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NYC's state-of-the-art downtown cinema for the best in independent, foreign, documentary and classic films.
Hey look there’s Ty talking to the amazing Penny Lane at tonight’s WILD INSIDE screening.
An essential doc about the beloved, prize-winning poet, MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD is going into its sixth weekend, and we're excited to welcome director Sasha Waters back for a Q&A after the 3:05 PM screening this Sun, Aug 9! Get tickets: www.ifccenter.com/films/mary-o...
WILD INSIDE is "an invigorating philosophical exploration of animal life," says Richard Brody of @newyorker.com. See Penny Lane's latest documentary TODAY for International Owl Awareness Day! 🦉 www.ifccenter.com/films/wild-i...
Penny Lane's loving, tender documentary 'Wild Inside' about the celebrity owl Flaco is a film this writer can only take entirely personally.
‘Wild Inside’ Review: Flaco the Owl Can Still Change Your Life (and Maybe the World)
Penny Lane's loving, tender documentary 'Wild Inside' about the celebrity owl Flaco is a film this writer can only take entirely personally.
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Now playing! Get tickets while you can, because many of our shows are selling out! www.ifccenter.com/films/wild-i...
In the playful and moving ‘Wild Inside,’ documentarian Penny Lane takes on the subject of Flaco the owl, whose one year flying around New York came to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
WILD INSIDE is now playing, and birders are already flocking to the cinema to see the tale of a Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco who escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. www.ifccenter.com/films/wild-i...
Will Ferrell and Jon Heder are figure skating rivals who team up to defy a competition ban in the 2007 sports comedy BLADES OF GLORY. Staff Picks continues tonight with a flawless selection from theater manager Casey Gallagher! www.ifccenter.com/films/blades...
THIEF screens tonight and tomorrow!
In honor of MICHAEL MANN'S MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT now playing, we're screening THIEF, the director's influential and minimalist 1981 neo-noir, this weekend. See it at 11:20 PM on Friday and Saturday! ifccenter.com/films/thief/
In an interview from October 2024, Yashaddai Owens discusses his film “Jimmy” (2024), an impressionistic, intimate portrait of James Baldwin in Paris, with Elissa Suh. Distributed by Strand Releasing, “Jimmy” will open at @ifccenter.bsky.social today. bit.ly/4wwNZFt
BOMB Magazine | Yashaddai Owens by Elissa Suh
A debut feature film paints an impressionistic, intimate portrait of James Baldwin.
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“Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai Columbo.” – @ebertvoices.bsky.social THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER opens Friday! www.ifccenter.com/films/the-sa...
"Flaco represents freedom. What we all can do. The potential that we all have." 🦉 Everyone's talking about WILD INSIDE, the new Penny Lane doc opening tomorrow! The Q&A screenings that aren't sold out will sell out soon, so hurry and get your tickets. www.ifccenter.com/films/wild-i...
Tickets on sale now for screenings of MYSTERIOUS SKIN, with director Gregg Araki and novelist Scott Heim Q&As happening Aug 14 & 15. Official Selection: Sundance, TIFF, Venice Film Festival. Get tickets now for the glorious 4K restoration! www.ifccenter.com/films/myster...
“A delightful detour for the genre master.” – @avclub.com THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER opens Friday! From director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and starring Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka and Munetaka Aoki. www.ifccenter.com/films/the-sa...
Shot in dreamy 16mm black and white, Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature Jimmy offers an intimate, speculative portrait of what a young James Baldwin may have experienced during his first trip to Paris in 1948. JIMMY opens Friday + director Q&As! ifccenter.com/films/jimmy/
Now playing: the new 40th anniversary 4K restoration of MICHAEL MANN'S MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT, "a gory and gorgeous cop thriller" (@washingtonpost.com). Some news: Wanda Noonan (daughter of the late, great Tom Noonan) will be here tomorrow to intro! www.ifccenter.com/films/michae...
