nj arts maven: The City of Rahway presents FREE screenings in celebration of Black History Month

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The City of Rahway proudly presents these FREE screenings in celebration of Black History Month.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2022, AT 1:00 PM

ORGANIST BEGINS IMMEDIATELY AFTER SCREENING

To Sir, with Love is a 1967 drama starring Sidney Poitier about a young idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

The film's title song, sung by Lulu, making her film debut, peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was the best-selling single in the United States that year. To Sir, With Love ranked number 27 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.

Enjoy free popcorn, a post-movie organ show played by Eric Fahner on our historic Wurlitzer Organ, and a 35MM screening of To Sir, With Love.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2022, AT 3:30 PM

ORGANIST BEGINS ONE HALF HOUR BEFORE SHOW TIME

In the Heat of the Night, a 1967 Academy Award winning drama (Best Picture) starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger (Best Actor), tells the story of a black Philadelphia police detective who is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared, is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

Poitier's famous quote from the film, "They call me Mister Tibbs!" was listed as number 16 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. The film also appears on the Institute's list of the 100 greatest movies in American cinema.

Enjoy free popcorn, a pre-movie organ show played by Eric Fahner on our historic Wurlitzer Organ, and a 35MM screening of In the Heat of the Night.