Here's a list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from August 11th and beyond. These are the screenings that have actors, directors or producers at them to answer questions from critics and audience members.  With the SAG-AFTRA strike going on, there may be a lesser amount of actors at upcoming screenings. Nevertheless, here's the updated list with mostly directors. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

August 11 (6:20pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

During the early 1960s, high school teen Odette Sinclair is transferred, to her great dismay, from a coed institution to an all-girls New England boarding school. After learning that plans are in the works to merge Miss Godard's School for Girls with a nearby boys institution, she and her sorority sister, Verena von Stefan, go on strike against the school. Throughout, the pair are pitted against meddling school monitor Abigail Sawyer.

August 11 (7pm), August 12 (7pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In their youth, Augusto and Paulina had vibrant cultural vocations – he as a television social commentator and reporter who called for his nation to never forget its traumatic political legacy, she as an acclaimed actress and later Minister of Culture for Chile. Now in their autumn years, they contend with Augusto's Alzheimer's diagnosis and Paulina's fears of impending loss.

August 11, 12, 13 (7pm shows)

Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)

Two brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of stolen opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash in big in the land of gold. A split-second act of violence derails their trip and sets them on a crash course for tragedy. 

August 11 (7pm)

August 12 (6pm)

August 13 (6pm)

DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, the myths it has created. While deeply situated in Central Appalachia, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected through an immersive mosaic of belonging, ritual, and imagination. Emerging from the long shadows of the coal mines, King Coal untangles the pain from the beauty, and illuminates the innately human capacity for change.

August 13 (1pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

In 1915, Aurora Mardiganian, at only 14 years old, lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Blending vivid animation that captures the arc of her story, archival photos, interviews with Aurora as an elderly woman (she died at age 93), and footage from the silent film, Aurora's Sunrise captures the fascinating story of an immigrant, author, actress, and advocate for survivors of the Armenian genocide.

August 14 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Out of Time: The Material Issue Story examines the tragic story of a rock band on the cusp of superstardom cut short by front man Jim Ellison's suicide. The film tells the story of Material Issue, a power pop trio from Chicago that was literally out of time, sandwiched between the post-punk era of the 80’s and the alternative rock movement of the 90's searching for its identity in the gritty world of rock and roll.

August 15 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie and mysterious grifter Fran, whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel's seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.

August 16 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A love letter to the narrative, experimental, and documentary works of Black filmmakers, this program of shorts highlights the visual aesthetics of Black non-binary and women filmmakers of the 21st century. Influenced by artists such as Sara Gómez, Julie Dash, and Barbara McCullough—as well as alternative formats like The Arsenio Hall Show—these films are an expressive ode to the revolutionary visual aesthetics, craft, and practice of Black filmmaking.

August 17 (8:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Two suburban couples experiment with sex, drugs and bohemia in early 1970's Los Angeles.

August 18 (6:50pm), August 19 (6:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life.

August 18 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

The Adults follows Eric as he returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts. While Maggie attempts to recreate the intimate world the three of them once shared, Eric and Rachel (Hannah Gross) are faced with the divide between their childhood selves and the adults they are now.

August 19 (7:30pm)

Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)

In December 2019, 5 best friends went together to see CATS at the movies in Seattle, WA. They were astounded by the bewildering film they had encountered. Keep in mind, several of these friends had starred in a small town theater production of Cats (and this theater was run by a cult) when they were growing up. When the quarantine of 2020 hit these friends vowed to put their creative minds together to create CATS 2. The film is an experimental romp through the world of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS. Through the mystery of light and form, CATS 2 chronicles the metaphysical transformation of Macavity, as told by former community theater child stars. CATS 2 is simultaneously a meta-commentary on the truths of fear and desire and a vessel of pure love carefully crafted to be the singular representation of our collective soul. It also has puppets and stuff.

August 20 (5pm)

Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)

Shot in color on 35mm around Jersey City, BATANG WEST SIDE is a noirish police procedural that examines Filipino American immigrant communities and the myriad social and psychological problems they face.

