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Union SquareAccent SistersA small curator-led film and art project that uses galleries and temporary spaces rather than operating a conventional theater.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 11:30 AM · 铁轨、野草和纽约：High Line 城市艺术徒步Downtown BrooklynAlamo Drafthouse Downtown BrooklynAlamo Drafthouse's Brooklyn cinema takes up the fourth and fifth floors of City Point, above the shops on Albee Square.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Other MommyFinancial DistrictAlamo Drafthouse Lower ManhattanAlamo Drafthouse's Financial District cinema sits two sub-basement levels below an office tower at 28 Liberty Street.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:45 PM · Your Mother Your Mother Your MotherOakwoodAlamo Drafthouse Staten IslandAlamo Drafthouse's Staten Island cinema is tucked into a shopping center on Hylan Boulevard, well south of the ferry and the North Shore.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · BeetlejuiceYonkersAlamo Drafthouse YonkersWestchester's Alamo outpost mixes first-run movies with repertory programming and full food-and-drink service brought to your seat.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · The Social ReckoningNoHoAngelika Film Center New YorkSix screens under the Cable Building, which McKim, Mead and White designed in 1894 to house the machinery for Houston Street's cable cars. You enter through the cafe at street level.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Moonlight (10Th Anniversary Remastered)East VillageAnthology Film ArchivesJonas Mekas and four others opened this in 1970 as a center for preserving and showing experimental film. It still screens more than 900 programs a year.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Vika Kirchenbauer Pgm 1RockawaysArverne CinemaAn open-air cinema in Arverne built by Rockaway Film Festival volunteers in 2021 and walled with recycled scraps of the boardwalk that Hurricane Sandy destroyed.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 5:00 PM · Local Filmmakers' Showcase 2026Westchester SquareBAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and DanceBAAD! has spent 25 years staging dance and performance in the Bronx, built around women, artists of color and the LGBTQ+ community.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 7:00 PM · HalloKween (2026)Fort GreeneBAM Rose CinemasBAM's film wing runs four screens on Lafayette Avenue, mixing new releases with retrospectives and underground work, often with the filmmaker or a critic on hand.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:40 PM · DiggerConcourseBronx Museum of the ArtsA free contemporary art museum on the Grand Concourse, with a collection and an exhibition program built around the Bronx and the people who live in it.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · Opening Celebration for 'The Woods Woman Method,' 'Beyond the Margins,' and 'Public Address'Prospect HeightsBrooklyn Central LibraryThe main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, open at Grand Army Plaza since February 1941, with free public programming that includes films, exhibitions and talks.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Poetry Reading with Tina Chang, Tishani Doshi, Nathalie Handal & Erika MeitnerRidgewoodCassetteCassette pairs a Ridgewood cocktail bar with a dedicated performance space, so a band booking and a neighborhood drink can share the same visit.Next: Tue Nov 24 · 8:00 PM · Holly Overton, Agua Viva, Boyce Delles, Matt Mckinzie Film ScreeningLower East SideCaveatA small bar and stage on Clinton Street programming comedy and lecture shows, the kind built around a subject rather than assembled as a straight stand-up bill.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 1:30 PM · Rent-A-Rescue: A Short Film ScreeningWest VillageCherry Lane TheatreNew York's oldest off-Broadway theater, on Commerce Street in the West Village, with a main stage and a smaller studio theater alongside it.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · School PicturesGreenwich VillageCinema VillageA firehouse from 1898 on East 12th Street, converted into a movie theater that has been running ever since on three screens.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:30 PM · The InviteWilliamsburgCloud CityA Williamsburg arts and performance space that occasionally hosts screenings alongside theater, music and experimental events.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · Brother CountryCobble HillCobble Hill CinemasA five-screen theater at Court and Butler that opened in 1926 as the single-screen Lido, still independently owned and still running first-run films.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:15 PM · Forgotten IslandNoHoCooper UnionThe East Village college that Peter Cooper founded in 1859 as a free center of learning, whose auditoriums still carry public talks, debates and screenings.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 6:00 PM · Seeing Together: Photography through Language and the SensesUpper East SideCzech CenterThe Czech Republic's cultural outpost in New York, inside Bohemian National Hall on East 73rd Street, with a 60-seat screening space and a Czech film program.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 7:00 PM · The DefendantChelseaElectronic Arts IntermixA nonprofit moving-image archive and arts organization where screenings grow directly out of one of New York's deepest collections of video art.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 12:00 PM · An Evening with Trevor ShimizuUpper West SideElinor Bunin Munroe Film CenterFilm at Lincoln Center's smaller building, across 65th Street from the Walter Reade, with two screens seating 150 and 90 between them.