Penny Lane's new documentary WILD INSIDE opens Friday, and we could not be more excited for birders, Flaco fans and doc lovers to flock to the cinema for this charming tale of answering the call of the wild. Get tickets now: www.ifccenter.com/films/wild-i...
In honor of MICHAEL MANN'S MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT now playing, we're screening THIEF, the director's influential and minimalist 1981 neo-noir, this weekend. See it at 11:20 PM on Friday and Saturday! ifccenter.com/films/thief/
WILD INSIDE starts Friday! Very limited tickets remain for Q&A screenings. www.ifccenter.com/films/wild-i...
I adored WILD INSIDE, a doc about Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl and our relationship to (and ever-growing impact on) ecosystems of all manners. For In Review Online, Penny Lane and I talk about that beautiful owl, collaborative authorship, spark birds, and more. inreviewonline.com/2026/07/28/t...
Hey New Yorkers @ifccenter.bsky.social is screening the new 4K restoration of MYSTERIOUS SKIN again with Gregg Araki in person! August 14th + 15th and on the 14th the book's author @scottheim.bsky.social will also be there!! (Have you read the book? READ THE BOOK)
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Friday, August 14 at 7:15: Q&A with director Gregg Araki and Mysterious Skin novelist Scott Heim after the show Saturday, August 15 at 2:05: Q&A with director Gregg Araki after the show New 4K Restora...
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NIGHTBORN was just awarded the prestigious Cheval Noir trophy for Best Film at @fantasiafestival.com! Seidi Haarla also won Best Performance. See the US premiere on Tuesday as part of our Shudder Showcase series. Extended intro by director Hanna Bergholm! www.ifccenter.com/films/nightb...
NIGHTBORN is our new Shudder Showcase! A visceral, gripping and terrifying dark fable about motherhood and unconditional maternal love from the director of HATCHING, Hanna Bergholm, who will be here for extended intro. Screens Tuesday, July 28 at 9:30 PM. Tickets: www.ifccenter.com/films/nightb...
What a night for MANHOOD at our DOC NYC Selects opening! Close out the series with us — THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, next Tuesday July 28 at 7 PM at @ifccenter.bsky.social . Director Stephen Maing joins for a post-screening conversation: docnyc.net/the-great-experiment/ 📸: Ahmed Gaber
“A literary detective story that’s rich in the fine grain of daily life.” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social in @newyorker.com on LOST CHAPTERS. Now Playing! Director Lorena Alvarado in person after the 7:00 shows tonight and Saturday! www.ifccenter.com/films/lost-c...
Before SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, there was Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER, the genre-defining adaptation of Thomas Harris’s first Hannibal Lecter novels. MICHAEL MANN’S MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT is now playing! 4K restoration overseen by The Mann himself. www.ifccenter.com/films/michae...
200+ years after Washington called democracy "the great experiment," directors Stephen Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar check in on how it's going. Join us for the NYC Premiere on July 28 at @ifccenter.bsky.social with Stephen Maing. Secure your seat: docnyc.net/the-great-experiment/
Join us Monday, August 3 at 9:30 PM for a special screening of THRONE OF BLOOD. Filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa will introduce this classic, directed by Akira Kurosawa, and discuss its influence on his new film, THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER. Get tickets: www.ifccenter.com/films/throne...
My favorite animated film of all time, which has been completely unavailable in any US media for the past 30 years, has been recently remastered and is going to be screening at IFC Center in August. I am super looking forward to going to see it on a big screen. www.ifccenter.com/films/gandah...
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An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of a...
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Calling all Deadheads! ☮️ Poetic documentary SUMMER TOUR is a lyrical portrait of community and belonging, following magnetic young lovers Jerry and Annie on their journey across America for Dead & Company’s final tour. Now playing. www.ifccenter.com/films/summer...
Lost Chapters, Lorena Alvarado's first feature (opening Friday at @ifccenter.bsky.social), is a graceful family drama of literary inspiration and substance—and a lesson in cinematic style and form: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Lost Chapters” Weaves Literary Mysteries Into Family Bonds
The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature film, “ Lost Chapters,” starring her own relatives, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions.
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