Not many places around the entire world have filmmakers (directors, producers, actors and more) available in its backyard or that will travel to it quite like New York City. With more independent cinemas than anywhere else on top of that, NYC has the best moviegoing experiences in the world. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from May 22nd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Radio Days - Intro with Actor Wallace Shawn & John Early
May 22 (1:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
The Wife - Q&A with Writer/Actor Wallace Shawn, Actress Julie Hagerty
May 22 (3:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Psychotherapist couple Jack and Rita run a therapy group. Patient Cosmo and his wife Arlie visit late one night. Arlie feels excluded by Cosmo's closeness with the therapists. The awkward evening reveals tensions between both couples.
A Master Builder - Intro with Writer/Actor Wallace Shawn, Actress Julie Hagerty
May 22 (6:25pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Forge - Q&A with Director Jing Ai Ng, Actors Andie Ju, Brandon Soo Hoo & TR Knight
May 22 (6:30pm, 7pm), May 23 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang run a forgery ring. Coerced by a disgraced millionaire, they create counterfeit masterpieces for his family's collection. FBI agent Emily Lee investigates a new string of art forgeries.
Matador Bolero - Q&A with Director Jonathan Rosado
May 22 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas)
A New York nightclub becomes the site of a high-profile murder that attracts the attention of an obsessive detective, a TV news reporter, and an elusive being living outside the realms of time and space.
Forge - Q&A with Jing Ai Ng, Actors Andie Ju, Brandon Soo Hoo, & TR Knight
May 22 (7pm), May 23 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang run a forgery ring. Coerced by a disgraced millionaire, they create counterfeit masterpieces for his family's collection. FBI agent Emily Lee investigates a new string of art forgeries.
ASCO: Without Permission - Q&A with Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger
May 22 (7:30pm), May 23 (7:30pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows ASCO, the Los Angeles based avant-garde art group during the 1970s and '80s.
Ask E. Jean - Q&A with Director Ivy Meeropol
May 22 (7pm), May 23 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
E. Jean Carroll won two lawsuits against Donald Trump for defamation and battery. Beyond that, she built a career as a successful magazine writer and authored one of America's longest-running advice columns.
Manas - Q&A with Director Marianna Brennand
May 22 (7:40pm), May 23 (7:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Aware that the future does not hold many options for her in a riverside community on Marajó Island, a 13-year-old girl decides to confront the violent machinery that governs her family and the women in her community.
Everybody To Kenmure Street - Q&A with Director Felipe Bustos Sierra
May 22 (7pm), May 23 (7pm), May 24 (3pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Glasgow residents abandon their daily routines to gather on Kenmure Street after learning authorities plan to deport their neighbors, sparking an impromptu grassroots movement.
Visio Cordis - Q&A with Director Sophie Hamacher
May 23 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Visio Cordis takes medical imaging as both subject and provocation, tracing how systems built to observe and measure do not merely reveal the body but also shape how care and rupture are interpreted.
The Best Years of Our Lives - Q&A with Kenneth Lonergan
May 24 (4pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Three WWII veterans return home forever changed and find it difficult to adjust to their new realities.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, Film Subject Ellen Jovin
May 24 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.
Shttl - Q&A with Actor Moshe Lobel
May 24 (7pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.
Behind Her Eyes - Q&A with film subject Tova Friedman
May 26 (6pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Behind Her Eyes tells the powerful journey of one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust who uses the power of social media to bridge across generations. Born in Poland in 1938, Tova was one of the few Jewish children to survive the horrors of Auschwitz. Tova proves that understanding how and why hatred erupts can serve as one of the strongest antidotes to building empathy and compassion.
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back - Q&A with Chris Hegedus
May 27 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
Mr. Scorsese (Eps 1 & 2) - Q&A with Director Rebecca Miller
May 27 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Follows the life and career of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
Not Suitable for Work (1 episode) - Q&A with Writer/Producer Mindy Kaling, Producer Charlie Grandy and others
May 27 (8pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Explores the next stage in young people's lives after high school. Five work-obsessed twenty-somethings professionals living in Manhattan's Murray Hill neighborhood focused on achieving career success and find time for personal happiness.
