Michael Moore with Director Avgeny Afineevsky - Screening of Francesco - Lincoln Center - November 15, 2021
Michael Moore with Director Avgeny Afineevsky - Screening of Francesco - Lincoln Center - November 15, 2021
Cinema Roundup for the Week of February 8

(released 2/8/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from February 8th 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 - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

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El Conde - Q&A with Cinematographer Ed Lachman
Feb 8 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.

Eat Bitter - Q&A with Writer/Producer Ningyi Sun
Feb 8 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
In one of the poorest nations on earth, the Central African Republic, native sand diver Thomas Boa and construction manager Jianmin Luan, a Chinese national, accept that struggle and risk are the price of tomorrow's rest and reward: both are prepared to "Eat Bitter." The eye-opening documentary raises the age-old question of what we are prepared to sacrifice for a better tomorrow, without a promise that it will ever arrive.

The Taste of Things - Q&A with Director Trân Anh Hùng
Feb 8 (7:30pm), Feb 9 (6:45pm), Feb 10 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In late-19th century France, renowned gourmet Dodin Bouffant draws guests from far and wide for sumptuous meals prepared by his personal chef Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. From acclaimed director Tran Anh Hung comes a beautiful and touching love story that also serves up a glorious tribute to classic French cuisine.

The Taste of Things - Q&A with Director Trân Anh Hùng
Feb 8 (6:30pm), Feb 9 (6pm), Feb 10 (3pm)
Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In late-19th century France, renowned gourmet Dodin Bouffant draws guests from far and wide for sumptuous meals prepared by his personal chef Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. From acclaimed director Tran Anh Hung comes a beautiful and touching love story that also serves up a glorious tribute to classic French cuisine.

To Kill a Tiger - Q&A with Director Nisha Pahuja
Feb 9 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being abducted into the woods, she was sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit's relief is short-lived, as the villagers and their leaders launch a sustained campaign to force the family to drop the charges.

Rewind & Play - Q&A with Director Alain Gomis
Feb 9 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the show, he was invited to appear on a French television program to perform and answer questions in an intimate setting. Using newly discovered footage from this recording, director Gomis reveals the disconnect between Monk and his interviewer, Henri Renaud, whose unwittingly trivializing approach conveys the casual racism and exploitation prevalent in the music industry at large.

Kumina Queen - Q&A with Director Nyasha Laing
Feb 9 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Imogene "Queenie" Kennedy was a priestess in post-colonial Jamaica who catapulted her African spiritual practice into renown. But after centuries of erasure, what remains of the dance between the living and the dead? In the wake of the loss of her mother, documentary filmmaker Nyasha Laing travels into the heart of Jamaican countryside to research the ancestral ritual of Kumina.

Molli and Max in the Future - Q&A with Director Michael Litwak
Feb 9 (7pm), Feb 10 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A sci-fi rom-com about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions and 1 space-cult. Molli and Max in the Future takes the character-driven romance of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and combines it with an eclectic sci-fi universe like FUTURAMA. Classic practical effects combined with cutting edge technology create Molli and Max's unique universe.

Félicité - Q&A with Director Alain Gomis
Feb 10 (2pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Félicité, free and proud, is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when her 14-year-old son is the victim of a motorcycle accident. To save him, she begins a frantic race through the streets of an electric Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams.

Tey (Today) - Q&A with Director Alain Gomis
Feb 10 (5:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

Doubles - Q&A with Director Ian Harnarine
Feb 10 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A young Trinidadian street vendor must travel to Toronto and decide if he will help save his estranged father from dying in this family drama.

The All Golden - Q&A with Director Nate Wilson
Feb 12 (7:30pm)
Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)
THE ALL GOLDEN is a thriller about an injured bicycle courier who discovers a scandalous secret in her boyfriend's apartment, BUT WAIT... it's also non-linear experiment about identity and sexuality, BUT WAIT... it's also a treatise on the trials and tribulations of no-budget filmmaking, a movie that splinters and becomes the subject of itself, BUT WAIT... it's also VERY funny!

History of Evil - Q&A with Actor Paul Wesley
Feb 12 (7pm - SOLD OUT)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
War and corruption plague America and turn it into a police state. A resistance member, Alegre Dyer, breaks out of political prison and reunites with her husband and daughter. The family on the run takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past.

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love - Q&A with Director Maria Maggenti
Feb 13 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.

Glory - Intro by Director Ed Zwick
Feb 13 (7:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Four Daughters - Q&A with Director Kaouther Ben Hania
Feb 15 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The story of Olfa Hamrouni, a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalized by Islamic extremists.

To Kill a Tiger - Q&A with Director Nisha Pahuja
Feb 15 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being abducted into the woods, she was sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit's relief is short-lived, as the villagers and their leaders launch a sustained campaign to force the family to drop the charges.

