Here's a list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from November 16th and beyond. These are the screenings that have actors, directors or producers at them to answer questions from critics and audience members. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Nov 16 (7pm)

Maysles Cinema (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

It's Basic follows several guaranteed income pilot programs across the US that test the effects of giving everyday people an extra $500 to $1,000 monthly, with no strings attached. Set against the backdrop of widening income gaps, politics, and growing social concern, It's Basic presents the benefits, criticisms, and outcomes of giving unconditional money to people in need.

Nov 16 (8pm)

DCTV Firehouse Cinema (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Grieving the suicide of a friend, Frances Henderson heads to Las Vegas, the suicide capital of the nation, to seek answers. There she learns about the shocking death of a local teenager who leaped from the roof of the city's tallest casino. While investigating the suicide epidemic further, she finds that the city is also burdened by a national problem scrambling to bury decades of nuclear excess in a nearby mountain. Artfully maneuvering between two stories burgeoning with existential questions, This Much We Know masterfully links these seemingly disparate subjects of self-annihilation and environmental issues into something supernatural, unforgettable, and transcendent.

Nov 17 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Daniel Peddle's follow-up to his groundbreaking 2005 film The Aggressives, which was the first documentary to really center transmasculine people of color – all assigned female at birth. It followed the lives of six masculine presenting BIPOC as they sought love, happiness, and self-realization despite not always feeling included or represented by the language and culture of the LGBTQ world. Immersive and sensorial, Peddle's new film, Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, revisits four of the original subjects, catching us up on what's been going on in their lives since the first film was made.

Dec 17 (6:40pm)

Dec 18 (6:40pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Shere Hite's 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?

Nov 17 (7:15pm), Nov 18 (8:45pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Shot over six years in the mid-nineties by legendary photographer Richard Sandler, The God of Times Square is a portrait of the "Crossroads of the World" at the beginning of its transformation and end of the millennium, told through the words of its denizens, particularly the various street preachers, proclaiming myriad salvations, that populated every corner.  Completed in 1999, the world of The Gods of Times Square, now over two decades removed, seems to exist as if in a dream, one of many treasured, vanquished New York demimondes.

Nov 17 (6:10pm), Nov 18 (2:45pm), Nov 19 (2:40pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67 Street, Manhattan)

Chronicles the relationship between Mark Bittner, an unemployed musician who lives rent-free in a cabin in the Telegraph Hill-neighborhood of San Francisco, and a flock of feral parrots that he feeds and looks after.

Nov 17 (7:30pm), Nov 18 (7:30pm), Nov 19 (3:30pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

Nov 18 (4:15pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters - Brea, an introspective pastor's daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea's best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Tensions and buried feelings abound, as colleges are chosen and adults behave badly, as Brea, Laura and Tim attempt to hang onto what they have, all the while yearning to break free.

Nov 18 (6pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.

Nov 18 (7:40pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

Nov 18 (2pm SOLD OUT), Nov 21 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Filmmaker Sherief Elkatsha follows 12 African musicians from seven countries along the Nile River as they band together in an international coalition to highlight the water conflict along the river they share. As they leave their homes in Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Uganda and embark on a 100-day tour of America's heartland, the film captures the challenges of collaboration across cultural lines.

Nov 19 (3:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.

Nov 19 (2:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A documentary about the response of American schools to gun violence.

Nov 19 (4:45pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67 Street, Manhattan)

Make Me Famous is the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, fully allowing the creativity itself to take centerstage. Set during arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous tells the story of unknown painter, Edward Brezinski in his quest for fame. The film gives an intimate portrait of what it was like to be an artist in N.Y.C. in the 1980s.

Nov 19 (7pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

For 30 years, Marion Stokes, the African American left-wing activist and archivist, secretly recorded television 24 hours a day. Her project began with the Iran Hostage Crisis and ended upon her death some 70,000 tapes later. Capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today, the Philadelphia-based Stokes's stated intention was to protect the truth while the television networks were carelessly throwing away their own archives.

Nov 20 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

After a twenty-year absence, Monica returns home for the first time since leaving as a teenager. Reconnecting with an ailing mother who no longer recognizes her and the rest of her family who hold her at arm's length, she confronts the wounds of her past and embarks on a path of healing and acceptance.

Nov 21 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Filmmaker Sherief Elkatsha follows 12 African musicians from seven countries along the Nile River as they band together in an international coalition to highlight the water conflict along the river they share. As they leave their homes in Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Uganda and embark on a 100-day tour of America's heartland, the film captures the challenges of collaboration across cultural lines. Despite their vast cultural differences, musical styles, and competing egos, the artists must find ways to create and remain united in their cause.

Nov 22 (11am)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Nov 22 (1:30pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Nov 25 (5:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.

Nov 26 (5:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Filmmaker Sierra Urich grew up in rural Vermont, a place and an upbringing far removed from Iran, the homeland of her mother, Mitra, and grandmother, Behjat. Only knowing Iran through family stories, food, and holidays, and with the prospect of travel to the country a seemingly impossible dream, she embarks on a personal quest to make sense of her fractured Iranian identity.

Nov 26 (4:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

An invigorating ode to the life of the mind, Taylor's proudly cerebral documentary celebration of good talk and sound reasoning brings together filmed meetings with some of the 21st century's most esteemed public intellectuals—Peter Singer, Judith Butler, Cornel West, and others—as they provide guided tours of spaces that hold particular import in their thinking, with Slavoj Žižek’s address from atop a garbage dump just one of several highlights.

Nov 26 (6pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

When a deaf young man asks his estranged older brother to join him in a musical contest, this blue collar worker must dust off his musical chops in order to be his little brother's voice, so that the world can finally hear him.

Dec 3 (4:35pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

High school student Lillian runs away while on a school trip and traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists. At every leg of her journey, she comes into contact with hermetic worlds, whose citizens rant and rave to each other, blissfully ignorant of their neighbors. A story at the crossroads of a traditional fairytale, a picaresque narrative, and 1970s New Hollywood.

Dec 1 (7:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.

December 1 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

The Museum's complete Todd Haynes retrospective kicks off with a special evening featuring a selection of his rarely screened early works. These include Haynes's first student short, 1978's The Suicide (digital projection), a horror-tinged film about a disaffected, bullied teenager shot on Super 8 and 16mm, and Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (DCP), his 1985 16mm thesis project from Brown University, in which he wrestles with the myth and legacy of poet Arthur Rimbaud and his destructive romance with Paul Verlaine.

Dec 2 (6pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Spurred by a provocative family memory and a lifetime of separation from the country her mother left behind, a young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother's complicated pasts, and her own fractured Iranian identity.

Dec 2 (3pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Dec 4 (7:15pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

NoBudge is happy to present a new program of eleven short films from a group of emerging indie filmmakers mostly based in New York. This edition, we're looking at issues of (mis)communication, dynamics of friendships, and uncertainties of youth. Stylistically, it's a mix of the surreal, naturalistic, comically absurd, and melodramatic. Eight of the films are premieres and each director will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A and Afterparty.

Dec 4 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 Houston 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.

Dec 5 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 specific sound explorations into a cinematic meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.

Dec 20 (7:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Manish is an athletic street dancer from Mumbai, whose working-class parents depend on their only son's support. When he accidentally walks into an inner-city dance school and encounters a curmudgeonly 70-year-old Israeli ballet master, a hunger develops within him. Ambitious and passionate, Manish is determined to make it as a professional dancer, but the odds are stacked against him.

Here's a video of the Q&A at the Crosby Street Hotel screening room on Monday, November 13, 2023. This Q&A followed the screening of 5 short documentary films put on by The New Yorker.