Bobbito Garcia speaking after a "Rock Rubber 45s" screening at the <a href="http://www.greenroomnewyork.com/article.aspx?ID=3455">Brooklyn Historical Society on September 27, 2018</a>.
Bobbito Garcia speaking after a "Rock Rubber 45s" screening at the Brooklyn Historical Society on September 27, 2018.
Cinema Roundup For the Week of March 8

(released 3/7/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from March 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.



120 BPM - Q&A with Director Robin Campillo
Mar 8 (6:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.

Glitter & Doom - Q&A with Actor Lea DeLaria
Mar 8 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In a fantastical romance set to the hits of the Indigo Girls, two young aspiring performers fall in love at first sight.

Nofinofy - Q&A with Director Michael Andrianaly
Mar 8 (7:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
When his hairdressing salon is destroyed by the municipality, Romeo must leave the high street of Toamasina for a harder-to-find shack in a residential neighborhood. Loyal customers keep him going, but he still dreams of building a permanent salon.

A Stage of Twilight - Q&A with Actress Karen Allen
Mar 8 (6pm), Mar 9 (4:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Cora and Barry are enjoying life until Barry is diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Barry decides to retreat to the woods, where he can die alone, but his hope for a dignified death is a struggle for Cora.

High & Low - John Galliano - Q&A with Director Kevin Macdonald
Mar 8 (7:15pm), Mar 9 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Fashion designer John Galliano was widely recognized as one of the most influential names in 1990s and 2000s couture until his career abruptly ended in 2011. Candid footage—plus conversations with Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Anna Wintour and more—trace Galliano's turbulent career through the decades.

Frida - Q&A with Director Carla Gutiérrez
Mar 9 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of Frida Kahlo, Frida tells the artist’s story through her own words for the very first time, drawing from her famed illustrated diary, revealing letters, essays, and candid print interviews—and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.

Space: The Longest Goodbye - Q&A with Writer/Director Ido Mizrahy, Producer Valda Witt, Astronaut Cady Coleman
Mar 9 (4:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with ground in real time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey.

Commuted - Q&A with Director Nailah Jefferson, subject Danielle Metz
Mar 9 (6pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When Danielle Metz's triple life sentence was commuted, she got a rare chance to regain the life and family that she'd been dreaming about in prison. But back home in New Orleans, she steps into a different reality. Commuted traces Danielle's journey to find purpose and love, and to confront the wounds of incarceration that linger after release from prison.

Problemista - Q&A with Director/Writer Julio Torres
Mar 9 (7pm)
Angelika (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Torres stars as Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador who dreams of bringing his ideas to New York City- but as his work visa is running out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast might be his only hope to stay in the country.

Crossing Delancey - Q&A with Writer Susan Sandler and Actress Jenny Slate
Mar 10 (12:15pm SOLD OUT)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Thirty-something Isabelle 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.

Manhunt - Q&A with Actor Tobias Menzies
Mar 11 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Manhunt tells the story of the 12-day hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, led by Lincoln's War Secretary and friend Edwin Stanton.

The First Class - Q&A with Directors Lee Hirsch
Mar 12 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An intimate verité film that follows students and educators at a groundbreaking new high school in Memphis. Their inspiring journey shows what learning can look like-and accomplish-when a city comes together to rethink what high school can be.

Love Is The Message - Q&A with Director Nicky Siano
Mar 12 (7:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
In 1972, The Gallery opened and for 6 years it ruled as New York City's hottest dance club. Now, for the first time in film history, you will go inside one of the hottest clubs ever, actually filmed at the club during its heyday.

Sujo - Q&A with Director Fernanda Valadez
Mar 13 (6:45pm) Part of First Look 2024
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After his father is murdered by fellow cartel henchmen, four-year-old Sujo is snuck out of town by women who then raise him as their own. As Sujo grows into a young man, he and his friends follow temptation and the lure of easy money back into town, where further tragedy awaits.

Blackout - Q&A with Director Larry Fessenden, Actors Alex Hunt & Motell Gyn Foster
Mar 13 (7:30pm), Mar 14 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Charley's secret is he thinks he's a werewolf. He can’t remember the things he's done but the papers report random acts of violence taking place at night in this small upstate hamlet. Now the whole town must rally to find out what is tearing it apart: mistrust, fear, or a monster that comes out at night.

Hotel - Q&A with Director Jessica Hausner
Mar 14 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
When Irene gets a job as a hotel maid she soon finds out that the previous girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

The Echo (El Eco) - Q&A with Director Tatiana Huezo
Mar 14 (8:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.

