Shiva Baby Q&A - Emma Seligman, Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller - Quad Cinema
Shiva Baby Q&A - Emma Seligman, Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller - Quad Cinema
Cinema Roundup For the Week of June 13

(released 6/13/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York from June 13th and beyond.  If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



The Panic In Needle Park - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Jun 13 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.

Room 999 - Intro and Q&A with Director Lubna Playoust
Jun 14 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks a new generation of filmmakers similar questions.

Full Metal Jacket - Q&A with Actor Matthew Modine
Jun 14 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Naked Acts - Q&A with Director Bridgett M. Davis
Jun 14 (7pm), Jun 15 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Aspiring actress Cicely has lost 57 pounds and landed her first movie role. The director didn't tell her about a nude scene. Reluctant to do it, she embarks on a personal journey that unveils secrets once hid under her excessive weight.

Summer Solstice - Q&A with Director Noah Schamus
Jun 14 (7:10pm), Jun 15 (7:10pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Trans man Leo's life is a jumble of auditions, acting classes, barista jobs, and situationships, all of which he hopes will amount to more. Unexpectedly, Leo's college best friend, cisgender and straight Eleanor, calls Leo announcing that she’ll be driving through NYC, and offers to pick him up for an impromptu trip upstate.

Queendom - Q&A with Director Agniia Galdanova, Producer Igor Myakotin
Jun 14 (7pm), Jun 15 (4:40pm, 7pm), Jun 19 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
In defiance of Russia's anti-LGTBQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin's radical public performances blend artistry and activism.

Cora Bora
Q&A with Actress Meg Stalter
Jun 14 (7:30pm)
Q&A with Writer Rhianon Jones, Producer Tristan Scott Behrends
Jun 16 (5:10pm, 7:30pm)
Cora goes home to win back her girlfriend, and soon realizes it's much more than her love life that needs salvaging.

New Strains - Q&A with Director Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Jun 15 (11:45am)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
As a mysterious pandemic emerges, a squabbling couple in lockdown begin to act like children.

Sons and Grown-Ups - Q&A with Director Manfred Kirchheimer
Jun 15 (2:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Sons: This frank generational portrait assembles a gallery of aging men, all baby boomers drawn from the filmmaker's community of friends and family, to share and reflect upon tender, often painful memories of their parents.
Grown-Ups: A cross-section of men and women reflect on life's milestones, such as finding one's vocation, the loss of a loved one, childhood joys and traumas, and other events which would ultimately prove to be defining moments in their lives.

Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jun 15 (4:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
As the second generation owner of New York's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressure of stepping into his father's shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.

There Will Be Blood - Q&A with Actor Paul Dano
Jun 15 (5pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

Something Wild - Q&A with Sound Engineer Tom Fleischman
Jun 15 (6:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Charles is a corporate cog just miserable enough to be swept off his feet by Audrey, who drags him from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where he's to pose as her successful boyfriend at a high school reunion, and all the time wondering how he got to where he is at this moment.

Rome, Open City - Intro and Q&A with Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Director)
Jun 16 (2:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
In Rome during World War II, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it's not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Hardcore - Q&A with Writer/Director Paul Schrader
Jun 16 (5:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A religious businessman from Michigan has to venture into the world of pornography in California, desperately searching for his runaway teenage daughter.

Hugo - Q&A with Sound Engineer Tom Fleischman
Jun 16 (6:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A storybook tale of an orphaned 12-year-old who keeps up the clocks at Paris's Gare Montparnasse following his father's death who, through a serendipitous encounter with aged, forgotten filmmaker Georges Méliès, finds a new makeshift family through his immersion in the world of cinema.

The Grab - Q&A with Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Jun 17 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert efforts to control the most vital resource on the planet.

Copa 71 - Q&A with Directors James Erskine & Rachel Ramsay
Jun 20 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women's Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history - until now.

Chestnut - Q&A with Director Jac Cron
Jun 20 (7:30pm), Jun 21 (7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during her summer after college.

Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Jun 20 (6pm), Jun 21 (6pm), Jun 22 (3:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.

The Secret Garden - Q&A with Director Agnieszka Holland
Jun 21 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.

