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SUMMER OF SPIKE: Do the Right Thing (1989)
120 min
1989
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 22

7:30 PM

Jul 23

4:30 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Jungle Fever (1991)
132 min
1991
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! A married black lawyer named Flipper (Wesley Snipes) begins an affair with Angie (Annabella Sciorra), his white secretary. When the news is leaked through an acquaintance, Flipper's wife (Lonette McKee) kicks him out of the house. Flipper decides to begin courting his mistress, only to be greeted by disapproval from friends, family and even strangers. The relationship continues to be strained in a society not ready to accept it, and people are hurt during its inception.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 22

2:00 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Mo' Better Blues (1990)
129 min
1990
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! Financially irresponsible Giant (Spike Lee) manages a jazz group, but his sax player, Shadow (Wesley Snipes), wants to replace him with a better businessman. Bleak (Denzel Washington), the band's trumpeter, then tries to defend his close pal Giant, leading to a power struggle between the two musicians.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 22

4:45 PM
The Odyssey
172 min
2026
United Kingdom, United States of America
Christopher Nolan
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 22

2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 23

2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 24

2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 25

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 26

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 29

2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 30

2:00 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 31

2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Aug 1

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Aug 2

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Aug 5

2:15 PM 6:00 PM

Aug 6

2:00 PM 5:45 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: School Daze (1988)
121 min
1988
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and social movements -- one day he hopes to rally the students as a united front. At the other end of the spectrum, Julian (Giancarlo Esposito), the head of the biggest fraternity on campus, is more concerned with maintaining a strict social order. In between, Dap's conflicted cousin, Half-Pint (Spike Lee), spends most of his time rushing the fraternity.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 23

2:00 PM
Cinema All’Italiana: The Seduction of Mimi (1972) 4K Restoration with post-film discussion
113 min
1972
Italy
Lina Wertmüller
Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) is a Sicilian dockworker who inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new work. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organizer. Soon Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting to take revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life. Each one of our Cinema All'Italiana screenings will be preceded by an intro from film scholar Kate Burney and followed by a post-film talkback.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 23

7:00 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Clockers (1995)
128 min
1995
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! Nineteen-year-old Strike Dunham (Mekhi Phifer) is a small-time street drug dealer for Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), who wants Strike to kill a former dealer who stole from him. When the man turns up dead, Strike is suspected. But before homicide detective Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) has a chance to investigate, Strike's brother, Victor (Isaiah Washington), confesses to the crime — and Klein suspects that Victor, a virtuous family man, is trying to cover up for Strike.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 24

5:30 PM

Jul 25

1:00 PM

Jul 26

2:30 PM

Jul 29

2:00 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Malcolm X (1992)
202 min
1992
Netherlands Antilles, United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 24

8:15 PM

Jul 25

3:45 PM

Jul 26

10:30 AM

Jul 30

3:00 PM
The Popcorn List Pop Up Series: Remaining Native (One Night Only!)
87 min
2025
United States of America
Paige Bethmann
Ku Stevens (17) is the solo runner at his high school with no coach. Living on the Yerington Paiute reservation in Northwest Nevada he needs more to be seen by his dream school, the University of Oregon. As Ku trains, unreconciled emotions unearth the memory of his great-grandfather, Frank Quinn. At 8 years old, Frank ran 50 miles across the desert to escape an Indian boarding school. Frank's story becomes interwoven with Ku's journey to run a collegiate qualifying time. Will Ku outrun his history or will he learn to run in parallel with it to achieve his dreams?
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 25

7:30 PM
AUGUST 24-30, 2026

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