Robert Longfellow (Martin Donovan, THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, “Boss”, Weeds”) is a famous playwright who can’t seem to catch a break. His recent Broadway play was met with horrible reviews and an early cancellation, and his marriage is being tested as an old flame (Olivia Williams, THE GHOST WRITER, RUSHMORE) has reentered his life during […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/collaborator/Guy Maddin in person at screenings of BRAND UPON THE BRAIN on Oct 15, MY WINNIPEG and short film program Oct 16, and RUMOURS and THE GREEN FOG on Oct 17! In advance of the opening of his latest, RUMOURS (co-directed with his collaborators on 2017’s THE GREEN FOG and 2015’s THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson), IFC Center presents a weeklong retrospective […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/forbidden-rooms-the-films-of-guy-maddin/Thursday, October 17 at 9:45 p.m.: Introduction by director Guy Maddin Guy Maddin and cadre of collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson made this ode to VERTIGO and the city of San Francisco for the closing night world premiere gala of the 2017 San Francisco International Film Festival. The iconoclastic Winnipeg-based filmmakers, working together since 2015’s THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-green-fog/Please note that there are additional showtimes of LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here. “Luther: Never Too Much,” the documentary film, chronicles the story of a vocal virtuoso. Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/luther-never-too-much-open-captioning/Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 p.m.: Sneak Preview + Q&A with director Dawn Porter moderated by journalist Jared Alexander Friday, November 1 at 7:15 p.m.: Q&A with producer Leah Smith moderated by Traci A. Curry Please note that there are additional showtimes of LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/luther-never-too-much/35th Anniversary! Every night, mobster Michael Gambon drags long-suffering wife Helen Mirren and a retinue of henchmen (including Tim Roth) to the high-end Le Hollandais for a sumptuous meal. But when he discovers her affair with a customer, Gambon commits an act of gruesome violence, and she stages an elaborate, full-course revenge. With costumes by […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-her-lover/Randy Jurgensen, retired NYPD detective and frequent Friedkin collaborator in person for an extended introduction Sunday, October 22 at 4:15 p.m.! Two New York narcotics cops set out to bust a French drug smuggling ring. “Director William Friedkin constructed “The French Connection” so surely that it left audiences stunned. And I don’t mean that as […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-french-connection/In-person Q&A with Co-Director Jon Kane and Executive Producer Steven Soderbergh on Friday, October 13 at 7:15 p.m. Extended intro with Jon Kane and Steven Soderbergh on Friday, October 13 at 8:50 p.m. Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his already daring career: a bardic […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/once-within-a-time/To mark this weekend’s unveiling of Beastie Boys Square onRivington and Ludlow, we present two nights of Spike Jonze’s 2020 doc, BEASTIEBOYS STORY. Beastie Boys Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz tell you an intimate, personal story of their band and 40 years of friendship in this live documentary experience directed by their longtime friend and […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/beastie-boys-story/Screening followed by a conversation between critics Matt Zoller Seitz and his longtime writing collaborator Alan Sepinwall (TV: The Book, The Sopranos Sessions), who has named Midnight Run as his favorite movie of all time. Released fairly deep into an ’80s run of action-driven buddy comedies, Midnight Run is one of the very best, […]
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