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Cinema Roundup For the Week of February 1

(released 2/1/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from February 1st and beyond. These are the screenings that have actors, directors or producers at them to answer questions from critics and audience members. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



A Still Small Voice - Q&A with Producer Kellen Quinn & film subject Mati Engel
Feb 1 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
A STILL SMALL VOICE follows Mati, a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Through Mati's experiences with her patients, her struggle with professional burnout, and her own spiritual questioning, we gain new perspectives on how meaningful connection can be and how painful its absence is.

The Wild Boys - Q&A with Director Bertrand Mandico & Actor Elina Löwensohn
Feb 1 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
The tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos, they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming them.

How to Have Sex - Q&A with Director Molly Manning Walker & Actor Mia McKenna
Feb 1 (8:30pm), Feb 2 (8:30pm), Feb 3 (2:55pm Director only)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker's directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn't – play out.

How to Have Sex - Q&A with Director Molly Manning Walker
Feb 1 (7pm SOLD OUT), Feb 2 (7pm), Feb 3 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker's directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn't – play out.

Nyad - Q&A with Actor Annette Bening
Feb 2 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A remarkable true story of tenacity, friendship and the triumph of the human spirit, NYAD recounts a riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad. Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the "Mount Everest" of swims. Determined to become the first person to finish the swim without a shark cage, Diana goes on a thrilling, four-year journey with her best friend and coach Bonnie Stoll and a dedicated sailing team.

Disco Boy - Q&A with Director Giacomo Abbruzzese
Feb 2 (7:15pm), Feb 3 (7:15pm), Feb 4 (5pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his community. Aleksei is a soldier, Jomo a guerrilla fighter. Because of one more senseless war, their destinies will intertwine.

The Grifters - Q&A with Annette Bening
Feb 3 (4pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
When small-time cheat Roy Dillon winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly and sexy girlfriend Myra. Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless con-artists playing the game in a league far above Roy... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust.

Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman - Q&A with Directors Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow
The Only Girl in the Orchestra - Q&A with Director Molly O'Brien and Orin O'Brien
Feb 3 (7:30pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
With special guest appearances by the singer-songwriter Judy Collins and documentarian Molly O'Brien, the closing night of To Save and Project is dedicated to two women who broke barriers at the New York Philharmonic: the conductor Antonia Brico and the double bassist Orin O'Brien. Jill Godmilow and Judy Collins's Oscar-nominated Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974) is a documentary about Brico, Collins’s mentor, who in 1938 became the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic. O’Brien's The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2023) is a newly made portrait of the filmmaker's aunt Orin O'Brien, who in 1966 became the first female musician in the history of the New York Philharmonic when Leonard Bernstein hired her as a double bassist.

Murder and Murder - Q&A with Director Yvonne Rainer
Feb 4 (4:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A middle-aged love story between Mildred, a life-long lesbian, and Doris, who is in love with a woman for the first time. An unflinching meditation on female aging, lesbian sexuality and breast cancer in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.

Bad Press - Q&A with Director Joe Peeler
Feb 4 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In 2018, the Muscogee Nation, one of the only Native American tribes to have established its own free press, suffered a grievous setback to its civil liberties when members of its own legislative body abruptly repealed the three-year-old law guaranteeing protection of the media, with one representative citing a lack of "positivity" in coverage by the tribe's chief outlet Mvskoke Media.

End of Night - Q&A with Director Amos Poe and Actor Eric Mitchell
Feb 4 (5:45pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York's underground nightclubs.

She is Conann - Q&A with Director Bertrand Mandico and Actress Elina Löwensohn
Feb 4 (5:45pm)
Alamo Drafthouse - Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Hellhound Rainer roams the abyss, following Conann in each phase of her life, from childhood as a slave to Sanja through to her accession as queen.

Love... Reconsidered - Q&A with Director Carol Ray Hartsell and Actor Sophie von Haselberg
Feb 4 (7pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Ruby is a thirty and flirty (but definitely not thriving) New Yorker whose life is transferred to the Hamptons right after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.

No Budge Live #37 - Q&A with Filmmakers
Feb 5 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
NoBudge is happy to present a new program of twelve short films from a group of emerging indie filmmakers mostly based in New York. This edition explores a range of unusual relationships and questionable behavior that finds its characters in modes of scheming and rationalizing. A mix of drama, comedy, and animation, the program moves between naturalistic, strange, absurd, and provocative. Eight of the films are premieres and each director will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A and Afterparty.

Promising Young Woman & Maestro - Q&A with Carey Mulligan, moderated by Paul Dano
Feb 6 (5:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Promising Young Woman: Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night.
Maestro: This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Towheads - Q&A with Director Shannon Plumb
Feb 7 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Adventurous and bold mother of two, Penelope, struggles to strike the balance between her artistic aspirations and motherly responsibilities in this playful look at modern-day motherhood and the difficulties families face everyday.

Marty - Q&A with Director Giacomo Francia
Feb 7 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
Marty, a devoted South Bronx resident who advocates for social justice and community improvement, is an inspiration and a guiding force, motivating others to take action. Actively participating in police meetings, organizing rallies, and making appearances on television programs, Marty has emerged as an amplified voice for a historically marginalized community.

El Conde - Q&A with Cinematographer Ed Lachman
Feb 8 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.

Eat Bitter - Q&A with Writer/Producer Ningyi Sun
Feb 8 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
In one of the poorest nations on earth, the Central African Republic, native sand diver Thomas Boa and construction manager Jianmin Luan, a Chinese national, accept that struggle and risk are the price of tomorrow's rest and reward: both are prepared to "Eat Bitter." The eye-opening documentary raises the age-old question of what we are prepared to sacrifice for a better tomorrow, without a promise that it will ever arrive.

