A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.

In this sensual experimental elegy by Harmony Korine, spellbinding infrared photography evokes a dreamlike portrait of a tormented assassin.

In his long-derided but now-beloved adaptation of the writer Paddy Chayevsky’s novel of the same name, the British filmmaker Ken Russell explores the relationship between psychedelics, love, and primal instincts. Edward Jessup (William Hurt) is a Columbia University psychopathologist who studies schizophrenia by subjecting himself to high doses of LSD while floating in a sensory deprivation tank. His experiments test the limits of his mind and body, and his obsession with uncovering the origins of human thought strains his marriage with fellow “whiz kid” Emily (Blair Brown). Over the course of their tumultuous relationship, Edward’s sudden transformations and retreat into psychedelics become indicative of a male desire to cut-off society and take on a more primal state-of-mind.

A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.

A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson. Q&A with Johnny Jewel following screening.

From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist – West Side Story), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor – The Crown) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win.

After enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.

In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during a rapidly escalating civil war that has engulfed the entire nation.

Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another. From French master Bertrand Bonello (The Beast, Zombi Child, Nocturama), COMA is “a neo-Lynchian slow burn masterpiece” (International Cinephile Society) that creates a dream-like representation of our present. A “delirious marvel” (The Playlist) that breaks apart boundaries of genre, filmmaking, and storytelling, COMA bravely confronts the anxieties of today in order to imagine the possibilities of the future.

A young boy befriends a larcenous orangutan in a luxury hotel. Q&A with Ken Kwapis, moderated by Steve Macfarlane, following screening. Ken's 2020 memoir But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera available for purchase and signing.

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid lens to the cinematic road trip with GASOLINE RAINBOW. Undoubtedly candid yet deeply loving, this is an expansive portrait of the new generation as told in their own words. With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been — the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. The plan, in full: “Fuck it.” Through desert wilderness, industrial backwaters, and city streets, they connect with outsiders on the fringes and discover their lives will be determined by the trails they blaze themselves. These are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future — and The Party at the End of the World. A SXSW and Venice Film Festival selection, the mesmerizing GASOLINE RAINBOW depicts a wild and true coming-of-age. With a beating heart and an exuberant spirit, this rhapsodic look at today’s American West reminds us of the timeless joys of community.

The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star. Q&A with Roddy Bogawa following screening.

A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.

A diary-cum-thriller-cum comedy-cum-horror film shot on an iPhone (RIP BlackBerry!) for zero dollars with friends, IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER was born in the darkness of winter in a post-pandemic 2022 after a fateful 35mm screening of George Cukor’s NYC classic IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954). Indebted to the spirits of Larry Cohen, Anne Charlotte Robertson, and New York City herself, IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER is a time-shifting journey about the disorienting feeling of being in the city the past few years. It’s a movie for everyone who wakes up each day and continues to put one foot in front of other—laughing often, crying often, watching as many beautiful films and sports games as possible, aimlessly walking the city streets alone, making art, hanging with good friends—but ultimately doesn’t understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

The great Judy Holliday stars as Gladys Glover, a one-of-a-kind New York City girl who leaves her mark in the form of her name displayed on a giant billboard in Columbus Circle. Soon everyone in the city is enamored with the mysterious Gladys and wants to know who she is. The only one who is sour on her ingenious idea to make a name for herself is her boyfriend Pete Sheppard, a 16mm documentary filmmaker she meets in Central Park a few days before embarking on her billboard project. Most commonly described as a cautionary tale about fame, IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO you could just as easily be seen as a warning about dating insecure, judgemental, poor male artists. Behind its supposed happy (and predictable) ending lies a typically unanswered question about how exactly the wildly creative, full of life woman will fare after sacrificing herself (her career, her name, her city) for a dude. Shot on location in New York City in the 1950s, the true romance in Cukor's film doesn't happen between any two people but in the city itself, as it routinely delights in sharing the singular magic that exists here. Introduction by Gina Telaroli.

In 1979, South Africa’s fascist government sought to keep blacks and whites separate and unequal at all costs. But three young men from opposite sides of the color line dared to launch National Wake. THIS IS NATIONAL WAKE recounts the story of the “band that defied apartheid,” whose members and fans smashed every law to rebel — and documented themselves doing so in astonishing Super 8. Mirissa Neff’s acclaimed documentary is a dreamlike immersion into the wild journey of National Wake—a band whose vision of an anti-racist world resounds as loudly today as their Afro-punk sound. Co-presented with Pioneer Works. Post-screening Q&A with Mirissa Neff and NYU’s iconic "punk professor" Vivien Goldman.

When Virgil (Willie the Chimp) is recruited into a top-secret Air Force project, it’s up to two teenagers in love to save him and his buddies. This 1988 Human Rights Award nominee at the USA Political Film Society is both a tremendous dramatic vehicle for its lead human star, Matthew Broderick, and a powerful meditation on the US War Machine’s abuse of animals within experimental settings. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan (Truck Turner, Over the Edge, The Accused), this gentle film about ape-human relations is both thrilling and affirming.

In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind— embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. These shaggy and noble giants fight for survival as they find themselves on a collision course with the ever-changing world around them. Starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, acclaimed directors David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter) bring you the greatest Bigfoot story ever told.

The summer of 1990 is hot in the countryside of Thuringia, in former East Germany. Maria is about to turn 19, lives with her boyfriend, Johannes, on his parents’ farm, and would rather lose herself in books than focus on graduating. With German reunification, there is a sense of a new era dawning as Maria bumps into Henner, the farmer next door. One touch is all it takes to ignite an all-consuming passion between Maria and the headstrong, charismatic man twice her age. In an atmosphere buzzing with possibilities, love is born: a secret passion full of longing and desire that devours everything in its path.

In an effort to bring unity and equality to African-Americans, an interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.

In this relentlessly experimental debut feature from Canadian filmmaker Nate Wilson, a laid-up bicycle courier (Lea Rose Sebastianis) discovers that her older polyamorous boyfriend has been keeping a sinister secret in his closet. A romantic, raucously funny and overwhelming kaleidoscope of contemporary malaise that buckles, convulses, and finally erupts into a million jagged-edges - a nightmare comedy with the history of film at its fingertips, 'kinda like if Damon Packard had sex.' The All Golden will screen with The Straight Ball, a short and sweet 'one-reeler' sharing the same romantic leads, Co-Directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko. A Post-Film Q & A with Nate Wilson and the cast of The All Golden will follow the film. Moderated by KJ Rothweiler.

Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly. Q&A with Ken Kwapis and Amber Tamblyn following screening. Ken's 2020 memoir But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera available for purchase and signing.

A New York City film director working on his latest movie in Los Angeles begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.