Here's a list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from June 23rd 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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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.
Sundance FF Short Film Tour - Q&A with Liz Sargent, Minos Papas, & Crystal Kayiza
June 23 (7:20pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is an 90-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, including two Festival Award-winning titles. Filmmaker Liz Sargent and Producer Minos Papas (TAKE ME HOME) and Crystal Kayiza (REST STOP) will be in person for Q&A.
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).
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent and Producer Heather Spore (both dates)
June 23 (9:15pm)
Special Guests: Lenny Kisco, Jeremiah Bornfield (composer), Sur Rodney Sur
June 24 (5:15pm)
Special Guests: Claudia Summers, Frank Holliday, Jim C.
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Make Me Famous is the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, fully allowing the creativity itself to take centerstage. Set during arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous tells the story of unknown painter, Edward Brezinski in his quest for fame. The film gives an intimate portrait of what it was like to be an artist in N.Y.C. in the 1980s. Additional screenings extended until July 2nd.
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.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent and Writer/Producer Heather Spore
June 24 (2:30pm), June 25 (4:50pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Make Me Famous is the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, fully allowing the creativity itself to take centerstage. Set during arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous tells the story of unknown painter, Edward Brezinski in his quest for fame. The film gives an intimate portrait of what it was like to be an artist in N.Y.C. in the 1980s.
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.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore, and Doc Subject Claudia Summers
June 26 (7:30pm), June 28 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Make Me Famous is the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, fully allowing the creativity itself to take centerstage. Set during arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous tells the story of unknown painter, Edward Brezinski in his quest for fame. The film gives an intimate portrait of what it was like to be an artist in N.Y.C. in the 1980s.
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.
Lakota Nation vs. the United States - Q&A with Directors Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli & Exec Prod Mark Ruffalo
June 27 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
It is the most sacred place on earth, the birthplace of the Lakota that has shaped thought, identity and philosophy for the Océti Šakówin since time immemorial–the life-giving land known as the Black Hills. Yet with the arrival of the first Europeans in 1492, the sacred land has been the site of conflict between the people it has nurtured and the settler state seeking to exploit and redefine it in its own image. This powerful new documentary is a searing testament to the strength of the Oyate and a visually stunning rejoinder to the distorted image of a people long-shaped by Hollywood.
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.
Every Body - Q&A with Filmmaker Julie Cohen
June 29 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 Houston Street, Manhattan)
EVERY BODY is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves.
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.
Umberto Eco - A Library of the World - Q&A with Filmmaker Davide Ferrario
June 30 (6:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The Italian journalist, critic, philosopher, professor of semiotics, medievalist, bibliophile, and best-selling novelist, Umberto Eco (1932-2016) takes us on a journey through his Milanese library of 50,000 volumes, and, more impressively, the library of his mind.
In the Company of Rose - Q&A with Director James Lapine
June 30 (7pm), July 1 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Rose Styron, the widow of the great American novelist William Styron, shares the fascinating story of her complex life as a poet, journalist, human rights activist, and life partner to William.
As Far As I Can Walk - Q&A with Director, Producer, Star, & Cinematographer
June 30 (7:20pm), July 1 (7:20pm), July 2 (3pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
As Far As I Can Walk follows a couple who left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe and now live as refugees in Belgrade. It is a re-imagining of a traditional medieval epic in which contemporary African migrants take the place of Serbian national heroes. Q&As with director Stefan Arsenijevic, star Ibrahim Koma, cinematographer Jelena Stankovic & producer Miroslav Mogorovic
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.
Amanda - Q&A with Director Carolina Cavalli
July 7 (7:30pm), July 8 (7:30pm), July 9 (3:05pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Born into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, 24-year-old combative Amanda (emerging talent Benedetta Porcaroli) searches for boyfriends but only finds misfits who are repelled by her intensity. She longs for connection but has never had a friend of her own... until she discovers a long lost childhood bond, spurring a mission to convince another recluse that they are still best friends.
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.
Afire - Q&A with Director Christian Petzold
July 12 (8pm), July 13 (8pm), July 14 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised by the presence of Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at Felix's family's holiday home. Nadja distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel and with brutal honesty, forces him to confront his caustic temperament and self-absorption. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest fire threatens the group and tensions escalate when a handsome lifeguard and Leon's tight-lipped book editor also arrive.
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.
Queens - Q&A with Director Yasmine Benkiran
July 14 (7pm) - Part of Contemporary Arab Cinema
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Three women—with the police on their tail—embark on a drawn-out escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Moroccan Atlas mountains until they reach the Atlantic coast.
Earth Mama - Q&A with Director Savanah Leaf
July 14 (8pm), July 15 (8pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Savanah Leaf's devastating debut feature, the writer-director centers the experiences of Gia, 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.
20 Days in Mariupol - Q&A with Filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov
July 14 (7:10pm), July 15 (7:10pm), July 16 (2:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
As Russian troops advance on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a small crew of Associated Press reporters are trapped amongst the besieged civilian population. 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL is the unflinching visual chronicle of this harrowing ordeal.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd - Q&A with Director Roddy Bogawa
July 14 (7:15pm), July 15 (7:15pm), July 16 (5:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.
Soula - Q&A with Director Issaad Salah
July 15 (6pm) - Part of Contemporary Arab Cinema
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Soula, a young single mother, is rejected by her family in the interest of preserving their honor, and while trying to survive, finds herself caught in a never-ending spiral of violence. Despite many dangerous encounters, Soula marches along the harrowing roads of Algeria toward her inevitable destiny, willing to do anything to save her daughter in this stunning journey of hardship, sacrifice, and perseverance.
The Five Demands - Q&A with Filmmakers Andrea Weiss, Greta Schiller & others
July 13 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)
The Five Demands is a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president.
Blue Sunshine - Q&A with Director Jeff Lieberman
July 19 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
It's the 1970s in Los Angeles and people are freaking out! One second, they're perfectly normal, everyday yuppies who hang out at parties, raise their kids, and toil away at work; but then, seemingly out of nowhere, their hair begins to fall out and they kill everyone in sight! The mayhem erupts all around the city, as one man tries to solve the mystery of the city wide killing spree. All signs point to a dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine that the murderer's all took in the hippie-dippy haze of the 1960s.
Splatter Farm - Q&A with Director Mark Polonia
July 20 (9:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A pair of twins are sent off to spend time at their aunt’s farm, but they have stepped into a nightmare as the farm's handyman turns out to be a sadistic serial killer who's been slaughtering locals and keeping a collection of body parts out in the barn.
And here's a Q&A with Director Jesse Eisenberg. He spoke about his film "When You Finish Saving The World" after a special member only screening at IFC Center on January 17, 2023.