SIDESHOW SUMMER
At SideShow Books, we revel in the summer months as a time to celebrate our community of friends and fiends: book fiends, film fiends, music fiends, curious and creative adventurers of all stripes. This summer we have a number of film programs running weekly, alongside craft nights, games, music, zine/comic workshops and poetry readings. Highlights include a Bookbinding workshop as well as an evening with Robert Mitchum’s niece in July, and a return of our “rock concert” craft night in August as well. We’re exploring some fun game nights and quiet summer reading nights as well. so stay tuned!
Film screenings from local filmmaker/curators including Gillian Armstrong (“Gillian’s Gaze” on Tuesday Nights), Bianca Cockrell (“Love in Spite of It All” on Thursday nights), Nate Rulf (“No Room in Hell” on Sunday Nights) and WATCH THAT BOOK: Interesting Books Make Interesting Films (on Wednesday nights). All screenings work as follows: Doors Open at 7:45pm. Films start at 8:30pm. Admission cost is always just … BUY A BOOK!
Tuesday, July 7th
Evening Film at 8:30 — PENITENTIARY, Directed by Jamaa Fanaka 99 min. (1979)
Wednesday, July 8th
Evening Films at 8:30 — DESPAIR, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, 119 min., followed by EMPEROR OF THE NORTH, Dir. Robert Aldrich, based on works of Jack London, 118 min.
Thursday, July 9th
Evening Film at 8:30 — BEFORE SUNSET, Dir. Richard Linklater, 80 min.
Sunday, July 12th — DOORS OPEN 7:30pm!
Evening Films at 8:00pm — LES CARABINIERS, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 80 min., (1963); Afroman: WHY YOU DISCONNECTING MY VIDEO, 8 min. (2022). Followed at 10 pm by BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ Episode 2, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 60 min., (2014)
Tuesday, July 14th Bastille Day
Evening Film at 8:30pm — PEPE LE MOKO, Dir. Julien Duvivier, 94 min., (1937)
Wednesday, July 15th
Evening Films at 8:30pm — SHAFT, Dir. Gordon Parks, 100 min. (1971) followed by COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, Dir. Ossie Davis, 97 min. (1970)
Thursday, July 16th
Evening Film at 8:30pm — FIRE OF LOVE, Dir. Sara Dosa, 94 min. (2022)
Saturday, July 18th
Bookbinding Workshop — 10am-4pm, Artist Joel Freeman will teach a bookbinding workshop on the back patio. Sign up on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-binding-sideshow-books-tickets-1991021592179?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Sunday, July 19th
Evening Films at 8:30pm — THE GREAT DICTATOR, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 125 min. (1940) followed by AGGRO DRIFT, Dir. Harmony Korine, 80 min., (2024)
Monday, July 20th
Book and Film Event at 8:00pm — Cindy Mitchum presents (and signs) THEM ORNERY MITCHUM BROTHERS: The Adventures of John and Robert Mitchum (new edition from Henry Gray Publications), followed by screening of CAPE FEAR, Dir. J. Lee Thompson, 106 min. (1962)
Tuesday, July 21st
Evening Film at 8:30pm — SANKOFA, Dir. Haile Gerima, 125 min. (1993)
Wednesday, July 22nd
Evening Film at 8:30pm — BEASTS OF NO NATION, Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, 137 min. (2015)
Wednesday, August 12th
Evening Films at 8:20pm — THE GETAWAY, Dir. Sam Peckinpah, 123 min. (1972), followed by NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Dir. Coen Brothers, 122 min. (2007)
Thursday, August 13th
Evening Film at 8:30pm — BLACK ORPHEUS, Dir. Marcel Camus, 100 min. (1959)
Wednesday August 19th
Evening Films at 8:20pm — WOMEN IN LOVE, Dir. Ken Russell, 131 min. (1969), followed by ORLANDO, Dir. Sally Potter, 92 min. (1992)
Thursday, August 20th
Evening Film at 8:30pm — CASABLANCA, Dir. Michael Curtiz, 102 min. (1942)
Wednesday, August 26th
Evening Film at 8:30pm — SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, Dir. Paul Newman, 94 min. (1971)
Thursday, August 27th
Evening Film at 8:30pm — A SCANNER DARKLY, Dir. Richard Linklater, 100 min. , (2006)
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