Free Leonard Peltier
In FREE LEONARD PELTIER, acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit one of the most discredited convictions in modern America—the double life sentences handed down to Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota.
André Leon Talley: Style is Forever
André Leon Talley was a trailblazing fashion icon whose influence spanned nearly five decades. This documentary explores his legacy of inclusivity, elegance, and the fearless pursuit of authenticity. Interviews with Anna Wintour, Tom Ford and Diane von Furstenberg, among others, as well as never-before-seen footage, reveal Talley’s personal and professional challenges and remarkable triumphs.
Hereditary x Monstrous Bitch
Fjord
Tue, Oct 6: Sneak preview + Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan after the 6:15 show!
Tuesday, Oct 6: Extended intro with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan at the 8:15 show!
From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond with a neighboring family as unease begins to simmer around their rigid beliefs. When allegations of abuse emerge, they are forced to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice.
Regular engagement begins Fri, Oct 9. Additional showtimes to be announced.
Naza
In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.
Directors’ Note
We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanization of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.
— Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Sunday, Sep 27 at 9:10: Performance by Nicky O, NYC’s Pop Art Princess & Mayor of Ridgewood Drag before the movie!
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.