UCSB Arts and Lectures’ Summer Series returns to the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens. Each Friday, bring your friends and family to set up a blanket to watch a movie under the stars, at the sunken Gardens in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. This year’s theme, Those Fabulous Fifties. 

July 19th featured Rebel without a Cause

“With his slicked-up quiff, turned-up jeans and revved-up attitude, Dean instantly achieved icon status.” The Times (U.K.)

In this landmark juvenile delinquent drama, troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean) comes to a new town, befriends the local gang leader’s girlfriend Judy (Natalie Wood), and is challenged to a drag race where the real trouble begins. (Nicholas Ray, 1955, 111 min.)