Movies in the park

Summertime brings some pretty "cool" things to do in the city (none of them so far have been actually cool, as I can actually feel beads of sweat rolling down my back while I'm just standing doing nothing but breathing) and Monday night brought me to the Summer Movie Festival in Bryant Park. Now, the city is full of great parks, and Bryant Park is definitely one of my favorites. It's just a few avenues over from the craziness of Times Square on 42nd street but at times feels like it's a hundred miles away.




The festival goes on all summer long, playing all sorts of films. Monday night was Arsenic and Old Lace, an old classic I hadn't seen til then but really enjoyed. Isn't Cary Grant amazing?! I've just recently discovered this, having rented The Philadelphia Story from the library just a couple weeks ago. He has some really great moments in the film, and his lady love in the film is wonderful. Prior to the film there was a trailer (the Dark Knight) and a Warner Bros. cartoon (The Racketeer Rabbit) with Bugs Bunny as an unwitting mob accomplice , and then people started standing. And then we all sort of danced around to the music playing readying for the film to start. And when it started, we all clapped and cheered. Here's a picture of the film just as it was starting.




The film takes place in Brooklyn, so the crowd would cheer when it was mentioned. That's what I love about these public viewings. We'd all cheer when Cary Grant was first seen on screen, and when he'd kiss his girl, and we'd all laugh when he'd make those crazy looks with his eyes as he's just discovering something. And then when it ended we all clapped. It was pretty fabulous.





It was probably one of the coolest things I've done in the city.