The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn’t go down without a fight. With the help of Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd, the two join together to keep it open and find romance along the way. Sing along through this extraordinary story about passion, scandal and romance.
Screening as part of our series Dolly Parton: IFC Center Will Always Love You.
Steel Magnolias
Six divas of the silver screen – Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts – come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M’Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life.
Screening as part of our series Dolly Parton: IFC Center Will Always Love You.
9 to 5
In this witty, satirical farce, secretaries Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and office manager Lily Tomlin live every female worker’s dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their egotistical, sexist boss (Dabney Coleman). When they get an unexpected chance to take revenge, they turn their male controlled workplace into a model office – even as their scheme spins wildly out of control.
Screening as part of our series Dolly Parton: IFC Center Will Always Love You.
Pretty in Pink x Straight White Men Can’t Dance
Teen sensations Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) and Andrew McCarthy (St. Elmo’s Fire) drew rave reviews for their starring performances in this hit love story produced and written by John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles). Andie is a high school girl from the other side of town. Blane’s the wealthy heartthrob who asks her to prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it’s threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure. From its bittersweet story to its hip New Wave soundtrack, the film features great supporting performances from Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, James Spader and Annie Potts.
The Last First: Winter K2
Wednesday, September 30: Q&A with dir. Amir Bar-Lev after 7:00 show!
Thursday, October 1: Q&A with dir. Amir Bar-Lev after 6:50 show!
Friday, October 2: Q&A with dir. Amir Bar-Lev after 7:00 show!
In “The Last First: Winter K2,” Amir Bar-Lev tells a complex, harrowing and moving story that unpacks the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its changing culture. Focusing on a 2021 expedition, mountaineers John Snorri Sigurjónsson, an Icelander, and the Pakistani father-son team of Ali and Sajid Sadpara set out to be the first to summit K2 in the winter, when the mountain’s conditions are the cruelest. The men soon find themselves sharing the treacherous ascent with influencer climbers and their film crews, commercial expedition clients and Nims, a Nepalese celebrity mountaineer, and his team of Sherpas. “The Last First: Winter K2” takes us to the icy heights and unpredictable weather of K2 and reveals a surprising and layered story — one of strategy and determination, class and caste, money and power — all under life and death circumstances.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (Open Captioning)
Please note that there are additional showtimes of KNIFE that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.
More than 30 years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of author Salman Rushdie over the publication of The Satanic Verses, Rushdie traveled to Chautauqua, NY to speak about the US as a sanctuary for exiled artists. At his talk, a young man rushed the stage, intent on killing him with a knife. Using Rushdie’s works, including his powerful memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Oscar winning documentarian Gibney crafts a striking testament to freedom of expression and a defiant response to the attempt on Rushdie’s life.
Begotten
New 4K Restoration!
BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures:
God Killing Himself.
Mother Earth.
Son of Earth – Flesh on Bone.
The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth.God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains andtakes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth Flesh on Bone. He is cast into abarren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed, and briefly returned to life by his mother.The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grindtheir bodies down, and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.
Grey Gardens
Staff Pick by Bella Baynard, Assistant Manager
creening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Staff Pick by Chuckie
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
Spring Breakers
“I usually choose staff picks that are personal favorites of mine, but I only watched this one once when it was originally released in 2013, and I was pretty ambivalent about it at the time. This might be a natural (or even intended) reaction to a film that both traffics in and satirizes the most garish and nihilistic parts of American culture, a mix of hedonism, bad taste and petty corruption that are epitomized in this film and in our national consciousness by the state of Florida — which also serves as a mecca for the eponymous spring breakers. Korine smartly (and controversially) cast Disney Channel icons Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez to play against type, and James Franco is arguably at his best here playing the most Florida of all Florida Men ever put on the big screen. Cinematographer Benoît Debie (Enter the Void, Climax) renders it all in neon pinks, pool blues and Florida rays that shift rapidly from dreamy to nightmarish.
Despite my initial mixed feelings, I’ve started to feel this film scratching at my brain 13 years later. Perhaps it’s because video game violence, cheap pop aesthetics and reality TV bravado have now moved into the very center of power on this planet, and the people wielding that power treat the chaos they unleash with even less weight than the players in this film — something Korine seems to have seen coming a bit earlier than the rest of us. This mid-career entry from Korine is seldom revisited and hasn’t been embraced by younger cinephiles as much as his earlier work, despite (or perhaps because of) it being arguably his most approachable film. I think it’s time for a rewatch.”
Staff Pick by Christine Kecher, Business & Systems Manager
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026