Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from August 15th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Close To You - Q&A with Actors Elliot Page & Hillary Baack
Aug 15 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years.
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.
The Good Half - Q&A with Director Robert Schwarzman
Aug 15 (7:15pm), Aug 16 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
The Deliverance - Q&A with Director Lee Daniels, moderated by Bradley Cooper
Aug 16 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
AND Artist James Romberger
Aug 16 (7pm)
AND Photographer Allen Frame
Aug 18 (4pm)
AND Writer Claudia Summers
Aug 19 (7pm)
AND Archival Cinematographer Jim C.
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, 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.
Tramps! - Q&A with Director Kevin Hegge
Aug 16 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialize on the streets of London, England.
Close To You - Q&A with Actors Elliot Page & Hillary Baack
Aug 16 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years.
Rule of Two Walls - Q&A with Director David Gutnik
Aug 16 (7pm), Aug 17 (4:30pm, 7pm), Aug 22 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Explores the war in Ukraine through the lens of artists living and creating amid utter destruction. Blurring the lines between what is happening in front of the cameras and behind, the film probes what it means to make cinema in a time of war
Appropriate Behavior - Q&A with Director Desiree Akhavan
Aug 17 (12:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.
Hester Street - Q&A with Actress Carol Kane
Aug 17 (5:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Q&A with Director Desiree Akhavan
Aug 18 (12:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Israel Swings For Gold - Q&A with Director Seth Kramer
Aug 18 (3:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
In 2021, Israel's baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in Tokyo's Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
Good One - Q&A with Director India Donaldson
Aug 18 (7pm), Aug 20 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, 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.
Cosmic Disco Detective Rene - Q&A with Writer/Director Sujewa Ekanayake
Aug 20 (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.
Mountains
Q&A with Writer/Director Monica Sorelle, Writer Robert Colom
Aug 22 (7:15pm)
Q&A with Actors Atibon Nazaire & Sheila Anozier
Aug 24 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Between the Temples
Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Actors Carol Kane, Robert Smigel & Cindy Silver
Aug 22 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Actors Robert Smigel & Madeline Weinstein
Aug 23 (6:15pm), Aug 24 (3:45pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Paradise Is Burning - Q&A with Mika Gustafson
Aug 22 (7pm), Aug 23 (7:15pm), Aug 24 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Three sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Q&A with Director Daniel Goldhaber and cast
Aug 23 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.
The Becomers - Q&A with Writer/Director Zach Clark
Aug 23 (7pm), Aug 24 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A body-snatching alien comes to Earth, reconnects with their partner, and tries to find their way in modern America.
I Like It Here - Q&A with Director Ralph Arlyck
Aug 23 (7pm), Aug 24 (4pm, 7pm), Aug 25 (1pm, 4pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
People talk or laugh about aging, its irritations and relentless progression, but rarely confront the reality of dying or being left alone. Nor do they consider the lightness and calmness that can come when the race seems not so crucial.
Petrol - Q&A with Director Alena Lodkina
Aug 24 (1:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.
Pieces of April - Q&A with Director Peter Hedges, Actors Katie Holmes & Patricia Clarkson, moderated by Azazel Jacobs
Aug 26 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Aug 26 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Lost in the Shuffle - Q&A with Director Jon Ornoy
Aug 26 (7pm), Aug 27 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Featuring two-time world champion magician Shawn Farquhar, this documentary explores the unique relationship between the art of magic and playing cards.
Roseland - Q&A with Director James Ivory
Aug 27 (4:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Summer of Sam - Q&A with Actor/Co-Writer Michael Imperioli
Aug 27 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Ed Wood - Q&A with Co-Writer Larry Karaszewski
Aug 27 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
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.
Red Rooms - Q&A with Director Pascal Plante
Aug 28 (7pm), Aug 29 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial.
Me & It's Such a Beautiful Day - Q&A with Director Don Hertzfeldt
Aug 30 (6:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.
It's Such a Beautiful Day - Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Save Yourselves! - Q&A with Actors Sunita Mani & John Reynolds
Aug 30 (7:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A young Brooklyn couple head to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.
Seeking Mavis Beacon - Q&A with Creators Jazmin Renee Jones & Olivia McKayla Ross
Aug 30 (7:30pm), Aug 31 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.
Me & World of Tomorrow - Q&A with Director Don Hertzfeldt, moderated by Ari Aster
Aug 31 (3:20pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.
World of Tomorrow - A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
Forbidden Planet - Intro by Don Hertzfeldt
Sep 1 (1:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Instrument - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen and Fugazi's Guy Picciotto
Sep 1 (8pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A collaboration between Jem Cohen and the Washington DC band Fugazi, the project covers the ten-year period following the band's inception in 1987. Far from a traditional documentary, the project is a musical document: a portrait of musicians at work.
The Remains of the Day - Q&A with Director James Ivory
Sep 3 (6pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Pomp & Circumstance - Q&A with Co-Directors Adrian Anderson & Patrick Gray, Actor Ben Loftus
Sep 3 (8:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Three soon-to-be college graduates in Burlington, Vermont become entangled in an absurd plot involving their professor running for mayor, an Elvis impersonator, protesting students, and a group of radical artists.
Opening Night - Intro by Azazel Jacobs
Sep 4 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.
The Lords of Flatbush - Q&A with Director Martin Davidson, DP Ed Lachman, Editor Muffie Meyer, Actress Maria Smith
Sep 5 (7:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Two members of a social club in 1950s Brooklyn have more interest in romance than in rumbles.
Look Into My Eyes - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Sep 5 (7:30pm) Sep 6 (7:20pm), Sep 7 (7:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A documentary through a series of intimate sessions with psychics and their clients.
His Three Daughters - Q&A with Writer/Director Azazel Jacobs
Sep 6 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Three estranged sisters converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Q&A with Actors Paris Themmen and Julie Dawn Cole
Sep 15 (12pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
It's What's Inside - Q&A with Writer/Director Greg Jardin
Sep 16 (7pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious suitcase.
Wild Things - Q&A with Director John McNaughton
Sep 19 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.
Condo Painting - Q&A with Director John McNaughton
Sep 21 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
John McNaughton's sole documentary, focusing on the work of painter George Condo
Normal Life - Q&A with Director John McNaughton, moderated by Heather Buckley
Sep 22 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Chris struggles as a cop, not willing to play along with dishonest colleagues. When he first encounters Pam, he is drawn to her chaotic energy, and the two quickly fall in love. But Pam bristles at any expectation that she be a dutiful wife, drawn as she is to the mysteries of far away galaxies and black holes, seeking the extraordinary. Only when she discovers Chris has started to rob banks to elevate their lifestyle does she emerge from the malaise, invigorated by the danger.