Stranger Than Fiction
STF Winter 2012
Tuesday, January 17 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The hit documentary series celebrates its 19th season at IFC Center, boasting a lineup of sneak previews, tributes and rediscovered classics, with filmmakers in person for post-screening discussions. Organized by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen. Filmmakers in person at all shows. See below for film details or visit STFdocs.com.
Titicut Follies
Tuesday, January 17, 2012Pre-season special! Director Frederick Wiseman in person! 8:00pm show sold-out. Second show added at 9:55pm introduced by Wiseman! The film is a stark and graphic... more...
Girl with Black Balloons
Tuesday, January 31, 2012Opening night! Q&A with director Corinne van der Borch and film subject Bettina! “Like “Grey Gardens” reimagined by Chris Marker, “Girl With Black Balloons”... more...
Unfinished Spaces
Tuesday, February 7, 2012Directors in person! “Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961) Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed... more...
Tootie’s Last Suit
Tuesday, February 21, 2012Q&A with director Lisa Katzman “Tootie represented a kind of soulfulness in the community, and a certain type of style, and everybody loved him.” – Wynton Marsalis TOOTIE’S... more...
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
Tuesday, February 28, 2012THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band for the recording of their pivotal album. Grammy Award® and Emmy Award®-winning... more...
Smash His Camera
Tuesday, March 6, 2012Dir. in person! “Famously and successfully sued by Jackie Onassis, and slugged just as famously and successfully by Marlon Brando, denounced from the pulpits of punditry for decades,... more...
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Tuesday, March 13, 2012Q&A with director Carl Colby A son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM... more...
Girl Model
Tuesday, March 20, 2012Directors in person! GIRL MODEL shows a rarely seen side of the fashion industry. The film brings a novelist’s eye for emotional and psychological complexity to its portrait of two... more...
