It’s the last two nights of free movies in Central Park. The theme of this year’s The Central Park Conservancy Film Festival is Big Apple icons — films that feature New York City as one os its stars. The movies are being shown in the area just north of Sheep Meadow, behind Mineral Springs, at mid-park and 69th Street. So enter the park at 72nd St from either Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. All screenings begin at 8:00 pm, rain or shine. Gates open at 6:30 pm, so bring a picnic. Guest DJs play sets until the movie begins. All movies close captioned.
Tonight, Friday, August 27 – King Kong (1933) In this cult classic stop-animation film, a giant gorilla called Kong attempts to possess a beautiful blond actress. 100 min. This is the original movie, the black-and-white classic, not the recent remake. The Big Apple icon, of course, is the Empire State Building
Tomorrow, Saturday, Aug. 28 — Manhattan (1979) , the romantic comedy about a twice-divorced writer (Woody Allen) who is dating a high school girl but finds love with his best friend’s mistress (Diane Keaton), in an eerie plot twist that pre-dated Allen’s real-life romance and marriage to the adopted daughter of his then-wife Mia Farrow, featuring the Big Apple icon Queensboro Bridge.
