In celebration of Nicolas Cage’s new movie SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (opening July 28), IFC Center presents a late-night tribute to the national treasure and one of the most versatile and eclectic actors of his generation, with a handful of his most iconic roles playing Fridays & Saturdays in July.
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/nicolas-cage-midnights/“The first time we saw Jesse and Celine, the ardent duo played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater’s 1995 romantic talkfest Before Sunrise, the two were meeting on a train and spending one long night wandering around Vienna — exactly the sort of random encounter that can feel like starry-eyed destiny when you’re […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/before-midnight-2/NYC Premiere! Filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s newest film examines the gifted, fascinating people behind the dark and difficult masterpiece that is 1969’s enduring classic Midnight Cowboy. Buriski delves deep into New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era. Featuring extensive […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/desperate-souls-dark-city-and-the-legend-of-midnight-cowboy/Screening followed by a conversation between critics Matt Zoller Seitz and his longtime writing collaborator Alan Sepinwall (TV: The Book, The Sopranos Sessions), who has named Midnight Run as his favorite movie of all time. Released fairly deep into an ’80s run of action-driven buddy comedies, Midnight Run is one of the very best, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/midnight-run/As the blockbuster AMC/AMC+ series The Walking Dead— not only an epic tale that spawned its own universe, but one of cable’s most popular series ever– comes to a close, IFC Center celebrates with a midnight movie series showcasing some of cinema’s most iconic zombies. Slow or fast, these bone-crunching, terrifying, human-but-not-quite creatures are coming to […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/midnights-of-the-living-dead/This late Winter + early Spring Waverly Midnight series will be a selection of films chosen by the many staff members who work at IFC Center. Starting in February, catch a variety of staff picks! See schedule below, additional titles to be announced, and be sure to check out our simultaneous series “Late Night Favorites: […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/waverly-midnights-staff-picks-winter-spring-2022/IFC Center’s “Waverly Midnights” is back! Screening Fridays and Saturdays at midnights, October 8-December 11. In celebration of the opening of the new sexy, car-centric TITANE, we’re hitting the pavement with some racy and turbocharged cult classics. Kicking off October 8-9 with CRASH, no doubt an inspiration to TITANE, the series includes genre classics such as […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/waverly-midnights-auto-erotic/“This 1996 feature was Lynch’s most audacious break from conventional narrative since Eraserhead. The enigmatic plot, shaped like a Möbius strip, concerns a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) who inexplicably changes into a much younger garage mechanic (Balthazar Getty) after possibly killing his wife (Patricia Arquette). The wife seems to have been reincarnated as a gangster’s girlfriend […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/lost-highway-autoerotic/Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, James D’Arcy and Jim Broadbent star in this British spy thriller set on the cusp of WWII, based on a true-life story. In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/six-minutes-to-midnight/Due to the unexpected closure of the theater on March 14, in order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Winter 2020 season of “Waverly Midnights: Hindsight Is 2020s” will not screen the films originally announced (below) for Friday March 13 through Saturday April 4. “Hindsight Is 2020s” assembles a dozen dystopian takes […]
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