Aaron Hillis, Aristotle Torres, Luis Guzman - Story Ave screening - Quad Cinema - Sep 30, 2023
Aaron Hillis, Aristotle Torres, Luis Guzman - Story Ave screening - Quad Cinema - Sep 30, 2023
Cinema Roundup For the Week of October 3

(released 10/3/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from October 3rd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



Food and Country - Q&A with Director Laura Gabbert
Oct 3-4 (6:45pm), Oct 5 (1:50pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Trailblazing food writer and best-selling memoirist Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America's food system. Reaching across political and social divides, she meets with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs risking it all to survive. Through Reichl's eyes, we see the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.

Louder Than You Think - Q&A with Director Jed I. Rosenberg
Oct 3 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics and haphazard production methods were both a driving force of the band's early rise and the cause of his eventual crash landing.

Following Harry - Q&A with Director Susanne Rostock
Oct 4 (6pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Joins Belafonte during the last twelve years of his life, as the legendary artist and civil rights leader embarks on a deeply personal and reflective journey, while inspiring the next generation of entertainers and activists to disrupt injustice across the globe.

64 Days - Q&A with Director Nick Quested
Oct 4 (6pm, 8:30pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Focusing on the period between election night 2020 and January 6th 2021, 64 Days examines the nefarious Stop the Steal project, and shows for the first time how the effort to keep Donald Trump in power, was a well-coordinated, highly organized, professionally funded and shockingly effective campaign that brought American democracy to the brink. 

Blink - Q&A with Director Edmund Stenson, film subjects Edith Lemay & Sebastien Pelletier
Oct 4-5 (7pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In the wake of a life-changing diagnosis, the Pelletier family embark on a breathtaking journey to see the world through new eyes.

Intercepted - Q&A with Director Oksana Karpovych
Oct 4-5 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Destruction in Ukraine war shown through lengthy tableaux. Soldiers' phone calls to families reveal parallel world. Sound and image confront one another.

Frankie Freako - Q&A with Director Steven Kostanski
Oct 4-5 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his boring life?

Nurse Unseen - Q&A with Director/Producer Michele Josue, Producer Carlo Velayo
Oct 4-6 (4:20pm, 7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Nurse Unseen explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses who risked  their lives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic while facing a resurgence of anti-Asian hate in the streets.

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life - Q&A with Director Ric Burns
Oct 5 (2:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The life and career of the renowned neurologist and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks.

The Town - Q&A with Editor Dylan Tichenor
Oct 5 (5pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

Blink - Q&A with Director Edmund Stenson, film subjects Edith Lemay & Sebastien Pelletier
Oct 5 (5:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
In the wake of a life-changing diagnosis, the Pelletier family embark on a breathtaking journey to see the world through new eyes.

The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo - Q&A with Director Richard Fung
Oct 5 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Director Richard Fung draws on a 20-year-old video archive of interviews with Ladoo's family, friends, and literary contemporaries in an attempt to piece together the puzzle of the Trinidadian author's complex life.

This Is Where I Learned Not To Sleep - Q&A with Directors Anne de Mare & Kirsten Kelly
Oct 9 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Part quest for justice. Part journey towards healing. Decorated Nashville cop Mark Wynn wrestles with his own violent childhood while working to reform decades of domestic violence mishandling, cover-ups, and abuse from deep within law enforcement.

Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story - Q&A with Narrator Alan Cumming
Oct 9 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret.

Death Without Mercy - Q&A with Director Waad Alkateab
Oct 10 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Over the course of 10 days after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left 50,000 people dead in Southern Turkey, Death Without Mercy follows two Syrian families as they piece together the tragedy and uncover revelations about the corruption, lies and government incompetence that exacerbated the disaster and its response.

Uncropped - Q&A with Director DW Young and others
Oct 10 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Uncropped rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America. For over four decades working as a staff photographer at publications such as Harper's Bazaar, The New York Observer and, most notably, The Village Voice, Hamilton captured some of the most remarkable people and stories of the last half century.

Mediha - Q&A with Director Hasan Oswald, film subject Mediha Alhamad
Oct 11-12 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl who has recently returned from ISIS captivity, turns the camera on herself to process her trauma while rescuers search for her missing family members.

Carville: Winning Is Everything - Q&A with Director Matt Tyrnauer, film subject James Carville
Oct 11 (7:30pm), Oct 13 (5pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Set during the 2024 election, CARVILLE follows Democratic consultant James Carville as he navigates the current cultural and political landscape and delves into his famous, bi-partisan marriage to Republican strategist, Mary Matalin.

The Misogynists - Q&A with Director Onur Tukel, Actor Dylan Baker
Oct 11 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results.

Our Nixon - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Oct 12 (5:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

The Cruise - Q&A with Director Bennett Miller
Oct 12 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhttan)
Timothy "Speed" Levitch, an eccentric New York City tour bus guide, takes tourists around the island of Manhattan and shares an archive of beautifully distorted information about the city.

Skateboard - Q&A with Director George Gage
Oct 14 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000.

Shrinking - Q&A with Creators Jason Segel & Brett Goldstein
Oct 15 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people's lives... including his own.

Brand Upon the Brain! - Q&A with Director Guy Maddin
Oct 15 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

My Winnipeg - Q&A with Director Guy Maddin
Oct 16 (6:35pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Anora - Q&A with Director Sean Baker, Actress Mikey Madison
Oct 16 (7:30pm), Oct 17 (6pm, 6:30pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Hunter, Hunter - Q&A with Actor Devon Sawa
Oct 17 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault, his wife Anne, and their daughter Renée struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf.

