IFC Center

HB Studio Presents: Cleopatra

Wednesday, June 3 at 1:00: Screening hosted by HB Studio!

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison star in this sweeping tale of power and betrayal–the legendary story of the Queen of the Nile and her conquest of Julius Ceasar and Marc Anthony. Here is the truly unforgettable portrayal of the beguiling beauty who seduced two of Rome’s greatest soldiers and changed the course of history. Breathtaking in scope and grandeur, the picture won Oscars for cinematography, art direction, costumes, sets and special effects. In the tradition of epic romantic adventures like Braveheart and Titanic comes the greatest spectacle of all…CLEOPATRA.

About HB Studio:
The educator and actor Herbert Berghof is the founder and namesake of downtown’s HB Studio, NYC’s longest continuously-running acting school. Founded in 1945 with the egalitarian intention of providing a platform to strengthen the skills of New York’s professional and aspiring acting community, HB was also a home base for the three-time Tony Award-winning performer, writer and teacher Uta Hagen for over 50 years. The list of actors who studied at HB Studio is essentially a list of New York theater history: Jack Lemmon, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Matthew Broderick, John Leguizamo, Wallace Shawn, Candice Bergen, Anne Bancroft, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Stockard Channing, Sarah Jessica Parker and literally thousands more. For this special collaboration with our neighboring West Village theater, the IFC Center, HB will co-host a screening of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic CLEOPATRA, featuring Berghof in one of his many Hollywood roles.

Throughout HB Studio’s history, we have acted as a home for artists to hone their craft, to promote the value of excellence through effort and to honor the brilliant staff who have made us the longest continually active theater school in New York City. Since HB’s 1945 beginnings, the Studio has been inextricable from the history of American theater, film and television. The spirit that Herbert Berghof, Uta Hagen and hundreds of other teaching artists and creators crafted at HB Studio over the decades has never been limited to our longtime home at 120 Bank Street. For HB Studio’s first annual The Light We Carry Festival, running from May 30 to June 5, HB Studio will host performances, workshops, masterclasses, and other events across the city, inviting our community to appreciate and engage with the talent that HB produces today, to look back on all the work HB has done over the decades and to offer a glimpse of our future. Whether you’re a past student, a current practitioner, curious about becoming a new student or simply want to know more about the tradition of American theater, we invite you to join us for The Light We Carry. Find out more at hbstudio.org

Magic Hour (Open Captioning)

Please note that there are additional showtimes of MAGIC HOUR screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.

Charlie and Erin escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. A Duplass Brothers Production starring Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Katie Aselton (The League).

Official selection: SXSW

Saccharine

NY Premiere!

Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00: Sneak Preview + Q&A with star Midori Francis moderated by Caryn Coleman (The Future of Film is Female) after the screening

After succumbing to an obscure weight-loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical student Hana finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she’s eating.

Official Selection: Berlin Film Festival, Sundance

This special screening of SACCHARINE is the latest installment in “Shudder Showcase,” our monthly series that serves up special advance screenings of some of Shudder’s most exciting and provocative upcoming titles. The program offers sneak previews of some of the most talked-about genre films of the year in optimal conditions—on the big screen, in the company of fans. Each screening has free popcorn for Shudder subscribers

Drunken Noodles

Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. He begins interning at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once encountered is being exhibited. As moments from his past and present begin to intertwine, a series of encounters—both artistic and erotic—open cracks in his everyday reality.

Official selection: Cannes, New York Film Festival

“Humorous and horny in equal measure…the kind of queer art that (while it’s still legal) feels timeless and playful—a testament to the magical places the baser instincts can lead us.” – Nashville Scene

Maddie’s Secret

In his directorial debut, comedian, writer, and actor John Early stars as a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content-creation company. Maddie seems to have everything—adoring husband (Eric Rahill), ride-or-die bestie (Kate Berlant) and a cupboard full of ethically-sourced chili crisp—but mounting pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. A pitch-perfect blend of satire, melodrama, daring tonal shifts and intimate performances, MADDIE’S SECRET announces a bold new cinematic voice.

Official selection: TIFF, New Directors New Films

“Soars on the fuel of its open-hearted sincerity…it’s hard not to be beguiled.” – RogerEbert.com

The Easy Kind

The Nashville establishment tried to position singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook as the latest sweet young thing, but quickly cast her aside when she refused to fit neatly into a marketable box. In this genre-bending narrative debut from acclaimed documentarian Chevigny, Cook plays a fictionalized version of herself, navigating the personal and professional complexities of midlife. Walking away from money troubles, ex-lovers and family tragedies, this vulnerable, soulful and irrefutably ballsy artist forges a path to make music on her own terms.

Official Selection: Telluride Film Festival

Swapped (Open Captioning)

Please note that there are additional showtimes of SWAPPED that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes click here.

A buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Academy Award-winning Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple)—natural sworn enemies of The Valley—who suddenly swap bodies and must team up (while walking in each other’s feathers and fur) to survive the wildest adventure of their lives.

Swapped

Please note that there are additional showtimes of SWAPPED that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes click here.

Ask E. Jean

Thursday, May 21 at 6:30: Sneak Preview + Q&A with director and producer Ivy Meeropol and Lindsey Peoples (Editor-in-chief of New York magazine’s The Cut) moderated by Roxane Gay (Author, Professor, Editor, and Social Commentator) after the screening

Friday, May 22 at 7:00: Q&A with director and producer Ivy Meeropol after the screening

Saturday, May 23 at 7:00: Q&A with director and producer Ivy Meeropol after the screening

Trailblazing journalist, author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll broke barriers with her sharp wit and fearless voice. More recently, she reignited public discourse, as the only woman to beat Donald Trump twice in court, sparking a national conversation about truth, accountability and resilience. This intimate portrait of an indomitable woman shows it’s never too late to rewrite your story and change the world.

“A perfect mirror of Carroll’s habit of countering conflict with comedy.” – RogerEbert.com

Official Selection: DOC NYC, Telluride Film Festival

Pusher III: I’m the Angel of Death

New 4K Restoration! US Theatrical Premiere!

PUSHER III takes place over the course of a single day, with the now middle-aged Milo (Zlatko Buric) struggling to prepare his daughter’s 25th birthday party. As Milo fights his own personal demons in the form a drug addiction he’s trying to kick, his business day proves equally challenging once a shipment of ecstasy arrives in place of the heroin he was expecting. Forced to contend with a new order of young hoods in order to move this designer drug he knows little about, Milo must find a way to maintain his place of dominance atop the Copenhagen underworld. Milo’s attempts to keep a grip on the world around him become more and more strained, leading him to a choice of relative morality for which the cost proves greatest to himself and his new-found path toward reformation.

Screening as part of The Pusher Trilogy alongside PUSHER and PUSHER II: WITH BLOOD ON MY HANDS

See more and save! Get a Pusher Pack ($30 for IFC Center members and $45 for non-members). Ticket packs are good for any three screenings in the series.