📆 Saturday, July 13th – Saturday, July 27th
🎟 Free
📍 Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Dr, Kirkland
📆 Saturday, August 3rd – Saturday, August 10th
🎟 Free
📍 Heritage Park: 111 Waverly Way, Kirkland
Unlike other local outdoor movie screenings, the city of Kirkland keeps the tradition up year-round with beach screenings in the winter and spring for those hardy enough to brave the PNW’s weather, so they’re very well-practiced in building community events. Of note, while most outdoor summer movies are projected and necessitate it be dusk, Kirkland has invested in a giant LED screen for all screenings. But now that the clouds have parted, the city to the northeast has a series of ten films in two different locations that’s sure to tickle the fancy of somebody in your party. It’s all free, to grab a blanket, curl up on the beach or the lawn, and get a load of this lineup.
Movie Showtimes:
🎬 Elemental (2023): Pixar’s welcomingly bizarre, thorny sleeper hit about opposing element in love; fire plus water equals a literal smoke show.
📅 Saturday, July 13th
🕓 6 pm
📍Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Beach Dr, Kirkland
🎬 La La Land (2016): Winner of six Oscars—never mind the one it famously lost—it’s a rare live-action original musical that also cleaned up at the box office.
📅 Saturday, July 13th
🕓 8 pm
📍 Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Beach Dr, Kirkland
🎬 Barbie (2023): 2023’s $1.5 billion-grossing juggernaut of a comedy is a practical effects delight that made Jacques Tati and Jacques Demy aesthetics cool for new generations.
📅 Saturday, July 20th
🕓 6 pm
📍 Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Beach Dr, Kirkland
🎬 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023): Each year, Tom Cruise flirts with the Grim Reaper, gives him a little smile, then pulls open his parachute. An underseen jolt of goofy kinetic energy.
📅 Saturday, July 20th
🕓 8 pm
📍 Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Beach Dr, Kirkland
🎬 Back to the Future (1985): Not only will you witness Zemeckis’ nigh-perfect time travel comedy, but preshow entertainment includes an appearance from the Pacific Northwest DeLorean Club.
📅 Saturday, July 27th
🕓 6 pm
📍 Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Beach Dr, Kirkland
🎬 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): This Spielberg/Lucas collab is iconic from the first frame, further solidified Harrison Ford’s bonafides, and taught us all a very valuable lesson about not being greedy with biblical artifacts.
📅 Saturday, July 27th
🕓 8 pm
📍 Juanita Beach Park: 9703 NE Juanita Beach Dr, Kirkland
🎬 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022): Better than a sequel-of-a-spinoff-of-a-sequel has any right to be, Florence Pugh, Harvey Guillén, and John Mulaney give playful vocal support to the Dreamworks franchise.
📅 Saturday, August 3rd
🕓 6 pm
📍 Heritage Park: 111 Waverly Way, Kirkland
🎬 Practical Magic (1998): Whidbey Island’s finest cinematic hour, Nicole Kidman/Sandra Bullock’s witchy seriocomic thriller may finally have a sequel on the way. Remind yourself of this Coupeville camp.
📅 Saturday, August 3rd
🕓 8 pm
📍 Heritage Park: 111 Waverly Way, Kirkland
🎬 Brother Bear (2003): Often lost in Disney’s transitional period around the turn of the millennium, this Indigenous animated fable nicely features an all-too-rare Rick Moranis supporting role.
📅 Saturday, August 10th
🕓 6 pm
📍 Heritage Park: 111 Waverly Way, Kirkland
🎬 The Fabelmans (2022): Nearing the twilight of his career, Spielberg hands over a handsomely made, autobiographical skeleton key, unlocking his career-long obsession with divorce and his distinctive mix of the maudlin and the technical.
📅 Saturday, August 10th
🕓 8 pm
📍Heritage Park: 111 Waverly Way, Kirkland
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