We hope you enjoyed Thanksgiving yesterday. Now, it's time to watch some movies. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from November 29th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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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.
The Empire Strikes Back - Q&A with Frank Oz (voice of Yoda)
Nov 30 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda. At the same time, Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Nov 30 (3:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th 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.
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 Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Practical Magic - Q&A with Director Griffin Dunne
Dec 1 (4:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.
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.
Sweetheart Deal - Q&A with Producer Peggy Case, Editors Karen KH Sim & Brittany Kaplan
Dec 1 (7pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Four addicted sex workers encounter a self-proclaimed healer who promises redemption from the streets in his RV. As they rebuild their lives, a betrayal surfaces, altering their trajectories.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Dec 1 (8:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette 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.
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.
Maria - Q&A with Director Pablo Larrain
Dec 3 (7:45pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston 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.
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.
2073 - Q&A with Director Asif Kapadia
Dec 4 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
It will tackle challenges the world faces and is inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée, about a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity.
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, Actors Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow, Cinematographer Stephen Fontaine, Costume Designer Lisy Christl
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.
Ren Faire - Q&A with Director Lance Oppenheim
Dec 8 (2pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
When the ailing king of America's largest renaissance festival declares his retirement, an epic power struggle ensues between an actor, a former elephant trainer, and a kettle-corn kingpin to claim his throne.
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.
The Diplomat - Q&A with Writer/Producer Debora Cahn, Actress Keri Russell
Dec 8 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
In the midst of an international crisis, Kate Wyler, a career diplomat, lands in a high-profile job for which she is not suited, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future.
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.
Metropolitan - Q&A with Writer/Director Whit Stillman, Actor Chris Eigeman
Dec 11 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
An ironically comic look at Manhattan's endangered debutante scene, METROPOLITAN chronicles the rise and ultimate decline of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor, and the impending demise of their class.
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.
The Bibi Files - Q&A with Director Alexis Bloom
Dec 11 (6:45pm) - Also Producer Alex Gibney
Dec 12 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An inside look into the corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through leaked police interrogation videos.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - Q&A with Co-Director Merlin Crossingham
Dec 12 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
In this next installment, Gromit's concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a "smart" gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master... or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
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.
Nickel Boys - Q&A with Director RaMell Ross
Dec 13 (6pm), Dec 14 (5pm, 5:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
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.
Cashing Out - Q&A with Director/Producer Matt Nadel, EP Julie Cohen
Dec 13 (7pm), Dec 14 (5pm, 7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
At the height of the AIDS crisis, thousands of queer people sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. A thought-provoking exploration of this billion-dollar "AIDS profiteering" industry, Cashing Out tells the intimate stories of those who fought for dignity in an unfeeling marketplace—and investigates the filmmaker's unlikely personal connection to this industry.
Bright Vignettes: How Astoria Got Its Pride - Q&A with Director Patricia Silva
Dec 14 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Contextualizes the achievements and activity leading up to the Astoria neighborhood's inaugural Pride in 2023.
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.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Dec 15 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Writer Chris Wells
Dec 15 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
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.
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.
Turbulence - Intro with Writer Jonathan Brett
Dec 17 (9:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a flight attendant must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself.
Vampire's Kiss - Q&A with Writer Joseph Minion
Dec 20 (9:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.
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.
Challengers - Q&A with Writer Justin Kuritzkes
Dec 28 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
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.
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)
Five tales of perversion, obsession, blasphemy, nihilism, and sadism.