Players - Q&A with Actors Liza Koshy and Augustus Prew
Feb 15 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Players tells the story of New York sportswriter Mack — who has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends. When she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing for keeps.

Things - Q&A with Producer David Sterling
Feb 15 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
In this monster anthology, a man's mistress is trapped by his gun-wielding wife, who subjects her to two tales as a twisted form of revenge. In the first, a would-be brothel owner and crew face off against a puritanical mayor with a mysterious box housing an ancient creature he uses as punishment. In the second, a woman's nightmares about her abusive husband slowly come to life as she tries to escape the real monster growing inside him.

Bleeding Love - Q&A with Actors Ewan McGregor & Clara McGregor
Feb 16 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A father takes his estranged daughter on a road trip in an effort to get her out of trouble. Along the way, they meet all types of strangers, as their strained relationship is put to the test.

The Arc of Oblivion - Q&A with Director Ian Cheney
Feb 16 (7pm), Feb 17 (7pm)
Firehouse DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield – to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara – to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

Onlookers - Q&A with Director Kimi Takesue
Feb 16 (8:30pm), Feb 17 (6pm), Feb 18 (7:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Takesue turns her camera on tourists and travellers in Laos, observing how they react and respond to the local populations while also providing the opportunity for viewers to reflect on our own roles as observers in everyday life.

La Collectionneuse (The Collector) - Q&A with Editor Jackie Raynal
Feb 17 (1pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.

Life on the Caps - Intro and Q&A with Director Meriem Bennani
Feb 17 (8:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A rich, disorienting vision of a dystopian future on CAPS, a fictional migrant enclave located somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Making Mr. Right - Q&A with Director Susan Seidelman
Feb 18 (2:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Workaholic scientist Jeff Peters invents a human-like android named Ulysses, a near-perfect replica of himself with the ability to learn how to mimic and reciprocate human emotion. Unfortunately, the misanthropic Peters doesn't care for other people himself, so he brings in sassy public relations expert Frankie Stone to teach Ulysses how to schmooze so that Congress will fund his research. Unexpectedly, Frankie and Ulysses find themselves falling in love.

New York Story & Hotel New York - Q&A with Director Jackie Raynal
Feb 18 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
New York Story - In this autobiographical short film, Loulou looks for editing work in New York before marrying a journalist, Sid. But, quickly growing bored, she tells her husband about her desire to have an affair with somebody else.
Hotel New York - An expanded version of the short, New York Story, in which we first see the arrival of the Loulou character in the big city, sharing a Soho apartment with three roommates, getting work as a film editor, and showing her previous movie Deux Fois at the Museum of Modern Art.

20 Days in Mariupol - Q&A with Director Mstyslav Chernov
Feb 20 (5:15pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

Lovely, Dark, and Deep - Q&A with Director Teresa Sutherland
Feb 20 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse - Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Lennon, a ranger with an aching desire to rid herself of the past, investigates a mystery in the dangerous woods with a long history of disappearances. As she descends further and further into the sinister forest, the more mysteries arise, the more lines between reality and nightmares blur, and the tress once again become a space where no one can hear scream.

The Sweet East - Q&A with Writer Nick Pinkerton
Feb 21 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.

Concrete Valley - Intro and Q&A with Director Antoine Bourges
Feb 23 (6:15pm), Feb 24 (4:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Rashid, a doctor from Syria, struggles to adjust to his life in Canada after five years in Toronto's Thorncliffe Park with his wife Farah and son Ammar.

The Urania Trilogy - Q&A with Tav Falco
Feb 24 (7pm)
Anthology Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows a disenchanted American girl, Gina Lee, who impulsively travels to Vienna, the imperial city on the Danube. Quickly slipping into discreet yet decadent dalliances at Cafe Central and at the notorious Hotel Orient, she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder.

La Bête (The Beast) - Q&A with Actress Léa Seydoux
Feb 27 (6:30pm)
Film at Licoln Center - Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Tells the story of a young woman who undergoes a surgical process to have her DNA—and therefore memories of all her past lives—removed. In so doing, she realizes her fate has long been intertwined, for better and worse, with a young man.

Sorry/Not Sorry - Q&A with Directors Caroline Suh & Cara Mones
Feb 27 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
More than six years after the 2017 reckoning of sex and power dynamics in the entertainment industry, filmmakers Caroline Suh and Cara Mones raise provocative questions about the impact of the movement and the public's role in determining cultural "cancellation".

Hundreds of Beavers - Q&A with Director Mike Cheslik & Actor Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
Feb 28 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between Jean Kayak and diabolical beavers–hundreds of them–who stand between him and survival.  In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become the greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.



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