FEATURE
2008 Summer Guide
FILM FESTIVALS
days. There will be no wine tasting prior to 2 p.m. shows on Saturday or Sunday. Tickets are just $10 each for Wine Tasting (entry is valid only with the 2008 COCACOLA SUMMER FILM purchase of a movie ticket and wine tasting attendFESTIVAL ees must be at least 21 years of age.)Then pick your The greatest rock-andseat and enjoy a magical roll band of all time, an pre-show experience eavesdropping elephant, featuring Larry Douglas a classic and a contemEmbury at the “Mighty porary romance, one of Mo” organ, the tradition filmdom’s best villains, of a sing-a-long and a a historical cinematic classic cartoon. chariot race, and an Individual tickets are adventurous young $7 and ticket packs are girl light up the big $60 and include 12 tickscreen during the 2008 ets which may be used Coca-Cola Summer for any movie combinaFilm Festival at the Fox tion for individuals and Theatre. The Festival their friends all summer. starts in June with a Individual tickets and line-up that includes ticket packs are on sale Shine A Light (June 5th The Rolling Stones’ kick-off this year’s Fox at the Fox Theatre Box at 7:30 p.m.),Horton Office 404-249-6400 and Hears a Who! (June 8th Film Festival with Shine A Light at Ticketmaster 404-817at 2:00 p.m.) Atonement 8700, or www.ticketmaster. (June 8th at 7:00 p.m.) Casablanca (June 17th at com. All tickets are general admission. 7:30 p.m.) and No Country For Old Men (June 18th at 7:30 p.m.) Come early and join in a favorite Atlanta tradition: Wine Tasting at the Fox beginning at 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and Saturday and 5 p.m. on Sun-
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SUMMER FILMS AT THE HIGH
June heats up with Close Up: Don Cheadle and Starring Javier Bardem. Cheadle has been nominat-
ed for nearly 60 awards and has won 15, including three Black Reel awards and two Screen Actors Guild awards. “Close Up: Don Cheadle” features the actor’s intense, highly focused performances in four powerful films that articulate African and African American history. “Close Up” is presented in coordination with the exhibitions “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968” and “After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy,” both opening on June 7. Close Up: Don Cheadle runs June 7–28, and Starring Javier Bardem continues through June 26. Beginning June 1, tickets are $7 for the public and $6 for Museum members, students and seniors. Patron-level members enter free. Tickets can be purchased in advance online at www.High.org, by visiting the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office or by calling 404-733-5000.
26 – Viewers’ Choice of Back to the Future (1985), Rocky (1976) or Footloose (1984) Moviegoers are welcome to bring picnic baskets and food, but no glass containers or alcoholic beverages can be brought into Centennial Olympic Park. Food and beverage vendors will be available. In consideration of others, SCREEN ON THE GREEN attendees are asked to leave pets at home. Umbrellas and high-backed chairs are strongly discouraged to allow visibility for all viewers. Grills of any sort are strictly prohibited. Peachtree TV’s SCREEN ON THE GREEN is a partnership with Piedmont Park Conservancy, a member- and donor-funded nonprofit organization that works in partnership with the City of Atlanta to maintain and enhance historic Piedmont Park. Plans call for SCREEN ON THE GREEN to return to Piedmont Park once drought conditions subside.
SCREEN ON THE GREEN MOVIE FESTIVAL
FLICKS ON 5TH
Peachtree TV will present Atlanta’s popular SCREEN ON THE GREEN in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park with five consecutive Thursday evening films perfect for picnicking with friends and family. The complete viewing schedule for 2008 SCREEN ON THE GREEN is as follows: May 29 – Jaws (1975), June 5 – Big Momma’s House (2000), June 12 – Chicago (2002), June 19 – E.T. (1982), June
Flicks on 5th returns this summer to 5th Street at Technology Square in Midtown with an incredible lineup of the years’ blockbuster titles including: I am Legend, Horton Hears a Who, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hair Spray, Super Bad and 21. This free summer movie series starts at dusk (approx. 9pm) every Wednesday evening starting June 11 through July 23 (no showing on July 4th week). This year 5th Street will be closed between Spring Street and Techwood Drive so guests can bring their
