Brian Laird on WNYC, and we're ending the show every day during this mid-May

membership drive with guests who are going to guide us to some seasonally appropriate things to do.

In other words, we're having like a spring and summer culture preview at the end of the show

every day.

And today I'm joined one more time by WNYC and Gothamist Arts and Culture Reporter, Ryan Kyloth,

who's going to clue us in on that summer pleasure of

outdoor movies. So grab a blanket and maybe a rain poncho if it's a day like today and gather

in front of the big screen. Hey again, Ryan.

Hey, Brian. Yeah, it's always funny to be talking about these when they're a few

weeks away yet. Yes, and I know the City Parks Department shows movies in different parks all

over the city, although last nights did in fact get rained out. But what are some of the other

outdoor movie festivals starting up this summer? There's three favorites that I've highlighted here.

Film at Lincoln Center has excellent programming year round, obviously, but their summer film series, which they hold in Damroche Park,

that big space on the south end of the campus. No exception. So their series this summer kicks

off June 13th with Black Swan. Very appropriate. That's, of course,

the ballet movie set at a sort of thinly veiled New York City Ballet. Natalie Portman won an Oscar.

She plays a ballerina doing Swan Lake. Actually, the director is going to be there in person

introducing the film, June 13th, when they open up the series Darren Nirovsky, who did Pye and others.

Also, two nights in a row in June around the solstice, they're doing the Richard Linklater

movies, the before movies, before sunrise, before sunset.

That's like the most perfect date night I can think of being there at sunset with somebody

watching those movies.

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