Don't Forget the Coney Island Film Festival

The Coney Island Film Festival is here. The sixth annual festival offers 81 films starting tonight (Oct. 6) and running through Sunday (Oct. 8). Most of the event associated with the festival and the films take place at the Coney Island Museum.

The "centerpiece film" is director Stephen Verona's lost classic Boardwalk, starring film legends Ruth Gordon, Janet Leigh, and Lee Strasberg. It's a look at life during Brighton Beach and Coney Island's dark days of the late 1970s. There are documentary features, shorts and features.

You can find the full schedule by clicking here.