Rumours - Q&A with Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Oct 17 (7pm), Oct 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

Critical Acclaim - Q&A with Director John Martoccia
Oct 18 (5pm, 7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
In a relentless battle against alcoholism, a struggling Italian-American filmmaker embarks on a perilous journey that forces him to confront his inner demons and fight against the imminent self-destruction threatening to consume him.

The Universe in a Grain of Sand - Q&A with Director Mark Levinson
Oct 18 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Deftly intertwining a history of computation with a broad survey of experimental cinema, physicist and filmmaker Mark Levinson explores how experimentation in film and science together reshape our ability to represent and understand the world at its most fundamental level.

Nocturnes - Q&A with Directors Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan
Oct 18 (7pm), Oct 19 (3:15pm, 6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Filmed in the lush, remote forests of the Eastern Himalayas at the India-Bhutan border, this documentary immerses the viewer in the hidden nocturnal life of a little-seen corner of the globe, observing a scientist and her Indigenous assistant in their nightly study of native hawk moths and their patterns.

No One Asked You
Q&A with Director Ruth Leitman
Oct 18 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Ruth Leitman, Comedian/film subject Lizz Winstead
Oct 19 (3pm), Oct 20 (4pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Comedian Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show), and Abortion Access Front crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, anti-abortion extremists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues.

A Door to The Sky - Q&A with Director Farida Benlyazid
Oct 19 (3:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Nadia, after living in France for many years, travels to Fez, Morocco, where her siblings, the modernized brother Riss and the traditional sister Leila, reunite to visit their dying father.

Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Oct 19 (5pm)
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.

SECRET SCREENING - Q&A with Cinematographer
Oct 20 (1:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Produced at a moment in the 1980s when the problems of toxic waste disposal and its near-eternal afterlife were very much in the news, this infamous, acronym-titled sci-fi chiller illustrates the unfortunate side effects of a program of dumping green radioactive sludge in New York City's subway tunnels.

Youth (Hard Times) - Q&A with Director Wang Bing
Oct 20 (3:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The second entry in the director's Youth trilogy about young Chinese textile industry workers after the 2023 documentary Youth (Spring).

The Reagan Show - Q&A with Director Pacho Velez
Oct 20 (5:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
All-archival documentary The Reagan Show observes Hollywood ham-cum-Leader of the Free World Ronnie as he plays the role of a lifetime.

Counting the Vote - Q&A with Margaret Hoover and others
Oct 20 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Join host of PBS' Firing Line, Margaret Hoover, for a conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and GOP election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg about the sanctity and security of our elections - and a screening of the new one-hour Firing Line documentary, Counting the Vote.

Youth (Homecoming) - Intro by Director Wang Bing
Oct 20 (8:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
It's the third installment in the director's Youth trilogy, about young Chinese textile industry workers, following 2023's Youth (Spring) and 2024's Youth (Hard Times).

The Wrong Ferrari & Adam Green's Aladdin - Q&A with Director Adam Green
Oct 23 (6:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
The Wrong Ferrari: Follows four of Greenster's love affairs, life as a video game character and the use of a hallucinogen drug.
Adam Green's "Aladdin": A hyper-sensory, poetic, and humorously modern take on the Arabian Nights classic tale

Lives of Performers - Q&A with Director Yvonne Rainer
Oct 23 (7pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer.

Stolen Time - Q&A with Director Helene Klodawsky
Oct 24 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
As her firm receives more and more complaints against Canadian for-profit senior care homes, attorney Melissa Miller builds a case to sue facilities for neglect and expose a system wrought with abuse.

Magpie - Q&A with Actress Daisy Ridley, Writer Tom Bateman
Oct 25 (6pm), Oct 26 (6pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
It's a twisty tale of a couple finds their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star.

Black Box Diaries - Q&A with Director/film subject Shiori Ito
Oct 25 (7pm), Oct 26 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.

In America - Q&A with Cinematographer Declan Quinn
Oct 26 (11am)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Dark Money - Q&A with Director Kimberly Reed
Oct 26 (1:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana - a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor John Cameron Mitchell
Oct 26 (6:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
After falling in love with a U.S. Army sergeant, an East Berlin boy named Hansel undergoes a sex-change operation so that he can legally marry his beloved. But the operation is botched, leaving the boy less than a man, but not quite a woman. Deserted in a Kansas trailer park, the boy/girl, now named Hedwig, reinvents himself/herself as a rock star.

Hangdog - Q&A with Writer/Director Matt Cascella, Actors Desmin Borges, Barbara Rosenblat, Cathy Curtin
Oct 28 (7pm)
Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Anxiety-ridden Walt embarks on a desperate quest through Portland, Maine to retrieve his stolen dog before his girlfriend returns from a business trip, or risk losing them both.

Let's Start With a Cult - Q&A with Director/Writer Ben Kitnick, Actor/Writer/Producer Stavros Halkias, Actor/Writer Wes Haney
Oct 29 (6:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Having missed out on his cult's long-awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Steve Martin & Frank Oz in-person
Nov 9 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Debonair con man Lawrence, who makes his living targeting wealthy women and cheating them out of a fortune, meets his match when he comes across uncouth American hustler Freddy, whose brand of crookery leaves much to be desired in the sophistication department.

National Lampoon's Animal House - Q&A with Actor Tim Matheson
Nov 11 (6:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.


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