The Big Cheese

A scrappy team of eccentric American cheesemongers defies tradition to take on the world’s top cheese masters at the Mondial du Fromage, battling cultural clashes, personal struggles, and melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption, and a historic victory.

Official Selection: DOC NYC

Michael Mann’s Manhunter: The Final Cut

New 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration!

Mann’s genre-defining serial-killer thriller returns in a stunning new restoration overseen by the filmmaker himself. A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a murderer and is forced to consult an expert—the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance). Adapted from the first of Thomas Harris’s Lecktor novels, MANHUNTER’s supporting cast includes Tom Noonan as the hunted killer, and three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen.

“Here, in only his third feature, [Mann] is at his very best.” – Empire Magazine

Lost Chapters

After years spent abroad, Ena returns to Caracas where she finds her grandmother losing her memory and her father searching for rare Venezuelan books. She discovers a postcard in her father’s bookshop and sets off in search of a forgotten writer.

CineVet Showcase

Tickets are free to the public and will be available at the IFC Center box office starting at noon on Tuesday, July 7, while supplies last.

Join us as we celebrate veteran voices on July 7 for a special edition of the CineVet Veteran Film Showcase, co-presented by The New School’s Center for Military Affiliated Students, AMC Global Media’s Future of Film initiative, and IFC Center.  This gathering celebrates veteran filmmakers and the powerful stories they’re bringing to the screen.

Screening in honor of Fleet Week and the International Naval Review, the showcase will feature seven veteran-made short films:

THE SMALL HOURS (dir. Andrew Coughlin, U.S. Army Veteran)
REALM OF UNKNOWNS (dir. Sean Ryan, U.S. Army Veteran and panelist)
I AM THE WARRIOR (dir. Kevin Resnick, U.S. Air Force Veteran and panelist)
DULCE ET DECORUM EST (dir. Walter Haussner, U.S. Air Force Veteran)
SOLEDAD (dir. Jon Navarro, U.S. Army Veteran)
LOVELY LOLA JEAN (dir. Andrew Wiscombe, U.S. Army Veteran and panelist)
HONOR SONG (dir. Ryan Begay, U.S. Air Force Veteran and panelist)

Filmmakers will take part in a panel discussion following the screening moderated by CineVet director Curtis J. Dorval, U.S. Air Force Veteran

Bully

Screening on 35mm!

The true story of a group of Florida teenagers who conspired to kill an abusive classmate who used psychological, physical and sexual violence against them.

Staff Pick by Chris Hickey, usher

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026

The Departed

Martin Scorsese directs an all-star cast in this action-packed thriller set in Boston, where a long-simmering hostility between the police department and an Irish-American gang led by Costello (Jack Nicholson) is primed to explode. The fuse is lit when a gangster (Matt Damon) is chosen to infiltrate the police force–and a young cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes undercover within the gang. Now, when the two moles uncover each other’s identity, the battle begins.?

Screening as part of Late Night Favorites: Summer 2026

Sheep in the Box

Two years after losing their son Kakeru, Otone and her husband Kensuke take into their lives a humanoid from a company that rents humanoids to bereaved families as replacements for lost loved ones. The robot looks and behaves exactly like Kakeru, with Otone embracing its arrival as Kensuke struggles to accept it. Living with “him” seems to restore the flow of time within the family, yet gradually exposes the unspoken wounds and lingering regrets each parent carries after the loss. All the while, he begins to slip away to meet other humanoid children, unnoticed by the parents.

The Samurai and the Prisoner

Friday, July 31 at 6:05: Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa after the screening

Friday, July 31 at 9:25: Extended introduction by director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Sunday, August 2 at 2:40: Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa after the screening

Monday, August 3 at 6:05: Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa after the screening

When Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda (Masaki Suda), he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With Oda’s army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant yet dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon. Helped by his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and his most loyal generals, Murashige must uncover the truth before the castle falls.

“Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai Columbo.” – RogerEbert.com

The Producers

Celebrate Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday on Sunday, June 28 with his Oscar-winning film THE PRODUCERS (1967), starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilde and screening in arthouses all across the continent in tribute to this comedy legend.

Born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, Mel Brooks (borrowing his mother’s maiden name, Brookman) worked the Catskills resorts, wrote for Sid Caesar’s programs, and created The 2000 Year-Old Man, The Critic, and Get Smart before launching his all-timer film career with THE PRODUCERS in 1968.

Once the King of The Great White Way, Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is reduced to romancing old ladies to finance his next flop show. But when nervous accountant Leopold Bloom (Gene Wilder) surmises that more money could be made from a flop than a hit, the next step is to produce the Busby Berkeley-esque musical Springtime for Hitler and to cast stoned-out Flower Child “LSD” (Dick Shawn) in the lead. A surefire flop—or is it? Writer/director Brooks nabbed an Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay in 1968, while his movie skyrocketed from controversial cult comedy to Classic, now on the National Film Registry and umpteen lists of the funniest movies ever made, with Mostel and Wilder considered the greatest comedy team since Laurel & Hardy and The Marx Brothers.

Unforgiven

Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself “The Schofield Kid”.

Staff Pick by Zak Koerner, usher

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026