Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from August 1st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Aug 1 (7pm)

Village East Cinema by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, 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.

Aug 1 (7pm)

Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn)

Are immortal time travelers going back in time to disrupt the past? The government wants to know so they hire Rene, the famous New York City private detective who uses unusual methods - including using the background sound of the universe, which sounds like disco music - to find the answers.

Aug 2 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

Aug 2 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Staten Island (2636 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island)

Zack and Ashlee discover the meaning of true friendship when they create an imaginary friend, the superhero Rem Lezar.

Aug 2 (7:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Set in 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins,  where an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Aug 2 (6:45pm),  Aug 3 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

Aug 2 (7pm), Aug 3 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

US officials simulate a coup post a disputed election. Insurgents take capitals, questioning the president's military control. Countering disinformation is vital, highlighting bipartisan defense of democracy.

Aug 2 (7pm), Aug 3 (7pm), Aug 4 (4:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

An epic adventure tale of the Native American creation myth. Through a unique re-telling of the creation of the universe, the film highlights the increasingly pressing need to live in harmony with the environment before it is too late.

Aug 3 (11:25am)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

As the second generation owner of New York's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressure of stepping into his father's shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.

Aug 3 (4pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks, until Kevin crashes on a Park City half-pipe, barely surviving.

Aug 4 (6:15pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.

Aug 4 (7pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

In 2021, Israel's baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in Tokyo's Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

Aug 6 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The film is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith (1969-2003). By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in — Portland, New York City, Los Angeles —HEAVEN ADORES YOU presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer's prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.

Aug 7 (7pm),  Aug 8 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Blue-collar families escape life to on the water in a seasonal trailer park. When their shabby Shangri-La is threatened by development, the residents of Inlet View face the inevitable, and reveal the secrets to a rich life.

Aug 8 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A 17-year old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.

Aug 8 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A young girl who aspires to a singing career gets herself and her best friend a job as valet parking girls at a Malibu party in order to meet people who can help them achieve their dreams.

Aug 8 (7pm), Aug 9 (7:45pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Aug 9 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

"Passing" follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

Aug 9 (9pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.

Aug 9 (6:30pm)

Aug 10 (6:30pm)

Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.

Aug 9 (7pm), Aug 10 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Chronicles the creation of the studio, rising from the rubble of a bankrupt Manhattan nightclub to state-of-the-art recording facility inspired by Hendrix's desire for a permanent studio.

Aug 12 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Hell Hole hails from the filmmaking family behind Hellbender and centers on an American-led fracking crew that uncovers a living French soldier frozen in time from a Napoleonic campaign, whose body hosts a parasitic monster.

Aug 13 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Kicked out of her apartment, Natalia wanders New York City, crashing a family's holiday meal, staying at a shelter, and dragging everyone down with her.

Aug 14 (7pm)

92Y (1375 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

Aug 15 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years.

Aug 15 (7:30pm)

Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

A diary-cum-thriller-cum comedy-cum-horror film shot on an iPhone for zero dollars with friends. IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER is a time-shifting journey about the disorienting feeling of being in the city the past few years. It's a movie for everyone who wakes up each day and continues to put one foot in front of other—laughing often, crying often, watching as many beautiful films and sports games as possible, aimlessly walking the city streets alone, making art, hanging with good friends—but ultimately doesn’t understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

Aug 15 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

When a doomed space mission brings an army of savage and super intelligent giant rats back to Earth, Los Angeles becomes ground zero for survival as the ravenous creatures descend upon the city with an insatiable hunger for flesh and destruction.

Aug 15 (7:15pm), Aug 16 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.

Aug 16 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialize on the streets of London, England.

Aug 17 (12:15pm)

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

Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.

Aug 17 (5:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.

Aug 18 (12:15pm)

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

In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.

Aug 22 (7:15pm)

Aug 24 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

Aug 24 (1:40pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

Aug 26 (7pm), Aug 27 (7pm)

Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

Featuring two-time world champion magician Shawn Farquhar, this documentary explores the unique relationship between the art of magic and playing cards.

Aug 27 (4:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.

Aug 27 (7pm)

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

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Aug 28 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.

Aug 27 (7pm), Aug 28 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.

Sep 6 (7:20pm), Sep 7 (7:20pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A documentary through a series of intimate sessions with psychics and their clients.