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:30 PM · Goodbye South, GoodbyeGreenpointFilm Noir CinemaA video rental store on Meserole Avenue with a small cinema behind it, in a building that used to be a funeral home.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · Psychic Reader Film FestivalGreenpointIndex GreenpointA coworking and event space on two upper floors above Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, with a roof deck, that opens up for screenings and public programs.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 2:00 PM · Poetry & ProduceGowanusInterference ArchiveA volunteer-run Brooklyn archive of social-movement culture where screenings sit beside exhibitions, talks and workshops.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Collections Management Working Group MeetingPleasantvilleJacob Burns Film CenterA nonprofit cinema in a historic Pleasantville building with five screens and a gallery, open more than 360 days a year, showing new releases alongside its own series.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:15 PM · You Had to Be ThereTurtle BayJapan SocietyJapan Society made film one of its core programs in the early 1970s. Its JAPAN CUTS festival, launched in 2007, is the largest festival of new Japanese film in North America.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · GROTESQQQUE U.S. PremiereMidwoodKent TheaterA neighborhood movie theater on Coney Island Avenue that has been open since 1939, still running current releases, with all seats at six dollars on Wednesdays.Next: Thu Dec 17 · 2:00 PM · Avengers: DoomsdayKew GardensKew Gardens CinemasA 1935 neighborhood theater on Lefferts Boulevard, reopened in 1999 to play independent and foreign films after years as a pornographic house.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Forgotten IslandMidtown EastL'Alliance New YorkA French cultural center on East 60th Street, in a Beaux-Arts building whose second floor holds a lending library of some 25,000 books, magazines and DVDs.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Ad LibitumProspect Lefferts GardensLefferts Historic HouseAn 18th-century Flatbush farmhouse moved into Prospect Park in 1918, now a landmark museum with a working garden and exhibits about the family and the people they enslaved.Next: Mon Oct 12 · 10:00 AM · Indigenous People’s Day School Holiday in Prospect ParkUpper West SideLincoln Center for the Performing ArtsLincoln Center gathers opera, ballet, orchestral music, theater and film on one Upper West Side campus, with several calendars running at once.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 1:00 PM · New Classics Film Series: GhostbustersJournal SquareLoew’s Jersey TheatreA grand Journal Square movie palace preserved as a historic theater, with film screenings returning as part of a broader restoration and live-event program.Next: Fri Nov 13 · 7:30 PM · Trey Anastasio BandHarlemMaysles Documentary CenterAlbert Maysles founded this Harlem documentary center in 2005, and its 60-seat cinema programs nothing but nonfiction, often with the filmmaker there to talk afterward.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:00 PM · Let Them Be SeenAstoriaMelrose BallroomMelrose Ballroom puts large live productions into an Astoria event hall with ceiling screens and a broad concert floor.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Cavo Paradiso - Special Event Screening & After PartyLower East SideMetrographA two-screen cinema that opened on Ludlow Street in 2016 around rare archival prints and premieres, with a restaurant modeled on the commissaries of the old Hollywood studios.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:45 PM · PaprikaMidtown WestMuseum of Modern ArtThe museum on West 53rd Street screens films as part of its regular program, in a 400-seat theater and three smaller spaces running below the galleries.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Un Film DramatiqueAstoriaMuseum of the Moving ImageA museum of film and television inside one of thirteen buildings of the old Astoria studio complex, where Paramount made pictures on the East Coast from 1920.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:30 PM · Bitter ChristmasUpper West SideNew Plaza CinemaA nonprofit Upper West Side film series keeping independent and repertory programming alive through borrowed and partner venues rather than a permanent cinema.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 4:00 PM · NazaLincoln ParkNewark Symphony HallNewark Symphony Hall has been the city's main stage for a century and is now the largest Black-led arts institution in New Jersey.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 2:00 PM · Africa On Stage Presents "Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds Film Screening"East VillageNightclub 101The Pyramid Club held 101 Avenue A from 1979 until 2020. Nightclub 101 took the space over and put a stage back into it.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Jawdropped, The HeavenPark SlopeNitehawk Cinema Prospect ParkOne of the oldest buildings in New York to have continuously housed a movie theater, opened in August 1928 as the Sanders Theatre with a single screen and 1,581 seats.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:45 PM · PrimetimeWilliamsburgNitehawk Cinema WilliamsburgThe original Nitehawk opened on Metropolitan Avenue in 2011 and got New York's prohibition-era ban on alcohol in movie theaters overturned three months later.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:40 PM · The Social ReckoningEast VillageParadise Factory TheaterAn off-off-Broadway nonprofit on East 4th Street that the actor Tom Noonan founded in 1983 inside a condemned ice cream factory.