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#1 summerscreen
The L’s outdoor film series returns to McCarren Park for another half-dozen nights of live music, food and drink from local vendors, and movies you haven’t seen since you wore out your VHS tape from overuse. Wednesdays beginning July 11. Summerscreen.org

#2 rooftop films
The local organization supports emerging indie-film talent with production grants and packed screenings, and branches out throughout the summer with several free screenings of local shorts and features. July 9 (New York Shorts at Coney Island), July 20 and August 3 (Shorts at Metrotech Commons), August 9 (Welcome to Pine Hill at Fort Greene Park), rooftopfilms.com

#3 syfy movies with a view
At Brooklyn Bridge Park’s outdoor film series, the spectacular Manhattan skyline view is at least as much of the appeal as the classic in the foreground. Plus, bike valet!
brooklynbridgepark.org

#4 friday movie night, narrows botanical garden
Bay Ridge’s little slice of Arcadia has, you guys, a magnificently bizarre lineup for its annual movie nights: Bride of Frankenstein, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, I’m No Angel and Forbidden Planet. June 29, July 13, August 3, September 7, narrowsbg.org

#5 red hook flicks
Many of Red Hook’s finest restaurants are the food vendors at this series, which boasts hits of recent vintage “under the watch of Lady Liberty.” Tuesdays beginning July 10, Valentino Pier, redhookflicks.com

#6 filmwax at franklin park
The local film series, spotlighting Brooklyn-based independent features and their makers, who can usually be persuaded to show up for a Q&A, finds a new home this summer at the Crown Heights watering hole and cultural hub. May 21, June 18, July 16, August 20, filmwax.com