Kinds of Kindness
Intro with Actors Jesse Plemons and Mamoudou Athie
Jun 21 (9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm)
Intro with Director Yorgos Lanthimos, Actress Emma Stone
Jun 21 (6pm SOLD OUT, 6:30pm SOLD OUT)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person - Q&A with Writer/Director Ariane Louis-Seize, Actress Sara Montpetit
Jun 21 (7:15pm), Jun 22 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.

Janet Planet - Q&A with Writer/Director Annie Baker
Jun 21 (7:30pm), Jun 22 (5pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.

Green Border - Q&A with Director Agnieszka Holland
Jun 21 (7:20pm), Jun 22 (6pm), Jun 23 (4:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.

Return To Seoul - Q&A with Director Davy Chou
Jun 22 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.

Smithereens - Q&A with Director Susan Siedelman
Jun 25 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.

Sing Sing - Q&A with Actor Colman Domingo and others
Jun 26 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

Last Summer - Q&A with Director Catherine Breillat
Jun 26 (6pm), Jun 28 (6pm), Jun 29 (6pm), Jun 30 (3:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.

Sebastian - Q&A with Director Mikko Makela, Actor Ruaridh Mollica
Jun 27 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

Admissions Granted - Q&A with Director Miao Wang, EP Amanda Spain
Jun 27 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Screening exactly a year to the day that a landmark US Supreme Court ruling dismantled key aspects of affirmative action in higher education, filmmakers Hao Wu and Miao Wang examine the factors that led to the high-stakes lawsuit filed by Asian American plaintiffs against Harvard University, and the wide-ranging fallout from the decision.

I Think I Do - Q&A with Director Brian Sloan
Jun 27 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A screwball comedy about a gay couple at a straight couple's wedding.

Last Summer - Q&A with Director Catherine Breillat
Jun 27 (7pm), Jun 28 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.

June Zero - Q&A with Director Jake Paltrow and EP Ron Goldman
Jun 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Examines Adolf Eichmann's trial, capturing the empathy and humanism amidst the atrocities committed during WWII.

The Vourdalak - Q&A with Director Adrien Beau
Jun 28 (7:30pm), Jun 29 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.

How To Come Alive with Norman Mailer - Q&A with Director Jeff Zimbalist
Jun 28 (7:50pm), Jun 29 (5:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From his formative years in Brooklyn, through his career as a preeminent cultural voice, we follow Mailer's life through 6 marriages, 9 children, 11 bestselling books and 2 Pulitzer Prizes as he solidifies his place in the literary pantheon.

Family Portrait - Q&A with Director Lucy Kerr, Actress Deragh Campbell
Jun 28 (8:10pm), Jun 29 (2:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A sprawling family's futile attempts at capturing a family photo take a dreamlike turn when the matriarch vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her.

4 Little Girls - Q&A with Editor Sam Pollard, Producer Daphne McWilliams
Jun 29 (6:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

El Mariachi - Q&A with Actor/Producer Carlos Gallardo
Jun 29 (7pm)
Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.

Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Jun 30 (5:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d'Azur.

Prey for Rock & Roll - Q&A with Actress Gina Gershon, Director Alex Steyermark
Jun 30 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Jacki, the frontwoman for an all-girl punk rock band in LA, is on the verge of turning forty. The band has been scraping by for over a decade without managing to land a good record deal. Jacki must decide if she wants to keep plugging away at dreams of stardom, or to throw in the towel and devote herself full-time to the tattoo parlor where she works.

Goldilocks and the Two Bears - Q&A with Director Jeff Lipsky, Actor Claire Milligan (some with Actors Bryan Mittelstadt, Serra Naiman)
Jul 5 (1pm, 4pm, 7pm), Jul 6 (1pm, 4pm, 7pm),  Jul 7 (1pm, 4pm, 7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows Ingrid, Ian and Ivy, three unique strangers who find each other in an uninhabited condominium. They discover they actually have a lot in common, and start wondering whether they might be each other's salvation.

The Ballad of Little Jo - Q&A with Director Maggie Greenwald
Jul 15 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

Bad Biology - Q&A with Director Frank Henenlotter
Jul 24 (9:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Driven by biological excess, a man and a woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in a god awful love story.


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