Bryant Park free movie Monday nights starts tonight

When:Monday June 15, 2009
Time:5pm
Cost:Free
Where:Bryant Park lawn

The 2009 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival will begin June 15 with a screening of “The Sting,” and run most Mondays through August 17, inviting anyone and everyone to the lawn for free outdoor movie nights.

The lawn opens at 5 p.m. for people to secure a spot with a blanket (“no plastic tarps please”) and picnicking. The films begin at dusk, usually sometime between 8 and 9 p.m. If it’s raining, no show.

The Bryant Park summer movie schedule:

June 15 – The Sting
June 22 – Breaking Away
June 29 – Gold Diggers of 1933
July 6 – Dog Day Afternoon
July 13 – How Green Was My Valley
July 20 – Harold and Maude
July 27 – The Defiant Ones
August 3 Kramer vs. Kramer
August 10 – The Magnificent Seven
August 17 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The free screenings are presented by Time Warner Cable