Pedro Almodóvar - NYFF - The Room Next Door premiere - October 4, 2024
Pedro Almodóvar - NYFF - The Room Next Door premiere - October 4, 2024
Cinema Roundup For the Week of November 21

(released 11/21/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from November 21st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



His Three Daughters - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs
Nov 21 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th 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.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Nov 22 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston 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.

Based on a True Story (2 episodes) - Q&A with EP/Actress Kaley Cuoco
Nov 22 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Season two finds new parents Ava and Nathan Bartlett three months into parenthood. Focused on taking care of her family, Ava is determined to resist her true crime obsession and return to work as a real estate agent while Nathan trains private tennis clients.

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.

Jacob's Ladder - Q&A with Director Adrian Lyne
Nov 22 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.

Never Look Away - Q&A with Director Lucy Lawless
Nov 22 (7:35pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth fearlessly captures footage of war zones. After receiving catastrophic injuries in the crosshairs of battle, she returns to work with more courage than ever.

Porcelain War - Q&A with Directors Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev
Nov 22 (7:15pm), Nov 23 (2:55pm, 7:15pm), Nov 24 (12:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Amid the chaos and destruction of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to fight, armed with their art and, for the first time in their lives, guns.

A Photographic Memory - Q&A with Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Nov 22 (7pm), Nov 23 (7pm), Nov 24 (8pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed was only 18 months old when her mother, renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed, unexpectedly passed away. Driven by a desire to uncover what she left behind, Seed embarks on a journey to meet with people whose lives were touched by her mother.

Sabbath Queen - Q&A with Director Sandi Dubowski, subject Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie
Nov 22 (6:20pm), Nov 23 (6:50pm), Nov 24 (4:20pm, 6:50pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.

The Black Sea - Q&A with Directors Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden
Nov 22 (9:15pm), Nov 23 (6pm), Nov 24 (2:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A man journeys to a small Eastern European coastal town where he finds unexpected connections despite being the only black person in the area.

Death at a Funeral - Q&A with Director Frank Oz
Nov 23 (1:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.

In & Out - Q&A with Director Frank Oz
Nov 23 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

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.

Ernest Cole: Lost And Found - Q&A with Director Raoul Peck
Nov 23 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
South African photographer Ernest Cole was the first to expose the horrors of Apartheid to the world. His 1967 book House of Bondage, published when he was only 27, led him into exile for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Peck's new film recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger at silence and complicity in the face of the horror.

Skate Kitchen - Q&A with Director Crystal Moselle
Nov 23 (8:25pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.

Stolen - Q&A with Writer/Producer Gaurav Dhingra, moderated by filmmaker Mira Nair
Nov 23 (8:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two urbane brothers witness a baby being kidnapped from an impoverished mother at a railway station in rural India. One guided by moral duty, convinces the other to help the mother and join a perilous investigation to find the baby.

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.

Derek DelGaudio's In and of Itself - Q&A with Director Frank Oz, and Derek DelGaudio
Nov 24 (3:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

Look into My Eyes - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 24 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Wilson brings viewers into the intimate spaces of one-one-one psychic readings in New York. Unlike the storefront palm readers that are ubiquitous throughout the city, Wilson's subjects specialize in private, longer-form sessions that can resemble therapy and often turn emotional.

Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Actors Carol Kane, Robert Smigel & C. Mason Wells
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.

Queer - Q&A with Writer Justin Kuritzkes
Nov 29 (7:15pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. The arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Dahomey - Q&A with Director Mati Diop
Dec 1 (2pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

The Body Politic - Q&A with Producer Dawne Langford
Dec 1 (2pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Amid the George Floyd uprising, Brandon Scott, a young activist, is elected Mayor of Baltimore City. His hope is to lower violence in the city with a new, public health-focused, community-led approach, rather than relying solely on policing as others have done.

Black Box Diaries - Q&A with Director Shiori Ito
Dec 1 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
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.

Union - Q&A with Directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing
Dec 1 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City's Staten Island challenges one of the world's largest companies in a unionization battle.

