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By UCSB Arts & Lectures
Get ready to explore the galaxy this summer with UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2023 FREE Summer Cinema line-up: Out of This World. The program will premiere with Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden on Friday, July 7 at 8:30 pm.
ABOUT CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
In the night skies over Indiana, cable worker Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft. Desperate to understand what he experienced, he finds an ally in Jillian Guiller (Melinda Dillon), a single mother who believes her son has been abducted by extraterrestrials. Their quest culminates in a remote Wyoming rendezvous and the remarkable discovery that we are not alone in the universe. With revolutionary visual effects and an unforgettable John Williams score, this sci-fi blockbuster from Steven Spielberg was nominated for eight Academy Awards. (Steven Spielberg, 1977, PG, 137 min.)
ENHANCED ACCESS FOR UCSB STUDENTS
Free round-trip transportation from the UCSB campus will be available to UCSB students with valid student ID. Santa Barbara Airbuses will depart from University Plaza loop adjacent to Campbell and Cheadle halls at 7 p.m. and 7:45 p.m., and pick up from the Figueroa Street side of the courthouse at 10:45 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Schedule subject to change. Limited availability; first-come, first-served. Valid UCSB student ID required.
ABOUT THE OUT OF THIS WORLD SUMMER CINEMA SERIES
The 2023 FREE Summer Cinema line-up: Out of This World, seven nights of space creature-themed movies under the stars will take place Friday nights from July 7 through August 25 (no screening Friday, August 4 due to Fiesta) at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden.
The fun begins early!
SUMMER CINEMA COUNTY COURTHOUSE SCREENINGS
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Jul 7
In Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi tale, two ordinary Midwesterners are transformed by extraordinary chance meetings with visitors from outer space.
Alien | Jul 14
Unbeknownst to the crew of a spaceship, it has taken on an alien stowaway that incubates in some humans and hunts the rest. In space, no one can hear you scream.
Mars Attacks! | Jul 21
Superstar Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States greeting invaders from outer space? Anything can and does happen when the twisted mind of director Tim Burton plunges planet Earth into complete pandemonium in this all-star sci-fi spoof.
The Fifth Element | Jul 28
A 23rd-century New York City cabbie encounters a genetically-engineered alien with the ability to unite the planet’s elements and stave off a raging fireball that’s on a collision course with Earth.
Star Trek | Aug 11
On a thrilling voyage filled with spectacular action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits of the USS Enterprise boldly go where no one has gone before.
Guardians of the Galaxy | Aug 18
A band of misfit outlaws may be the galaxy’s only hope against an interstellar villain who seeks to control the universe with a powerful orb.
Nope | Aug 25
Horse-wrangling siblings (Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer) attempt to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object in Jordan Peele’s neo-Western science fiction film.
ABOUT UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A&L annually presents more than a hundred public events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
