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This year, the Central Park Film Festival celebrates 100 years of movie-making in the Park, by saluting the five boroughs of New York City. Held outdoors at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield, the Film Festival pays homage to the people and places that make New York so iconic. For more information, visit the official website.
Even if you don’t speak French, you don’t have any excuse because there will be captions! FIAF, which is a private not-for-profit organization that promotes and enhances knowledge of French and Francophone culture, is organizing the CinemaTuesdays. Every Tuesday, go to 55 E 59th Street (Btwn Park & Madison) and watch a French movie. For more information, visit the official website.
While visiting NY, you can not only gaze at the NYC skyline but also at the NYC celluloid skyline! "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies" is an beautiful exhibition of background paintings, film clips, production stills and
archival photographs from films with NYC settings. Don't miss your chance to relive NY in the movies. The exhibition is on view at Grand Central Terminal from May 25 to June 22.
See some films as well as some celebrities during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival from April 25 to May 6. You’ll watch some New York premieres and even some world premieres! You can buy your ticket in advance on the official website.
You want to watch something new? Why don’t you go to the Third annual festival of French Cinema? Focus on French Cinema will start on March 30 and end on April 1. The festival will feature 11 French Films, including Bon Voyage, La Petite Jerusalem, L’Audition… For more information, visit the official website.
If you don't want to spend a warm summer day watching a movie inside a cold movie theatre, here is a great alternative... From June 1 to September 23, you can watch independent movies from atop a Brooklyn rooftop. Join this Rooftop Films community- "a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals, between audience members and artists, between venues and neighborhoods" and enjoy the view!
Want to watch some of the greatest celluloid characters while lying on the grass under the sun and the stars? Starting June 19th you can! The 2006 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival runs every Monday at Bryant Park until August 21st.
Enjoy films for free in this theater of a different kind!
... is just one of the great films which is part of the 35th New Directors/New Films festival presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art . This year there are 36 new filmmakers who are presenting their work and paving the way for the cinema of tomorrow. The festival is on from March 22 through April 2, 2006. View the schedule and purchase tickets now!