Hangin' With The Homeboys - Q&A with EP Janet Grillo
May 27 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Four young friends spend one crazy Friday night on the streets of Manhattan that quickly turns into a night, they'll never forget.
Fuori - Q&A with Actress Valeria Golino
May 28 (3:30pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A writer ends up in prison for a crazy and unexpected act, where she meets with some young inmates. Once out, the writer and the other women maintain their friendship, an authentic bond that no one else will be able to understand.
The Kidnapping of Arabella - Q&A with Director Carolina Cavalli, Actress Benedetta Porcaroli
May 28 (7pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
An Italian woman named Holly is convinced she's the wrong version of herself until meeting a 7-year-old girl who changes her perspective.
Along the Green Line - Q&A Reporter Matthew Cassel, Cinematographer Ayman Abu Ramouz, Producer/Editor Kyri Evangelou
May 28 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Since the war in Gaza and the expanding occupation of the West Bank, a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians feels more distant than ever. Matthew Cassel travels along the 1949 Armistice border, or 'Green Line', once seen as the best hope for a resolution.
The Boroughs (Episode 1) - Q&A with Actress Alfre Woodard
May 28 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have - time.
La Gioia - Q&A with Director Nicolangelo Gelormini, Actress Valeria Golino
May 29 (3pm)
Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A high school teacher who forms an improbable relationship with one of her students, a hustler selling his body to support his mother.
A Brief Affair - Q&A with Director Ludovica Rampoldi
May 29 (6pm)
Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Lea and Rocco, secret lovers, find their relationship taking a dark turn as Lea becomes obsessive, trying to insert herself into Rocco's daily life.
All The Ladies Say - Q&A with Director/B-girl Ana 'Rokafella' Garcia, Photojournalist Martha Cooper
May 29 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center Annex (364 E. 151st Street, Bronx)
This film raises awareness of the female presence in Hip-hop and promotes the growth of this dance community in the United States and internationally. Discussions about femininity, motherhood and the representation of women in popular culture are a few of the themes explored by the dancers.
53 Spaceships - Q&A with Director Sujewa Ekanayake
May 29 (7pm)
Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn)
2 NYC detectives - Rene and Allyson must find 53 hidden, ancient spaceships that have now gone missing, and due to a security system that was altered the ships are at risk of engine core meltdowns that may create an ever expanding black hole or 53 of them that will destroy the planet and perhaps the entire universe.
Elisa - Q&A with Actress Barbara Ronchi
May 29 (8:30pm)
Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
After a decade in prison for her sister's murder, Elisa barely remembers the crime. A criminologist helps her uncover buried memories, leading her toward potential redemption.
The Currents - Q&A with Director Milagros Mumenthaler
May 29 (6:15pm), May 30 (6:15pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
www.filmlinc.org a business trip to Geneva, Lina's impulsive decision leads to perilous consequences. Back in Buenos Aires, she tries to bury her secret, but the dark past she left behind resurfaces to threaten her current life.
Renoir - Q&A with Director Chie Hayakawa
May 29 (6:45pm), May 30 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.
We Are Pat - Q&A with Director Rowan Haber, Producer Caryn Capotosto
May 29 (7pm), May 30 (7pm moderated by filmmaker Penny Lane)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Examines "It's Pat" through the lens of 2025, trans visibility and their own conflicted recollection of the controversial SNL character played by Julia Sweeney.
Forastera - Q&A with Director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
May 29 (7pm), May 30 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
During her Mallorca summer, Antonia recognizes similarities with her late grandma. She develops an influence over her mourning grandpa through dress-up, blurring who inhabits who.
With Hasan In Gaza - Q&A with Director Kamal Aljafari
May 29 (8pm), May 30 (12pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A filmmaker's rediscovered footage from 2001 captures a journey through Gaza, guided by Hasan, while searching for an old prison companion. The tapes reveal intimate moments of Palestinian life during a pivotal time.
Time and Water
Q&A with Director Sara Dosa, Film Participant Andri Snær Magnason, Producer Elijah Stevens, and Animator Lucy Munger
May 29 (7pm), May 30 (7pm)
Q&A with Film Participant Andri Snær Magnason, Producer Elijah Stevens, and Animator Lucy Munger
May 31 (3:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule.
