Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from March 21st 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 -
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The Beast - Q&A with Actor George Mackay
Mar 21 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In a near future where artificial intelligence reigns supreme, human emotions have become a threat. To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis, her great love. But she's overcome by fear, a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.
La Chimera - Q&A with Actors Josh O'Connor & Isabella Rossellini
Mar 21 (7pm - SOLD OUT)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
Immaculate
Q&A with Actress Sydney Sweeney
Mar 21 (7:30pm SOLD OUT)
Q&A with Director Michael Mohan
Mar 23 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.
Luki & the Lights - Q&A with Director Toby Cochran
Mar 22 (6pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
The story follows an active, charming, and upbeat robot named LUKi who enjoys hanging with friends. One day after work while playing soccer, LUki's arm begins to malfunction. After a trip to the doctor, LUKi is diagnosed with ALS.
A Perfect Day for Caribou - Q&A with Director Jeff Rutherford
Mar 22 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Remembering Gene Wilder - Q&A with Director Ron Frank
Mar 22 (4:45pm), Mar 23 (2:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A special tribute documentary honoring Gene Wilder's life and career.
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor - Q&A with Directors Marlo McKenzie & Jonathan Parker
Mar 22 (7pm, 9:45pm), Mar 23 (7pm, 9:45pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A documentary set in San Francisco in 1964 when Carol Doda became the first dancer to go topless and in the process, became a tourist attraction second only to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Free Time - Q&A with Director Ryan Martin Brown, Actor Colin Burgess
Mar 22 (5:45pm, 7:45pm), Mar 23 (5:45pm, 7:45pm), Mar 24 (2pm), Mar 26 (7:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Approaching the end of his twenties and his relative youth, a man decides to quit his cushy desk job and 'embrace life' - only to realize he has no idea what to do with this newfound freedom.
Limbo - Q&A with Actor Simon Baker
Mar 24 (3:10pm), Mar 26 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.
Stripped For Parts: American Journalism on the Brink - Q&A with Director Rick Goldsmith
Mar 26 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why-- until investigative reporter Julie Reynolds begins to dig into some suspicious facts. Her ongoing investigation triggers rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their "vulture capitalist" owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America.
Elegy in the Streets - Q&A with Director Jim Hubbard
Mar 27 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and a political perspective, the film intertwines two main motifs: memories of Roger Jacoby, a filmmaker who died of AIDS, and the development of a mass response to AIDS.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners - Q&A with Actors Kerry Condon & Liam Neeson
Mar 28 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
In a remote Irish village, a damaged father is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
Earth Mama - Q&A with Director Savanah Leaf and Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes
Mar 29 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.
A Perfect Day for Caribou - Q&A with Director Jeff Rutherford, moderated by Actor Jefferson White
Mar 29 (7:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
With Love and a Major Organ - Q&A with Director Kim Albright, Writer Julia Lederer, Actress Anna Maguire
Mar 29 (9:15pm), Mar 30 (5:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it.
Clifford - Q&A with Director Paul Flaherty, Actors Martin Short & Richard Kind, Co-Writer Steven Kampmann
Mar 30 (6pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A bratty 10-year-old boy is obsessed with visiting a dinosaur-themed amusement park. His uptight uncle takes the wily tyke in for a week, and barely lives to regret it.
Lyle - Q&A with Director Stewart Thorndike
Mar 30 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
After moving into a new apartment building in Brooklyn with her partner, a new mother's grief over her toddler's death turns into paranoia when she begins to suspect her neighbors are part of a satanic cult.
Lousy Carter - Q&A with Actor David Krumholtz
Mar 30 (7:45pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - Q&A with Director Ana Lily Amirpour
Mar 31 (5pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Honeymoon - Q&A with Director Leigh Janiak
Apr 1 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
Thank You Very Much - Q&A with Director Alex Braverman
Apr 2 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Documentary about performance artist and "song and dance man" Andy Kaufman
The Beast - Q&A with Director Bertrand Bonello
Apr 4 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The plot is set partly in a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.
Kim's Video - Q&A with subject Mr. Kim
Apr 5 (7pm), Apr 6 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Physical media reigns supreme in Kim's Video, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for "safekeeping." But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.
The People's Joker - Q&A with Actor/Director Vera Drew
Apr 5 (7:25pm SOLD OUT), Apr 6 (7:25pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
Raising Arizona - Q&A with Editor Michael R. Miller
Apr 6 (6:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent & Producer Heather Spore
Apr 7 (5:30pm)
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.
I Like Movies - Q&A with Director Chandler Levack, moderated by Emma Seligman
Apr 8 (7:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williasburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
I Like Movies - Q&A with Director Chandler Levack
Apr 9 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Fresh Kill - Q&A with Director Shu Lea Cheang
Apr 9 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A lesbian couple living on Staten Island find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
Sasquatch Sunset - Q&A with Actor Jesse Eisenberg
Apr 12 (6:30pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable.
Sweet Dreams - Q&A with Director Ena Sendijarevic
Apr 12 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
Wild At Heart - Intro and Q&A with Cinematographer Frederick Elmes
Apr 13 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Sasquatch Sunset - Q&A with Actor Jesse Eisenberg
Apr 13 (6pm, 7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable.
All You Need Is Death - Q&A with Director Paul Duane
Apr 13 (7pm), Apr 14 (6pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.
The Namesake - Q&A with Director Mira Nair and Cinematographer Frederick Elmes
Apr 14 (3:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Fargo - Q&A with Composer Carter Burwell
Apr 14 (5pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.