Special benefit screening — 100% of box office, plus a 50% match from IFC Center, will go to director John Maringouin’s surgery fund. Additionally, 100% of proceeds from IFC Center membership sales/renewals at the event will go to the surgery fund Host committee: Jonathan Caouette, Ingrid Kopp, Scott Macaulay, Thom Powers, Esther Robinson, Morgan Spurlock, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/event/big-river-man/35mm Print! As close to a perfect film as you’ll ever see, the 1950s period piece BIG NIGHT is the story of two Italian immigrant brothers from Calibria, Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci), who run a small restaurant on the Jersey Shore. The place specializes in Northern Italian cuisine by Primo, a temperamental […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/big-night/In-person Q&As with Director Carmen Jaquier moderated by Joe McGovern of The Wrap on Wednesday, October 25 at 7:10 p.m., moderated by Esther Zuckerman on Thursday, October 26 at 7:10 p.m., and moderated by Jourdain Searles Friday, October 27 at 7:15 p.m. After the sudden and mysterious death of her sister, a 17-year-old novitiate explores her God-given […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/thunder/When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz) is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with enormous talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero (Antonio Banderas) and radical theatre actor Iván Torres (Oscar […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/official-competition/Celebrating its twentieth anniversary last year, IFC Films put together a collection of its best films to remind Americans why they’ve loved going to the movies for more than a century. Now we finally have the chance to present some of their picks on the big screen! Our monthlong tribute to IFC Films launches with […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/ifc-films-20th-anniversary-the-jokes-on-us/BREAD AND ALLEY1970 • 12 minutes • Black & White • 1.37:1 aspect ratio “The mother of all my films,” according to Abbas Kiarostami, starts out as a breezily observed anecdote about a boy wending his way home through Tehran alleys carrying a loaf of bread. Variations on both the boy and the old man […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/kiarostami-shorts-1/Click here to get a discounted ticket to both “Funding Your Doc” on April 30 and “Launching Your Doc into the World” on May 13. Save 25% off individual tickets — $150 for both events, or only $120 for IFC Center members. You have your documentary idea ready to go – and now the biggest question is where is the […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/funding-your-doc-boot-camp/When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a cache of vintage record albums that would change his life forever. Bizarre cast recordings – marked “internal […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/bathtubs-over-broadway/For info on the entire DEKALOG series, including A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE & A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING—plus special DEKALOG trivia!—click here. Dekalog: Five Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/dekalog-five-six/For info on the entire DEKALOG series, including A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE & A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING—plus special DEKALOG trivia!—click here. In order to secure funding from the Minister of Culture and Telewizja Polska (TVP) and Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), the television stations that produced the series, director Krzysztof Kieślowski and coscreenwriter Krzysztof […]
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