Published: Monday, August 27, 2007 - 2:00 am
Moonlight Movies series visits the '60s in September
Staff Report
OWEN RILEY JR. /Staff
Come enjoy a movie outdoors at Moonlight Movies series. PATRICK COLLARD/Staff
Summer’s outdoor music series will be ending soon, but September brings another chance to hunker down in a lawn chair and enjoy the beautiful setting of the Peace Center Amphitheatre.
The city’s Moonlight Movies series returns next month along with cooler weather and earlier nightfall.
The movie starts at sundown each Wednesday, and admission is free. Lawn chairs, blankets and coolers are permitted.
The four films offer a look at moviemaking circa 1960, with two romantic comedies, a classic horror tale and a musical.
Here’s what’s in store:
Sept. 5: “Pillow Talk,” a 1959 Doris Day-Rock Hudson, he-said-she-said comedy. Took home the Oscar for best writing, story and screenplay in 1960. The first of three films featuring Day, Hudson and Tony Randall.
Sept. 12: “Barefoot in the Park,” 1967, with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda as newlyweds living in Manhattan. Best quote: “Paul, I think I’m gonna be a lousy wife. But don’t be angry with me. I love you very much — and I’m very sexy!”
Sept. 19: Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1963 thriller “The Birds” was nominated for an Oscar for special effects but didn’t win. Watch for the doomsayer in the diner: “It’s the end of the world.”
Sept. 26: Not even Omar Sharif rains on Barbra Streisand’s parade as she sings her way through the story of Fanny Brice in 1968’s “Funny Girl.” She won the Oscar for best actress in a leading role.