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A scene from Do the Right Thing

Escape the summer heat with cool movies at the Museum on Sunday afternoons this July and August!

July: Brooklyn in the Movies

Sunday, July 15

2 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989, 120 min., R)

3 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
We Will Not Die Like Dogs (Lisa Russell, 2005,100 min., NR)

4 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994, 115 min., PG-13)


Sunday, July 22

2 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979, 93 min., R)

3 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Girlfight (Karyn Kusama, 2000, 110 min., R)


Sunday, July 29

2 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977, 118 min., R)

3 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
I Was a Teenage Feminist (Therese Shechter, 2005, 62 min., NR)

4 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987, 102 min., PG)


August: Artists in the Movies

Sunday, August 12

2 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Pollock (Ed Harris, 2000, 122 min., R)

3 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002, 123 min., R)


Sunday, August 19

2 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 1996, 103 min., R)

3 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Fur (Steven Shainberg, 2006, 120 min., R)


Sunday, August 26

2 p.m. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Surviving Picasso (James Ivory, 1996, 125 min., R)

3 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Artemisia (Agnés Merlet, 1997, 98 min., R)

Tickets for films are free with Museum admission. As seating is limited, tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the screening. Please note that program is subject to change.

Above: A scene from Do the Right Thing. Photograph courtesy of MCA Universal/Photofest