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 […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/a-short-film-about-killing/Program recommended for ages 11 and up. Parvaneh (Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger) – 25 minutes/Switzerland/Dari and German: A young Afghan immigrant travels to Zurich where she encounters a punk named Emily. Boogaloo and Graham (Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney) – 14 minutes/UK/English: Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/academy-award-nominated-live-action-short-films-2015/Program recommended for ages 8 and up. Me and My Moulton (Torill Kove) – 14 minutes/Canada/English: One summer in mid-’60s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her parents if she and her sisters can have a bicycle. Me and My Moulton provides a glimpse of its young protagonist’s thoughts as she struggles with her sense that […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/academy-award-nominated-animated-short-films-2015/Recommended Ages: 5 to 10 SHORT FILMS FOR AGES 5 TO 10 – The best short film and animation from around the world, for ages 5 to 10. Program includes: A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log (Belgium/France – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE) Animation, Stéphane Aubier/Vincent Patar, 2014, 26 min: Prepare for more zany, stop-motion mayhem […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/nyicff-short-films-one/James Franco in person Wed Mar 5 at 7:00! (SOLD OUT) “James Franco has pulled off a devilishly difficult literary adaptation with this faithful yet cinematically vibrant version of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Like the multiple English master’s degree holder he is, Franco, with co-scripter Matt Rager, has wrestled to the ground the […]
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