June 14: One of the greatest of all silent films, King Vidor’s thrilling masterpiece, THE CROWD, features some of the most remarkable camerawork committed to celluloid.
Presented in rare 35mm with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura.
🎟️: https://t.co/ypFbHRpnSU
Celebrating like Spike🟠🔵
See Lee's New York masterpiece DO THE RIGHT THING in 35mm on June 19 & 20. Part of our By the People, For the People: Real American Tales series.
🎟️: https://t.co/jQwKXc9KI9
With the swap of his 16mm Bolex for a digital camcorder, Jonas Mekas gave himself new creative possibilities. @sadfilmcritic on Jonas Mekas's A LETTER FROM GREENPOINT, closing our Reverse Shot: Revolutions essay symposium on a century of film technology.
https://t.co/BFWsL9H5aT
One of the finest American films of the 60s, this masterpiece by Michael Roemer is a moving drama about Black life in the South—filled with gorgeous, compassionate close-ups.
NOTHING BUT A MAN screens this Saturday in 35mm (courtesy of @TheFilmDesk).
🎟️: https://t.co/AZBUlhlFXA
For @reverse_shot I went deep on what is surely the movie of the year: Patrick Wang’s A. Rimbaud. It was wonderful grappling with this magnificent film AND Rimbaud’s poetry, which I had not revisited in years since college. Playing tonight @RoxyCinemaNYC
More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this groundbreaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
THE QUEEN screens in 35mm this Saturday.
🎟️: https://t.co/k88ZmMGyWF
Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari rediscovered 2001 footage of a road trip through Gaza with a guide named Hasan. He has compiled the material into the haunting historical testimony WITH HASAN IN GAZA, opening today. @simplylovia reviews:
https://t.co/P4sO6DgV3b
One of the less-hyped highlights of NYFF is Milagros Mumenthaler's THE CURRENTS, evocative of THE HEADLESS WOMAN and SAFE, but with its own unsettling rhythm and opacity. @lawrencengarcia reviews:
https://t.co/PRpSnpApXD
In conjunction with Isaac Butler’s new book "The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars, " our new series reexamines seven films that came under conservative fire during the late '80s and early '90s.
Opens June 26: https://t.co/fgXG0sdhpp
An essential work of labor cinema, John Sayles’s remarkable and gripping MATEWAN brought a forgotten and bloody chapter of American history to vivid life and was one of the independent breakthrough hits of the eighties.
Screens in 35mm this Friday.
🎟️: https://t.co/1OGlb2N2cq
With its gumball visuals and zany costumes, I LOVE BOOSTERS @BootsRiley joyfully indulges in sensory splendor—on screen and on skin—while equally insisting on a just world. See my review @reverse_shot! #lipsticksocialist
Our upcoming series By the People, For the People: Real American Tales uses 14 essential films to ask what the term “American cinema” could mean in an ideal world.
Opens May 29.
🎟️: https://t.co/ucCYKdgmq6
Initially censored, ALIPATO AT MUOG is JL Burgos’s impassioned documentary about his family’s almost two-decades-and-counting search for his brother. Followed by a virtual conversation w/ the filmmaker.
Screens this Friday, guest programmed by @a_ehunt.
https://t.co/fXujTy8Mbs
Time to turn up the heat...
De Palma: Summer of Suspense opens June 12.
🔥 Genre pushing classics on the big screen
🔥35mm, 70mm, and more
https://t.co/44OPKyaERz
Across the next two weekends, catch rare unreleased and unseen documentaries from the Philippines. Guest programmed by @a_ehunt.
https://t.co/k2F1XHdN7P