Movies With a View Bringing 'Selma,' 'Purple Rain' and More to Brooklyn Bridge Park This Summer
From cult to classic and mainstream to bizarre, this year’s Brooklyn Bridge Park movie lineup has something for everyone.
Photo by Etienne Frossard via Brooklyn Bridge Park/Facebook
The dam has broken and the summer movie lineups are rushing through, albeit a few weeks (or so) ahead of the warm weather.
Brooklyn Bridge Park is continuing its 17-year tradition of showing films on its lawn every Thursday evening across eight weeks in July and August.
Among this year’s Movies With a View are George Lucas’s 1973 classic coming-of-age film American Graffiti, Ava DuVernay’s 2014 chronicle of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1965 voting-rights march, Selma, and Prince’s 1984 cult classic Purple Rain.
The evenings will kick off at 6 p.m. with short films curated by BAMcinématek and music from a variety of Brooklyn Radio DJs. There also will be a bike valet provided by Transportation Alternatives.
Check out the complete movie lineup:
July 7: Singin in the Rain’
July 14: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
July 21: Purple Rain
July 28: It Happened One Night
August 4: American Graffiti
August 11: Selma
August 18: A League of Their Own
August 25: Audience pick
An average of 7,000 fans are anticipated to attend the viewings, so be sure to nab a spot on the grass early.
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