer? Look no further than New York City. The Big Apple is full of free films, especially during the steamy, sultry months. The selection ranges from major league hits to cult classics. The settings are as diverse as the 8 million souls who inhabit the five boroughs. Watch from the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, an elevated plaza in the midst of Lower Manhattan, or the deck of an aircraft carrier. Nowhere but New York, folks.
Here’s some of what New York City has to offer this summer:
- Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre presents Stella Days Monday June 18 and Collaborator a week later, on June 25.
- June 18 The Bryant Park Summer Film Festival shows the movie that made a generation scared to shower: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. A week later things take a bouncier tone as Paul Newman and Robert Redford try to find out just “who are those guys” in the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- Tuesday June 26 injects a bit of terror with the screening of the original 1975 classic Jaws. Summer Movie Nights at Mad46 Rooftop Lounge is the setting. Later on in the summer, Sept. 26 to be precise, it’s Casablanca.
- The day after we celebrate our independence, Brooklyn Bridge Park Syfy Movies with a View serves up ET: The Extra-Terrestrial on Thursday, July 5. Nothing Syfy about Slumdog Millionaire, but it’s mighty satisfying. The hit 2008 production is set for Thursday, July 19.
- Looking for recent fare and don’t want to download? Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation’s Outdoor Summer Movie Series showcases 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger on Saturday, June 30, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on Saturday, August 11.
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