FlickrHappy Presents: West Side Story + Q&A w/ George Chakiris
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Run Time: 151 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1961
Starring: George Chakiris, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn
Join us Saturday, August 31, as our friends at flickrhappy present a screening of the 1961 classic movie musical West Side Story featuring a post-screening Q&A with legendary actor George Chakiris, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bernardo, leader of the Sharks.
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to “own” the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
West Side Story was the highest-grossing film of 1961, winning 10 of the 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for, including Best Picture. In 1997, the film was designated as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.