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 12:00 PM · An American OdysseyMidtown WestParis TheaterManhattan's last single-screen theater, a cinema of more than 500 seats just south of Central Park, now run by Netflix.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 10:05 PM · KluteRed HookPioneer WorksThree floors of studios, exhibition space and stages in Red Hook, founded by the artist Dustin Yellin as what he called a museum of process, with most programming free.Next: Fri Oct 30 · 8:00 PM · Machine GirlBushwickPurgatoryPurgatory puts punk shows and drag upstairs from a Bushwick bar filled with little alcoves, giving performers and conversation separate places to go.Next: Tue Oct 27 · 8:00 PM · Sunflower Cinema Club: Indie Music Video NightGreenwich VillageQuad CinemaWhen it opened in October 1972 it was the first theater in the city to put multiple screens under one roof. There are still four of them, two blocks from Union Square.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:45 PM · DiggerTribecaRoxy Cinema New YorkA 118-seat cinema in the cellar of a Tribeca hotel, showing new independent films and archival prints, with cocktails sold at the concession stand.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · All the Mornings of the WorldMurray HillScandinavia HouseScandinavia House brings Nordic concerts and films to Murray Hill, with exhibitions offering another way into the same cultures.Next: Wed Oct 21 · 7:00 PM · Tell Everyone | Screening & Film TalkBushwickStarr Bar CinemathequeA Bushwick bar and community venue that occasionally turns part of its programming over to film.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · Live Hip Hop: The Rap GawdzGreenpointSunview LuncheonetteA former Greenpoint luncheonette run as a co-op and member-based social club, and a sometime venue for art, poetics and mutual aid on Nassau Avenue.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 12:00 PM · The Hummingbird Launch PartyChelseaSVA TheatreThe School of Visual Arts runs two theaters on West 23rd Street behind a marquee topped by a Milton Glaser kinetic sculpture that moves on the hour.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 1:30 PM · New York Muslim Film FestivalBushwickSyndicated Bar Theater KitchenA bar and restaurant on Bogart Street with a 60-seat dine-in cinema in the back, open every day from 5pm.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · HopeFinancial DistrictThe BatteryLower Manhattan's waterfront park turns one of its lawns into a free outdoor cinema during seasonal public programs.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 8:00 AM · Guided Bird Walks (Multiple Dates)Financial DistrictThe CinemasA dine-in cinema in the Seaport, in the space IPIC built and no longer runs.Next: Mon Oct 12 · 7:00 PM · Get OutEast HarlemThe Museum of the City of New YorkA museum on upper Fifth Avenue given entirely to New York City, its subject the place's own character and its habit of perpetual transformation.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 5:00 PM · Free Late-Night WednesdaysGarment DistrictThe People's ForumA movement space on West 37th Street that calls itself an incubator for working class and marginalized communities, with a calendar of classes, talks and films.Next: Thu Nov 5 · 6:00 PM · Community Dinner | Community Church of New York x The People's ForumLower East SideThe Slipper RoomA Lower East Side variety theater where film appears as an occasional guest event between burlesque, cabaret, music and comedy.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Guest Event: Halloween 13 3/4 Strip of the Slasher Movie VillainsWashington HeightsUnited PalaceA 3,293-seat movie palace on upper Broadway that a congregation bought rather than let it be demolished, and that still books films and concerts.Next: Sun Dec 6 · 6:00 PM · Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)Union SquareUpright Citizens Brigade TheatreAn improv theater on East 14th Street with a school attached. The address on the door has changed more than once, and this is the current one.Next: Wed Oct 28 · 8:30 PM · REGULARS' The Movie - A Murder Mystery Halloween Screening + Comedy ShowEast VillageVillage East by AngelikaThe main auditorium still carries the forty-foot ornamental ceiling and the Star of David at its center from the Yiddish Art Theater that opened here in 1926.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Sb19 Wakas at Simula: the Trilogy Concert Finale in CinemasUpper West SideWalter Reade TheaterFilm at Lincoln Center's largest theater, a 268-seat hall on West 65th Street, and the venue where much of the New York Film Festival plays each fall.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · Red RocksRutherfordWilliams Center - Rivoli TheaterThe Rivoli is the main stage at the Williams Center in Rutherford, a restored theater that doubles as the town's cinema.Next: Tue Oct 27 · 7:00 PM · Nosferatu (1922) *Rivoli Revival*WilliamsburgWilliamsburg CinemasA seven-screen independent theater at Grand and Driggs, opened at the end of 2012 and run by the family that also owns Cobble Hill Cinemas.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:40 PM · DiggerBushwickWondervilleAn arcade bar on Broadway in Brooklyn where the thirty-plus cabinets are all independently built and free to play, with a stage that carries bands, comedy and drag.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · The Merrick Henry Hero ExtravaganzaRidgewoodWoodbineA Ridgewood space that opened in January 2014 and took its name from the street it started on, with film programs folded in among everything else it hosts.Next: Mon Oct 12 · 12:00 PM · Film Screening: Robert Richter & Stanley Warnow's In Our Hands (1984)