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New York Film Festival comes to Brooklyn Army Terminal CINEMA
New York Film Festival at Brooklyn
Army Terminal, 80 58th St., at First
Avenue in Sunset Park, www.fi lmlinc.
org. Sept. 17–Oct. 11. Most drive-in
screenings begin at 8 pm, doors at
7 pm. $45 per car for drive-in, virtual
showings start at $12. Tickets go on
sale Sept. 11 at 2 pm.
how, she would say, ‘a bunch of hippies
getting into a van, and driving projectors
around the city,’” Hernandez said.
Rooftop Film has been hosting
drive-in screenings all summer, with
measures like social distancing, regular
cleaning, and contact-free check-in
that provide a safe movie-going experience
in the age of COVID-19, said Hernandez.
The car-borne entertainment also
offers a healthy dose of nostalgia, especially
against the backdrop of the Brooklyn
waterfront, said the organizer.
“For me it brought back those kinds
of very warm and positive memories,
drive-ins were a fun and memorable
activity that imprinted on my early
childhood,” Hernandez said.
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OUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE BOROUGH OF KINGS
Haute drive-in
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Brooklynites looking to catch the
latest and greatest of the big screen
are in luck, as the 58th annual New
York Film Festival will come to Sunset
Park on Sept. 17 — bringing three
weeks of drive-in movies, documentaries,
shorts, and historic fi lms to the
Brooklyn Army Terminal, said the festival’s
organizer.
“We thought about how do we invite
and engage both a new generation
of New Yorkers, but also how do we engage
with parts of the city and citizens
of New York who might not have otherwise
felt welcome or invited or known
about it,” said Eugene Hernandez, the
festival’s deputy director.
The usually Manhattan-centric festival,
which has been hosted at Lincoln
Center for nearly six decades, will partner
with Rooftop Films to bring the silver
screen to fi lm buffs in Sunset Park
and Flushing Meadows Corona Park
in Queens, via virtual showings.
Hernandez said he’d been hoping to
expand the fi lm bash beyond Manhattan
IN CARS: The New York Film Festival will come to drive-in screenings at Brooklyn Army
Terminal in Sunset Park. (Above) Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Human Voice” will
play on Sept. 24. (Top) Rooftop Films (Bottom) El Deseo – Iglesias Más
even before the pandemic, inspired
by past efforts to bring new movies to
communities beyond the distant isle —
including when the organization’s predecessor,
the Film Society of Lincoln
Center, hosted outdoor screenings at
parks around the fi ve boroughs in the
1970s.
“I’ve heard stories from a longtime
Lincoln Center board member about
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COURIER L 2 IFE, SEPT. 11-17, 2020
BY ROSE ADAMS &
PAUL FRANGIPANE
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced
on Wednesday that
restaurants in New York City
will be allowed to reopen for
indoor dining and the end of
the month — finally heeding
the calls of struggling local
restaurateurs who have
been facing financial ruin
amid coronavirus-related
closure.
“I’m grateful that they’re
giving us the opportunity to
come back inside. I was very
worried about the survival
— not only of my business,
but my friends who are in the
restaurant business,” said
Ted Nugent, the co-owner
of Cebu restaurant in Bay
Ridge. “I think the hospitality
industry is a very important
makeup of what makes
New York what it is.”
Beginning on Sept. 30,
eateries in the Five Boroughs
can welcome patrons
at 25 percent of their previous
capacity — providing a
glimmer of hope to restaurants
like Nugent’s.
“I’m excited to get to 25
percent, because just within
the past couple of days, we
thought we weren’t getting
anything, so 25 percent is
better than nothing,” he
said.
The Cebu owner, whose
business is currently operating
with an 80-person capacity
outdoors, said the quarter
capacity indoor limit
won’t be enough to brave out
the economic hardship in the
colder months, but he is optimistic
that the move is just
the first step toward a full
recovery — citing Cuomo,
who said the state would
consider increasing indoor
capacity on Nov. 1.
“Twenty-five percent in
reality is not a sustainable
way for this business to operate.
As everyone knows,
when we’re at 100 percent
capacity, it’s still a very trying
industry,” he said. “But
hopefully we’ll keep the metrics
in the right direction,
and that 25 percent, by Nov.
1, is 50 percent — and then
that 50 percent by Dec. 1 is 75
percent.”
Food joints will also
have to stick to a strict set
of heath guidelines — including
providing six feet of
space between tables, conducting
temperature checks
before customers can enter,
and requiring face mask usage
whenever customers are
not seated.
At least one patron in the
party will also be required
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