It looked for a while like Screen on the Green a beloved summer program in Washington DC would not make it to its 11th edition due to funding issues.
Thanks to a grassroots online campaign, sponsors (HBO and Comcast) finally stepped up to the plate.
Here's the 2010 program:
July 12 – “Goldfinger”
July 19 – “The Goodbye Girl”
July 26 – “12 Angry Men”
August 2 – “Bonnie and Clyde”
July 19 – “The Goodbye Girl”
July 26 – “12 Angry Men”
August 2 – “Bonnie and Clyde”
The films play at dusk on four consecutive Mondays on 35mm film projected on a 20-by-40-foot screen between Fourth and Seventh streets NW.
Dan Zack of Washington Post describes Screen on the Green (on May 26) as "classic movies, Cabernet-stained picnic blankets, deflated wedges of brie and boobs who insist on sitting in high-rise camping chairs."
To celebrate their new lease on life they are throwing a kick-off party at Spy Museum on July 8.
Under the milky way for 4 nights of movie magic…