Ari Aster, Jeff Goldblum, Rick Alverson - The Mountain screening at IFC - July 26, 2019
Ari Aster, Jeff Goldblum, Rick Alverson - The Mountain screening at IFC - July 26, 2019
Cinema Roundup For the Week of March 29

(released 3/28/2024)


Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from March 21st 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.



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.

With Love and a Major Organ - Q&A with Director Kim Albright, Writer Julia Lederer, Actress Anna Maguire
Mar 29 (9:15pm), Mar 30 (5:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it.

Libertate - Q&A with Producer Oana Giurgiu
Mar 30 (3pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
During Romania's 1989 revolution, Sibiu witnesses a violent attack on a police station that spirals into armed clashes between soldiers, police, protesters and secret police.

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.

Occasional Spies - Q&A with Director Oana Giurgiu
Mar 30 (7:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Facing a shortage of skilled agents for a daring rescue mission in occupied Eastern Europe, the Allies turned to a resourceful group of Jewish immigrants who had fled Nazi persecution and arrived in Palestine. These individuals, fluent in the local languages and familiar with the customs, were ideally suited for the task. Trained in Egypt by MI9, they infiltrated Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Romania to locate Allied prisoners of war and support resistance movements.

Lousy Carter - Q&A with Actor David Krumholtz
Mar 30 (7:45pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.

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.

Música - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Rudy Mancuso and Actress Camila Mendes
Apr 2 (6pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A coming-of-age love story that follows an aspiring creator with synesthesia, who must come to terms with an uncertain future, while navigating the pressures of love, family, and his Brazilian culture in Newark, New Jersey.

Thank You Very Much - Q&A with Director Alex Braverman
Apr 2 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Documentary about performance artist and "song and dance man" Andy Kaufman

The Beast - Q&A with Director Bertrand Bonello
Apr 4 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The plot is set partly in a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.

Bad Faith - Q&A with Director Stephen Ujlaki and subject Anne Nelson
Apr 5 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
The forces tearing apart our democracy have never been more frightening or powerful, but who is actually behind them? Bad Faith reveals how Christian Nationalist leaders have spread fear and anger for decades, distorting political issues into battles between good and evil, as they seek to upend the Constitution and impose their version of Biblical law on all Americans.

Big Shark - Q&A with Writer/Director Tommy Wiseau
Apr 5 (10pm), Apr 6 (10pm)
Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Three firefighters: Georgie, Patrick, and Tim must save New Orleans from a gigantic shark, can New Orleans survive?

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.

The People's Joker - Q&A with Actor/Director Vera Drew
Apr 5 (7:25pm SOLD OUT), Apr 6 (7:25pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.

Raising Arizona - Q&A with Editor Michael R. Miller
Apr 6 (6:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent & Producer Heather Spore
Apr 7 (5:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d'Azur.

I Like Movies - Q&A with Director Chandler Levack, moderated by Emma Seligman
Apr 8 (7:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williasburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

I Like Movies - Q&A with Director Chandler Levack
Apr 9 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

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.

Omen - Q&A with Director Baloji
Apr 10 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.

Sasquatch Sunset - Q&A with Actor Jesse Eisenberg
Apr 12 (6:30pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable.

Sweet Dreams - Q&A with Director Ena Sendijarevic
Apr 12 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.

Resistance: They Fought Back - Q&A with Director Paula S. Apsell
Apr 12 (7pm), Apr 13 (7pm), Apr 14 (4pm), Apr 15 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Resistance: They Fought Back tells the largely unknown and incredibly courageous story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

Wild At Heart - Intro and Q&A with Cinematographer Frederick Elmes
Apr 13 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Sasquatch Sunset - Q&A with Actor Jesse Eisenberg
Apr 13 (6pm, 7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable.

All You Need Is Death - Q&A with Director Paul Duane
Apr 13 (7pm), Apr 14 (6pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.

The Namesake - Q&A with Director Mira Nair and Cinematographer Frederick Elmes
Apr 14 (3:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

Fargo - Q&A with Composer Carter Burwell
Apr 14 (5pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Stress Positions - Q&A with Director Theda Hammel and Actor John Early
Apr 14 (6:45pm), Apr 15 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Terry, in strict quarantine in his ex-husband's Brooklyn home, cares for his injured nephew, a 19-year-old Moroccan model named Bahlul, drawing attention from everyone in his life.

Finding The Money - Q&A with Director Maren Poitras
Apr 16 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt, and the nature of money, upside down.

I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story - Q&A with Director Ryan Jacobi, Producer Annamaria Sofillas, & Cast Connor Ratliff, Griffin Newman, Patrick Cotnoir
Apr 16 (7:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Five years into performing as renowned filmmaker George Lucas in the cult comedy show "The George Lucas Talk Show", comedian Connor Ratliff questions the need for its continuation and his own drive for fulfillment in show business.

Mourning in Lod - Q&A with Director Hilla Medalia
Apr 19 (7:15pm), Apr 20 (5pm, 7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
The fates of three families become inextricably intertwined when a Palestinian citizen is killed by a Jewish settler in the city of Lod, Israel, and deadly riots break out.

Uncropped - Q&A with Directors D.W. Young & James Hamilton
Apr 20 (5:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
UNCROPPED rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America, who made iconic images of artists, musicians and cultural icons in New York and across the country during his extraordinary, capturing an era of vibrant alternative media and the height of New York’s cultural impact.

Moviepass, Moviecrash - Q&A with Director Muta'Ali Muhammad
Apr 23 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH chronicles the origin story, meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the theatrical movie subscription app, MoviePass, as told through the eyes of the visionary co-founders.

The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed - Q&A with Actor/Writer/Director Joanna Arnow
Apr 23 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

From Beyond - Q&A with Screenwriter Dennis Paoli
Apr 23 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

Terrestrial Verses - Q&A with Director Alireza Khatami
Apr 26 (7:50pm), Apr 27 (7:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver’s license; an elderly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved dog.



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