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Keeper screening - Sean Malik "Flynn" Flynn, Alaura Flynn, Hannah Rafkin, Pamela Y. Rozon - Bronx Doc Center - December 7, 2024
Keeper screening - Sean Malik "Flynn" Flynn, Alaura Flynn, Hannah Rafkin, Pamela Y. Rozon - Bronx Doc Center - December 7, 2024
Cinema Roundup For the Week of December 19
(released Thursday, December 19, 2024)
By Douglas Lorah

Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from December 12th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



Incident - Q&A with Director Bill Morrison
Dec 20 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Reconstructs a 2018 police shooting in Chicago, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of sources, including surveillance, CCTV, dashboard, and body-worn cameras, as a synchronized split-screen montage.

Vampire's Kiss - Q&A with Writer Joseph Minion
Dec 20 (9:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
https://metrograph.com
After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.

Hardcore - Q&A with Writer/Director Paul Schrader
Dec 21 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com
A religious businessman from Michigan has to venture into the world of pornography in California, desperately searching for his runaway teenage daughter.

Carol - Q&A with Editor Affonso Goncalves
Dec 21 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
https://metrograph.com
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

Dune: Part Two - Q&A with Editor Joe Walker
Dec 27 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Paul Atreides unites with the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future.

Challengers - Q&A with Writer Justin Kuritzkes
Dec 28 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.

Challengers - Q&A with Writer Justin Kuritzkes
Jan 2 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
https://www.moma.org
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.

The Last Republican - Q&A with Director Steve Pink, Subject Congressman Adam Kinzinger
Jan 3 (7pm), Jan 4 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
https://filmforum.org
In the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger teams up with Hollywood director Steve Pink to shed light on the events and hold those responsible accountable.

Nickel Boys - Q&A with Director RaMell Ross
Jan 7 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "Nickel Boys" chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Black Box Diaries - Q&A with Director/Subject Shiori Ito
Jan 7 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
https://www.moma.org
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.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Jan 8 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.

Anora - Q&A with Actor Karren Karagulian
Jan 9 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Somebody Somewhere (episode) - Q&A with Writer/Executive Producers Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen
Jan 10 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Sam is a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggles to fit the hometown mold. Grappling with loss and acceptance, she discovers herself and a community of outsiders who don't fit in but don't give up.

Hard Truths - Q&A with Director Mike Leigh
Jan 10 (7:20pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com
Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

Industry (episode) - Q&A with Actor Ken Leung
Jan 10 (8pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Young bankers and traders make their way in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.

Oceans Are The Real Continents - Q&A with Director Tommaso Santambrogio
Jan 10 (7:40pm), Jan 11 (7:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
https://filmforum.org
Having Cuba as a background, decadent and in crisis, in a black-and-white lacerated by the Caribbean swinging rain, Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s, live their love story made of small daily gestures, stories from the past, nostalgia and a deep intimacy.

Bring on the Damned! - Q&A with Writer/Director Brandon Bassham
Jan 11 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
Five tales of perversion, obsession, blasphemy, nihilism, and sadism.

VHYES - Q&A with Director Jack Henry Robbins, Producer Delaney Schenker
Jan 11 (7:15pm SOLD OUT, 7:45pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
https://drafthouse.com
12-year-old Ralph loves making home videos around his house. He also loves hooking it up to the TV to record his favorite shows. Ralph, however, didn’t realize he was using his parents' wedding video as his canvas.

Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Jan 12 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.

Fresh - Q&A with Actor Sean Nelson
Jan 13 (6:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
https://drafthouse.com
Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.

A Different Man - Q&A with Director Aaron Schimberg
Jan 17 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
https://movingimage.org
An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance, but his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.

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)
https://www.maysles.org
A docu-poetic meditation on New York's oysters and their transformations in the face of an uncertain future.

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)
https://www.maysles.org
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.



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