Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from October 24th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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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.
Say Hey, Willie Mays! - Q&A with Director Nelson George
Oct 24 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Archival footage, contemporary interviews and reflection on Willie Mays and his trailblazing influence in and outside baseball too.
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point - Q&A with Tyler Taormina
Oct 24 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
On Christmas Eve, a family gathers for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Momma's Man - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs, Actor Matt Boren
Oct 25 (6:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
A New Kind of Wilderness - Q&A with Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Oct 25 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.
The Secret World - Q&A with Directors Jeff Preiss & Josiah McElheny
Oct 25-27 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
An attempt to create a portrait of a mutual friend, Christine Burgin, through the lens of her unique personal library. Drawing inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges's iconic short story, "The Library of Babel," they devised a project that would give life to the vast, hexagonal library described in Borges’s narrative through an exploration of speculative spaces within Burgin's shelves.
Your Monster - Q&A with Actress Melissa Barrera
Oct 25 (8:30pm)
Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming monster living in her closet. A romantic-comedy-horror film about falling in love with your inner rage.
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.
Memoir of a Snail - Q&A with Director Adam Elliot
Oct 25 (7:30pm), Oct 26 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.
Memoir of a Snail - Q&A with Director Adam Elliot
Oct 25 (9pm), Oct 27 (2:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg - Q&A with Director Aviva Kempner
Oct 25 (6:15pm), Oct 27 (2:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues.
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.
French Exit - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs, Actor Lucas Hedges
Oct 26 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.
Dahomey - Q&A with Director Mati Diop
Oct 26 (3:30pm, 5:30pm), Oct 27 (7pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin.
Dahomey - Q&A with Director Mati Diop
Oct 26 (6:30pm), Oct 27 (4:40pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin.
Johnny Mnemonic: In B&W - Q&A with Director Robert Longo
Oct 28 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
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.
A Dangerous Assignment - Q&A with Director Juan Ravell, Producer Jeff Arak
Oct 28 (8pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info, FRONTLINE investigates the figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. This 90-minute documentary tells the inside story of Alex Saab, his capture and then release by the U.S. in a controversial prisoner swap, and what has happen
64 Days - Q&A with Director Nick Quested
Oct 29 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
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.
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.
Dinner in America - Q&A with Director Adam Rehmeier
Oct 29 (7pm SOLD OUT) - also with Actors Emily Skeggs, Kyle Gallner
Oct 29 (9:30pm) - with Actor Emily Skeggs
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a socially awkward young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly go on an epic journey together through America’s decaying Midwestern suburbs–finding their voices, purpose, and ultimately love in the process.
Luther: Never Too Much - Q&A with Director Dawn Porter
Oct 30 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson and Roberta Flack. The film relives the many stunning moments of Luther's musical career, while exploring his personal life, health struggles, and a lifelong battle to earn the respect his music deserved.
There Will Be Blood - Q&A with Editor Dylan Tichenor
Oct 30 (7:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
A Real Pain - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Jesse Eisenberg, Actor Kieran Culkin
Nov 1 (5:30pm, 6pm), Nov 2 (5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Nov 1 (6:45pm), Nov 2 (4pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
Breakfast of Champions - Q&A with Director Alan Rudolph
Nov 1 (7:15pm), Nov 2 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.
The Graduates - Q&A with Director Hannah Peterson
Nov 1 (7:30pm), Nov 2 (7:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is searching for ways to heal.
Agent of Happiness - Q&A with Directors Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó
Nov 1 (7:10pm), Nov 2 (7:10pm), Nov 3 (2:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
How can you measure happiness? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that,and Amber is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are. He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness.
Moments Like This Never Last - Q&A with Director Cheryl Dunn
Nov 6 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists before his death by heroin overdose in 2009.
Starring Jerry As Himself - Q&A with Director Law Chen, Producer Jonathan Hsu, subject Jerry Hsu
Nov 6 (7:15pm), Nov 7 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry's family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream.
Stinking Heaven - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Nov 7 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Set in Passaic in the early 90s, the film follows a woman who arrives at a harmonious safe house for recovering drug addicts run by a married couple, only to inflame tensions among the patients.
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.
Fonissa (Murderess) - Q&A with Director Eva Nathena
Nov 10 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Driven to despair over women's oppressive living conditions in her island community circa 1900, a midwife finds a violent solution to confront the evils of a male-dominated society.
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.
Instrument - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen, Musician Guy Picciotto
Nov 13 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
The band Fugazi is documented by filmmaker Jem Cohen over a period of ten years through performance footage and interviews with the band and their fans.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 14 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 15 (7:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
L For Leisure - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 15 (9:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Arthouse comedy set in 1992-3 following awkward graduate students on vacations all around the world.
Dream Team - Intro and Q&A with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 15 (7pm), Nov 16 (3pm), Nov 17 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In this absurdist homage to 90's basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery. A post-modern, soft-core fever dream.
Two Plains and a Fancy - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 16 (12:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A group of women traverse the landscapes and strange towns of Colorado in the 1890's.
Danton's Death & Towards Tenderness - Q&A with Director Alice Diop
Nov 16 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Danton's Death: A black man from the Paris suburbs seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France's most prestigious drama schools.
Towards Tenderness: Four young men from the Paris suburbs talk about their masculinity. Their interior monologues, however, reveal other desires.
On Call - Q&A with Director Alice Diop
Nov 17 (1:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The daily routine of a doctor who treats refugees at a hospital in Paris.
Blondes in the Jungle - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 17 (9:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
On a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, three teenagers in 80's Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encounters. Long silent jungle sequences, a meditation on Mayan Archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe make Blondes in the Jungle at once an absurd comedy and a serious film about the possibility of spiritual growth in a world of instant gratification.
After Tiller - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 22 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
This thought provoking, sometimes troubling documentary examines the personal and ethical imperatives that drive abortion providers to continue in the face of often dangerous legal and personal harassment.
Miss Americana - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 23 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A look at iconic pop artist Taylor Swift during a transformational time in her life as she embraces her role as a singer/songwriter and harnesses the full power of her voice.
The Departure - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 24 (3:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A Buddhist monk asks what we owe one another and provides experiences to help us find answers.