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Film Forum is NYC’s leading movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming. Find us at filmforum.org
Just announced! LATE FAME Q&As with Director Kent Jones and Actors Willem Dafoe & Edmund Donovan on Fri, 8/7 at 6:50 & 7:50pm and Sun, 8/9 at 2:25pm now on sale! “Lyrical and enchanting.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety buff.ly/XixejbC
Remembering the consummate character actor Harry Dean Stanton on his 100th birthday 🤍 Pictured with Francis Ford Coppola (© Jim Frank), who he worked with in THE GODFATHER PART II & ONE FROM THE HEART Our major 3-week COPPOLA fest starts Friday, August 21.
Happy birthday to the master Jafar Panahi! 📸 Photos from his visit last year alongside his Palme d’Or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
LAUREL & HARDY starts today! A 2-week festival of over 50 comedy classics and rarities, full of belly laughs and timeless slapstick 🎩 Peruse the whole slate on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Vwnty 🎟️ & schedule: buff.ly/jzcd7By
Celebrate next week’s opening of AMERICAN PACHUCO with special screenings of two landmark films by Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano theater & film. 🎬 LA BAMBA - Thu, 7/16 at 8pm, intro by Lou Diamond Phillips 🎬 ZOOT SUIT (35mm) - Fri, 7/17 at 9:15pm, intro by Valdez himself
ROMERÍA, Carla Simón’s beautiful, sun-kissed autobiographical portrait, opens today at FF! Simón joins for a Q&A tmrw, 6/26 at 4:45pm. "POWERFUL. A dreamy coming-of-age tale that questions the very nature of memory." - Maxwell Rabb, Harper's Bazaar buff.ly/Et0cuvf
Live from IND/EX 2026! A fireside chat with FF Director Tabitha Jackson & Gina Duncan🔥
Happy 90th birthday, Ken Loach 👑 The uncompromising, fiercely compassionate filmmaker of KES, I, DANIEL BLAKE, and THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, was subject to a 21-film retrospective at Film Forum in 2024. 📸: Robin Holland
Just woke up in the city that doesn’t sleep 🥹👑 Congrats to your 2026 NBA Champions, the New York Knicks on their first ring since 4 years before Liza Minnelli started spreading the news! 🧡💙🏀🗽
“GARBO LAUGHS!” in Lubitsch’s comic masterpiece NINOTCHKA, screening this Tues, 6/16 at 12:50 & 6pm! Experience Garbo’s first comedy-turned-greatest success, thanks to the fabled “Lubitsch Touch” and a cynically satirical script by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch. buff.ly/rzZsG1o
NEW PODCAST EP! 🎧️ Filmmaker Philip Hartman discusses the enduring NO PICNIC, his gritty 1986 neo-noir and priceless artifact of pre-gentrification E. Village, with critic/writer Mark Asch in an exclusive convo recorded at FF - now playing in new 4K! Listen now at filmforum.org/podcast
Ernst Lubitsch's final completed film, CLUNY BROWN 🔧 screens this Tuesday, 6/9 at 12:20 & 6:50pm. One of Lubitsch’s wittiest, slyest, & lightest comedies, starring Jennifer Jones as an uninhibited plumber and Charles Boyer as a dashing Czech academic. buff.ly/QIYpWv2
Happy birthday Tony Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz in East Harlem on June 3, 1925. Catch him in SOME LIKE IT HOT, jazzing it up in high heels, girdles, and falsies with Jack Lemmon & Marilyn Monroe, screening in our MARILYN 💯 fest. “Still perfect all these years later.” – Cath Clarke, Time Out
“A GIANT AMONG FILM HISTORIANS.” – Martin Scorsese Happy 88th to film historian & filmmaker Kevin Brownlow, who we honored with a 2-week tribute series last fall 🎂 Pictured with FF's Bruce Goldstein at Mission Dolores cemetery in SF – home to a unforgettable scene in VERTIGO.