Late Night with the Devil - Q&A with Actors David Dastmalchian & Laura Gordon
Mar 14 (9:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
31 October, 1977. Johnny Carson rival, Jack Delroy, is the host of 'Night Owls', a once hugely popular syndicated talk show. A year on from the tragic death of Jack’s wife, ratings have plummeted and sponsors are getting nervous. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, Jack pulls out all the stops for his annual Halloween special, booking a psychic, a professional skeptic, a parapsychologist and a young girl allegedly possessed by the devil... What could possibly go wrong?

Club Zero - Q&A with Director Jessica Hausner
Mar 15 (7pm), Mar 16 (7pm), Mar 17 (4:25pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.

Much Ado About Dying - Q&A with Director Simon Chambers
Mar 16 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Looking after his madcap gay actor uncle, filmmaker Simon is engulfed in a whirl of Shakespeare and clutter, as uncle David lends his credit card to neighbours, greets visitors in the nude and teaches Simon a profound lesson on dying happy.

The Featherweight - Q&A with Director Robert Kolodny
Mar 16 (8pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

Gasoline Rainbow - Q&A with Directors Bill Ross & Turner Ross
Mar 17 (7:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
On the precipice of early adulthood, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast.

The Lost Record - Q&A with Director Ian Svenonius
Mar 17 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A sci-fi, rock 'n' roll, essay, fantasy film about art, music, fetish, creation, love, and records. Based on the LP "The Lost Record" by Escape-ism.

Teeth - Q&A with Writer/Director Mitchell Lichtenstein
Mar 18 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.

Riddle of Fire - Q&A with Director Weston Razooli
Mar 20 (6pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard, and "liberating" the very latest video game console for themselves in the process. But when they get home to play, they encounter one big problem: Mom's set an airtight password on the TV. Thus begins an epic quest to discover the password, with the kids finding themselves on an odyssey more exciting than anything they could have found onscreen.

Spaces of Exception - Q&A with Director Matt Peterson
Mar 20 (7pm)
Maysles Cinema (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)
SPACES OF EXCEPTION investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. The film was shot from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well as in Lebanon and the West Bank.

Immaculate (Advance screening clips) - Q&A with Actor Sydney Sweeney
Mar 20 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.

The Beast - Q&A with Actor George Mackay
Mar 21 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In a near future where artificial intelligence reigns supreme, human emotions have become a threat. To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis, her great love. But she's overcome by fear, a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.

Immaculate
Q&A with Actress Sydney Sweeney
Mar 21 (7:30pm SOLD OUT)
Q&A with Director Michael Mohan
Mar 23 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.

A Perfect Day for Caribou - Q&A with Director Jeff Rutherford
Mar 22 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.

Limbo - Q&A with Actor Simon Baker
Mar 24 (3:10pm), Mar 26 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.

Stripped For Parts: American Journalism on the Brink - Q&A with Director Rick Goldsmith
Mar 26 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why-- until investigative reporter Julie Reynolds begins to dig into some suspicious facts. Her ongoing investigation triggers rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their "vulture capitalist" owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America.

Elegy in the Streets - Q&A with Director Jim Hubbard
Mar 27 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and a political perspective, the film intertwines two main motifs: memories of Roger Jacoby, a filmmaker who died of AIDS, and the development of a mass response to AIDS.

Earth Mama - Q&A with Director Savanah Leaf and Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes
Mar 29 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.

A Perfect Day for Caribou - Q&A with Director Jeff Rutherford, moderated by Actor Jefferson White
Mar 29 (7:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.

Clifford - Q&A with Director Paul Flaherty, Actors Martin Short & Richard Kind, Co-Writer Steven Kampmann
Mar 30 (6pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A bratty 10-year-old boy is obsessed with visiting a dinosaur-themed amusement park. His uptight uncle takes the wily tyke in for a week, and barely lives to regret it.

Lyle - Q&A with Director Stewart Thorndike
Mar 30 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
After moving into a new apartment building in Brooklyn with her partner, a new mother's grief over her toddler's death turns into paranoia when she begins to suspect her neighbors are part of a satanic cult.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - Q&A with Director Ana Lily Amirpour
Mar 31 (5pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Honeymoon - Q&A with Director Leigh Janiak
Apr 1 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.

Kim's Video - Q&A with subject Mr. Kim
Apr 5 (7pm), Apr 6 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Physical media reigns supreme in Kim's Video, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for "safekeeping." But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.

Fresh Kill - Q&A with Director Shu Lea Cheang
Apr 9 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A lesbian couple living on Staten Island find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.


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