Film Forum Presents: IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE in 3-DSeptember 13, 2023Come and enjoy a NYC PREMIERE of new 3-D film archive restoration! This experience will be like no other with 3- channel stereo soundtrack for the very first time in 70 YEARS!! Read More
Film Forum Presents: BILLY ELLIOT (Jr. Addition)September 13, 2023This movie tells the story of an 11-year-old boy“ BILLY ELLIOT, who lives in a coal mining town in northern England and dreams of becoming a ballet dancer—a young boy who has to train for the royal … Read More
Film Forum Presents: THE DIAMOND WIZARD in 3-DSeptember 13, 2023While in London trying to nab the crooks who stole a million smackers from a U.S. Treasury vault, T-Man Dennis O’Keefe (RAW DEAL, T-MEN) joins a Scotland Yard Inspector in his search for a missing atomic scientist. Read More
Film Forum Presents: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINESeptember 13, 2023Prepare for “An Unhurried Journey on the Great Tide of Modern Chinese History. This gorgeous, intoxicating epic is content enough of its visual and narrative power not to rush the telling. Traces the complex emotional relationship between its … Read More
Film Forum Presents: SELVES AND OTHERS: A PORTRAIT OF EDWARD SAID ~ (Special Screening)September 13, 2023This exciting and personal documentary is from 2002; a French film crew spent several weeks with Edward Said and his family. The result is SELVES AND OTHERS, an intimate documentary that offers a glimpse at Said’s thoughts … Read More
Film Forum Presents: THE SECRET GARDENSeptember 13, 2023“Tells the story, familiar to generations, of a young girl orphaned in India in the early years of this century and sent home to England to live on the vast estate of an uncle. Misselthwaite Manor is … Read More
Film Forum Presents: THE JOHNSTOWN FLOODSeptember 13, 2023The very first Best Actress Oscar® winner) plays a teenage girl smitten with dashing engineer George O’Brien (Gaynor’s SUNRISE co-star the following year), whose pleadings about the imminent collapse of the local dam are ignored. It’s up … Read More
Film Forum Presents: SHREK ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023Who doesn’t love the iconic Shrek movie and the infamous line ” DONKEY”? Green ogre Shrek, making a deal with the evil Lord Farquaad, agrees to save Princess Fiona from a fire-breathing dragon and deliver her to … Read More
Film Forum Presents: JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISESeptember 13, 2023“I am not a saint. I am a noise,” wrote 13-year-old Joan Baez in her journal, reflecting on a discordance between her outer and inner lives that would only deepen…The public didn’t know that she was subject to … Read More
Film Forum Presents: VICTIMS OF SIN (VÍCTIMAS DEL PECADO)September 13, 2023Vintage Mexican musical Noir, with Cuban-born superstar Ninón Sevilla as a dancer headlining the divey “Cabaret Changoo,” who rescues, then mothers, an abandoned baby from a literal garbage can to the ire of zoot-suited, low-life pimp Rodolfo … Read More
Film Forum Presents: PATHER PANCHALISeptember 13, 2023“A hymn to curiosity, courage, and conscience, it introduces Apu as an opening eye, innocent of adult anxieties but alert to adventure and moral discovery. A masterpiece, inarguably.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London) Read More
Film Forum Presents: ALICE IN WONDERLAND ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023“The animated ALICE IN WONDERLAND takes its title and characters from the immortal work of Lewis Carroll but adds a distinctive Disney touch. Alice starts to daydream one lazy afternoon and finds herself following a white rabbit … Read More
Film Forum Presents: TO KILL A TIGERSeptember 13, 2023In a small village in Jharkhand, India, in 2017, a farmer became embroiled in conflict when he and his wife reported to the police a horrific crime — after a family wedding, three village men dragged their … Read More
Film Forum Presents: SING-ALONG GREASE ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023Greaser John Travolta and good girl exchange student Olivia Newton-John are a pair of crooning, star-crossed high school sweethearts enjoyin’ some idyllic summer lovin’. But can their relationship survive now that school’s back in session? Read More
Film Forum Presents: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in 3-D ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023Pre-JAWS underwater terror as intrepid scientists Richard Carlson, Julie Adams and Richard Dennings search the Amazon for clues to the Missing Link and his prehistoric past, but instead, the eponymous 50s icon — variously described as a … Read More
Film Forum Presents: GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECTSeptember 13, 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 ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023“PULSES WITH LIFE! In a movie about making movies, you can sense the joy they had making this one…It remains one of the few movies to live up to its advertising. ‘What a glorious feeling!’ the posters … Read More
Film Forum Presents: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHYSeptember 13, 2023This Biography is an incisive contemporization of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel — which follows a British aristocrat as he changes sex and meets literary legends across the centuries. Philosopher and trans activist Paul B. Preciado asks, “Who … Read More
Film Forum Presents: Alfred Hitchcock’s THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023“Que sera, sera – whatever will be, will be,” warbles Doris Day, but little does she know that a Marrakesh vacation with hubby James Stewart will lead to kidnapping, murder, and a classically nerve-shredding race with a … Read More
Film Forum Presents: SUMMER STOCK ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023Review: “Garland and Kelly bring conviction to their love scenes and make them naïvely fresh. As a team, they balance each other’s talents: she joins her odd and undervalued cake walker’s prance to his large-spirited hoofing, and … Read More
Film Forum Presents: Frederick Wiseman’s MENUS-PLAISIRS LES TROISGROSSeptember 13, 2023Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary takes us to Central France and Troisgros — a Michelin 3-star restaurant owned and operated by the same family for four generations and a destination for gastronomes worldwide. Behind the scenes, we are … Read More
Film Forum Presents: KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023In a village in West Africa, the men have disappeared and remarkably precocious young Kirikou must confront the evil sorceress who took them. Based on West African folk tales. Review: “It’s a full-scale delivery of animation with … Read More
Film Forum Presents: Wes Anderson’s MOONRISE KINGDOM ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023“A girl and a boy, both 12, run off to a remote inlet on an island where most of the adults seem disappointed and more than a little sad. The girl and the boy are very serious … Read More
Film Forum Presents: HOME ALONE ~ (Forum Jr.)September 13, 2023It’s the ALL-TIME classic for this time of year. Get your hot cocoa and warm blankets ready for this film of “an 8-year-old boy named Kevin who is accidentally left behind by his vacationing family during Christmas … Read More
