Linoleum screening - Bilge Ebiri, Colin West, Jim Gaffigan - Quad Cinema - Feb 26, 2023
Linoleum screening - Bilge Ebiri, Colin West, Jim Gaffigan - Quad Cinema - Feb 26, 2023
Cinema Roundup For the Week of February 28

(released 2/28/2025)


Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from February 28th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Q&A with Editor Stephen Rotter
Feb 28 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.

Addams Family Values - Q&A with Writer Paul Rudnick
Mar 2 (11am)
Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.

The Southern Chronicles - Q&A with Director Ignas Miškinis
Mar 3 (6:30pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.

Democracy Under Seige - Q&A with Director Laura Nix, Cartoonist Ann Telnaes
Mar 4 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
The sharp wit and insightful art of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes to examine the challenges confronting US democracy ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The Rule of Jenny Pen - Q&A with Director James Ashcroft
Mar 5 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.

The Day Iceland Stood Still - Q&A with Director Pamela Hogan
Mar 5 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, "The Red Stockings", and their search for equality.

Boom For Real - Q&A with Director Sara Driver, Artist Lee Quinones
Mar 5 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.

Brief Tender Light - Q&A with Director Arthur Musah
Mar 6 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

Eephus - Q&A with Director Carson Lund
Mar 6 (7pm), Mar 7 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Grown men's recreational baseball game stretches to extra innings on their beloved field's final day before demolition. Humor and nostalgia intertwine as daylight fades, signaling an era's end.

My Father's Name - Q&A with Director Susanna Styron
Mar 7 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Years after Lee Ed Frazier’s death, his daughter Jan made a shocking discovery: as a young man her father had participated in a lynching. Now, as she attempts to uncover the truth about what happened, Jan must reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, grapple with how to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.

Wendy and Lucy - Q&A with Writer/Director Kelly Reichardt, Producer Larry Fessenden
Mar 7 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.

Suspiria - Q&A with Pruduction Designer Inbal Weinberg
Mar 7 (8:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Seven Veils - Q&A with Director Atom Egoyan
Mar 7 (6:45pm), Mar 8 (6:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present.

Housewife of the Year - Q&A with Director Ciaran Cassidy
Mar 7 (7:30pm), Mar 8 (7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Former contestants of the Housewife of the Year competition tell the story of a resilient generation of women, and how they changed a country.

Blue Valentine - Q&A with Production Designer Inbal Weinberg, Director Derek Cianfrance
Mar 8 (3:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.

Titane - Q&A with Actor Vincent London
Mar 8 (8:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.

Eephus - Q&A with Director Carson Lund
Mar 8 (6:15pm), Mar 9 (2:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Grown men's recreational baseball game stretches to extra innings on their beloved field's final day before demolition. Humor and nostalgia intertwine as daylight fades, signaling an era's end.

Rather Be Ashes Than Dust - Q&A with Director Alan Lau, Ex Producer Nancy Tong
Mar 9 (6pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Memories of his four-year journey focused on the Hong Kong protests. Narrated in the first person, is rich with reflections and contemplations, most intertwined with feelings of guilt.

Slide - Q&A with Director/Animator Bill Plympton
Mar 9 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A slide guitar-playing cowboy appears in a corrupt 1940's logging town to battle a pair of evil twins and save the village of Sourdough Creek.

Bystanders - Q&A with Director May Beth McAndrews
Mar 10 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A group of murderous frat boys get more than they bargained for when they cross paths with a couple coming home from a wedding.

One To One: John & Yoko - Q&A with Editor/Co-Director Sam Rice-Edwards
Mar 11 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold - Q&A with Director Griffin Dunne
Mar 11 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.

Bonjour Tristesse - Q&A with Director Durga Chew-Bose, Actress Lily McInerny
Mar 12 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Follows Cécile, a young woman who spends the summer in a villa in the south of France with her widowed father Raymond and his latest love interest, Elsa. Theirs is a lived-in compatibility a world of ease and languor.

You Can't Erase Me - Q&A with Director Tony Wesley, DJ Yella (of NWA)
Mar 13 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
As a founding member of the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A., DJ Yella was a technical genius whose skills proved to be a key component in the signature sound of the legendary group. DJ Yella has had a longstanding career that played an integral part in putting West Coast Hip Hop on the map starting with the infamous World Class Wreckin' Cru, then evolving into the rise and fall of N.W.A., a 13 year porn career and an unfortunate crash into homelessness.

Vision Quest - Q&A with Actor Matthew Modine
Mar 13 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.

Rez Ball - Q&A with Director Sydney Freeland
Mar 14 (7pm)
National Museum of the American Indian (1 Bowling Green, Manhattan)
The Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team from New Mexico, must band together after losing their star player if they want to keep their quest for a state championship alive.

Throuple - Q&A with Actors Michael Doshier, Jess Gabor, Tristan Carter-Jones, Stanton Plummer-Cambride
Mar 14 (7pm), Mar 15 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A lonely gay singer-songwriter learns how to ask for what he wants in life through a newfound romance with an honest and communicative married couple. All the while, he fears he is losing his best friend to her girlfriend.

Meanwhile - Q&A with Director Catherine Gund
Mar 14 (7pm), Mar 15 (6:30pm), Mar 16 (3:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Meanwhile is a docu-poem in six verses about artists breathing through chaos. Centering breath as a symbol of resilience, Meanwhile captures raw, unfinished moments—dancers in rehearsal, artists midway through their work—focusing on the act of creation. Rooted in the upheavals of 2020, the film uses breath as its through-line to symbolize collective survival

Tell Me A Riddle - Q&A with Director Lee Grant, Actress Brooke Adams
Mar 17 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.

Suburban Fury - Q&A with Director Robinson Devor, Producer Jason Reid
Mar 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
"Suburban Fury" examines the 1975 assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, a conservative, middle-aged, single mother from the San Francisco suburbs who became radicalized while working as an FBI informant.

Moving Stories - Q&A with Editors Mikael Södersten, Producer Cornelia Ravenal
Mar 19 (6:30pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance company travel the world, working with young people who've experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees.

Amores Perros - Q&A with Actor Humberto Busto
Mar 20 (8pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.

Helen and the Bear - Q&A with Director Alix Blair, Ex Producer Kristen Johnson
Mar 25 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A rebellious young woman marries a prominent Republican politician twenty-six years older than her. Decades later, anticipating his death, she wrestles with their marriage, her sexuality, and a life spent by his side.

Thank You Very Much - Q&A with Alex Braverman
Mar 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Documentary about performance artist and "song and dance man" Andy Kaufman

V13 - Q&A with Director Richard Ledes, Actor Alan Cumming
Apr 3 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Vienna, 1913, Europe is on the brink of WWI. Two young men become friends: Hugo, a musician from a privileged family, tries psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud; Adolf, a struggling vegetarian artist, falls in love with German nationalism.

The Teacher - Q&A with Writer/Director Farah Nabulsi
Apr 11 (7pm), Apr 12 (7pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.


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