Happy Halloween!!
Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from October 31st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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September 5 - Q&A with Actor Peter Sarsgaard
Nov 1 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Luther: Never Too Much - Q&A with Director Dawn Porter
Nov 1 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson and Roberta Flack. The film relives the many stunning moments of Luther's musical career, while exploring his personal life, health struggles, and a lifelong battle to earn the respect his music deserved.
A Real Pain - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Jesse Eisenberg, Actor Kieran Culkin
Nov 1 (5:30pm, 6pm), Nov 2 (5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Nov 1 (6:45pm), Nov 2 (4pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
Breakfast of Champions - Q&A with Director Alan Rudolph
Nov 1 (7:15pm), Nov 2 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.
The Graduates - Q&A with Director Hannah Peterson
Nov 1 (7:30pm), Nov 2 (7:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is searching for ways to heal.
Agent of Happiness - Q&A with Directors Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó
Nov 1 (7:10pm), Nov 2 (7:10pm), Nov 3 (2:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
How can you measure happiness? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that,and Amber is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are. He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness.
High Tide - Q&A with Director Marco Calvani
Nov 2 (8:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Heartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for purpose in the queer mecca of Provincetown. As the summer season comes to a fade, he sparks an intense and unexpected romance with Maurice. Together, the two reconcile the pasts they've left behind and their uncertain futures.
Turn in the Wound - Q&A with Director Abel Ferrara, Cinematographer Sean Price Williams
Nov 3 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A film exploring performance, poetry, and music amidst war. It examines the search for meaning and freedom in ongoing suffering and echoes of the past, focusing on people's experiences of oppression and military force.
Chop Suey - Q&A with star/subject Peter Johnson
Nov 3 (8:15pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16 year old wrestler.
Rezoning Harlem: The Battle Over Harlem's Future - Q&A with Director Natasha Florentino
Nov 4 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
REZONING HARLEM follows longtime members of the Harlem community as they fight a 2008 rezoning that threatens to erase the history and culture of their legendary neighborhood and replace it with luxury housing, offices, and big-box retail.
The Blackout - Q&A with Director Abel Ferrara
Nov 4 (7pm)
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.
Let's Get Lost - Q&A with Cinematographer Jeff Preiss
Nov 4 (7:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.
The Addiction - Q&A with Director Abel Ferrara
Nov 4 (10pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
After: Poetry Destroys Silence - Q&A with Director Richard Kroehling, Producer Janet Kirchheimer, Actor Geza Rohrig, Poet Cornelius Eady
Nov 6 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Poetry Destroys Silence is a deep dive into the creative responsibility of writers when faced with holocaust, catastrophe and genocide. Do they bury their heads in the sand or do they reach out to the world with their creative gift.
Moments Like This Never Last - Q&A with Director Cheryl Dunn
Nov 6 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists before his death by heroin overdose in 2009.
Starring Jerry As Himself - Q&A with Director Law Chen, Producer Jonathan Hsu, subject Jerry Hsu
Nov 6 (7:15pm), Nov 7 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry's family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream.
Universal Language - Q&A with Writer/Producer/Actor Ila Firouzabadi
Nov 7 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
An absurdist tryptic of seemingly unconnected stories find a mysterious point of intersection in Matthew Rankin's autobiographical fever dream set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran.
Heaven, Earth + Hell and E Minha Cara - Q&A with Director Thomas Allen Harris
Nov 7 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
Heaven, Earth + Hell: documentary that charts a course through African, Christian and Native American cosmologies to tell a tale of love, loss and a search for freedom in two parallel inter-racial relationships.
E Minha Cara: traces the filmmaker's journey to Salvador Da Bahia, the African heart and soul of Brazil, as he seeks the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams.
Stinking Heaven - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Nov 7 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Set in Passaic in the early 90s, the film follows a woman who arrives at a harmonious safe house for recovering drug addicts run by a married couple, only to inflame tensions among the patients.
