Here's a list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from June 15th and beyond. We will list these screening events even if they are sold out, because maybe standby tickets will come through or maybe you want to wait outside the theater in hopes of getting an autograph. And by special, we generally mean that there will be a filmmaker intro or Q&A following the screening. If we attended any of the screenings in the past week, we'll add photos and video at the end. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Happer's Comet
Q&A with Director Tyler Taormina moderated by Michael Cera
June 16 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Tyler Taormina
June 17 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A mid-night mosaic of a suburban town steeped in alienation. While peering into the late night moments of many residents, we notice that some of them quietly escape into the dark of night via rollerblades.
Our Father, the Devil - Conversation with Director Ellie Foumbi
June 16 (7:30pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
Marie works as the head cook in a retirement home in a small mountain town in the south of France. Though she seems relatively well adjusted, Marie harbors a shameful secret: she’s a former child soldier. Silently struggling with the remnants of her traumatic past, Marie hides her PTSD from those around her, but her quiet life is turned upside down when an African priest named Father Patrick begins to volunteer at the home, and immediately recognizes him from her past. As Father Patrick charms her coworkers, Marie must decide if she will exact her revenge or cling to the new life she’s built.
Maggie Moore(s) - Introduction and Q&A with Director John Slattery and Actor Micah Stock
June 16 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
When two women with the same name are murdered days apart, small-town police chief Jordan Sanders (Jon Hamm) finds himself wading through an unlikely collection of cheating husbands, lonely hearts, contract killers and a nosy neighbor (Tina Fey) in an effort to put the pieces of the case, and his life, together.
Cadejo Blanco - Q&A with Director Justin Lerner & Producer Pedro Murcia
June 16 (7:10pm) & June 17 (7:10pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, Sarita dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea never made it home. The police are indifferent and unhelpful, but Sarita suspects that Bea's disappearance has something to do with Andrés, her sister's dangerous ex.
The Mark Twain Comedy - Q&A with Director Adam Samuel Goldman
June 17 (5:30pm)
Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)
Adam Samuel Goldman's THE MARK TWAIN COMPANY recounts how the titular company was founded in 1908 as a way of establishing unprecedented legal control over an artist's public persona.It has never been released onVHS/DVD.
The Graduates - Conversation with Director Hannah Peterson
June 17 (6:30pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, Genevieve prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is searching for ways to heal.
Captain Fantastic - Q&A with Editor Joseph Krings
June 18 (4:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Deep in the woods of Washington State, isolated from society, devoted father Ben Cash dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into adults with the skills to survive outside of capitalist society. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they're forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges Ben's idea of what it means to be a "responsible parent," and brings into question everything he's taught his kids.
Hamlet (2000) - Q&A with Director Michael Almereyda
June 18 (3pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder.
Holy Trinity: Scratch & Sniff Edition - Q&A with Director Glamhag
June 19 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A queer girl named Trinity huffs the contents of a magic aerosol can and develops the ability to talk to the dead.
Lunchbox - Introduced by Director Anne Hu
Firstness - Conversation with Director Brielle Brilliant
June 21 (7pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
Lunchbox: When a Taiwanese American woman prepares lunches from her childhood, she struggles to forgive herself for pushing away her immigrant mother.
Firstness: While a dad attempts to heal in an experimental therapy group, his non-binary kid gets closer with an older, recently incarcerated man. Their relationship feels both dreamy and concerning-depending on who's watching. A film that illuminates and complicates our "first" perceptions.
Tokyo Pop - Conversation with Fran Rubel Kuzui
June 22 (7pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend’s rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultural adventures and ends up singing with a Japanese rock group looking for a gaijin gimmick.
Loren & Rose - Q&A with Jacqueline Bisset
June 23 (12:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Rose is a legendary actress trying to revive her career. Loren is a promising filmmaker. Over the course of their many encounters, a deep friendship evolves as their love of art, understanding of grief, and faith in life's potential guide them through personal and creative transformations. Kelly Blatz and Jacqueline Bisset star with a chemistry that is at once authentic and intoxicating.
Loren & Rose - Q&A with Director Russell Brown and Actor Jacqueline Bisset
June 23 (4:30pm, 7:00pm), June 24 (1:45pm, 7:00pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Rose is a legendary actress trying to revive her career. Loren is a promising filmmaker. Over the course of their many encounters, a deep friendship evolves as their love of art, understanding of grief, and faith in life's potential guide them through personal and creative transformations. Kelly Blatz and Jacqueline Bisset star with a chemistry that is at once authentic and intoxicating.
Here. Is. Better. - Q&A with Director Jack Youngelson and Producers Sian Edwards-Beal & David Beal
June 23 (7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
This documentary follows four of veterans, each with diverse backgrounds and service experience, as they undergo the most clinically effective, evidence-based trauma psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Q&A with Director Nancy Buirski and Actor Brenda Vaccaro
June 23 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Nancy Buirski and Actor Jennifer Salt
June 24 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Nancy Buirski
June 25 (4:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.
