Night School Opens June 9 IFC, various times *Q&A with director Andrew Cohn Friday, June 9, 6PM; Saturday, June 10, 4:05 PM and 6PM; Sunday, June 11, 4:05 PM* If you had a second chance, would you take it even if it meant doing what seems impossible? Andrew Cohn’s new documentary Night School ...
Staff Favorite: The Films of David Lynch IFC Center March 24th- April 6th (various films and times) Starting on March 24th, the IFC Center is celebrating the director David Lynch with a retrospective of his films. Lynch’s films stay with you. He creates these scenes, these memorable moments, which linger and replay in ...
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes / The Illinois Parables Museum of the Moving Image Sunday, March 19, 6:30 PM Screening as part of New Adventures in Nonfiction Brett Story in person for The Prison in Twelve Landscapes If we were to crack open our country’s landscapes, we would find a record of human progress mixed ...
Agnès Varda is a gleaner. Like the potato-collecting subjects of her documentary The Gleaners and I (2000), Varda takes notice of otherwise discarded material and infuses it with a second life by casting her gaze toward the unobserved. What wasn’t captured in the frame of a photograph or a film? ...
By Meredith Coleman If you go on YouTube and type in “serpentine dance” in the search bar, films from the late 1800s appear, featuring dancers dancing against darkened backdrops. They move their arms as they hold onto sticks attached to the undulating fabric of their costumes. The fabric begins to rise ...
It’s always interesting to see how a book is adapted to the screen, how the characters, settings, and themes are taken out of the pages and visually depicted through the medium of film.
Staff favorite: Valentine’s Day Massacre 2017 Anthology Film Archives February 10th-14th (various times) Sure, one could spend Valentine’s Day, and the weekend leading up to it, snuggled up on the couch, watching old romantic classics like Casablanca and When Harry Met Sally. But that’s not the only option for these days full of ...
In honor of the 150th anniversary of Pirandello’s birth, Film Forum will join a city-wide celebration of the artist with a film festival of its own, running through January 19th.
Don’t Think Twice Nitehawk Cinema Aug 18—4:45 PM, 7:15 PM, 9:45 PM (playing through August 25th) Mike Birbiglia writes, directs, and stars in a coming-of-age story about a group of improvisers dealing with the selectiveness of success. Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) gets a role at “Weekend Live” (the SNL of this world), and ...
