Series & Festivals in New York

“This series explores the very specific American places that make up our nation’s mythology.”

Programmed by Jessica Green

Events: The Delta, Q&A with Ira Sachs.

“This October, the Quad gets ready to celebrate Halloween with another terrifying batch of films all throughout spooky season. Masters of Horror brings together some of the genre’s most influential directors.”

Events: Prince of Darkness introduced by Heather Landsman.

“A one-week retrospective commemorating the actor, documentarian and avant-garde filmmaker on the occasion of his centennial, including early acting appearances and feature films spanning documentary, narrative, and…”

Curated by Ina Archer

Presented by Justin LaLiberty

“This Halloween season, we’re pleased to present a buffet of monster-pieces that run the gamut from hilarious to horrifying, from beautiful to blasphemous, but which all revel in the tactile: vampires, werewolves,…”

“One of the world’s leading experts on LGBTQ film history and, for many decades, a champion of LGBTQ cinema and the filmmakers who make it, Jenni Olson joins Metrograph to present Mini Masc, an eclectic, globe-trotting…”

Curated by Jenni Olson

“Choose your fright comfort level this month because we’ve got something for everyone this spooky season! From family-friendly classics like THE ADDAMS FAMILY and MONSTER HOUSE to nasty midnite fare like THE CRAZIES and…”

“Choose your fright comfort level this month because we’ve got something for everyone this spooky season! From family-friendly classics like THE ADDAMS FAMILY and MONSTER HOUSE to nasty midnite fare like THE CRAZIES and…”

“52 years young, and still going strong – in a landscape littered with the remains of countless failed film studios and distributors – the proudly low-budget, defiantly tasteless, and astonishingly prolific Troma…”

“Describing Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, Jonathan Rosenbaum called the Ukrainian ‘a pagan mystic whose masterful films look as wildly experimental, as dreamlike, as hysterically funny, as fiercely tragic, and as…”

Programmed by Edo Choi

“To mark its 175th anniversary, The New York Times has selected five revealing, idiosyncratic and nostalgic films about chasing the truth, no matter where it leads. Titles include Cameron Crowe’s film à clef about life…”

“Credit for coining the term ‘cyberpunk’ belongs to author Bruce Bethke, whose short story of the same title was published in a 1983 issue of Amazing Stories, and picked up by Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine…”

“We are far today—very far, indeed—from the world of Spartan discipline and Athens under Pericles, that of Homer’s wine-dark Mediterranean, of Aeschylus, Socrates, and Sophocles… but, as the success of a certain recent…”

“Screen Slate and Roxy Cinema present a retrospective of work by special effects artist Screaming Mad George this October.”

Programmed by Screen Slate’s Jon Dieringer

“The first daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, Geraldine Chaplin was born in Los Angeles County but raised largely in Switzerland, where she acquired the Spanish and French that would be invaluable in her later…”

“On the occasion of the publication of NYC film scholar and critic Genevieve Yue’s book Trains—part of Fordham Press’s Cutaways series, each entry a journey through the history of cinema guided by a single motif or…”

Curated by Genevieve Yue

Events: News from Home and Interior NY Subway, 14th Street double bill introduced by Genevieve Yue.

“‘My life is a darkroom. One. Big. Dark. Room.’ Thus spake Wynona Ryder in her career-making role in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice as Lydia Deetz, a widow’s weeds–draped teen who looked as though she’d sprouted full-grown…”

“Spring is pleasant enough when and if it decides to stop raining, and summer and winter, whatever their charms, invariably overstay their welcome, but fall… well, what’s not to love about fall?”

“Founded in 1934, from the 1950s through the ’70s England’s Hammer Films was the dominant worldwide force in the horror genre, and in this stretch no Hammer director had a more proven track record than London native…”

“A bona fide indie original and New York City filmmaking hero, Larry Fessenden is a legend in genre and independent film. Through his production company Glass Eye Pix (‘One of the indie scene’s most productive and…”

Events: Habit, Q&A with Larry Fessenden; My Architect: A Son's Journey, Q&A.

“The Museum of Modern Art’s annual Modern Mondays series, which celebrates moving-image experimentation and innovation, will return in September 2026. The series welcomes an international and intergenerational roster of…”

Events: Disappearance Is Not Death, world premiere · Q&A with Joyce Joumaa; An Evening with Tala Madani, Q&A.

