Best Outdoor Screenings in NYC This Weekend: ‘Friday the 13th’, ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’, ‘What About Me’, World Cup
The warm, dry weather brings more outdoor film screenings to New York City. This week already featured the kick off of more long-established outdoor screening series like SummerScreen in McCarren Park, and Film Forum/Rooftop Films’ Outdoor Cinema in Socrates Sculpture Park. As for what’s still in store this weekend, Madonna comes to Governors Island, Friday the 13th is celebrated and more.
Intrepid Museum’s Summer Movie Series: Friday the 13th (1980)
When: Friday, July 13, flight deck opens at 7pm, movie begins at sunset
Where: Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex, Pier 86, W 46th St and 12th Ave
Free
There perhaps isn’t a more appropriate venue to screen the original Friday the 13th than on a boat in the middle of the Hudson River. The Intrepid is dusting off the cult classic on Friday the 13th of July so audiences can get a refresher course on Jason, Mrs. Voorhees, and Camp Crystal Lake. Watch out for any undead requesting permission to come aboard.
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Escape in New York: Outdoor Films on Governors Island: Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) w/My Last Film (2015)
When: Friday, July 13, sundown
Where: Parade Ground, Governors Island
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Trust for Governors Island present the second installment of their inaugural outdoor screening series at Governors Island this weekend. Susan Seidelman’s 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan has the honor of screening on the 172-acre island. The film stars Rosanna Arquette as a bored suburban housewife who experiences amnesia and is mistaken for a drifter named Susan, played by Madonna. The film also stars Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Will Patton, John Turturro and Steven Wright. Zia Anger’s short My Last Film also screens.
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What About Me (2003)
When: Saturday, July 14, 8:30pm
Where: 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden
Free
Film-Makers’ Cooperative hosts a free screening of Rachel Amodeo’s cinema verite-style drama set in the East Village in the late 1980s. The film features Richard Edson, Richard Hell, and Nick Zedd, along with Dee Dee Ramone, Rockets Redglare, and Johnny Thunders. Amodeo will be present for a Q&A.
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World Cup Final Screening: France vs. Croatia
When: Sunday, July 15, 10am
Where: Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Free w/RSVP
This is an indoor screening and it’s not a film, but we thought we’d throw it in here anyway. Elsewhere is hosting a screening of the World Cup Final. Whether your rooting for France or Croatia, all are welcome.