August 22 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie and mysterious grifter Fran, whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel's seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.

August 22 (7:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Kallia and Ram have just begun their first vacation as a couple, and they’re already bickering. Though a mysterious new illness is on the brink of exploding into a pandemic, and despite Ram’s protestations, Kallia insists that they are going to have a fun week in New York City. Within hours of their arrival, a nation-wide lockdown is announced, ruining their plans. Over the course of their stay, they descend into a toxic pattern of jealousy and codependency. Is their childish behavior simply the result of cabin fever, or is it something more?

August 24 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Set against the iconic Coney Island boardwalk, Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in constant re-formation. This 1980 documentary offers a vérité portrait of the immigrant communities that changed the Brooklyn neighborhood—mostly Soviet Jews and Puerto Ricans—as they mingle on the boardwalk with long-time residents, eye one another, and coexist around a shared sense of uprootedness. From directors Susan Wittenberg and Carol Stein, Brighton Beach is an unposed, seductively shot, color film about life’s simple pleasures and the creating of a community. The new 4K restoration is courtesy of IndieCollect.

August 25 (6pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A small-time Jewish racketeer, just out of prison, finds himself in a quandary. Returning to his old neighborhood, he finds that the streets that he and his friends once controlled have now been taken over by blacks and Hispanics. On top of that, he must try to get back with his family, who want nothing to do with him.

August 25 (7:30pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

New Plaza Cinema celebrates our community of filmmakers. Six times a year, we screen ten short films to highlight the work of our community of artists. We hope that you will join us in celebrating their work.

August 25 (7:20pm)

August 26 (7:20pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In the 1990s, cheap rent and big houses in Athens, GA helped incubate bands Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, and many more. This psychedelic rock music, often created by non-musicians and recorded on creaky 4-tracks, developed a loyal following who shared cassettes and 45s and packed into raucous live shows. Featuring pioneers Robert Schneider and Jeff Mangum, performances, and video clips, this brisk-paced rock doc charts the genesis of that uber-creative, DIY music scene and captures its electricity and joy.

August 26 (7:30pm)

August 27 (7pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

The psychedelic carpets lining our hotel hallways, casinos, and convention centers can be traced to one town: Dalton, Georgia, the "Carpet Capital of the World." In this bastion of American manufacturing, we find an interwoven set of locals who are the unsung creators and developers behind the majority of the country's carpets, always looking at the ground for their next big break.

August 31 (6pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.

September 5 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

This documentary film follows a heroin-addicted professional escort as she moves between New York City, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. Combining frank images of the actual labor of sex work with intimate portraits of her interpersonal life, the film is an alternately humorous and harrowing look at a seldom depicted side of American life as well as a meditation on the performativity at the core of documentary filmmaking and the sex industry alike.

September 9 (6pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, the myths it has created. While deeply situated in Central Appalachia, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected through an immersive mosaic of belonging, ritual, and imagination. Emerging from the long shadows of the coal mines, King Coal untangles the pain from the beauty, and illuminates the innately human capacity for change.

September 15 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse - Staten Island (2636 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island)

September 17 (11:45am and 3pm)

Alamo Drafthouse - Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

Come with me, and you'll be in a wooorld of pure imagination... and you'll also be in a theater with two of the original kids from WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! We'll have a full Q&A after the screening, so you can ask Paris Themmen (Mike TeeVee) what it was like to be so tiny and ask Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) what happened after she got dumped down the Bad Egg chute.

September 17 (12:15pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

Thirty-something Isabelle "Izzy" Grossman spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. In between, Izzy builds a glowing reputation at the swank bookstore where she works. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Izzy is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.

Here's some pics and a video from the Q&A following a screening of Shiva Baby on August 10th at Quad Cinema. Participating in the Q&A were Writer/Director Emma Seligman and Producers Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altmann, and Katie Schiller.