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QUEENS WEEKLY, MAY 26, 2019
SUMMER FUN ’19
Watch your favorite fi lms under stars
No pricey tickets needed to enjoy outdoor movie nights this summer at parks across Queens
An outdoor movie screened in Long Island City last summer. Photo courtesy of Socrates Sculpture Park
BY MAX PARROTT
Summer has come,
and with it the wistful
nostalgia for driveins
and the desire to
maximize outdoor time
to the greatest extent
possible.
The Parks Department,
along with the Hunters
Point Parks Conservancy
and other city agencies
have organized dozens
of screenings in Queens
that turn moviegoing into
a communal activity.
The best part? You
can see all these movies
for free.
QNS has selected 10 of
them spanning Queens.
The Parks
Department’s Movies
Under the Stars program
will screen “Spider-Man:
Into the Spider Verse”
from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
May 25 at the Frederick B
Judge Playground at 111-
01 134th St., South Ozone
Park. In this new chapter
of the Spiderman story,
told through an inventive
animation process, a
black-Latino teenager in
Brooklyn gets bit by the
radioactive spider and
gets thrown into a plot
involving many multidimensional
versions
of Spider-Man.
Movies Under the
Stars will screen “E.T.
The Extra Terrestrial”
from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
May 31 at Paul Raimonda
Playground at 47th Street
and 20th Avenue in the
Ditmars Steinway area
of Astoria. Spielberg’s
masterpiece tells the
story of Elliot, a lonely
boy who befriends a
homesick alien stranded
on Earth and attempts
to help him escape
from the clutches of the
government to get back to
his home planet.
Movies Under the Stars
will screen “Frozen” from
8:30 to 10 p.m. June 5 at
Bulova Park in the Louis
C. Moser Playground, 25th
Avenue and 76th Street,
East Elmhurst. Inspired
by Hans Christian
Andersen’s fairy tale
“The Snow Queen,” it tells
the story of a princess
who sets off on a journey
to end a curse that has
frozen her kingdom in
eternal winter.
Movies Under the
Stars will screen “Black
Panther” from 8:30 to
10:30 p.m. June 21 at
149th Street and 25th
Avenue, Flushing. The
Parks Department will
partner with Councilman
Paul Vallone and the
Mayor’s Office of Media
and Entertainment.
In this Marvel
blockbuster featuring
a predominantly black
cast, T’Challa returns
home to the Afrofuturist
nation of Wakanda to
take his place as King.
Movies Under the
Stars will screen
“Smallfoot” from 8:30
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. June
26 at Yellowstone Park,
106-21 68th Ave., Forest
Hills. Councilwoman
Karen Koslowitz and the
Mayor’s Office of Media
and Entertainment will
present this animated
adventure about a yeti
who discovers a human
and tries to bring
the news back to his
home village.
The Parks
Department’s Outdoor
Cinema will present
“Cielo” from 7 to 10:30
p.m. July 3 at Socrates
Sculpture Park, 32-01
Vernon Blvd., Long Island
City. This documentary
focuses on the night sky
above the Atacama Desert
in Chile, interviewing
astronomers, peasants,
cowboys and miners
about the celestial body.
Hunters Point
Parks Conservancy’s
CinemaLIC program will
screen “Dirty Dancing”
from 8 to 10 p.m. July 18 at
Hunters Point South Park,
51st Avenue and Borden
Avenue, Long Island City.
In this ’80s teen classic, a
wide-eyed high schooler
falls for a handsome
dance instructor as she
discovers the late night
dance culture at a 1960s
Catskills resort.
Movies On The
Waterfront Series will
present “Clueless” from
8:15 to 10:15 p.m. July
29 on the Astoria Park
Lawn, 19 19th St., Astoria.
Based loosely on Jane
Austen’s “Emma,” this
’90s romantic comedy
follows Cher, a Beverly
Hills “it” girl, as she
stumbles through valley
girl romance.
Movies Under the Stars
will screen “Carousel”
from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Aug.
5 at George Seuffert
Bandshell on Forest
Park Drive, Woodhaven.
Based on the Rodgers
and Hammerstein stage
musical, a rough-talking,
handsome carousel
barker who is told that
he can return to Earth
for one day to make
amends to his widow and
their daughter.
CinemaLIC will screen
“Jaws” Aug. 15 at Hunters
Point Park South, 51st
Avenue and Borden
Avenue, Long Island City.
Spielberg’s pivotal horror
film tells the story of
the crew hired to hunt a
man-eating great white
shark that had been
attacking beachgoers off
the Massachusetts coast.
Reach reporter
Max Parrott by
email at mparrott@
schnepsmedia.com or by
phone at (718) 224-5863,
ext. 226.
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