Screen on the Green (Washington, D.C.)

Screen on the Green is an annual summertime outdoor film festival in Washington, D.C. hosted by HBO and Comcast. The free outdoor screenings are held on Monday nights in July and August and start at sunset (roughly 8:30 p.m.) The movies are shown on a large movie theater sized portable screen on the National Mall between 4th and 7th Streets, Northwest, although for the 2011 season, due to construction on the National Mall, Screen on the Green will move a few blocks west to between 8th and 14th Streets NW.

Contents 1 2011 Movies[1] 2 2010 Movies[2] 3 2009 4 2008 Movies 5 2007 Movies 6 2006 Movies 7 2005 Movies 8 External links 9 References

2011 Movies^[1]

• July 25 --- In the Heat of the Night
• August 1 --- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• August 8 --- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• August 15 --- Cool Hand Luke

For the 2011 season, due to construction on the National Mall, Screen on the Green will move a few blocks west to between 8th and 14th Streets NW.

2010 Movies^[2]

• July 12 --- Goldfinger
• July 19 --- The Goodbye Girl
• July 26 --- 12 Angry Men
• August 2 --- Bonnie and Clyde

2009

On May 12, 2009, HBO announced that it was cancelling its sponsorship of Screen on the Green^[3], and the future of the popular outdoor movie series was in doubt while another sponsor was sought.

Almost immediately, a Facebook fan group appeared, rallying a grassroots effort to save "Screen on the Green". Led by Jesse B Rauch, President and Founder of "Friends of Screen on the Green," over 2,500 Facebook users subscribed to the group. A massive e-mail campaign was launched to find new sponsors, and on June 10, 2009, Comcast and the Trust for the National Mall announced they would join forces with Time Warner's HBO to bring back Screen on the Green to the National Mall in the summer of 2009. ^[4][5]

• July 20 --- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• July 27 --- Dog Day Afternoon
• August 3 --- On the Waterfront
• August 10 --- Rebel Without a Cause

2008 Movies

• July 14 --- Dr. No
• July 21 --- The Candidate
• July 28 --- Arsenic and Old Lace
• August 4 --- The Apartment
• August 11 --- Superman

2007 Movies

• July 16 --- Annie Hall
• July 23 --- The Thing from Another World
• July 30 --- Wait Until Dark
• August 6 --- All the King's Men
• August 13 --- Casablanca

2006 Movies

• July 17 --- The Day the Earth Stood Still
• July 24 --- The Band Wagon
• July 31 --- Bullitt
• August 7 --- To Have and Have Not
• August 14 --- Rocky

2005 Movies

• July 18 --- The Way We Were
• July 25 --- The Treasure of Sierra Madre
• August 1 --- Suspicion
• August 8 --- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• August 15 --- The Big Sleep

External links

• Official website for Screen on the Green Film Festival in DC
• Official Facebook Group
  • Information from dcist

References

1. ^ Cooper, Rachel. "Screen on the Green 2011 in Washington DC: Free Outdoor Movies at the National Mall". About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. http://dc.about.com/od/specialevents/a/Screengreen.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-07. 
2. ^ Movifone Staff (June 1, 2010). "2010 Screen on the Green Film Festival Schedule". Moviefone.com. http://www.moviefone.com/screen-on-the-green. Retrieved June 18, 2010. 
3. ^ "Associated Press "HBO to end Screen on the Green movie series in DC", 12 May 2009". http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gYMFyhscnD--8pBOTyqRzUllTNGQD985DHEG5. 
4. ^ Zak, Dan (June 11, 2009). "Screen on the Green, the Outdoor Cinema Series on the Mall, Will Return July 20". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061001791.html. Retrieved May 23, 2010. 
5. ^ Plumb, Tierney (June 10, 2009). "Screen on the Green shows will go on". Washington Business Journal (American City Business Journals, Inc.). http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/06/08/daily60.html?surround=lfn. Retrieved August 2, 2010.