Cheap$kate: FREE events in NYC this weekend

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
Make it a movie marathon of a weekend with the Central Park Conservancy’s Film Festival, running Thursday night through Monday. Each night, the festival will screen a film from a different genre. Thursday night is Classic with “West Side Story,” Friday is Family with “Hook,” Saturday is Romantic Comedy with “Silver Linings Playbook,” Sunday is Horror with “The Shining,” and Adventure closes out the festival Monday with “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” So scope out a spot and come back nightly. (Thursday night through Monday, 8 p.m., gates open at 6:30 p.m., landscape north of Sheep Meadow, mid-park at 69th St., enter at 72nd, centralparknyc.org/filmfestival)

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‘The Artist’
Oscar-winning black-and-white silent film “The Artist” will screen for FREE at the West Side Community Garden Friday. So bring a lawn chair or blanket and snag a good spot to take in the best view of the charming French homage to old Hollywood and the transition into the era of “talkies.” (Friday, 8 p.m., FREE, West Side Community Garden, 123 W. 89th St., westsidecommunitygarden.org)