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NYC's Rooftop Cinema Club returns for 3rd Season

Jon Cross

NEW YORK’S ULTIMATE ROOFTOP SCREENING EXPERIENCE RETURNS FOR 3RD SEASON MANHATTAN & BROOKLYN LINEUP ANNOUNCED FOR MAY & JUNE

Take Your Experience Up A Level With Favorite Cult, Classic and New Releases

New York, NY - New York’s exclusive Rooftop Cinema Club returns for its third blockbuster season of open-air screenings at two of New York’s most unique urban venues – Manhattan’s YOTEL residence, and Bushwick’s Office Ops. 

Film lovers can sit back and immerse themselves in starlit screenings with just the Milky Way for a roof, while their favorite classics, pop-culture phenomenons, and new releases come to life on the big screen. 

YOTEL New York not only offers guests their iconic location – a stone’s throw from Times Square – but also fine dining at their Mediterranean Fusion Urban Eatery Green Fig. Enjoy shared plates and then head upstairs for bubbly and movie magic.  

Just across the East River at Office Ops, Brooklyn’s trendiest can lay back with BYO drinks under the twinkling city skyline. Pack your favorite summer libations and soak up the sunset over the Manhattan skyline. 

The Manhattan season will kick off with a Red Bull Media House special screening of Distance Between Dreams, documenting the most historic year in big-wave surfing through the eyes of Ian Walsh. The legendary surfer sets mind and body in motion to redefine the upper limits of what’s considered rideable and surf unimaginable heights. Ian Walsh himself will be in residence at the Yotel screening on May 3rd to field questions about riding massive El Niño-powered swells and his quest to survive and thrive in one of the most hostile environments on earth.

Making their Rooftop debut this season are Academy Award® winners Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea and La La Land, Academy Award® nominees Hidden Figures, Arrival, Lion, Moana, Hell or High Water and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as well as The Edge of Seventeen, Queen of Katwe, Logan, Paterson, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Love Witch and Split.

Below is the complete list of movie titles that will be screened at Rooftop Cinema Club this May and June. Some nights will highlight exclusive double features, pairing timeless classics with this year’s newest releases. 

Rooftop Cinema Club takes cinemagoers to new heights on the stunning Manhattan and Brooklyn rooftops up to 4-5 times a week. Guests will enjoy sunset film screenings with state of the art equipment, high quality wireless headphones, specialty cocktails crafted by San Pellegrino Sparkling Fruit Beverages* and comfy deck chairs, all perched beneath the stars in the heart of the city.
*available at Yotel only

Tickets are on sale now at http://rooftopcinemaclub.com/new-york. Seating is limited and screenings are likely to sell out fast. Don’t miss out on this unique experience!

Screenings are for adults only/18+ and ticket prices range from $15+booking fee - $39. Grab yourself a friend or loved one and enjoy the brand new Rooftop Love Seats, with a shared double deckchair, pillow, bottomless popcorn, and a glass of Prosecco for the ultimate open-air lovebirds’ experience. 

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  • May 3 – In Distance Between Dreams (2016), the most historic year in big wave surfing comes to life through the eyes of iconic surfer Ian Walsh, as he sets mind and body in motion to redefine the upper limits of what's considered 'rideable.' Ian Walsh himself will be in attendance for a special Q and A before the screening
  • May 4 – Double Feature: Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) in Annie Hall. (1977)
    AND
    The story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program in Hidden Figures. (2016)
  • May 5 – Double Feature: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother in The Edge of Seventeen. (2016)
    AND
    Two decades after its premiere, this film is still a fan favorite of shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) who is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale in Clueless. (1994)
  • May 6 – Double Feature: A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell in Beauty and the Beast. (1991)
    AND
    Academy Award winner for Best Picture, this film tells the timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, and chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami in Moonlight. (2016)
  • May 7 – When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors in Arrival. (2016)
  • May 8 - In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right in Moana. (2016)
  • May 9 – As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot (Tom Cruise) learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom in Top Gun (1986).
  • May 10 – The Rebel Alliance makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. (2016)
  • May 11 – A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a pre-adolescent prostitute in the process in Taxi Driver. (1976)
  • May 12 – In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces in Logan. (2017)
  • May 13 – A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist in Heat (1995)
  • May 14 – Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a troubled teenager plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident in Donnie Darko. (2001)
  • May 15 – Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing. (1986) 
  • May 16 – A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder in Rear Window. (1954)
  • May 17 – A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess in Queen of Katwe. (2016)
  • May 18 – Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • May 19 – Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live in Wedding Doll. (2015)
  • May 20 – Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy in Goodfellas. (1990)
  • May 21 - In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right in Moana. (2016)
  • May 22 – A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles in La La Land. (2016)
  • May 23 – A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family in Lion. (2016)
  • May 29 – Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician in Sweet Smell of Success. (1957)
  • May 30 –  The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption in Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • May 31 – Audrey Hepburn stars as a young New York socialite who becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building in Breakfast at Tiffanys. (1960)

