It’s that time of year again!
Summer!
Which can only mean one thing: that every week you get AT LEAST one outdoor movie series post.
Most of which are free, and all of which are awesome:
So, after James Bond and Old Hollywood @ Hillwood, Hirshhorn makes its move:
The Hirshhorn’s Summer Camp series is back by popular demand.(Remember the awesomeness that was last year’s Barbarella-Q?-ed) This year, they show the films of Ray Harryhausen, best known for his 1950s stop-motion animation wizardry. Our ‘08 camp counselor is film scholar David Wilt, who introduces each night of retro-hilarity.
+++Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis. Films are free.++++
schedule, for your “email to a friend” and “print out” purposes below:
+Thursday, June 5, 7 pm
It Came From Beneath the Sea, 1955
Atomic radiation has caused the mutation of an enormous octopus lurking off the West Coast in Robert Gordon’s slow-building, sci-fi thriller. The denizens of Telegraph Hill and the Presidio are quaking, and it remains to be seen if the monster will leave his heart in San Francisco.
+Thursday, June 12, 7 pm
20 Million Miles to Earth, 1957
Nathan Juran’s hair-raiser opens with an American spaceship returning from Venus. When it crashes off the coast of Italy, the only survivors are a spaceman–Colonel Calder (William Hopper)–and a specimen (an egg). To no one’s surprise, it hatches, releasing Ymir, who, like many tourists to the Mediterranean, finds out there’s no place like Rome.
+Sunday, June 29, 6 pm
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, 1956
In Fred Sears’s influential B-movie, potentially peace-seeking aliens are mistakenly fired upon by the US army and retaliate by attacking London, Paris, and Moscow before the climactic showdown set just blocks from the Hirshhorn. In this nail-biter, scientists race to develop a super weapon to repel the saucers’ mega death rays!
