Summer Movies
Open-air cinema has been a popular NCMA tradition for over 20 years. Our summer series features recent Oscar winners, family favorites, and timeless classics. Occasionally we program special Music/Movie Combos that combine a live performance with a film screening.
Gates open 90 minutes before screenings, and patrons often arrive early to enjoy a picnic with family and friends. Movie concessions are available for purchase, and beer and wine are sold before and during most shows.
Admission to summer movies is free with Museum membership, and parking is free for all.
Please note that we occasionally show R-rated films not suitable for children.
Saturday, June 1 | 9 pm
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
British character actors join forces in an ensemble dramedy set in a crumbling hotel in Jaipur,... Read more >
Friday, June 14 | 9 pm
Life of Pi
A storm savages a vessel carrying the Patel family zoo, stranding Pi in a lifeboat with a Bengal... Read more >
Friday, June 21 | 9 pm
Perks of Being a Wallflower
The white-hot hell of high school smolders in director Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of his own... Read more >
Saturday, June 22 | 9 pm
Skyfall
Daniel Craig’s best Bond outing evokes classic (Sean Connery-era) Bond, as the world’s... Read more >
Friday, June 28 | 9 pm
Madagascar 3
Homesick lion Alex, hippo Gloria, zebra Marty, and giraffe Melman are still trying to make it... Read more >
Friday, July 19 | 9 pm
Silver Linings Playbook
Pat (Cooper), freshly sprung from a mental institution after stalking his ex-wife, moves in with... Read more >
Saturday, July 20 | 9 pm
Argo
Oscar’s Best Picture is a rattling ride set in the Me Decade and channeling the paranoid... Read more >
Friday, July 26 | 9 pm
Cars
Pixar’s blockbuster animation visits Radiator Springs, a tiny town full of people-less cars that... Read more >
Saturday, July 27 | 9 pm
American Graffiti
Two buddies spend a ’62 summer night cruising their old haunts, searching for milk shakes and... Read more >
Friday, August 2 | 9 pm
Drive
Driver, a nameless loner in a white satin scorpion-embellished jacket, takes the wheel for an... Read more >
Friday, August 9 | 9 pm
Glory
Union officer Robert Gould Shaw commands the first regiment of black soldiers recruited for the... Read more >
Saturday, August 10 | 9 pm
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of a president so determined to do... Read more >
Friday, August 16 | 8:30 pm
Moonrise Kingdom
In 1965 a pair of tween romantics reorient themselves along the New England coast, far from... Read more >
Friday, August 23 | 8:30 pm
Vertigo
This is ostensibly a twisty mystery about a detective with a fear of heights, but its true... Read more >
Saturday, September 7 | 8:30 pm
The Big Lebowski
Jeff Bridges’s signature role is the Dude, the laziest man in L.A. County, a... Read more >