The incomparable screen icon Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson 100 years ago today 🍰 💋 💯 Celebrate her indelible legacy with our MARILYN 100 fest, through Thurs, 6/11. Photographed in NYC by Ed Feingersh for Redbook Magazine, March 1955. buff.ly/mFdFvE3
MARILYN 💯 , a dazzling 13-film festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth – starts today at Film Forum through Thursday, 6/11! 💋 🎟️ and showtimes at buff.ly/mFdFvE3
Guy Maddin's delirious cult masterwork CAREFUL opens at Film Forum in exactly one month on Fri, 6/26 in new 4K, with Maddin joining in-person! PLUS select shows of TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL [REDUX], ARCHANGEL & DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY. buff.ly/cL1sPcx
Choose your fighter, celluloid style 🥊 Lubitsch's DESIGN FOR LIVING on 6/1 & 6/2 📨 Richard Fleischer's DESIGN FOR DEATH 📤
Fleischer ultra-rarity CRACK IN THE MIRROR has its ONLY screening in 16mm Scope today at 5:10 with intro by Fleischer biographer Jason Ney 🪞 Orson Welles! Juliette Greco! Bradford Dillman! 3 performers playing 6 roles, 2 adulterous love triangles! buff.ly/nRzFyxh
HOPPITY GOES TO TOWN (aka MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN) screens this Sunday, May 17 at 11am as part of Film Forum Jr. and our ongoing FLEISCHER series 🦗 🐝 🌿 “A REAL CHARMER.” – Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice Tickets at buff.ly/8LYxvGi
Ross McElwee’s TIME INDEFINITE premiered #otd in 1993 at Film Forum 🎥 The documentary luminary will return to FF for a 4K restoration run of his 1986 landmark SHERMAN’S MARCH on July 3, followed by REMAKE, his poignant first film in 14 years, opening on July 10.
FLEISCHER père et fils, a major 3-week side-by-side retrospective of genre director Richard Fleischer & father, cartoon pioneer Max Fleischer opens today! Betty Boop, Orson Welles, Popeye, Raquel Welch, & more in over 80+ titles, full slate now on Letterboxd: boxd.it/UakRa 🎟️: buff.ly/1torVM3
CROOKLYN screens this Sun, 4/26 at 11am for FF JR! The singular, semi-autobiographical Spike Lee joint, co-written with his siblings Joie and Cinqué Lee, starring Zelda Harris, Alfre Woodard, and Delroy Lindo on the vibrant streets of mid-70s Bed-Stuy 🌆 buff.ly/ieKEU71
BERNSTEIN'S WALL, Douglas Tirola's fascinating archival doc on the legendary maestro Leonard Bernstein’s life and activism, arrives at FF this Fri, 4/24! 🎼 Tirola will be in person for Q&As on Fri, 4/24 at 7pm, and will be joined by Nina Bernstein Simmons on Sat, 4/25 at 4:45pm. buff.ly/WGbJnJ0
Don't miss our final ZWIGOFF in-person appearances for Terry's Director's Cut of BAD SANTA tonight at 8pm with post-film convo with Frank Santopadre and his debut - and personal favorite - LOUIE BLUIE tmrw at 5:20pm (Poster by Robert Crumb) 🎟️https://buff.ly/E8d7JKD
ZWIGOFF, a career-spanning celebration of the incomparable Terry Zwigoff, opens today, featuring in-person Q&As with the cult filmmaker all week long ✒️ Catch all five of his eccentric features: CRUMB, GHOST WORLD, BAD SANTA (Director’s Cut), LOUIE BLUIE & ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. buff.ly/DWmOldH
“Psychologically, I’m very confused... But personally, I don’t feel bad at all.” Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan star in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, Ernst Lubitsch’s pinnacle of rom-coms, screening on Tues, 4/21 at 7:15pm & Sun, 4/26 at 1:30pm as THE LUBITSCH TOUCH fizzes along! 💌 buff.ly/Fvn9taO
Radu Jude's KONTINENTAL ’25 opens today! 🦖 All 8:20 shows will be followed by a Q&A with Jude & Richard Linklater, recorded especially for our run. "SCORCHING...A sneak attack of a movie, one that invites your laughter, even as it jabs you in the ribs." @manohladargis.bsky.social, @nytimes.com