Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York from June 27th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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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.
Admissions Granted - Q&A with Co-Director Miao Wang
Jun 28 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In a landmark Supreme Court case pitting Asian American plaintiffs against Harvard University, activists on both sides wrestle with hard truths about race and equality, as the fate of affirmative action hangs in the balance.
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.
Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Jun 28 (6:40pm), Jun 29 (6:40pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
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 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.
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World - Q&A with Director Ron Chapman and others
Jun 28 (7pm), Jun 29 (7:30pm), Jun 30 (2:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, and other legends unite for the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival music festival.
Confessions of a Good Samaritan - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Jun 28 (7pm), Jun 29 (7pm), Jun 30 (3pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Director Penny Lane's decision to become a "good Samaritan" by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism.
Last Summer - Q&A with Director Catherine Breillat
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.
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.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jun 30 (12:15pm)
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.
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.
Wildcat - Q&A with Maya Hawke
Jul 1 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Follows the life of writer Flannery O'Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.
Mother, Couch - Q&A with Director Niclas Larsson, Actress Lara Flynn Boyle
Jul 5 (7pm), Jul 6 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Three children are brought together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store.
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.
Eno - Q&A with Director Gary Hustwit
Jul 12 (7:20pm), Jul 13 (7:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno - known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums - reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that's different every time it's shown.
America's Burning - Q&A with Director David Smick
Jul 12 (7pm), Jul 13 (7pm), Jul 14 (2pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Plunges into the fragile state of America's apparently insurmountable economic divide, with a strikingly hopeful vision for its future.
Risky Business - Q&A with Actors Raphael Sbarge, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Masur
Jul 13 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Do The Right Thing - Q&A with Editor Barry Alexander Brown
Jul 13 (5:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Lingua Franca - Q&A with Writer/Director Isabel Sandoval
Jul 13 (5:45pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A home-care worker for Olga, an elderly woman suffering from dementia, Olivia becomes romantically involved with Olga’s grandson Alex, a recovering alcoholic trying to get his life back together.
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.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story - Q&A with Directors Ian Bonhote & Peter Ettedgui
Jul 16 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Reeve's rise to becoming a film star, follows with a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After which he became an activist for spinal cord injury treatments and disability rights.
Prey For Rock & Roll - Q&A with Director Alex Steyermark, Actress Gina Gershon, Composer Stephen Trask
Jul 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, 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.
Great Absence - Q&A with Director Kei Chika-ura, Actor Tatsuya Fuji
Jul 19 (7pm), Jul 20 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.
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.