Tonight is the very last night of this year's edition of Summerscreen, The L's free outdoor film series at McCarren Park, and before the leaves all die and youth is lost, you should head over to Bedford Avenue and North 12th Street. The gates open at 6pm, the better for you to enjoy the happy hour-priced Sixpoint beer and Wines of Australia, um, wines; the food from San Loco and the Van Leeuwen ice cream truck, and music from local acts Bottle Up & Go and the Nouvellas.

Since tonight's movie is the awesomely 80s high school musical Fame, it is imperative that you dress appropriately. The best 80s costume — emphasis on the legwarmers and leotards — as adjudged by a panel of experts (Savit?) will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Bubble Lounge, and a free pair of Roos (80s sneakers, natch).

And then... that's it. Stick around after, we'll be the ones at Turkey's Nest, sitting silently in the corner, wondering where the summer went.

You'll recall that the heavens opened up and rained their disapproval down upon us at the end of July, when Summerscreen — the L's free outdoor film series in McCarren Park — was scheduled to show Wild at Heart. So we're very happy to present tonight's make-up screening, as ever on Bedford Avenue and North 12th Street (across from the Turkey's Nest). The gates open at 6pm, and you should come then, to drink happy hour-priced Sixpoint beer and Wines of Australia, um, wines; to eat food from San Loco and the Van Leeuwen ice cream truck; and to listen to local bands Dinosaur Feathers (the glitch-folkies sounded great at Northside) at 6:30pm, and Bridges and Powerlines at 7:30pm. The film starts at dusk; in the meantime, Henry Stewart's program notes are after the jump.

Someday, Summerscreen, the L's free outdoor film series at McCarren Park, will continue with the second half of its 2009 lineup. That time is next week, August 12th, when we show Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Which was once our Closing Night film, and is now our second Opening Night film, we guess, to be followed on the 19th by Wild at Heart's rain-date screening, and on the 26th by Fame, which was to be tonight, but has been rescheduled, on account of scattered thunderstorms all evening. So, see you next week (and the week after that, and the week after that). Endless summer, guys.

This hurts us more than it hurts you, guys, but dig: it is most emphatically not going to be nice out tonight. Tonight's edition of Summerscreen, our free outdoor film screening at McCarren Park, was to be David Lynch's kinky Wizard of Oz remake Wild at Heart has been rescheduled for Wednesday, August 19th. This isn't so bad, if you look at it a certain way: With Wild at Heart now closing the series, Summerscreen '09 will end with Nicholas Cage singing "Love Me Tender" to all of Williamsburg. We couldn't have planned it any better. (In fact we didn't.)

Summerscreen, The L's free outdoor film series at McCarren Park — now with several hundred percent more Port-o-Potties! — returns for its second week to Bedford and North 12th, in the playground opposite Turkey's Nest (and on the sidewalk, if you got a to-go cup). Doors at 6pm, with Happy Hour prices on Sixpoint beer and Wines of Australia until 7:30, at which point you'll be serenaded by Motel Motel. And then, at dusk, the movie.

Confession: I haven't seen Evil Dead II yet. (Yet.) But Ben Sutton has. His program notes follow, after the Jump! Jump!

Here's Reality Bites, and all the attendant hoopla, last Wednesday at the first Summerscreen of the year. Do it all again tomorrow night for Evil Dead II, and in the meantime, note that even the view from behind the chain-link fence is pretty nice:

So, thanks to the several thousand of you who braved the long bathroom line at Turkey's Nest (we'll have port-o-potties by next week's Evil Dead II screening, promise) to come to eat, drink, listen to music, and then settle in and watch Reality Bites at last night's Summerscreen kick-off.

Reality Bites being a movie very close to my heart, it was really rewarding to see several thousand people being as into it as they were; the whole experience, really — people inside and outside the chainlink, sneaking in or not sneaking in food and drink — was pretty exciting and made The L Magazine's collective heart grow three sizes with pride. You can check out photos on our Facebook page, or, if you're lazy, wait for Andrea to post a slideshow right on this here blog; if you took any pictures yourself, let us know with a comment, an email or a Tweet.

See you next week...