Film Forum Presents: LEON ICHASO – POET OF LATIN NEW YORKJanuary 8, 2024Long aspired to be a film director, Leon and friend and collaborator Manuel Arce began with a 20-minute surrealistic short before realizing their dream with the low-budget feature-length comedy-drama EL SUPER (1979), which The Miami Herald hailed … Read More
Film Forum Presents: STAR WARS EPISODE V- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACKJanuary 8, 2024“Smashing sequel to STAR WARS manages to top the original in its embellishment of leading characters’ personalities, truly dazzling special effects (which earned a special Oscar) and nonstop spirit of adventure and excitement. Story threads include a … Read More
Film Forum Presents: TÓTEMJanuary 8, 2024TTEM is Lila Avilés’ brilliant follow-up to her debut, THE CHAMBERMAID (a 2019 Film Forum premiere). It follows 7-year-old Sol as she assists her aunts in preparing for her father’s surprise birthday party, as the home becomes … Read More
Film Forum Presents: THE SUNSHINE BOYSJanuary 8, 2024As Lewis & Clark, dueling old-time vaudevillians pulled together for an after-many-years TV reunion, Walter Matthau and George Burns fought in a comedic fight to the finish from the play by Neil Simon. Read More
Film Forum Presents: SHALL WE DANCEJanuary 8, 2024 Read More
Drip Coffee: Unblended TakeoverJanuary 5, 2024Come join us to talk about young coffee farming & collaborative supply chains. We’ll be highlighting some coffees roasted by our partners! Where: Drip Coffee, 75 Varick St. Get Tickets Read More
Dahesh Museum of Art Virtual Salon: New Books on Nineteenth-Century ArtJanuary 5, 2024Please join us on Thursday, January 25, at 7PM ET for the Virtual Salon “New Books on Nineteenth-Century Art by AHNCA Members.” The Virtual Salon is a series of online events co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of … Read More
Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Jackie Robinson MuseumJanuary 5, 2024Honor the legacy of Dr. King and the fight for civil rights at the Jackie Robinson Museum, where you can learn about Jackie Robinson and Dr. King’s close friendship and their collaboration during landmark campaigns of the … Read More
Leveling the Playing Field: Women in Baseball at Jackie Robinson MuseumJanuary 5, 2024Leveling the Playing Field: Women in Baseball pays tribute to Jackie Robinson’s barrier-breaking legacy by highlighting how women of color are stepping up to the plate across the sport of baseball today. An all-star line-up of panelists … Read More
Film Forum Presents: INSHALLAH A BOY Q&AJanuary 5, 2024Q&A with Filmmaker Amjad Al Rasheed The sudden death of her husband leaves Nawal, a young Arab woman and her daughter without rights or property under Islamic law—and at the mercy of male relatives. Both her own … Read More
Film Forum Presents: ARTIE SHAW TIME IS ALL YOU’VE GOTJanuary 5, 2024Introduced by director Brigitte Berman Brigitte Berman is an Academy Award®-winning Canadian producer, director, writer and editor who was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her work in the film and television industry encompasses more than thirty-five years. She has … Read More
The Ear Inn Presents: Jon-Erik Kellso and The EarregularsJanuary 5, 2024The EarRegulars feature leader Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet and Matt Munisteri on guitar and feature guest artists every week. The play swinging, melodic classic jazz, i.e. everything from New Orleans style through the tin pan alley classics, … Read More
Film Forum Presents: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANGJanuary 5, 2024A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. U.S., 1968 Directed … Read More
Torch Trivia Night at Torch & Crown BreweryJanuary 5, 2024Welcome to Torch & Crown’s Trivia Night! Time to do two of our favorite things – show off in front of our friends, and drink some great beer. No ticket needed, so you can book a normal … Read More
Bonsai Bar at Torch & Crown BreweryJanuary 5, 2024Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai … Read More
Enter the Hudson Square Holiday Giveaway!November 28, 2023As part of the Hudson Square Business Improvement District’s Holiday Giveaway Campaign, we are excited to announce an Instagram Giveaway in collaboration with a few of our local retailers. Running from December 4th through December 21st, the … Read More
Art Exhibition: Polarity: Art Not ContentNovember 13, 2023Join rising photographer Christopher McCullough, a.k.a. Vice Virtues, for his debut exhibition ‘Polarity: Art, Not Content’, on December 2-3, 2023. This is a chance to embrace art as an organic dialogue between ideas and the soul. ‘Polarity: … Read More
NYC Fire Museum Annual Santa RescueNovember 13, 2023In a thrilling display of holiday cheer and public safety, the New York City Fire Museum is proud to present its Annual Santa Rescue event. This beloved tradition, now in its 2023 edition, promises an unforgettable experience for families … Read More
NYPR Presents A Guide to A Mash-Up Life: The Ethnic AisleNovember 10, 2023In the second installment of their residency, The Mash-Up Americans will sit down with Jaeki Cho, the face of Righteous Eats, and League of Kitchens founder Lisa Kyung Gross to rethink American food, explore what makes an item “ethnic,” examine what hospitality means, and create … Read More
Film Forum Presents: Buster Keaton’s OUR HOSPITALITY – A tribute to Carl DavisOctober 25, 2023Come and enjoy every suspenseful moment of this marvelous evocation of pre-Civil War America and a family affair (father Joe as trainman, Buster Jr. as prologue infant, and wife Natalie as love interest) that includes “a profusion … Read More
Film Forum Presents: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in 3-D (Jr. Addition)October 25, 2023In this 3-D film, Stooges comes to the rescue as a mad scientist and his assistant menace a frightened girl in an old dark house. Even non-Stooges fans will be impressed by the special effects (a whole … Read More
Film Forum Presents: DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOYOctober 25, 2023As Owen Gleiberman, Variety said ” … As a documentary filmmaker, Nancy Buirski comes at you from a heady, impressionistic angle. For all its tasty anecdotes, and there are lots of them, DESPERATE SOULS is less concerned … Read More
Film Forum Presents: GOING TO MARS – THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECTOctober 25, 2023“I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans /… When we go to Mars… / It’s Middle Passage.” Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni—witty, no-nonsense, brilliant—resists the conventional in life and art more … Read More
Film Forum Presents: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Jr. Addition)October 25, 2023Gene Kelly’s transition from silent to talkies goes swimmingly. Nonetheless, the perennial co-star Jean Hagen’s nasal shriek (“a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firm-a-ment!”) demands Debbie Reynolds dubbing. Simultaneously, Donald O’Connor knocks himself out tohttps://my.filmforum.org/singin-in-the-rain-ffj-23 “make … Read More