His Three Daughters - Q&A with Actress Natasha Lyonne
Dec 1 (6:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, 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.

Ovid, New York - Q&A with Director Vito Rowlands
Dec 2 (7:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Seven tales of transformation poetically reimagine Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and paint a picture of violence and catharsis, anchored in mythical landscapes.

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.

The End - Q&A with Director Joshua Oppenheimer
Dec 3 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
After decades alone, a wealthy family living in a salt mine encounter a stranger.

Emilia Pérez - Intro with Jacques Audiard, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gason, Selena Gomez
Dec 3 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Emilia Pérez follows four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an unappreciated lawyer, to help fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.

Hard Truths - Q&A with Director Mike Leigh, Actors Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Michele Austin
Dec 3 (7:15pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

The Piano Lesson - Q&A with Actor John David Washington
Dec 3 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and more, in deciding what to do with an heirloom, the family piano.

Gaucho Gaucho - Q&A with Directors Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck
Dec 3 (7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Documentary film about an ensemble of iconic gauchos living beyond the boundaries of the modern world. It weaves together a mosaic of tales about gauchos confronting the fragility of their world in the face of unprecedented change.

The Girl With The Needle - Q&A with Director Magnus Von Horn
Dec 4 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.

Anora - Q&A with Director Sean Baker, Actress Mikey Madison
Dec 4 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
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.

Playland - Q&A with Director Geordan West
Dec 4 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
PLAYLAND conjures a time-bending night in Boston's oldest and most notorious gay bar. The work of queer fantasy and history takes place inside the empty husk of the Playland Café. Although the cafe shut down in the late '90s, PLAYLAND stages one last bawdy night on the town for the ghosts of their LGBTQ+ ancestors.

Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion - Q&A with Director Matthew Miele, Bob Mackie, Bernadette Peters
Dec 4 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Bob Mackie, a six-decade costume designer, received a Lifetime Achievement award and Tony nomination for The Cher Show. His unique, unfiltered style has been showcased in a new documentary.

The Sex Lives of College Girls (advance screening of episode 3)
Q&A with Actors Pauline Chalamet, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Mia Rodgers, Gracie Lawrence
Dec 4 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Four 18-year-old freshman roommates at Essex College in Vermont. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these sexually active college girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating.

Conclave - Q&A with Director Edward Berger
Dec 5 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.

Oh, Canada - Q&A with Director Paul Schrader
Dec 5 (7pm), Dec 6 (7:35pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.

Nightbitch - Q&A with Director Marielle Heller
Dec 6 (5:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.

Three (Extra)Ordinary Women - Q&A with Director Cionin Lorenzo
Dec 6 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Tells the personal stories of three women of color (one African American, one Afro Latina, and one Palestinian American) who have collectively overcome poverty, abuse, systemic racism, and political occupation through practicing forgiveness, sisterhood, and immersing themselves in nature.

Good One - Q&A with Director India Donaldson
Dec 6 (7:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.

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.

Obsessed with Light - Q&A with Directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl
Dec 6 (7:30pm), Dec 7 (7:30pm), Dec 8 (3pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A film that tells the story of American performer Loie Fuller, a pioneer of dance, stage lighting and design.

Homegrown - Q&A with Director Michael Premo and others
Dec 6 (7:30pm), Dec 7 (2pm, 7:30pm), Dec 8 (7:30pm), Dec 10 (7:30pm), Dec 11 (7pm), Dec 12 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Three right-wing activists—a newly politicized father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran organizing conservatives in New York City, and a charismatic activist from Texas—crisscross the country in the summer of 2020, campaigning for Donald Trump and building a movement they hope will outlast him.

The Last Journey - Q&A with Director Filip Hammar
Dec 7 (6pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Renowned Swedish TV-duo Filip and Fredrik embark on a trip to France, aiming to rekindle the zest for life of Filip's father.

