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Monthly Movie Trivia (FREE!)
120 min
Join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Monthly Movie Trivia from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, immediately following Networking Nights. Hosted by Owen Roberts. Invite your friends and school your contemporaries over some movie trivia. We'll see you there! *This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*
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Sidewalk Cinema Lobby

Jul 16

7:30 PM
Filmmaker Networking Nights (Free)
120 min
Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night sponsored by Film Birmingham. Network, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!
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Sidewalk Cinema Lobby

Jul 16

5:00 PM
Sidewalk Film 101: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
166 min
1968
Italy, United States of America
Sergio Leone
There's a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land's owner, McBain (Frank Wolff), but Frank kills him instead and pins it on a known bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a mysterious gunslinger with a score to settle (Charles Bronson) and McBain's new wife, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), arrive in town.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 16

7:00 PM

Jul 19

1:00 PM
The Odyssey
172 min
2026
United Kingdom, United States of America
Christopher Nolan
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 16

5:30 PM 9:00 PM

Jul 17

2:00 PM 5:30 PM 9:00 PM

Jul 18

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 19

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 22

2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 23

2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 24

2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 25

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jul 26

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 29

2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 30

2:00 PM 5:45 PM

Jul 31

2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Aug 1

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM 9:15 PM

Aug 2

10:45 AM 2:15 PM 5:45 PM

Aug 5

2:15 PM 6:00 PM

Aug 6

2:00 PM 5:45 PM
Obsession
108 min
2026
United Kingdom, United States of America
Curry Barker
Sidewalk is bringing the summer's horror sensation Obsession, written and directed by Alabama native Curry Barker. If you missed it in theaters, or want to see it for a second time, join us July 3-9 and become obsessed all over again... After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic gets exactly what he asked for. However, he soon discovers that some desires come at a dark and sinister price.
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Greek Myths at the Movies: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
107 min
2000
France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Joel Coen
Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro), then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 16

4:30 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Do the Right Thing (1989)
120 min
1989
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 17

2:15 PM

Jul 18

4:00 PM

Jul 22

7:30 PM

Jul 23

4:30 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Mo' Better Blues (1990)
129 min
1990
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! Financially irresponsible Giant (Spike Lee) manages a jazz group, but his sax player, Shadow (Wesley Snipes), wants to replace him with a better businessman. Bleak (Denzel Washington), the band's trumpeter, then tries to defend his close pal Giant, leading to a power struggle between the two musicians.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 17

4:45 PM 10:00 PM

Jul 18

1:15 PM

Jul 22

4:45 PM
SUMMER OF SPIKE: School Daze (1988)
121 min
1988
United States of America
Spike Lee
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long! At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and social movements -- one day he hopes to rally the students as a united front. At the other end of the spectrum, Julian (Giancarlo Esposito), the head of the biggest fraternity on campus, is more concerned with maintaining a strict social order. In between, Dap's conflicted cousin, Half-Pint (Spike Lee), spends most of his time rushing the fraternity.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jul 17

7:30 PM

Jul 23

2:00 PM
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