Welcome to another year of the monthly Sidewalk Film 101 series at the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema. This year, we’ll be focusing on big-screen spectacles – movies that you must see on the big screen. Along with supplemental readings and resources to contextualize each featured film, Thursday evening screenings will include a special introduction.
Coming up for the rest of the year:
February: Boyz in the Hood (1991)
Tre is sent to live with his father, Furious Styles, in tough South Central Los Angeles. Although his hard-nosed father instills proper values and respect in him, and his devout girlfriend Brandi teaches him about faith, Tre’s friends Doughboy and Ricky don’t have the same kind of support and are drawn into the neighborhood’s booming drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results.
February 20 – 7:00pm
February 23 – 1:00pm
March: Pather Panchali (1955)
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
Dates/showtimes TBD
April: The General (1927)
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Dates/showtimes TBD
May: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
In 1936, archaeologists and adventurers of the U.S. government hired Indiana Jones to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis could obtain its extraordinary powers.
Dates/showtimes TBD
June: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
Dates/showtimes TBD
July: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Dates/showtimes TBD
August: Rio Bravo (1959)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Dates/showtimes TBD
September: Beau Travail (1999)
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Dates/showtimes TBD
October: The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Dates/showtimes TBD
November: The French Connection (1971)
A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
Dates/showtimes TBD
December: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dates/showtimes TBD
Stay tuned as tickets and showtimes are announced throughout the year! See them all and receive a special diploma!
Tickets to all films can be found at sidewalkfest.com/tickets.