Sing Sing - Q&A with cast Clarence 'Divine Eye' Maclin, Jon-Adrian
'JJ' Velazquez, and Sean 'Dino' Johnson
Nov 8 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Steve Martin & Frank Oz in-person
Nov 9 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Debonair con man Lawrence, who makes his living targeting wealthy women and cheating them out of a fortune, meets his match when he comes across uncouth American hustler Freddy, whose brand of crookery leaves much to be desired in the sophistication department.
Fonissa (Murderess) - Q&A with Director Eva Nathena
Nov 10 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Driven to despair over women's oppressive living conditions in her island community circa 1900, a midwife finds a violent solution to confront the evils of a male-dominated society.
Maria - Q&A with Director Pablo Larraín, Cinematographer Ed Lachman
Nov 10 (5pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
National Lampoon's Animal House - Q&A with Actor Tim Matheson
Nov 11 (6:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
No Fear, No Die - Q&A with Actor Isaach De Bankolé
Nov 11 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
The Last Showgirl - Q&A with Director Gia Coppola, Actress Pamela Anderson
Nov 12 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A seasoned showgirl must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.
His Three Daughters - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs
Nov 13 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
This tense, touching and funny portrait of family dynamics follows three estranged sisters as they converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
Instrument - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen, Musician Guy Picciotto
Nov 13 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
The band Fugazi is documented by filmmaker Jem Cohen over a period of ten years through performance footage and interviews with the band and their fans.
Sansón and Me - Q&A with Director Rodrigo Reyes
Nov 14 (6pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
Follows a young immigrant's path from coastal Mexico to a life sentence for murder in California.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 14 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
The World According to Allee Willis - Q&A with Director Alexis Spraic
Nov 14 (7pm), Nov 15 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Songwriter / artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms - until she found a path to love.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 15 (7:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
L For Leisure - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 15 (9:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Arthouse comedy set in 1992-3 following awkward graduate students on vacations all around the world.
Dream Team - Intro and Q&A with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 15 (7pm), Nov 16 (3pm), Nov 17 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In this absurdist homage to 90's basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery. A post-modern, soft-core fever dream.
Two Plains and a Fancy - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 16 (12:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A group of women traverse the landscapes and strange towns of Colorado in the 1890's.
Danton's Death & Towards Tenderness - Q&A with Director Alice Diop
Nov 16 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Danton's Death: A black man from the Paris suburbs seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France's most prestigious drama schools.
Towards Tenderness: Four young men from the Paris suburbs talk about their masculinity. Their interior monologues, however, reveal other desires.
On Call - Q&A with Director Alice Diop
Nov 17 (1:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The daily routine of a doctor who treats refugees at a hospital in Paris.
Blondes in the Jungle - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 17 (9:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
On a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, three teenagers in 80's Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encounters. Long silent jungle sequences, a meditation on Mayan Archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe make Blondes in the Jungle at once an absurd comedy and a serious film about the possibility of spiritual growth in a world of instant gratification.
Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Nov 19 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
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.
Lyd - Q&A with Directors Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland
Nov 20 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Nov 20 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
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.
A Real Pain - Q&A with Director Jesse Eisenberg
Nov 22 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
After Tiller - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 22 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
This thought provoking, sometimes troubling documentary examines the personal and ethical imperatives that drive abortion providers to continue in the face of often dangerous legal and personal harassment.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Nov 22 (7pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
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.
Miss Americana - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 23 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A look at iconic pop artist Taylor Swift during a transformational time in her life as she embraces her role as a singer/songwriter and harnesses the full power of her voice.
The Departure - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 24 (3:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A Buddhist monk asks what we owe one another and provides experiences to help us find answers.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Nov 26 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Emilia Pérez - Q&A with Director Jacques Audiard
Dec 3 (6pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.
Hard Truths - Q&A with Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Dec 6 (6:15pm), Dec 7 (12:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.