The Taste of Things - Q&A with Director Trân Anh Hùng
Feb 8 (7:30pm), Feb 9 (6:45pm), Feb 10 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In late-19th century France, renowned gourmet Dodin Bouffant draws guests from far and wide for sumptuous meals prepared by his personal chef Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. From acclaimed director Tran Anh Hung comes a beautiful and touching love story that also serves up a glorious tribute to classic French cuisine.

The Taste of Things - Q&A with Director Trân Anh Hùng
Feb 8 (6:30pm), Feb 9 (6pm), Feb 10 (3pm)
Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In late-19th century France, renowned gourmet Dodin Bouffant draws guests from far and wide for sumptuous meals prepared by his personal chef Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. From acclaimed director Tran Anh Hung comes a beautiful and touching love story that also serves up a glorious tribute to classic French cuisine.

Rewind & Play - Q&A with Director Alain Gomis
Feb 9 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the show, he was invited to appear on a French television program to perform and answer questions in an intimate setting. Using newly discovered footage from this recording, director Gomis reveals the disconnect between Monk and his interviewer, Henri Renaud, whose unwittingly trivializing approach conveys the casual racism and exploitation prevalent in the music industry at large.

Félicité - Q&A with Director Alain Gomis
Feb 10 (2pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Félicité, free and proud, is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when her 14-year-old son is the victim of a motorcycle accident. To save him, she begins a frantic race through the streets of an electric Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams.

Tey (Today) - Q&A with Director Alain Gomis
Feb 10 (5:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

History of Evil - Q&A with Actor Paul Wesley
Feb 12 (7pm - SOLD OUT)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
War and corruption plague America and turn it into a police state. A resistance member, Alegre Dyer, breaks out of political prison and reunites with her husband and daughter. The family on the run takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past.

To Kill a Tiger - Q&A with Director Nisha Pahuja
Feb 15 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being abducted into the woods, she was sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit's relief is short-lived, as the villagers and their leaders launch a sustained campaign to force the family to drop the charges.

Things - Q&A with Producer David Sterling
Feb 15 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
In this monster anthology, a man's mistress is trapped by his gun-wielding wife, who subjects her to two tales as a twisted form of revenge. In the first, a would-be brothel owner and crew face off against a puritanical mayor with a mysterious box housing an ancient creature he uses as punishment. In the second, a woman's nightmares about her abusive husband slowly come to life as she tries to escape the real monster growing inside him.

Bleeding Love - Q&A with Actors Ewan McGregor & Clara McGregor
Feb 16 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A father takes his estranged daughter on a road trip in an effort to get her out of trouble. Along the way, they meet all types of strangers, as their strained relationship is put to the test.

The Arc of Oblivion - Q&A with Director Ian Cheney
Feb 16 (7pm), Feb 17 (7pm)
Firehouse DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield – to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara – to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

Onlookers - Q&A with Director Kimi Takesue
Feb 16 (8:30pm), Feb 17 (6pm), Feb 18 (7:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Takesue turns her camera on tourists and travellers in Laos, observing how they react and respond to the local populations while also providing the opportunity for viewers to reflect on our own roles as observers in everyday life.

Making Mr. Right - Q&A with Director Susan Seidelman
Feb 18 (2:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Workaholic scientist Jeff Peters invents a human-like android named Ulysses, a near-perfect replica of himself with the ability to learn how to mimic and reciprocate human emotion. Unfortunately, the misanthropic Peters doesn't care for other people himself, so he brings in sassy public relations expert Frankie Stone to teach Ulysses how to schmooze so that Congress will fund his research. Unexpectedly, Frankie and Ulysses find themselves falling in love.

New York Story & Hotel New York - Q&A with Director Jackie Raynal
Feb 18 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
New York Story - In this autobiographical short film, Loulou looks for editing work in New York before marrying a journalist, Sid. But, quickly growing bored, she tells her husband about her desire to have an affair with somebody else.
Hotel New York - An expanded version of the short, New York Story, in which we first see the arrival of the Loulou character in the big city, sharing a Soho apartment with three roommates, getting work as a film editor, and showing her previous movie Deux Fois at the Museum of Modern Art.

Lovely, Dark, and Deep - Q&A with Director Teresa Sutherland
Feb 20 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse - Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Lennon, a ranger with an aching desire to rid herself of the past, investigates a mystery in the dangerous woods with a long history of disappearances. As she descends further and further into the sinister forest, the more mysteries arise, the more lines between reality and nightmares blur, and the tress once again become a space where no one can hear scream.

The Sweet East - Q&A with Writer Nick Pinkerton
Feb 21 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.

The Urania Trilogy - Q&A with Tav Falco
Feb 24 (7pm)
Anthology Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows a disenchanted American girl, Gina Lee, who impulsively travels to Vienna, the imperial city on the Danube. Quickly slipping into discreet yet decadent dalliances at Cafe Central and at the notorious Hotel Orient, she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder.

Sorry/Not Sorry - Q&A with Directors Caroline Suh & Cara Mones
Feb 27 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
More than six years after the 2017 reckoning of sex and power dynamics in the entertainment industry, filmmakers Caroline Suh and Cara Mones raise provocative questions about the impact of the movement and the public's role in determining cultural "cancellation".

Hundreds of Beavers - Q&A with Director Mike Cheslik & Actor Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
Feb 28 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between Jean Kayak and diabolical beavers–hundreds of them–who stand between him and survival.  In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become the greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.


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