Between The Temples screening - Lincoln Center - August 22, 2024
Between The Temples screening - Lincoln Center - August 22, 2024
Cinema Roundup For the Week of September 5

(released 9/5/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from September 5th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



The Lords of Flatbush - Q&A with Director Martin Davidson, DP Ed Lachman, Editor Muffie Meyer, Actress Maria Smith
Sep 5 (7:15pm), Sep 7 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Two members of a social club in 1950s Brooklyn have more interest in romance than in rumbles.

Look Into My Eyes - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Sep 5 (7:30pm) 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.

I'll Be Right There - Q&A with Director Brendan Walsh, Actress Edie Falco
Sep 6 (6:30pm, 9:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Life's complicated for Wanda. Between a pregnant daughter, a wayward son, an absent ex-husband, and a hypochondriac mother she must figure out how to keep her family together while finding her own love and happiness.

The Cowboy and the Queen - Q&A with Director Andrea Nevins, Producer Graham Clark
Sep 6 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Monty Roberts, a nonviolent horse trainer who rejected traditional "breaking" methods, forms an unlikely friendship with Queen Elizabeth II. Bonding over their shared love for animals, they overcome Monty's doubters to broadcast his gentle approach globally.

A Time to Live and a Time to Die - Intro and Q&A with Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing
Sep 6 (7:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.

His Three Daughters - Q&A with Writer/Director Azazel Jacobs
Sep 6 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Three estranged sisters converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.

Art Dealers - Q&A with Director Adam Weiner AND performance by Adam
Sep 6 (7:15pm, 9:15pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
The rapturous, sweaty live experience of Philly rock band Low Cut Connie - fronted by charismatic leader Adam Weiner - is celebrated in all its beer-soaked, piano slamming glory in this rousing documentary.

The Mother of All Lies - Q&A with Director Asmae El Moudir
Sep 6 (7:15pm), Sep 7 (7:15pm), Sep 8 (6:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.

Meanwhile on Earth - Q&A with Director Jérémy Clapin
Sep 7 (6:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to Earth, who disappeared during a space mission.

His Three Daughters - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs
Sep 7 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Three estranged sisters converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.

I Lost My Body - Q&A with Director Jérémy Clapin
Sep 7 (9:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.

Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story - Q&A with Director Jennifer Takaki, Producer Linda Lew Woo
Sep 7 (1pm), Sep 8 (2pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
For 50 years, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee documented the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American Pacific Islanders with epic focus. Determined to push mainstream media to include AAPI culture in the visual record of American history, Lee produced an astonishing archive of nearly a million compelling photographs. His work takes on new urgency with the alarming rise in anti-Asian attacks during the Covid pandemic.

Norwegian Wood - Intro from Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing
Sep 8 (2:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.

Endangered Species - Intro from Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing
Sep 8 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.

From Russia With Lev - Q&A with Directors Billy Corben & Alfred Spellman, moderated by Rachel Maddow
Sep 8 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary exploring Lev Parnas' involvement in the Trump-Ukraine scandal that resulted in the former president's impeachment, detailing Parnas' unexpected entanglement with Trump and Giuliani, leading to his incarceration.

Booger - Q&A with Director Mary Dauterman
Sep 9 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
After the death of her best friend Izzy, Anna focuses all her attention on Booger, the stray cat which she and Izzy took in. When Booger bites her, she begins to undergo a strange transformation.

Skincare - Q&A with Director Austin Peters
Sep 10 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman's skincare business faces sabotage when rival Angel Vergara opens a boutique across the street. Aided by friend Jordan, Hope seeks to uncover who's trying to ruin her reputation.

Winner - Q&A with Writer/Director Susanna Fogel, moderated by Chelsea Handler
Sep 11 (7:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor.

Maya and the Wave - Q&A with Director Stephanie Johnes (some with surfer Maya Gabeira)
Sep 11 (7pm), Sep 13 (7pm), Sep 14 (7pm), Sep 15 (2:40pm), Sep 16 - 19 (7:20pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
After a brush with death, Maya Gabeira makes history in the male-dominated world of big wave surfing.

White - Q&A with Director Sayeeda Moreno
Sep 12 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)
In a burning hot near-future, climate change has both devastated the planet and turned melanin into the world's most valuable commodity. When Nuyorican beauty LUNA has her newborn ripped from her arms just moments after giving birth, she is thrust into the merciless world of melanin harvesting to save her daughter, her community and spark a revolution.

