Every evening from 21 July to 1 August at sunset, that is at 9:30 pm, the Cinémathèque will be screening modern and vintage classic films on the Glacis. Audiences can watch from the cocoon of their own car, or roll up as pedestrians and enjoy the film from the comfort of two- or four-seater lounges. The films are shown on a giant 20x10-metre screen and all but two will be shown in original English-language versions.

Things kick off on 21 July with Steven Spielberg’s epic 1981 adventure Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen. Other early highlights include Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, starring Peter Sellers in multiple roles alongside George C. Scott and Slim Pickins--the latter in an iconic scene in which he rides an atomic bomb like a cowboy as it drops from a plane.

Fans of musicals will have a field day with Dirty Dancing--an open-air cinema favourite--and modern Oscar winner La La Land. Then there is classic horror in the shape of James Whale’s 1931 version of Frankenstein in which Boris Karloff set the template for the monster for generations to come. And Stanley Donen’s comedy thriller Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, is emblematic of the early 1960s.

More modern cult classics include Total Recall (the Paul Verhoeven version starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), the Agatha Christie-like fun of Knives Out, and Quentin Tarantino’s breakthrough movie Pulp Fiction. Also on the bill is Ridley Scott’s ultimate female power road trip Thelma and Louise starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.

And if you want to keep the kids up late during the holidays, there’s animated films Cars (in French) and the superb Wolfwalkers (in Luxembourgish).  

 Full schedule with links to the Facebook page for each screening:

Wednesday 21 July  

Thursday 22 July  

Friday 23 July  

Saturday 24 July  

Sunday 25 July  

Monday 26 July  

Tuesday 27 July  

Wednesday 28 July  

Thursday 29 July  

Friday 30 July  

Saturday 31 July  

Sunday 01 August