“Earlier this year, Timothée Chalamet touched off a cultural firestorm by suggesting that classical performing arts were being kept alive ‘even though no one cares about this anymore. ’ From the uproar, a question…”

“The Museum of Modern Art announces It’s Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection , an expansive exhibition featuring the work that more than 35 artists and filmmakers—working largely in New York—produced in the…”

Organized by Ron Magliozzi, Curator, Francisco Valente, Curatorial Associate, Katie Trainor

“ACE Presents, our popular collaborative series with American Cinema Editors (ACE), will continue in November and December with two very special screenings. For one night only in November, Metrograph welcomes Michael R.…”

Events: Ghost World, Q&A with Michael R. Miller and ACE, moderated by Jamie Kirkpatrick and ACE.

“It’s never too early to get your kids started on quality cinema, and with that in mind Metrograph continues our new regular strand for youngsters of all ages that includes both specially curated screenings for children,…”

Events: Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Time for Halloween, Q&A with Kevin Schreck.

“MoMA presents the first complete North American retrospective of Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, opening on October 23 with the North American premiere of his latest film, Imperium .”

Organized by Joshua Siegel, Curator

“A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of 110 programs/330 titles assembled in 1970-75 by Anthology’s Film Selection Committee – James Broughton,…”

“Through the generosity of our founding sponsor, The Cordelia Corporation, we are able to make this series a bargain for children, their parents, and anybody else who would like to see these marvelous films.”

Programmed by Stephanie Gross and Lindsay Harvey Most

“The Museum of Modern Art presents its selection of the best and boldest films of 2026 for the 19th annual edition of The Contenders , running October 28 through December 17, 2026.”

Events: Obsession, Q&A; La Gradiva, conversation with Marine Atlan; Wild Horse Nine, conversation with Martin McDonagh and John Malkovich; The Debut, Q&A; Disclosure Day, Q&A; Josephine, conversation with Beth de Araújo; Minotaur, conversation with Andrey Zvyagintsev; All of a Sudden, conversation with Ryûsuke Hamaguchi; Rose, conversation with Markus Schleinzer; LA Bola Negra, Q&A.

“Born in Tehran, raised in Paris, where he cut his teeth as a cameraman shooting Super-8 films, and educated in the United States, the eminent DP Darius Khondji might best be described as a citizen of international…”

Events: Zombie Bloodbath, Q&A with Todd Sheets.

“This screening series, created in conjunction with MoMI’s new photographic exhibition Seeing the Cinema, which explores the movie theater as both architectural icon and cultural space, presents movies in which the act…”

“Bear witness to boundary-pushing women and girls accused of—or in the clutches of—possession.”

Programmed by Yasmina Tawil

“Whether you’re filling in gaps to enhance your cinephile credentials or revisiting beloved favorites, our monthly series will provide you with the opportunity to do either.”

“On the occasion of the Criterion Collection’s new box set, The Complete Kubrick, MoMI is pleased to present the legendary director’s full cinematic corpus on the big screen, where his films all must be experienced.”

“In celebration of the work of Steven Spielberg, honoree of the 2026 MoMA Film Benefit , we have partnered with the legendary filmmaker on a program of six Sunday double features. Each screening, chosen by Spielberg,…”

Organized by Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Department of

“This November, the Quad Cinema invites you to our second annual Noirvember celebration with Femme Noir. This year we focus on the seductive, ambitious, and often dangerously misunderstood women of noir. We start with…”

Events: Mildred Pierce introduced by Imogen Sara Smith and In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City.

“On February 19th, 1992, one of the most stacked Best Director line-ups was announced. The nominees were: Jonathan Demme for THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, Barry Levinson for BUGSY, Ridley Scott for THELMA & LOUISE, John…”

“November 4-11, 2026 On these shores we tend to think of the punk movement as one that, in its heyday, was predominantly an American and British phenomenon. But punk music, punk culture, and its ethos spread quickly and…”

Programmed by Sukhdev Sandhu, Sara Stevenson

“…But, per Tolstoy, ‘Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ A whole graveyard worth of skeletons come out of the closet and several megatons of bombshells are dropped in this series about the ‘family dynamic’…”

“On February 19th, 1992, one of the most stacked Best Director line-ups was announced. The nominees were: Jonathan Demme for THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, Barry Levinson for BUGSY, Ridley Scott for THELMA & LOUISE, John…”

“Our nine-film series traces Dean Stockwell’s career, from child star to scene-stealing actor.”