Mysterious Skin - Intro with Director Gregg Araki, Actor Brady Corbet
May 30 (6:05pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
The Eyes of Others - Q&A with Director Andrea De Sica
May 30 (6pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In the island owned by a wealthy Marquis, Elena's arrival marks the beginning of a passionate love affair. Soon erotic play unfolds into obsession.
My Tennis Maestro - Q&A with Director Andrea Di Stefano
May 30 (8:45pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A teen tennis prodigy struggles with his father's expectations while embarking on a transformative coastal Italian training tour with his coach, an ex-champion who lost his way.
I Want Her Dead - Q&A with Director Gianluca Matarrese
May 31 (12:30pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Luisa, a fierce and unruly woman at war with her sister-in-law Imma, fuels a bitter feud that consumes their entire household. As tensions spiral, three eccentric aunts stage a surreal family "trial" in a last-ditch effort to restore peace.
Agnus Dei - Q&A with Writer/Director Massimiliano Camaiti
May 31 (3pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Within the walls of a Monastery a centuries-old tradition is renewed every year: two newborn lambs are entrusted to the care of one of the cloistered nuns. In the Holy Year 2025, while the rite was taking place, the Pope suddenly fell ill
Roberto Rossellini, Living Without a Script - Intro with Ingrid Rossellini, Q&A with Directors Ilaria de Laurentis & Raffaele Brunetti
Jun 1 (6pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In 1956, Roberto Rossellini was in the midst of a personal and artistic crisis. When Bergman returned to Hollywood, Rossellini accepted an invitation from Indian Prime Minister Nehru to document India’s progress.
Carolina Caroline - Q&A with Actress Samara Weaving
Jun 2 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A young woman joins a charming con man on the run, leaving a trail of crime and passion as they hustle through the Southeast in search of her estranged mother.
Teenage Gang Debs - Q&A with Actress Sandra Kane
Jun 2 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Manhattan)
A girl from Manhattan moves into a neighborhood that is the turf of the Rebels, a female teenage gang. She quickly rises to the top of the gang and sets her sights on the leader of the neighborhood tough guys.
The Easy Kind - Q&A with Director Katy Chevigny, film subject Elizabeth Cook
Jun 3 (7pm), Jun 4 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A rollicking journey inspired by and starring Nashville singer Elizabeth Cook as she breaks through the constraints of country music to become the artist she's meant to be.
Underland - Q&A with Director Rob Petit
Jun 4-6 (7pm), Jun 7 (3:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller, UNDERLAND, a cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes to explore the unknown below our feet.
Louis Malle, le révolté - Q&A with Director Claire Duguet
Jun 5 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A portrait of Louis Malle, a precursor of the French New Wave as early as 1958 with Elevator to the Gallows, rebellious and non-conformist
Lonely Are the Brave - Intro with Carrie Coon & Tracy Letts
Jun 5 (6:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.
Emergent City - Q&A with Directors Kelly Anderson & Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Jun 5 (7pm)
UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens)
Industry City, a Brooklyn industrial area, sparks conflict when purchased by global developers. Residents, city officials, and planners clash over differing visions for the city's urban development future.
Find Your Friends - Q&A with Director Izabel Pakzad
Jun 5 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Amber and her friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun girls' trip but face hostility from locals. As tensions escalate and Amber's dark past surfaces, their rebellion ignites - turning their desert getaway into a jaw-dropping game of revenge.
Trees Lounge - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Steve Buscemi
Jun 6 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".
April Story - Q&A with Director Shunji Iwai
Jun 7 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In spring, a young girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo.
Hana and Alice - Intro with Director Shunji Iwai
Jun 7 (8:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
Miracle Mile - Q&A with Actors Anthony Edwards & Mare Winningham
Jun 8 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit the city within 70 minutes.
1001 Frames - Q&A with Writer/Director Mehrnoush Alia
Jun 9 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Female actors vying for the role of Scheherazade in a famous director's adaptation of "A Thousand and One Nights" discover the audition process may have hidden motives beyond simply selecting a lead actress.
Nadja - Q&A with Director Michael Almereyda, Producer Amy Hobby, Actor Galaxy Craze, Editor David Leonard
Jun 9 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A vampire family deals with their father's death in NYC while being pursued by Van Helsing and his nephew. Love and destruction clash in this modern vampire story.
