Summer Sounds, 3 nights of live performances organized by BAM artist-in-residence and curator Helga Davis, begins on Weds, Aug 5. This series is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVP for the latest info: https://tr.ee/ztDZtE

Wednesday, July 29, 7pm at @filmlinc.bsky.social La rabbia di Pasolini (Pier Paolo Pasolini) + Walk Me Home (Timothy Neat) Thursday, July 30, 7pm at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social Play Me Something (Timothy Neat) Friday, July 31, 7:30pm at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social Walk the Walk (Robert Kramer)

“Hold Everything Dear: John Berger and Cinema” opens this evening @filmlinc.bsky.social and runs through August 5 @bambrooklyn.bsky.social, @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, MoMI, and Metrograph ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

This week: "A new 2K restoration of Welcome II the Terrordome in U.S. cinemas, capping off a dramatic and decades-long reappraisal of the groundbreaking indie feature, written and directed by British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah." 🗞️ https://bit.ly/4wAEFjY 🎟️ https://tr.ee/iHyEbF

Ngozi Onwurah Talks ‘Welcome II The Terrordome’ Restoration

Janus Films and Criterion restored Welcome II The Terrordome’ in 2K. The film's re-release begins this week at BAM in New York.

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A film that was decades ahead of its time returns to the big screen in a new restoration. See Ngozi Onwurah's groundbreaking Afrofuturist classic in a gorgeous new restoration, then stay for a live Q&A following select screenings. 🎟️ https://tr.ee/iHyEbF

Listen in to a WNYC conversation with Contemporary Arab Cinema's programmer Lina Matta and director Cyril Aris. His movie, "A Sad and Beautiful World," screens at BAM on July 23rd. https://wnyc.org/browse/shows/episode/simplecast/e0ca7475-4979-4b73-82e0-2479c4e6db10 🎟️ https://tr.ee/VHCDn4

ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema is bringing "A Sad and Beautiful World" to BAM | WNYC

The annual film series ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema is back in New York, with screenings at BAM and the Jacob Burns Film Center.

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While supplies last: we're giving away a collectible 25MM filmstrip with each ticket sold to The Odyssey. Now playing. See it at BAM. 🎟️ https://tr.ee/12xMnY

"I was glad to speak with BAM's Yasmina Tawil about Electronica, but what follows is really a discussion of programming in its finer points: when to screen and why; when you can't screen but really want to." 🗞️ https://bit.ly/4gBUWQm 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4fjsTmF

Electronica ⚡ 💻 🎧 Jul 10—14 Foot-tapping, heart-pounding soundtracks anchor this series, an amalgam of Y2K and Cyberpunk films overflowing with dance-club debauchery and the criminal underground will surely get your heart—and mind—racing. https://tr.ee/XUc3B0

When the temperatures rise, our doors are open. 💙 This summer, BAM's Peter Jay Sharp lobby serves as an official NYC Cooling Center, offering a safe, air-conditioned place for our neighbors to escape the heat. 🕘 Cooling Center Hours: Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm, 30 Lafayette Ave

"Almond's gorgeous tone is often archly hilarious, yet there's a sadder chord underneath. Why is it so hard just to let someone in?" I'm Almost There closes Sunday, June 28. Get your tickets to the last shows now. 🗞️ https://nyti.ms/4wdhE5X 🎟️ https://tr.ee/ZaLgRH

8 Must-See Off Broadway Shows, New and Remounted

New York in June is a bonanza of Off and Off Off Broadway productions. Here’s our guide to shows we recommend, many in the city’s coziest spaces (and closing soon).

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The Baffler & BAM present “Global Texas,” 4 films interrogating the forbidding terrain & complex history of America's biggest state. 🗓️ Jun 30 & Jul 8 📽️ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Hud, Lone Star, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez 🎟️ https://bit.ly/44vwXuL

Tomorrow, BAM & ArteEast present: My Father and Qaddafi. The film takes the audience on a raw and reflective personal journey while discovering the troubled history and politics of Libya. Join us after for a convo w/ Anas El Gomati & Laila Sharif. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/43SuHgY

"Himiko is 'the kind of experimental cinema that no studio would have financed, complete with a discordant...score, extreme violence, and butoh dancers gamboling in wild costumes and various states of undress.'" 🗓️ Jun 19—30 🗞️ https://bit.ly/4w3EEnF 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4f0MTdF

Masahiro Shinoda: From Pop to Kabuki

BAM presents twelve films ranging from the early 1960s through the late 1980s.

