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Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from November 30th and beyond. These are the screenings that have actors, directors or producers at them to answer questions from critics and audience members. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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May December - Q&A with Actors Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton
Nov 30 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
After their relationship ignited a tabloid saga two decades ago, Gracie and Joe now lead a seemingly perfect suburban life. Their domestic bliss is disrupted when Elizabeth, a famous television actress, arrives in their tight-knit community to research her upcoming role as Gracie. As Elizabeth ingratiates herself into the everyday lives of Gracie and Joe, the uncomfortable facts of their scandal unfurl, causing long-dormant emotions to resurface.
Apolonia, Apolonia - Q&A with Director Lea Glob
Nov 30 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The talented Apolonia grows up seeking her place in the art world while grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood and relationships in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war.
Early Works by Todd Haynes (in person)
December 1 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The Museum's complete Todd Haynes retrospective kicks off with a special evening featuring a selection of his rarely screened early works. These include Haynes's first student short, 1978's The Suicide (digital projection), a horror-tinged film about a disaffected, bullied teenager shot on Super 8 and 16mm, and Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (DCP), his 1985 16mm thesis project from Brown University, in which he wrestles with the myth and legacy of poet Arthur Rimbaud and his destructive romance with Paul Verlaine.
Archangel - Q&A with Director Guy Maddin
Dec 1 (7pm), Dec 2 (1:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
Bad Press - Q&A with Directors Becca Landsberry-Baker & Joe Peeler
Dec 1 (6pm), Dec 2 (8:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.
Multiple screenings with Actor Matthew Modine
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
May December - with Director Todd Haynes in-person
Dec 2 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Maria Schneider, 1983 & Shulie - Q&A with Director Elisabeth Subrin
Dec 2 (6pm), Dec 3 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In 1983, Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
Shulie: A shot-by-shot reenactment of an unreleased 1967 documentary portrait of SAIC student Shulamith Firestone, who, a few years later, would become a central figure in the rise of radical feminism.
A Town Called Victoria - Q&A with Director Li Lu
Dec 3 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X. Boulevard, Manhattan)
Episode 1 of a three-part PBS docu-series about the south Texas town of Victoria, thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque erupts in flames in an apparent hate crime. After the media moves on, the community is left to reflect on its complex history with racism.
Mayor - Q&A with Director David Osit
Dec 3 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A look at the life of Musa Hadid, the charismatic mayor of Palestinian city Ramallah, who aspires to lead the city into the future.
Scarecrow - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Dec 4 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 Houston Street, Manhattan)
An ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.
Raging Grace - Q&A with Director Paris Zarcilla
Dec 4 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Joy is an undocumented Filipino immigrant struggling to do the best she can to support her daughter, Grace. Soon she secures the perfect job: taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new position pays well and guarantees a roof over their heads, but very soon, Joy and Grace start to realize everything is not as it seems. Something is festering beneath the surface, threatening all they have worked for.
The Sacrifice Game - Q&A with Director/Writer Jenn Wexler, Writer Sean Redlitz, Producer Heather Buckley, Actor Chloe Levine
Dec 5 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The Blackvale School for Girls, 1971. It's bad enough that students Samantha and Clara can't go home for the holidays, but things take a deadly turn when a gang of cult killers arrives at their doorstep—just in time for Christmas.
TMNT: Mutant Mayhem - With Director Jeff Rowe in-person
Dec 6 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers through heroic acts. But family bonds are tested when the teens get in over their heads while taking on a mysterious crime syndicate.
The Sacrifice Game - Q&A with Director/Writer Jenn Wexler, Writer Sean Redlitz, Producer Heather Buckley
Dec 6 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
The Blackvale School for Girls, 1971. It's bad enough that students Samantha and Clara can't go home for the holidays, but things take a deadly turn when a gang of cult killers arrives at their doorstep—just in time for Christmas.
Asteroid City - Q&A with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen
Dec 7 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
Days of Heaven - Q&A with Actor Brooke Adams
Dec 8 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
The Painted Veil - Q&A with Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh
Dec 8 (8pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
A Still Small Voice - Director Luke Lorentzen in-person
Dec 8 (7:00pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Lorentzen spends a year inside New York's Mount Sinai hospital following Mati, a chaplain-in-training who's completing a residency providing spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Through Mati's experiences with her patients, her struggle with professional burnout, and her own spiritual questioning, the film explores the meaningfulness of connection and the pain of its absence.
Anselm - Q&A with Director Wim Wenders
Dec 8 (7:30pm), Dec 9 (5:10pm), Dec 10 (2:50pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
Friends and Strangers - Q&A with Director James Vaughn
Dec 10 (4:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Follows two upper-middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration displacement and ennui in contemporary Australia.
Paris Was a Woman - Q&A with Director Greta Schiller, Writer Andrea Weiss
Dec 10 (4:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Female artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers are settled in Paris between the wars.
Metropolitan - Q&A with Director Whit Stillman
Dec 11 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.