Keeper - Q&A with Director Hannah Rafkin
Dec 7 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
For Flynn, a single father and empty nester in the Bronx, beekeeping is a source of calm, wisdom, and healing. Undeterred by his severe allergy to bee stings, he cares for hives across the city—including several inside his daughter Alaura's childhood bedroom. When Flynn receives a life-threatening diagnosis, he reluctantly steps away from the bees under Alaura's care. Battling cancer while fretting about his hives' survival, Flynn prepares his daughter to continue living powerfully—with or without him.

Good One - Q&A with Director India Donaldson
Dec 7 (7:30pm)
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.

Oh, Canada - Q&A with Director Paul Schrader
Dec 7 (4:30pm), Dec 8 (1:45pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.

Report From Hollywood - Q&A with Director Ed Lachman
Dec 8 (5:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Visionary cinematographer Ed Lachman provides a behind-the-scenes account of Wim Wenders' production of The State of Things (1984), a film about the difficulties of making a film. The cast and crew give interviews while driving a convertible between gas stations and motels in a striking document of Los Angeles in the 1980s.

How To Draw a Bunny - Q&A with Producer Andrew Moore
Dec 10 (6:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Interviews with Christo, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Judith Malina, James Rosenquist and others help illuminate the life and work of Warhol contemporary Ray Johnson.

The Day of the Jackal (episode 109) - Q&A with Eddie Redmayne
Dec 10 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe.

Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Dec 10 (2:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
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.

Hippo - Q&A
Dec 10 (7:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Hippo examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus.

No Good Deed - Q&A with Creator Liz Feldman & Actors Linda Cardellini, Lisa Kudrow, Ray Romano, Luke Wilson
Dec 11 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
When Lydia and Paul decide to move on from their empty nest to forge a new life, they list their gorgeous 1920s Spanish-style villa located in one the most desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles — and the real estate frenzy begins. But as Lydia and Paul know all too well, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a true nightmare.

Dexter: Original Sin (episode) - Q&A with Actors Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patrick Gibson, Christina Milian, Molly Brown
Dec 12 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows a young Dexter Morgan on his transition into an avenging serial killer.

Unmade Beds - Q&A with Director Amos Poe
Dec 13 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Photographer Rico fantasizes himself a 1960s Paris gangster. An outsider using his camera like a gun, he searches for reality to fulfill his dreams until falling in love disrupts the delicate balance of his imagined world.

Jesus - Der Film - Q&A with Director Michael Brynntrup
Dec 13 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A punky black-and-white Super 8 telling of the life and afterlife of the Nazarene, this iconoclastic underground epic stars project initiator Brynntrup in the title role, seen in 35 episodes taken from the New Testament interpreted by 22 different filmmakers from all over divided Germany.

Life and Death of a Christmas Tree - Q&A with Director Arturas Jevdokimovas
Dec 13 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A Lithuanian documentary filmmaker goes behind the scenes of the never-seen-before magic of Christmas to show how Christmas trees arrive at his home.

The Room Next Door - Q&A with Actors Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Author Sigrid Nunez
Dec 13 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Ain't Nothin' Without You - Q&A with Director Pia Frankenburg
Dec 14 (2:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Martha, a filmmaker and single mother wracked with guilt over her background of privilege, and Klaus Bueb as Alfred, a child of '68 radicalism who has spent years stalled in his architecture studies, working on the side as a film studio tour guide.

A Complete Unknown - Q&A with Director James Mangold, Actors Ed Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro
Dec 14 (5pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
In the early 1960s, 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. Forming his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement, making a controversial choice that reverberates worldwide.

I Saw the TV Glow - Q&A with Director Jane Schoenbrun
Dec 14 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A teenager just trying to make it through life in the suburbs is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show.

Afterschool - Q&A with Director Antonio Campos
Dec 14 (7:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Internet-addled, emotionally disturbed prep school kid Robert, who has taken to using his new video camera as a buffer between the real world and himself, captures the overdose deaths of two classmates while on a school assignment, an incident which will have widespread repercussions for his frayed psyche and the elite institution he attends.

The Brutalist - Q&A with Director Brady Corbet
Dec 15 (1pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.

Babygirl - Q&A with Director Halina Reijn
Dec 17 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.

Dune: Part Two - Q&A with Editor Joe Walker
Dec 27 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
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.


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