Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York from July 5th and beyond. Hope you had a great 4th of July. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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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.
America - Q&A with Director Ofir Raul Grazier
Jul 7 (3:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jul 7 (6:10pm)
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.
Adam The First - Q&A with Director Irving Franco
Jul 10 (9pm)
Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn)
Adam sets out on a cross country adventure to track down a series of men who could be his estranged father, each one with a different life that could become his own.
National Anthem - Q&A with Writer/Director Luke Gilford
Jul 11 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.
Sorry/Not Sorry - Q&A with Directors Caroline Suh, Cara Mones, Megan Koester
Jul 12 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An inside look at Louis CK's fall and return to the spotlight. Interviews include fellow comedians and women who spoke up about his sexual misconduct.
Dandelion - Q&A with stars KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty
Jul 12 (6:40pm), Jul 13 (6:40pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.
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.
Cosmic Disco Detective Rene - Q&A with Writer/Director Sujewa Ekanayake
Jul 12 thru 18 (7pm)
Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn)
Are immortal time travelers going back in time to disrupt the past? The government wants to know so they hire Rene, the famous New York City private detective who uses unusual methods - including using the background sound of the universe, which sounds like disco music - to find the answers.
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.
Omnivore - Q&A with Producer Rene Redzepi, moderated by Phil Rosenthal
Jul 15 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Take a look at the world through the lens of food and explores how food explains the past and forecasts the future.
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.
Cafe Flesh
Extended Intro with Director Stephen Sayadian
Jul 19 (11pm)
Q&A with Director Stephen Sayadian
Jul 20 (10:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Sayadian aka Rinse Dream's post-apocalyptic vision of a world in which 99% of the surviving population have been reduced to "Sex Negatives" who, incapable of copulating themselves, gather in the titular club to watch the few remaining "Sex Positives" go at it in dutifully mechanistic fashion.
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.
Join or Die - Q&A with Directors Rebecca Davis & Pete Davis
Jul 19 (7pm), Jul 20 (7pm), Jul 21 (2:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Centers on America's civic unraveling through the journey of scientist Robert Putnam, whose research on the decline in American community lights a path out of our democracy's present crisis.
In The Realm Of The Senses - Q&A with Actor Tatsuya Fuji
Jul 20 (1pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Eraserhead - Q&A with Cinematographer Frederick Elmes
Jul 20 (5:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
You Are Not A Soldier - Q&A with Andrè Liohn
Jul 20 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.
Scala!!! - Q&A with Co-Directors Ali Catterall, Jane Giles
Jul 21 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A feature-length big screen documentary telling the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
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.
Sleepaway Camp - Q&A with Director Robert Hiltzik
Jul 28 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.
Heaven Adores You - Q&A with Director Nickolas Rossi
Aug 6 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The film is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith (1969-2003). By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in — Portland, New York City, Los Angeles —HEAVEN ADORES YOU presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer's prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.