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Summer Blockbuster Staff Picks May 16 – 22

We’re starting summer off in a BIG way…by playing some of the Sidewalk staff’s favorite blockbusters on the BIG SCREEN as they were meant to be seen! We asked our staff members to compile their summertime favorites and narrowed them down by decade. Read below

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March Sidewalk Film 101: Pather Panchali (1955)

At the 2014 unite4:humanity Gala, Martin Scorsese received the Creative Conscience Award, recognizing him for his continued work in film preservation. During his acceptance speech, he made a point to connect his long-term efforts in film preservation to the work of Indian director Satyajit Ray.

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March Book + Film Club: Promising Young Woman

March’s Book + Film Club selection pairs The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere with Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman as a part of our Women In Film celebration sponsored by WBHM and SouthState Bank. Courtney Brannon Donoghue is an Assistant Professor in

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The 97th Academy Awards Recap

“Long live independent films!” – Anora director, Sean Baker The 97th Academy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles and Sidewalk’s Hollywood Awards Show Watch Party took place in Birmingham. Several of the nominees played at the Sidewalk Cinema during the previous year and

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February Sidewalk Film 101: Boyz N the Hood (1991)

John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood was met with significant critical acclaim immediately following its release, nearly 35 years ago. The film released in 1991, and in 1992, Singleton became the youngest director and the first African American in cinema history to receive nomination for

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2025 Valentine’s Staff Picks Weekend

Select members of the Sidewalk Staff have picked some of their favorite romantic movies for our Valentine’s Staff Picks Weekend (Feb. 14 – 20)! Spend a date night with your partner or bring your closest friends to a weekend full of love, heartache, and…vampires? That’s

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February Book + Film Club: If Beale Street Could Talk

February’s Book + Film Club selection features the novel and screen adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk as a part of Sidewalk’s Black Lens celebration sponsored by Gilead Sciences.  Baldwin’s fifth novel, first published in 1974, is told primarily from the perspective

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2025 Sidewalk Film 101 Titles Announced

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

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