Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from January 17th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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A Different Man - Q&A with Director Aaron Schimberg
Jan 17 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance, but his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
Grand Theft Hamlet - Q&A with Directors Pinny Grylls & Sam Crane
Jan 17 (7:25pm), Jan 18 (7:25pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Struggling actors Sam and Mark find solace from lockdown isolation by staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online (2022), battling griefers as they connect through William Shakespeare.
Girls Town - Q&A with Jim Mckay (also Actors Lili Taylor & Anna Grace)
Jan 17 (6:40pm), Jan 18 (6:40pm), Jan 19 (2:10pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Four girls are completing their senior year of high school and ponder what might be their last year together before they all go on separate paths. When Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide, the three remaining girls discover Nikki's journal and learn she had been raped while working as an intern at a local magazine.
Left Behind - Q&A with Director Anna Toomey
Jan 17 (7:30pm), Jan 18 (7:30pm), Jan 21 (6pm), Jan 23 (6pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
The gripping new feature documentary Left Behind tells the story of five tenacious mothers determined to establish the first public school in New York City for children with dyslexia.
Year One - Q&A with Writer/Director Lauren Loesberg
Jan 20 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A series of events during Ruby's freshman year of college send her on a downward spiral, culminated by the arrival of a glamorous alter ego who begins to live a life of her own.
Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion - Q&A with Bob Mackie
Jan 21 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Bob Mackie, a six-decade costume designer, received a Lifetime Achievement award and Tony nomination for The Cher Show. His unique, unfiltered style has been showcased in a new documentary.
Breakfast With Giraffes - Q&A with Actor Bahram Radan
Jan 23 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In this comedy, a group of friends invited to their best friend's wedding face an unusual situation: the groom passes out due to overusing a mysterious drug. They must find a way to help him recover, leading to a series of comedic and tragic events.
Holding Back The Tide - Q&A with Director Emily Packer, Producer Trey Tetreault, DP John Marty
Jan 23 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
A docu-poetic meditation on New York's oysters and their transformations in the face of an uncertain future.
Dark Angel: The Ascent - Q&A with Director Linda Hassani
Jan 23 (9:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A woman destined for freedom manages to escape Hell. When she arrives from the sewers of Earth, she decides to punish Sinners. But the last thing she expected to find was love.
Inheritance - Q&A with Director Neil Burger
Jan 24 (7:20pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
When Maya learns her father Sam was once a spy, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an international conspiracy. As she seeks answers, Maya herself becomes a target and must quickly learn the skills of her father.
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story - Q&A with Director Bruce David Klein
Jan 24 (7pm), Jan 25 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A tribute to a young artist of unlimited raw talent and the deep, creative relationships she has with her mentors and influences.
Dying - Q&A with Director Michael Roemer
Jan 25 (12:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Last days: Sally, 46, bonds with her elderly mother as they take things day to day; Bill, in his early 30s, stoically goes on while his wife loses herself in rage; grandfatherly Reverend Bryant preaches a final sermon, then goes back South one last time. Three cinéma vérité accounts, filmed after interviewing 40 terminal patients over two years, leaving director Roemer physically and emotionally depleted.
Pilgrim, Farewell - Q&A with Director Michael Roemer
Jan 25 (2:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
As summer ebbs near a Vermont lake, widow Elizabeth Huddle and lover Christopher Lloyd try to come to terms with her terminal cancer — complicated by a pregnant sister and an estranged daughter.
The Skeleton Twins - Q&A with Editor Jennifer Lee
Jan 25 (5:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Having both coincidentally cheated death on the same day, estranged twins reunite with the possibility of mending their relationship.
A Bronx Tale: The Original One Man Show - Q&A with Chazz Palminteri
Jan 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Chazz Palminteri brings his acclaimed stage show that inspired the beloved film A Bronx Tale to the screen for the first time. In A Bronx Tale: One Man Show, an autobiographical account of the actor’s childhood in the Bronx in the 1960s, Palminteri tells the story of a young boy named Calogero who witnesses a murder and is taken under the wing of a local mob boss.
Disfluency - Q&A with Writer/Director Anna Baumgarten, Actors Libe Barer, Ariela Barer, Dylan Arnold, Chelsea Alden
Jan 30 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Seeking Mavis Beacon - Q&A with Director Jazmin Jones, Co-Creator Olivia McKayla Ross
Jan 31 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.
Time Passages - Q&A with Director Kyle Henry
Jan 31 (7pm), Feb 1 (2pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A filmmaker "time travels" via his family archive as his mother's health declines from dementia, racing against the clock to resolve his fraught relationship to family and nation when COVID strikes her nursing home.
Puzzle of a Downfall Child - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Jan 31 (7:00pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
Once famous model Lou Andreas Sand recalls her past as she tries to find success in the New York modeling world, her affair with ad exec Mark, her friendship with fashion photographer Aaron Reinhardt, and her downward spiral.
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story - Q&A with Director Babette Mangolte
Feb 1 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Delphine Seyrig investigates Calamity Jane, revealing her sensibilities and insights about life in letters to her absent daughter. The letters provide reflections about feminism and motherhood and become a landmark text for feminism in the 1970s.
Oh, Canada - Q&A with Director Paul Schrader
Feb 1 (5:45pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Nightshades - Q&A with Director Ellen Callaghan
Feb 5 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
8 intimate vignettes of 8 unique nightlife artists
Gazer - Q&A with Director Ryan Sloan, Writer/Actor Ariella Mastroianni
Feb 7 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
Scarecrow - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Feb 8 (4pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
An ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.
Universal Language - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Matthew Rankin
Feb 12 (7pm), Feb 13 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories find a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse - Q&A with Directors Molly Bernstein & Philip Dolin
Feb 21 (7:10pm), Feb 22 (4:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS.
Pizza Guy 8 - Q&A with Director Tate Hoffmaster
Feb 22 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After being pushed around, a kind, down-on-his-luck pizza delivery boy is finally pushed too far and goes on a killing spree. However, he soon discovers he is actually in a movie and tries to escape his murderous fate in this surrealist slasher.
The Daytrippers - Q&A with Actors Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott
Feb 23 (2pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice.
Wendy and Lucy - Q&A with Writer/Director Kelly Reichardt, Producer Larry Fessenden
Mar 7 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.