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Schedule For Central Park Film Festival Announced
June 05, 2006
Screening in Central Park's Rumsey Playfield (mid-Park at East 69th Street), the Film Festival offers a great excuse for New Yorkers and visitors to gather together under the summer stars to watch some of the silver screen's most memorable films featuring Central Park.Since making its debut in the 1908 silent version of Romeo and Juliet, Central Park has been the backdrop of more than 200 movies.
The series kicks off with Neil Simon's hilarious love story, Barefoot In The Park, on August 29. The line-up continues with the infamous Glen Close-Michael Douglas thriller, Fatal Attraction, and Godspell, the 1973 musical featuring a group of merrymakers doing what many Park visitors have only dreamed of - splashing around in Bethesda Fountain. Friday, September 1, is a night for the entire family as Michael J. Fox breathes life into an animated mouse Stuart Little who takes a wild ride on a model boat in Central Park's Conservatory Water.
On Viewers' Choice night, Saturday, September 2, movie fans have the opportunity to pick their favorite of three classic Central Park films to watch that evening. Three seminal New York films, Manhattan, The Way We Were and Wall Street, which inspire everything from romance to greed, will be offered as choices. Filmgoers choose the movie of the evening by casting their votes on www.centralparknyc.org.