Basquiat - Q&A with Director Julian Schnabel
Sep 12 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Matt and Mara - Q&A with Director Kazik Radwanski, Actors Deragh Campbell & Matt Johnson
Sep 13 (7:30pm), Sep 14 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A young professor struggles in her marriage, only to meet Matt, a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus.

Girls Will Be Girls - Q&A with Director Shuchi Talati
Sep 13 (7:40pm), Sep 14 (7:40pm)
Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows the journey of 16 year old Mira, whose sexy, rebellious coming of age is disrupted by her young mother who never got to come of age herself.

Borderland  | The Line Within - Q&A with Director Pamela Yates, Producer Paco de Onís
Sep 13 (7pm), Sep 14 (1pm, 7pm), Sep 15 (2:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A trio of digital humanists, immigrants themselves, dig deep into the hidden apparatus of the border industrial complex, exposing ruthless profiteering from the suffering of fellow humans.

Sweetheart Deal - Q&A with Director Elisa Levine, Editor Brittany Kaplan, Producer Peggy Case
Sep 13 (7:30pm), Sep 14 (7:30pm), Sep 15 (2pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Four sex workers caught in the spiral of addiction turn to a self-proclaimed healer offering friendship and a path to salvation from the streets inside his roadside RV. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all.

Booger - Q&A with Writer/Director Mary Dauterman
Sep 13 (7pm), Sep 14 (7pm), Sep 17 (7:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
New Yorker Anna is faced with the sudden and unexpected death of her best friend and roommate, Izzy. As Anna grieves, Izzy's cat, Booger, runs away, leading to a desperate search, only to be bitten on the hand by the cat. Anna soon takes on feline characteristics and her work life and relationship with her boyfriend go downhill.

Short Cuts - Q&A with Editor Suzy Elmiger
Sep 14 (4:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.

Honorable Mr. Morgenthau - Q&A with Director Hilan Warshaw
Sep 14 (7:30pm), Sep 15 (2:00pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A powerful story of bigotry, loyalty and courage which sometimes feels ripped from today's headlines, Honorable Mr. Morgenthau is a documentary about U.S. immigration policy during the Holocaust — as told through the lens of one American's extraordinary experience.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Q&A with Actors Paris Themmen and Julie Dawn Cole
Sep 15 (12pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

It's What's Inside - Q&A with Writer/Director Greg Jardin
Sep 16 (7pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious suitcase.

The Nightingale - Q&A with Director Jennifer Kent
Sep 16 (8:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict in 1820s Tasmania, who having served her 7-year sentence, is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins who refuses to release her from his charge. Clare's husband Aidan, retaliates and she becomes the victim of a harrowing crime at the hands of the lieutenant and his cronies.

The Babadook (10th Anniversary) - Q&A with Director Jennifer Kent
Sep 17 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

In The Summers - Q&A with Director Alessandra Lacorazza
Sep 17 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Embark on a journey with two sisters as they grapple with their relationship to their well-meaning but troubled father during their childhood summers.

Spirit Riser - Q&A with Director Dylan Mars Greenberg
Sep 17 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity. On their quest to reunite they discover their own supernatural abilities and meet many strange characters.

The President's Tailor - Q&A with Director Rick Minnich
Sep 18 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Maxmilian Grünfeld spoke Yiddish, lived in Czechoslovakia, lost his family to Nazi concentration camps, and had no business experience. Martin Greenfield lives on Long Island, speaks English, hand-tailors suits for U.S. presidents, and runs a bespoke clothing empire with high society clients and friends. This is one and the same man.

A Different Man - Q&A with Director Aaron Schimberg
Sep 18 (6:45pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

The Babadook (10th Anniversary) - Q&A with Director Jennifer Kent
Sep 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

TOTALLY F***ED UP - Q&A with Actor James Duval
Sep 19 (6:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.

Life or Death: The "Silky Slim" Story - Q&A with Directors Gerald Barclay & Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed
Sep 19 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X. Blvd, Manhattan)
LIFE OR DEATH tells the incredible journey of Silky Slim, a former gang leader whose life takes a profound turn after surviving a tragic accident that claims the lives of his friends. Fueled by miraculous signs, Silky embarks on a mission to break the cycle of violence and crime that once defined him.