Titane - Q&A with Director Julia Ducournau
June 24 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Ducournau's sophomore feature follows Alexia, a car-crazy showgirl with a titanium plate in her skull as a souvenir of a childhood auto accident, as she embarks on a serial killing spree, then takes refuge from the police by posing as the long-missing son of Vincent Lindon’s woebegone, steroid-swollen firefighter.
The Sleepy Time Gal - Q&A with Actor Jacqueline Bisset
June 24 (4:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Two women search for meaning in lost loves and missed chances. As one mother (Jacqueline Bisset) looks to her past, including a past love (Seymour Cassel), to gain strength to face the future, a daughter (Martha Plimpton) investigates the emotional wounds which have kept her from finding love.
Zola - Conversation with Editors Louise Ford & Joi McMillon
June 24 (4pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
In this stranger-than-fiction saga, Zola (Taylour Paige) is a Detroit waitress who strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough). In no time, Stefani seduces Zola into joining her for a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of "hoeism" rapidly transforms into a see-it-to-believe-it 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters, and other unexpected adventures.
Earth Mama - Q&A with Director Savanah Leaf and Actors Tia Nomore & Erika Alexander
June 27 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn)
In Savanah Leaf's devastating debut feature, the writer-director centers the experiences of Gia (Tia Nomore), a pregnant single mother whose two children have been placed in foster care. As Gia fights to reclaim her children, she learns to embrace and cement a place for herself within her Bay Area community. Leaf's delicate and deeply-felt drama, evocatively shot on 16mm by Jody Lee Lipes, heralds the arrival of a singular new storyteller in American film.
birth/rebirth - Conversation with Director Laura Moss
June 27 (7pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession: the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A. J. Lister). When Lila suddenly falls ill and dies, the two women’s worlds crash into each other as they embark on a dark path of no return and are forced to confront how far they are willing to go to protect what they hold most dear.
Beba - Conversation with Director Rebeca Huntt
June 28 (7pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she's inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths that connect us all as humans.
Dope, Hookers and Pavement - Q&A with Director Otto Buj
June 29 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Dope, Hookers and Pavement is a lively and unfiltered account of the early days of the Detroit hardcore punk scene, circa 1981-82, in the notorious Cass Corridor, arguably one of the worst neighborhoods in the city at the time.
Ways of Seeing: Film School Shorts - Conversation with Filmmakers
June 29 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Film School Shorts is a program of films from emerging filmmakers in the university space. It is a celebration of the upcoming generation of filmmakers in NYC, as they implore thoughts on the politics of film school as young femme students, auteurs, and creators.
Superior - Conversation with Director/Co-Writer Erin Vassilopoulos, Co-Writer/Actor Alessandra Mesa, Actor Ani Mesa
June 30 (7pm) - Part of The Future of Film Is Female, Part 4
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
Erin Vassilopolous's debut feature (cowritten by star Alessandra Mesa) follows Marian as she returns to her hometown to hide out with her estranged identical twin sister Vivian, a stay-at-home housewife struggling to conceive and on the verge of a failing marriage. Though they are "identical" (and played by real-life twins Alessandra and Ani Mesa), they live opposite lives. Marian's mysterious return disrupts Vivian's small-town routine, and the sisters must learn to reconnect and reconcile. When Marian's haunting past finally catches up to her, their separate worlds collide, catapulting both sisters into grave danger.
An American Werewolf in London - Appearance by Griffin Dunne
July 7 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Queens)
John Landis's film follows two American backpackers whose destinies are changed forever when they decide to stray from the roads while traveling across rural England. After being bitten by a strange furry animal, David Kessler (Naughton) wakes up in a London hospital and finds himself plagued by ominous dreams and foreboding ghosts telling him to beware the next full moon.
Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat
Q&A with Director Gary Matoso and Producer Peter Yoakum
July 7 (7pm) & July 8 (7pm)
Q&A with Directors Gary Matoso and Cameron Zohoori
July 9 (2pm & 5pm)
DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat takes viewers into the heart of the volunteer fire service, and by extension on a journey through the many facets of America. Locations like California's wine (and wildfire) country, a small Nebraska farming community, and an Orthodox Jewish enclave of New York set the backdrop for a series of stories about service, personal growth, and finding purpose. Together they convey the depth, diversity, and critical role volunteer fire departments play across the country.
Giving Birth to a Butterfly - Q&A with Director Ted Schaefer and Actor Annie Parisse
July 10 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
After having her identity stolen online, Diana Dent leaves her family and goes on a road trip with her son's pregnant girlfriend to track down the perpetrators. The mismatched travel companions form an unexpected bond as they concede to the hardships of their own lives, and their hunt for answers becomes a surreal journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
Cash Cow - Q&A with Director/EP Matt Barats and Editor/EP Whit Conway
July 14 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Matt Barats occupies himself with historical research, following the timeline and locations of Joseph Smith's life. But as financial troubles seem to weigh heavily on him (and his Domino's Pizza commercial has still not aired yet), a dramatic detour is taken in order to get his life (and the film) back on track.
And here's a Q&A with Director Colin West and Actor Jim Gaffigan. They spoke about their film Linoleum after a screening at Quad Cinema on February 26, 2023.