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.
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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.
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Along with the run of Luther: Never Too Much, Sidewalk will be hosting 
T. Marie King
J. Matthew Cobb
Nick Ferlisi
Charlie Brown Sanders III
Programming Manager + SHOUT LGBTQ+ Programmer
OPENING NIGHT!
This is my 11th year involved with the Festival (either volunteering, co-producing, or serving on the board) and I NEVER miss the 
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Sunday morning at The Alabama is another annual ritual for me, this year with the South Korean thriller 
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The latest film from Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala (The Lodge, Goodnight Mommy) is a harsh and uncompromising look at the agonizing depression of a newlywed wife in rural 18
Why did one of the most popular software programs for teaching typing at the dawn of personal computing use a Haitian-born model on its cover? In Seeking Mavis Beacon, two young filmmakers/investigators dig into the program’s legacy, particularly on young Black women with an interest in technology for whom Mavis Beacon was an unexpected inspiration — even though she was a fictitious figure. Seeking Mavis Beacon isn’t just an investigative doc on a pop culture subject, though, as the filmmakers document their own lives, the making of this film and a broader examination of the intersection of technology and identity.
In this Korean black comedy-horror film, a newlywed husband (the late Lee Sun-kyun of Parasite) starts committing increasingly disturbing acts in his sleep. What’s the cause — something medical or supernatural? His wife (Jung Yu-mi of Train to Busan) can only watch in horror as her husband’s unconscious behavior grows worse — until she decides to take action to solve the problem herself, and things, somehow, get even stranger. A deft mixture of tones and genre that could only come from South Korea, Sleep recalls the slippery thrillers of Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, proving hard to pin down and even harder to predict what’s coming next.
The story of a group of comics who go on a reproductive rights-related comedy tour to protest the narrowing of abortion access (including a memorable visit to Birmingham), No One Asked You depicts the push back against our nation’s misogynistic erosion of bodily autonomy and civil liberties in funny, furious and unforgettable ways. Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of The Daily Show, hits the road with her Abortion Access Front and fellow comedians and activists, and places herself at the frontline of the abortion rights debate by visiting and supporting providers and clinics besieged by protestors and hypocritical politicians. 
It’s fair to say Sidewalk loves the films of Joel Potrykus — largely deadpan, grimy examinations of arrested development in modern men — and Vulcanizadora, a sequel to Buzzard, might be his best work yet, following his thematic concerns to an unavoidably bleak but logical conclusion. Vulcanizadora follows Marty (Joshua Burge) and Derek (Potrykus) as they trek into the Michigan woods. As in Buzzard, the talkative Derek chatters away as Marty broods — but this is a trip that only gradually reveals itself to be far darker than your average camping excursion. And when their plans go awry, the film morphs into an examination of immaturity, existential dissatisfaction, and the walls men can erect around them to avoid being damaged by their own feelings or the consequences of their own actions.
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