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  • May 9 – After a car wreck on the winding road renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality in Mulholland Drive (2001)
  • May 10 – Academy Award winner for Best Picture, this film tells the timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, and chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami in Moonlight. (2016)
  • May 11 – The Rebel Alliance makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. (2016)
  • May 12 – A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled in Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (1992)
  • May 15 – When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors in Arrival. (2016)
  • May 16 – High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother in The Edge of Seventeen. (2016)
  • May 17 – A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies in American Psycho. (2000)
  • May 18 – A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details in Paterson. (2016)
  • May 19 – In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces in Logan. (2017)
  • May 22 – Relive and experience the worldwide cultural phenomenon and the highest-grossing film of 1985 in Back to the Future. (1985)
  • May 23 – As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot (Tom Cruise) learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom in Top Gun (1986).
  • May 29 – Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders in A Few Good Men. (1992)
  • May 30 – 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 in Do the Right Thing. (1989)
  • May 31 – After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant in Reservoir Dogs. (1992)

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  • June 1 – A small-time hood aspires to work his way up the ranks of a local mob in Mean Streets. (1973)
  • June 2 - In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right in Moana. (2016)
  • June 5 – The Rebel Alliance makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. (2016)
  • June 6 – An uncle (Casey Affleck) is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies in Manchester by the Sea. (2016)
  • June 7 – “The Dude” Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it in The Big Lebowski. (1998)
  • June 8 – A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles in La La Land. (2016)
  • June 9 – The story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program in Hidden Figures. (2016)
  • June 12 – A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue in Full Metal Jacket. (1987)
  • June 13 – After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires in Lost Boys (1987).
  • June 14 – Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing. (1986) 
  • June 15 – A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior in Predator. (1987)
  • June 16 – In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories in RoboCop. (1987)
  • June 19 – Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • June 20 – As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot (Tom Cruise) learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom in Top Gun (1986).
  • June 21 – A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s ranch in West Texas in Hell or High Water. (2016)
  • June 22 – While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan in Train to Busan. (2016)
  • June 23 – A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive in North by Northwest. (1959)
  • June 26 – Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a troubled teenager plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident in Donnie Darko. (2001)

FOR FILM LISTINGS, TICKETS AND FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: WWW.ROOFTOPCINEMACLUB.COM/NEW-YORK

Tickets for upcoming screenings can be purchased through Rooftop Cinema Club’s exclusive ticket partner Time Out at http://www.timeout.com.

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ABOUT ROOFTOP CINEMA CLUB
The ultimate open-air film experience, Rooftop Cinema Club started as a single rooftop in London’s Shoreditch in 2011 and has now expanded globally with four venues in the UK and rooftops in NYC and LA; with more to come in 2017. Sold out crowds enjoy sunset film screenings under the stars using state of the art projectors, high quality wireless headphones, comfy deck chairs and cozy blankets all coupled with ice cold drinks from the rooftop bar and delicious local street food. 

ABOUT YOTEL
YOTEL currently operates three airport properties at London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Amsterdam Schiphol and one city center hotel in New York City. YOTEL was created by YO! founder Simon Woodroffe OBE. Inspired by first class travel, he translated the language of luxury airline travel and Japanese influence into a small but luxurious cabin. Headquartered in London, YOTEL has two regional offices in Boston and Dubai. www.yotel.com

ABOUT OFFICE OPS
Located in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Office Ops is a community arts center home to creative studios and event spaces. Founded by Kevin Lindamood in 2001, its 15,000 square foot roof hosts a range of performances and parties with unobstructed views of the city skyline. www.officeops.org    

ABOUT TIME OUT GROUP
Time Out is the leading global media and entertainment business that inspires and enables people to make the most of a city. Operating in 108 cities, across 39 countries, it has a monthly global audience reach of 137 million across all channels.

Time Out has been discovering the brilliant and searching out the secret and extraordinary since 1968. If you want to know about food, drink, nightlife, attractions, art, culture, shopping and travel, then Time Out is your social companion. With a world-class digital platform and top-quality curated content, Time Out connects brands and local businesses to the city. Now Time Out Market is taking that to the next stage, bringing the best of the city together under one roof enabling people to discover, book, live and share their experiences.

In the evolving digital world, the platform’s expertise and growing community of Time Outers and Tastemakers put the best of the city in the palm of your hand. We are global, and no one knows local better than we do.

ABOUT SANPELLEGRINO® SPARKLING FRUIT BEVERAGES
Sanpellegrino Sparkling Fruit Beverages were introduced in 1932 with the iconic Aranciata flavor, by owner Ezio Granelli in Milan, Italy. Today, the selection of flavors includes Aranciata, Aranciata Rossa, Limonata, Pompelmo, Melograno e Arancia, Clementina, and Ficodindia e Arancia.  This selection of beverages is rich in Italian tradition, and made with juice from select sun-ripened, citrus fruits. Sanpellegrino Sparkling Fruit Beverages are available at leading retailers nationwide in cans (11.15 oz.) and glass bottles (6.75 oz.).