Women Who Kill - Q&A with Writer/Director Ingrid Jungermann, Actress Grace Rex
Jun 10 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan's new love interest is a murderer.
The Man Who Wasn't There - Q&A with Composer Carter Burwell
Jun 10 (6:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
Everybody Street - Q&A with Director Cheryl Dunn, film participants Martha Cooper & Jamel Shabazz
Jun 11 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center Annex (364 East 151st Street, Bronx)
Everybody Street highlights the lives and work of New York's iconic street photographers and the unparalleled city that has inspired them for decades.
Women - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 11 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Unfortunate Bao-er decides to divorce her husband Derek after she discovers he is having an affair. Seeking solace with her group of friends, who call themselves the 'Happy Spinsters Club', she begins to face life as a single mother while Derek moves in with his new young girlfriend.
Love Unto Waste - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 12 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary.
Pompei: Below the Clouds - Q&A with Writer/Director Gianfranco Rosi
Jun 12 (7:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.
The Gas Station Attendant - Q&A with Director Karla Murthy
Jun 12 (7pm), Jun 13 (6pm), Jun 14 (5pm), Jun 18 (6:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A daughter contemplates her South Asian father's journey, his constant chase of the American dream, and humanity's ability to love and endure.
Rouge - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 13 (12:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A 1930s courtesan and a wealthy heir plan to die together, but he never shows up in the afterlife. Fifty years later, her ghost visits a newspaper office to place an ad searching for him, captivating a modern couple with her tragic tale.
Full Moon in New York - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 13 (3:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Three very different Asian women forge a friendship in New York.
Fire at Sea - Q&A with Director Gianfranco Rosi
Jun 13 (5pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Center Stage - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 13 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
Red Rose White Rose - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan, moderated by Isabel Sandoval
Jun 14 (12:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose).
Lan Yu - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 14 (4:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A young gay student has a relationship with an older successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet straight, life or an honest, yet subversive, life with the student.
Maddie's Secret - Q&A with Director John Early
Jun 16 (7pm), Jun 17 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
True North - Q&A with Director Michèle Stephenson
Jun 17 (6:30pm), Jun 18 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary on the 1969 Black student protests against racism at Montreal's Concordia University, highlighting their role in Black liberation movements.
Flag Day - Q&A with Producers/Directors Andrew Shea & Melissa Shea
Jun 18 (7pm), Jun 20 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in the small farming community of Three Oaks, Michigan — home to the nation’s largest Flag Day parade — Flag Day is a verité portrait of ritual, identity, and belonging in an era of deep political division.
Road to Everywhere - Q&A with Actor Robert Mirabal
Jun 19 (5:30pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A Los Angeles cab driver is offered the trip of a lifetime by a local casino dealer and gambler who wants to return to the Navajo Reservation to the home he abandoned 30 years ago to see his grandson compete in a Native American rodeo.
La niña de la cabra (Goat Girl) - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actress Ana Asensio
Jun 19 (6:20pm), Jun 20 (6:20pm), Jun 21 (6:20pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Eight-year-old Elena prepares for her First Communion while grappling with her grandmother's death. Her friendship with gypsy girl Serezade, inseparable from her goat, makes Elena question her worldview.
Romería - Q&A with Writer/Director Carla Simón
Jun 25 (7:30pm), Jun 27 (4:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.
State of Firsts - Q&A with Director Chase Joynt
Jun 25 (7pm), Jun 27 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Sarah McBride's groundbreaking campaign becomes the first transgender Congressional victory amid anti-trans political tension.
Second Nature - Q&A with Narrator Elliot Page, Writer Joan Roughgarden, Writer/Director Drew Denny
Jun 26 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Elliot Page narrates SECOND NATURE, a hilarious and heartening romp through the animal world, led by brave scientists fighting censorship as they reveal the truth about our nature.
Careful - Q&A with Guy Maddin
Jun 26 (7:30pm), Jun 27 (6:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.
Quills - Q&A with Writer Douglas Wright
Jun 28 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Footloose - Q&A with Actor Kevin Bacon
Jul 21 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.