Shiva Baby Q&A - Emma Seligman, Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller - Quad Cinema - Aug 10, 2023
Shiva Baby Q&A - Emma Seligman, Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller - Quad Cinema - Aug 10, 2023
Cinema Roundup For the Week of July 18

(released 7/18/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from July 11th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



Cosmic Disco Detective Rene - Q&A with Writer/Director Sujewa Ekanayake
Jul 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.

Prey For Rock & Roll - Q&A with Director Alex Steyermark, 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.

Crossing - Q&A with Director Levan Akin
Jul 19 (6:30pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.

Modernism, Inc. - Q&A with Director Jason Cohn
Jul 19 (6:50pm), Jul 20 (6:50pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary exploring the life and work of influential mid-century architect and designer, Eliot Noyes, who is best remembered as the man behind IBM's landmark design program in the 1950s and 1960s.

Hollywoodgate - Q&A with Director Ibrahim Nash'at, Producer Shane Boris
Jul 19 (7:15pm), Jul 20 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.

Crumb Catcher - Q&A with Director Chris Skotchdopole, Producer Larry Fessenden, Actors Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, John Speredakos, Lorraine Farris
Jul 19 (7:15pm), Jul 20 (9pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A newlywed couple is held captive in a remote lake house by a maniacally optimistic inventor and his sour wife who are desperate to finance his dream project with a half-baked blackmail plot.

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.

The Punishment - Q&A with Director Matías Bize
Jul 19 (7pm), Jul 20 (7pm), Jul 21 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A seven-year-old child disappears from his parents' sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.

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.

Sing Sing - Q&A with Colman Domingo
Jul 21 (3pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
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.

Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jul 21 (3:15pm)
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.

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.

Only The River Flows - Q&A with Director Wei Shujun
Jul 26 (7:15pm), Jul 27 (1:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Chief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.

Kneecap - Q&A with Director Rich Peppiatt
Jul 30 (8pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In post-troubles Belfast, the riotous rap trio Kneecap emerges, setting the stage for the Irish language's resurgence against the establishment.

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.

War Game - Q&A with Directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber
Aug 2 (7pm), Aug 3 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
US officials simulate a coup post a disputed election. Insurgents take capitals, questioning the president's military control. Countering disinformation is vital, highlighting bipartisan defense of democracy.

Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Aug 3 (11:25am)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
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.

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.

Good One - Q&A with Director India Donaldson, Actors Lily Collias and Danny McCarthy
Aug 9 (9pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.

In Search of Gladys Glover - Q&A with Director Gina Telaroli
Aug 15 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A diary-cum-thriller-cum comedy-cum-horror film shot on an iPhone for zero dollars with friends. IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER is a time-shifting journey about the disorienting feeling of being in the city the past few years. It's a movie for everyone who wakes up each day and continues to put one foot in front of other—laughing often, crying often, watching as many beautiful films and sports games as possible, aimlessly walking the city streets alone, making art, hanging with good friends—but ultimately doesn’t understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

Rat Scratch Fever - Q&A with Director Jeff Leroy
Aug 15 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When a doomed space mission brings an army of savage and super intelligent giant rats back to Earth, Los Angeles becomes ground zero for survival as the ravenous creatures descend upon the city with an insatiable hunger for flesh and destruction.

Merchant Ivory - Q&A with Director Stephen Soucy, Executive Producer James Ivory
Aug 27 (7pm), Aug 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.


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