The line-up for this year’s Film4 Summer Screen — the world’s only properly good outdoor film program — has just been announced and as ever, it’s awash with brilliance. Better yet, this year’s season is the longest yet, running a Westminster-council-upsetting fourteen nights. I dare you to process the following words without weeping:
Thursday 8th August | ||
About Time |
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Friday 9th August | ||
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
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Saturday 10th August | ||
Mean Girls / Carrie / The Loved Ones |
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Sunday 11th August | ||
The Untouchables |
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Monday 12th August | ||
Guys and Dolls |
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Tuesday 13th August | ||
The Way Way Back |
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Wednesday 14th August | ||
Kes |
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Thursday 15th August | ||
Throne of Blood |
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Friday 16th August | ||
Predator / Gremlins 2: The New Batch |
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Saturday 17th August | ||
Badlands / Raising Arizona |
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Sunday 18th August | ||
Crazy, Stupid, Love. |
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Monday 19th August | ||
The Red Shoes |
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Monday 20th August | ||
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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Monday 21st August | ||
Prince Avalanche |
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David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche and Sundance favourite The Way Way Back will both have their UK premieres at Summer Screen, while the Opening Night screening of new Richard Curtis joint About Time — which looks a bit shit but does at least have Domhnall Gleeson in it — is what’s known in the industry as a ‘world first’.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday for Somerset House members and two days after that for the proles. It’s not for me to tell you what to book, but the teen movie triple seems as good a place as any to start.