Programmed by Allen Kessman Dean Stockwell

“‘First making his name as a keen-eyed and nimble-minded video-essayist, South Korea-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker Kogonada made a splash in 2017 with his feature directorial debut, Columbus, an idiosyncratic and wholly…”

Events: Zi, Q&A with Kogonada; Asako I & II introduced by Kogonada; Je t'aime, je t'aime introduced by Kogonada; Columbus, Q&A with Kogonada and Haley Lu Richardson.

“The Dali dreamscapes of Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound, the asylum as microcosm of the midcentury United States in Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor, the murder investigation leading to the heart of buried trauma in Martin…”

“Celebrate the artists, storytellers, and communities that have made Brooklyn influential.”

“A small revolution in film scoring occurred in 1956 with the release of Forbidden Planet, the first feature with a wholly electronic score, courtesy Bebe and Louis Barron.”

“This series commemorates some of our favorite movies that are having their 10th, 20th, 25th, 50th etc anniversaries. Come party with us and rejoice in the return of throwback films at both Nitehawk locations.”

“‘On the occasion of the publication of NYC film scholar and critic Genevieve Yue’s book Trains—part of Fordham Press’s Cutaways series, each entry a journey through the history of cinema guided by a single motif or…”

Curated by Genevieve Yue

“The Golden Leopard win for Two Seasons, Two Strangers at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival confirmed, on the international stage, what many close observers of East Asian cinema knew already: that director Sho Miyake was…”

Selected by Nagahama Sho Miyake

Events: Two Seasons, Two Strangers, Q&A with Sho Miyake; Small, Slow But Steady, Q&A with Sho Miyake; Crystal Voyager introduced by Sho Miyake; Sad Vacation introduced by Sho Miyake.

“November 10 & 11, 2026 To celebrate the publication – by the Film Desk – of "Across the Movi-verse: Writing on Film, 2011–2021", a new collection by the one and only J. Hoberman, Anthology has invited Hoberman to…”

“Our series for those who love what’s behind the scenes, where the real money shot sometimes lies.”

“Born in Belgium and today largely based in Paris, Virginie Efira’s path to Best Actress plaudits at Cannes—shared with co-star Tao Okamoto—for her role in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden was anything but overnight.”

Events: Members Only Preview: All of a Sudden, Q&A with Virginie Efira, moderated by Melissa Anderson; In Bed with Victoria introduced by Virginie Efira.

“Of all the Hollywood dynasties, there is perhaps none more dazzling than the Minnellis, and their work continues to capture our imaginations decades after their cinematic heydays. This retrospective calls attention to…”

Organized by Michael Koresky, Sarah Luciano, Emily Greenberg

“Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) was the first of the great European directors to establish himself in Hollywood and by far the most influential. He joined Max Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theater in 1911, quickly rising to leading…”

“November 20-December 1, 2026 Exploring the tradition of portraiture in the cinema, this series surveys the variety of approaches filmmakers have taken to depicting the human face – and by extension, the mysterious…”

“ROSSELLINI Friday, November 20 – Thursday, December 10 at Film Forum”

“After the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968, Czechoslovak cinema’s great decade ended along with the political freedoms of the Prague Spring—or at least that’s the received wisdom. The films in this series tell a different…”

Organized by Christopher Small

Events: The Little Mermaid, intro; Cutting It Short, intro; And Give My Love to the Swallows, intro; Quiet Happiness, intro; Serpent's Poison, intro; The Girl on the Broomstick, intro; Another Love, intro; Night Riders, intro.

“‘Three poetic programs of shorts spanning five decades in the working life of Swedish avant-garde filmmaker Guvnor Nelson, curated and presented by programmer and writer David Schwartz. ‘A central figure of the Bay Area…”

Guest curated by David Schwartz Special

Events: Gunvor Nelson Program 1 introduced by Lynne Sachs; Gunvor Nelson Program 2 introduced by David Schwartz; Gunvor Nelson Program 3 introduced by David Schwartz.