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MAY 23, 2019 • SUMMER IN THE BORO • THE QUEENS COURIER 51
summer in the boro
Watch a fi lm under the stars at these outdoor screenings
BY MAX PARROTT
mparrott@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Summer has come, and with it the wistful
nostalgia for drive-ins and the desire
to maximize outdoor time to the greatest
extent possible. Th e Parks Department,
along with the Hunters Point Parks
Conservancy and other city agencies have
organized dozens of screenings in Queens
that turn movie-going into a communal
activity.
QNS has selected 10 of them spanning
the borough.
Th e 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 multi-dimensional
versions of Spider-Man.
Movies Under the Stars will screen
“E.T. Th e 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 “Th e 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. Th e Parks Department will
partner with Councilman Paul Vallone
and the Mayor’s Offi ce 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 Offi ce 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. Th is 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 Th e 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 Seuff ert Bandshell on Forest Park
Drive, Woodhaven. Based on the Rodgers
and Hammerstein stage musical, a roughtalking,
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.
Speilberg’s pivotal horror fi lm tells the story
of the crew hired to hunt a man-eating
great white shark that had been attacking
beachgoers off the Massachusetts coast.
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