Wild Things - Q&A with Director John McNaughton
Sep 19 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.

A Different Man - Q&A with Director Aaron Schimberg, Actors Sebastian Stan & Adam Pearson
Sep 20 (7:30pm), Sep 21 (7:30pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

All Shall Be Well - Q&A with Director Ray Yeung
Sep 20 (6:30pm), Sep 21 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.

The Featherweight - Q&A with Director Robert Kolodny, Actor James Maddio
Sep 20 (7:15pm), Sep 21 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In 1964, a camera crew follows retired featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep. Down and out in Hartford, Conn., married to a woman half his age and facing mounting debts, Pep decides to return to the ring.

Who's Afraid of Nathan Law? - Q&A with Director Joe Piscatella, film subject Nathan Law
Sep 20 (7pm), Sep 22 (7:30pm), Sep 23 (5pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
At 21, he was a leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. By 23, he became Hong Kong's youngest elected lawmaker. At 26, he was Most Wanted. The film offers to uncover what happens to freedom when an authoritarian power goes unchecked.

Condo Painting - Q&A with Director John McNaughton
Sep 21 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
John McNaughton's sole documentary, focusing on the work of painter George Condo

A Day with Chinatown Basketball Club in Films (multiple shorts) - Q&A with multiple directors
Sep 21 (8:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
For one night only, Chinatown Basketball Club and Metrograph present a night of never-before-screened films and conversation at the intersection of basketball, art and Chinatown. These intimate portrayals of CBC characters and moods, by artists that are part of the group, will introduce audiences to a uniquely New York pick-up basketball and art community.

Normal Life - Q&A with Director John McNaughton, moderated by Heather Buckley
Sep 22 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Chris struggles as a cop, not willing to play along with dishonest colleagues. When he first encounters Pam, he is drawn to her chaotic energy, and the two quickly fall in love. But Pam bristles at any expectation that she be a dutiful wife, drawn as she is to the mysteries of far away galaxies and black holes, seeking the extraordinary. Only when she discovers Chris has started to rob banks to elevate their lifestyle does she emerge from the malaise, invigorated by the danger.

Tracker (CBS TV show) - Q&A with Actor Justin Hartley
Sep 22 (4pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Tracker follows a lone wolf survivalist (Hartley) who roams the country using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve mysteries — all while contending with his own fractured family.

The Becomers - Q&A with Director Zach Clark, Composer Fritz Myers
Sep 23 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Escaping their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive separately on Earth. Jumping from body to body in search of each other, they dig themselves deeper and deeper in the madness of modern-day America.

Lee - Q&A with Actress Kate Winslet
Sep 23 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
The story of American photographer Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - Q&A with Director Joe Berlinger
Sep 24 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band in 2001, superstars Metallica realize that they need an intervention. In this revealing documentary, the filmmakers follow the three rock stars as they hire a group therapist and grapple with 20 years of repressed anger and aggression while searching for a replacement bass player and creating a new album confronting their personal demons.

The Long Walk Home & an episode of Living Single with live commentary by Erika Alexander
Sep 27 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

American Fiction & an episode of Living Single with live commentary by Erika Alexander
Sep 28 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.

The Silence of the Lambs - Extended Intro with Camera Operator Tony Jannelli
Sep 28 (8:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Flying Lessons - Q&A with Director Liz Nichols, Producer Todd Verow
Sep 30 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
When their Lower East Side building comes under siege by a predatory landlord, a young filmmaker and an aging punk artist forge an unlikely friendship. As the two women collaborate on a portrait of a creative life amidst NYC's cultural crisis, they discover what it means to be neighbors.

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This - Q&A with Directors Nick Toti & Rachel Kempf
Oct 1 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Two horror fans buy a creepy duplex to shoot a film. They find cult members gathering outside in a trance. The friends investigate the phenomenon, their obsession escalating as they pursue real-life horror thrills.

Men in Black - Q&A with Director Barry Sonnenfeld
Oct 2 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
MEN IN BLACK follows the exploits of agents Kay and Jay, members of a top-secret organization established to monitor alien activity on Earth. The two MiB find themselves in the middle of the deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.




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