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NYC's state-of-the-art downtown cinema for the best in independent, foreign, documentary and classic films.
A group of teens drift through their school day until a violent crisis interrupts their suburban idyll in ELEPHANT. Staff Picks continue with a 35mm screening of Gus Van Sant’s harrowing high school character study, selected by projectionist Lee Emmerich! ifccenter.com/films/elepha...
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MICHAEL MANN'S MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT opens Friday, July 24! “A gory and gorgeous cop thriller.” – @washingtonpost.com www.ifccenter.com/films/michae...
Good afternoon. THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA opens Friday and it is our pleasure to share with you all that director Carolina Cavalli & star Chris Pine will be here for Q&As on Friday and Saturday following the 6:45 PM screenings. You know what to do! 🎟️ ⬇️ www.ifccenter.com/films/the-ki...
This is no mirage. This is really happening… Big news: we're hosting a special screening of the found footage fave THE OUTWATERS! Tues, July 21 at 7:20 PM + Q&A with director Robbie Banfitch. Get tickets: www.ifccenter.com/films/the-ou...
Set in 1987 on the mean streets of Medellín, the first feature from acclaimed Bad Bunny music video director Stillz redefines the found footage genre as a haunting, poignant coming-of-age story. BARRIO TRISTE is now playing! Producer Q&A tonight! www.ifccenter.com/films/barrio...
A group of disaffected teens in 1980s Medellín steal a TV reporter’s camera and begin to document their lives in this dark iteration on the found footage genre. BARRIO TRISTE, the assured debut from Bad Bunny music video director Stillz, is now playing! www.ifccenter.com/films/barrio...
Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice in Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Western UNFORGIVEN. Our Staff Picks series starts tonight at 11:30 with this selection from usher Zak Koerner, also showing tomorrow! www.ifccenter.com/films/unforg...
From a script by Kathy Acker, Bette Gordon's feminist neo-noir VARIETY starring Sandy McLeod puts a sleek spin on the genre's voyeuristic gaze. Don't miss this indie gem lensed by Tom DiCillo, featuring a score by John Lurie. Director Q&A tomorrow! ifccenter.com/films/variety/
When General Motors closed a factory and cut 35,000 jobs, @mmflint.bsky.social made it his mission to find the chairman – and hold him accountable. A scorching condemnation of capitalism, ROGER & ME screens July 5 & 6 in our series Declaration of Independents! www.ifccenter.com/films/roger-...
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver If "see movies" is your answer 👋 then make sure to catch MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, the new doc by Sasha Waters, now playing! www.ifccenter.com/films/mary-o...
Don't miss Gus Van Sant’s debut feature, the queer road movie MALA NOCHE, which helped usher in the New Queer Cinema movement with its evocative black and white imagery and unabashed celebration of homosexual desire. Showing on 35mm July 5 & 7! www.ifccenter.com/films/mala-n...
A disillusioned NY rocker moves to Tokyo, joins a band and falls in love in Fran Rubel Kuzui's ultimate culture clash rom-com, TOKYO POP. Catch the 4k restoration of this '80s love letter to Japanese pop culture tonight + Q&A w/ dir Fran Rubel Kuzui! www.ifccenter.com/films/tokyo-...
With a 4K restoration by IndieCollect, Jim Klein and Julia Reichert's documentary SEEING RED brings a workers-first view of the activities of the American Communist Party during the midcentury. Features an introduction by author Clay Risen. www.ifccenter.com/films/seeing...
Frances McDormand made her screen debut in the offbeat noir thriller BLOOD SIMPLE. With a Carter Burwell score and an unforgettable performance from M. Emmet Walsh, see the movie that started the Coen canon in our series Declaration of Independents! www.ifccenter.com/films/blood-...
A cabbie and his nephew track down the man who took all their money and ran in Wayne Wang's existential noir, CHAN IS MISSING. Fri & Sat, see this sly subversion of Charlie Chan murder mysteries in our series Declaration of Independents! www.ifccenter.com/films/chan-i...
"Welcome to prime time, b---h!" Patricia Arquette makes her screen debut and Freddy Krueger returns in this fan-favorite threequel. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS screens in our midnights series Think of the Children on Fri & Sat! www.ifccenter.com/films/a-nigh...
Celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, openly queer but intensely private, poet Mary Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic. Go deeper – see Sasha Waters’ new doc MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD. Director Q&As tomorrow & Friday! www.ifccenter.com/films/mary-o...
Two directors travel America to interview men who profit from sexually exploiting women in the witty, unflinching 1986 doc RATE IT X. 40 years later, see how little things have changed – and stay for Q&As with directors Lucy Winer & Paula De Koenigsberg: www.ifccenter.com/films/rate-i...
Our new series Declaration of Independents! kicks off tonight! A salute to indie filmmakers who asserted their creative freedom during a formative era of American independent cinema: 1979-89. Co-presented by IndieCollect www.ifccenter.com/series/decla...
Mon and Tue, don't miss Susan Seidelman's SMITHEREENS, the first American indie to play in competition at Cannes. Follow wannabe star Wren as she makes her way from NJ to the East Village & sets her sights on a musician played by punk icon Richard Hell. www.ifccenter.com/films/smithe...
Rockers hustle and stumble their way to fame, only to discover it's not like they imagined in Fran Rubel Kuzui's love letter to Japanese pop culture. See a 4k restoration of TOKYO POP on Fri, July 3 (feat. Q&A with dir Fran Rubel Kuzui) and Sat, July 4! www.ifccenter.com/films/tokyo-...
Our July 3 screening of the 4K restoration of Jim Klein and Julia Reichert's pioneering oral-history documentary SEEING RED, about the midcentury American Communist Party, features an intro by author Clay Risen. Part of Declaration of Independents! www.ifccenter.com/films/seeing...
"Richly cast" – Sight & Sound "A dreamy tale of loss and grief, death and resurrection" – @thedailybeast.bsky.social Just announced! @davidehrlich.bsky.social will moderate a Q&A with Callum Turner following the 6:30 screening of ROSE OF NEVADA on Tues, July 7! www.ifccenter.com/films/rose-o...
Don't miss Kathleen Collins’ LOSING GROUND, a complex drama about a couple – philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her bohemian painter husband (Bill Gunn) – hurtling towards a crossroads one sultry summer. Part of our new series, Declaration of Independents! www.ifccenter.com/films/losing...
Featuring interviews with friends like John Waters, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, & Steve Buscemi, Sasha Waters’ new doc MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD shows the poet in all her nuance & brilliance. Opens Fri + Q&As! www.ifccenter.com/films/mary-o...
CAMP, the latest from Canadian underground up-and-comer Avalon Fast, follows troubled teen Emily on the precipice of a new kind of life as a mysterious voice in the woods becomes impossible to ignore. Now playing! www.ifccenter.com/films/camp/
“Humorous and horny in equal measure…the kind of queer art that (while it’s still legal) feels timeless and playful—a testament to the magical places the baser instincts can lead us.” – @nashvillescene.com DRUNKEN NOODLES opens Fri! Sneak preview tonight! www.ifccenter.com/films/drunke...
Director and star John Early leads a cast of comedy giants - including Kate Berlant, Conner O’Malley, Vanessa Bayer, and more - in his remarkable debut feature about a dishwasher-turned-famous-food influencer. Now playing! www.ifccenter.com/films/maddie...
A young art student arrives in NYC for a gallery internship and crosses paths with a reclusive older artist in Lucio Castro’s DRUNKEN NOODLES, a dreamy meditation on art, eroticism and memory. Starts Friday – sneak preview tomorrow! Director in person! www.ifccenter.com/films/drunke...