Film Forum

05/12/2025

TELEVISION EVENT opens Friday, May 30 with special opening weekend in-person events.

Documentarian Jeff Daniels’ gripping making-of chronicle of director Nicholas Meyer’s 1983 THE DAY AFTER, the most controversial movie ever to air on network TV, which played on Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation to a staggering 100 million viewers (the then-largest TV movie audience in history), and so disturbed President Ronald Reagan, it prompted a policy reversal on nuclear weapons.

Don’t miss Q&As with Jeff Daniels and Nicholas Meyer at 6:30 on opening night, Fri, 5/30, and Daniels and special guests on Sat, 5/31 at 6:10.

“Absolutely riveting, highly entertaining... a remarkable, often oddly funny, look at the broadcast network machinations at the time... a wild ride.” - Pete Hammond, Deadline

Tickets available now: https://buff.ly/h6FVlbF

05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day! 🌷🌞🥧 Jack Lemmon, alongside his mother Mildred after shooting the mother of all pie fights in THE GREAT RACE.

Screening in JACK LEMMON 100, our two-week series celebrating the actor’s centennial year, starting this Friday, May 16!

05/10/2025

LOVE, the first installment of Dag Johan Haugerud's must-see Berlin-winning triptych LOVE - S*X - DREAMS: THE OSLO TRILOGY opens this Friday, May 16, with Haugerud in-person for Q&As on opening night at 7:45pm and Sat, 5/17 at 5:15pm.

A tender, charming story of two hospital colleagues – Marianne, a straight (and straitlaced) doctor, and Tor, a gay male nurse – with contrasting approaches to intimacy and romance.

“Breezy, s*xy, thoughtful …Feels, in its quiet, conversational way, rather radical” - Guy Lodge, Variety

https://buff.ly/RV1uy38

05/10/2025

Remembering the one and only Fred Astaire, born on this day in 1899! 🎩 🎈

Let Fred & Ginger dance into your heart in SHALL WE DANCE - screening Sunday, June 1 at 11am in FF JR in glorious 35mm: buff.ly/ZbZcxds

Screening in tandem with our 4K restoration run of Masayuki Suo's 1996 SHALL WE DANCE? in its complete director’s cut opening May 30! 💃

05/09/2025

René Clément’s FORBIDDEN GAMES, a post-war masterpiece from the director of PURPLE NOON, opens today in a beautiful new 4K restoration.

“A remarkably unsentimental allegory of childhood innocence and adult ignorance. Straightforwardly simple but psychologically complex, the movie is sweet, sardonic, and ultimately shattering.” - J. Hoberman, The New York Times

Tickets available at https://buff.ly/IePpzB6

05/08/2025

Pixar’s THE INCREDIBLES screens this Mother’s Day, May 11 at 11am! Pack your super suit, bring the whole family, and stretch your legs for Brad Bird’s rip-roaring superhero showstopper 🦸‍♀️🦸🏼‍♂️👧🏻👦🏼👶🏻

🎟️: https://buff.ly/ixx2MCj

05/08/2025

Happy 100 Years to our friends at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library! 🎉

Tomorrow, 5/8 | 11 AM: Join us as we celebrate our centenary and the opening of our newest exhibition, 100: A Century of Collections, Community, and Creativity. Also, attend our open house and visit our divisions. https://ow.ly/HVFE50VMI9j

11 AM | Exhibition Opening
12 PM | Opening Ritual at Rivers Cosmogram and Archival Divisions Open House
2 PM | Rebuilding the Past, Making the Future
3:15 PM | 20th Century Harlem: An Evolving Site of Black Placemaking
4:30 PM | Art of the Moment: Dedication of the Rivers Cosmogram

05/07/2025

Hypnotic 1996 neo-noir CAUGHT screens in 35mm on Mon, May 12 at 8:10, wrapping up our special 3-film tribute to indispensable indie filmmaker Robert M. Young (1924-2024), with post-film conversation with novelist/screenwriter Edward Pomerantz, moderated by Academy Award®-nominated writer Zachary
Sklar.

“CAUGHT is the most carnal of recent movies, a film that reminds us how movies used to take s*x seriously.” – Roger Ebert

https://buff.ly/kfkghdK

05/06/2025

Claude Lelouch graces the The Criterion Closet! See his Academy Award-winning swooning sensation A MAN AND A WOMAN now playing in a new restoration at Film Forum.

🎟️ https://buff.ly/EBE04xd

05/05/2025

“This may be Mr. Burnett’s most radical truth-telling.” - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

The new 4K restoration of KILLER OF SHEEP must end this Thursday, May 8!

Screens daily at 12:30 & 5:45.

https://buff.ly/ijzuOxa

05/04/2025

Fawn over the timeless icon Audrey Hepburn, in 1929 🌷 Pictured alongside her pet deer and one-time co-star Pippin, with whom she bonded on the set of GREEN MANSIONS, directed by her then-husband Mel Ferrer 🦌