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"'You’re never gonna believe this,' Almond says in his opening line, and the magical-realist tenor of much of the ensuing episodic narrative fulfills that line’s promise....an epic journey...an allegorical self-reckoning." 🎟️ tr.ee/ZaLgRH 🗞️ bit.ly/4eoo5fa

"Swoops us into a surreal vision...utterly charming...vivid." Be transported—I'm Almost There will take you away. Now playing through June 28. Get your tickets here: https://tr.ee/ZaLgRH https://blogcritics.org/theater-review-todd-almond-in-im-almost-there-at-bam/

Theater Review: Todd Almond in ‘I’m Almost There’ at BAM - Blogcritics

How do you stop being yourself? It's a question many of us face at some point. Todd Almond's Edinbur

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"Stuffed with crisp comic character sketches of a series of urban weirdos." The most New York musical, now playing at BAM. Tickets are on sale: https://tr.ee/ZaLgRH https://exeuntnyc.com/reviews/review-im-almost-there-at-bam-fisher/

Review: I'm Almost There at BAM Fisher - Exeunt Magazine NYC

Loren Noveck reviews Review: I’m Almost There at BAM Fisher at BAM Fisher

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"A truly Homeric yarn that plays like an absorbing blend of David Sedaris, Homer, and the Metropolitan Diary of The New York Times." I'm Almost There is playing through June 28. Get your tickets now: https://tr.ee/ZaLgRH https://culturesauce.com/todd-almond-im-almost-there-off-broadway-review/

Todd Almond’s ‘I’m Almost There’ charts a modern Odyssey in song (Off Broadway review)

Imagine if Odysseus was actually the middle-aged gay dude who lives in your building, the one who nods politely but never learns your name and always seems to be rushing off to some probably fabulo…

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“Everything seemed possible, new, a frontier. They vaccinated us, they educated us, moved us. The past was misery, another world, another century, another planet; we needed it less and less and we had to discard it forever.” https://www.screenslate.com/articles/everything-seemed-possible

Everything Seemed Possible

Ramón Rivera Moret’s Everything Seemed Possible (2025) derives its title from an essay by Arcadio Díaz Quiñones in which he describes Puerto Rico during its relentless modernization campaign in the 19...

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💀 🖤 Nuestra Escena: Punk Across Latin America In response to a myriad of contemporary societal maladies, youths across Latin America have built rebellious scenes for radical creative expression—alongside classic teenage hijinks. 🗓️ Jun 12—18 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4omU7Nb

Raoul Walsh's Band of Angels surprised me greatly when I did this piece and clip, it doesn't come around often, and it's at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social at 1:30pm today, introduced by Steven W. Thrasher, who co-programmed the series, Black Cops, Spies and Overseers: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

DVD of the Week: “Band of Angels”

Richard Brody on Raoul Walsh's "Band of Angels" (1958).

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Ailey this weekend was magnicifent. If you loved it, or if you missed it, read up in BK Reader: https://www.bkreader.com/arts-entertainment/alvin-ailey-returns-to-bam-with-a-celebration-of-black-spirituality-12381062

Alvin Ailey Returns to BAM With a Celebration of Black Spirituality

The program, with three numbers, beautifully balances history, innovation and spiritual reflection.

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"AAADT Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack’s excitement was palpable as she spoke of the return of 'Hymn,' Jamison’s epic collaboration with the brilliant Anna Deavere Smith." https://bit.ly/3Slenmd

Ailey’s BAM season centers inspiring power of the human spirit

A sure sign of summer is the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), June 4–7 this year.

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"A chaotic, complex, and hilarious preview of an upcoming BAM film series, with the Pulitzer-nominated writer [Craig Jenkins] co-presenting the events." https://www.bkmag.com/2026/06/04/talking-revolutionary-film-and-the-overseer-class-with-craig-jenkins-bam/

Talking Revolutionary Film and 'The Overseer Class' with Craig Jenkins

A chaotic, complex, and hilarious preview of an upcoming BAM film series, with co-presenter and Pulitzer-nominated writer Craig Jenkins.

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Celebrate Pride with us at Everybooty: "On June 14, the day rave Everybooty takes over four floors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/arts/pride-events-nyc.html

Pride Events in New York: What to See and Do This June

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"Punk is far from dead, at least at BAM. The series Nuestra Escena: Punk Across Latin America is a veritable treasure trove of famous icons and underseen gems charting the history and influences of Latin America’s punk scene." https://bit.ly/4o0aWx7

Do the right thing and see these movies in NYC this June

Spike Lee, John Early, the literal underground and the figurative underground are all on screen.

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the BAM, peforming "Hymn" for the first time in 15+ years. The piece is Judith Jamison's tribute to Alvin Ailey. Listen to artistic director Alicia Graf Mack in "Mornings On 1" discuss the program. https://bit.ly/4wZWr0B

AILEY returns to Brooklyn Academy of Music under new artistic director

Watch the full interview here.

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A Criterion ✅ : "A series of Urban Odysseys is on from today through Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Anthology Film Archives spotlights one of the late great innovators of experimental theater with Robert Wilson on Screen (through Friday)." https://bit.ly/49E3phM

"What does American cinema think of the Black authority figure? Every film in this series, programmed by Steven W. Thrasher (it’s inspired by his book The Overseer Class) and Jesse Trussell, offers a singular take." https://bit.ly/4aiFm87

25 Notable New Releases Over the Next Two Weeks

Love Island USA returns, Mary H.K. Choi’s first adult novel, and a cheat sheet for summer music festivals.

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Created by FRONTLINE PBS in collaboration with the Associated Press, 2000 Meters to Andriivka offers a rare, unfiltered view of modern warfare through combat bodycam footage and intimate moments of reflection. 🗓️ Wed, Jun 3 at 7PM 🎟️ bam.org/film/2026/frontline-2000