Brooklyn Independent Cinema: Chronic Town

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Date: Monday, July 21st
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Barbés (376 9th St., P'Slope)
Cost: Free

The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series continues this evening with two stories of inner struggle. The short Son, "tells the story of an underground theatre director and the possessive grip he holds over his female colleague and her young son James. James' unhappy world unfolds in the confines of the theatre's vaults where soon reality and fiction become indistinguishable." Then, in feature length Chronic Town, director Tom Hines tell the story of a solitary cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska who is driven to drugs and alcohol by a fear of being alone.

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John Legend & Estelle

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Date: Monday, July 21st
Time: 7:30pm - 11:00pm
Location: Wingate Field (Brooklyn Avenue bet Rutland Road and Winthrop Street) - directions
Cost: Free

John Legend and protégé Estelle bring a little summer soul to the park this evening. Legend – who'd made his name primarily as an in-demand all-star studio session writer and musician whose credits included work with Lauryn Hill, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Common and Kanye West among others – stepped into the solo spotlight in 2004 as the first artist signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music production company and was signed to Columbia Records in May of that year. Now, London's Estelle is trying to follow in those footsteps with her ubiquitous summer hit, American Boy. All Ages.

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Arsenic and Old Lace at Bryant Park

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Date: Monday, July 21st
Time: Films begin at Dusk (about 8ish)
Location: Bryant Park (40th and 42nd Sts & Fifth and Sixth Aves)
Cost: Free

Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. Every Monday throughout the summer HBO dusts off some old classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight check out Arsenic and Old Lace. "The great screwball comedy, directed by Frank Capra, stars Cary Grant as a strait-laced young man who comes to the realization that his sweet old aunts have a nasty hobby. Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre lend hilarious support as two befuddled baddies."

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Then Waves

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Date: Monday, July 21st
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Living Theatre (21 Clinton Street)
Cost: Free

Tonight, The Living Theatre presents a free reading of Kevin Anthony Kautzman's play Then Waves. "This stunning, severe play explores the imprint that the violence of war leaves on its survivors. Kautzman alternates free verse with nipping dialogue in this study of a troubled veteran. All Ages.

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