Film Forum

06/23/2026

Happy birthday to the one-of-a-kind Frances McDormand! Photos from this past March’s YFF Archive Dive screening and reception of Robb Moss' THE SAME RIVER TWICE, which we were honored to have presented by McDormand and Joel Coen.

Mark your calendars for Moss’ river trilogy capper THE BEND IN THE RIVER, executive produced by McDormand and Coen, opening Friday, August 14 at Film Forum.

Photos: Tessa Dillman

06/22/2026

"All that's left on the cutting-room floor when I'm through are cigarette butts, chewing gum wrappers and tears. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard." – Billy Wilder

Happy 120th to the legendary late director & screenwriter 🎈

06/22/2026

Guy Maddin’s intoxicating 1992 masterpiece CAREFUL returns in a new 4K restoration this Friday, June 26, with Maddin in-person on opening weekend!

Presented alongside select screenings of Maddin’s delirious debut feature TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL [REDUX] (1988); dreamy WWI comedy-drama ARCHANGEL (1990); and his ravishing adaptation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (2002) in 35mm.

Tickets and schedule available at https://buff.ly/4IlzlzM

06/21/2026

Happy Father's Day from Film Forum! FF's Rep Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein pictured with Nicola Lubitsch, daughter of Ernst, at her home in Brentwood, with her father's honorary 1946 Academy Award.

See Ernst's HEAVEN CAN WAIT (an Oscar nominee for Best Picture and Director), the penultimate film in our THE LUBITSCH TOUCH series, this Tuesday, 6/23 at 12:50 & 6:00pm.

Painting of Lubitsch by Max Reinhardt’s famous scenic designer Ernst Stern in 1919.

https://buff.ly/vW1PTzl

06/20/2026

ROMERÍA, Carla Simón’s ravishing, richly naturalistic family drama opens this Friday, June 26, with Simón appearing in-person on Thursday, June 25 at 7:30pm (sneak preview!) and Saturday, June 26 at 4:45pm.

On the glimmering Galician coast, an adopted young filmmaker meets her paternal grandparents for the first time, and gradually pieces together long-kept secrets about her deceased birth parents.

“Catalan director Carla Simón makes a lovely return to autobiographical terrain with this delicate portrait of an eighteen-year-old aspiring filmmaker... Simón brings down the emotional barriers with graceful assurance and an abundance of sun-dappled coastal imagery.” – Justin Chang, The New Yorker

https://buff.ly/NW3GHcg

06/20/2026

Happy 74th Birthday to the great John Goodman!

06/19/2026

PROMISED SKY is held over for a second week at Film Forum! We were delighted to welcome filmmaker Erige Sehiri and star Laetitia Ky for opening weekend.

“POWERFUL. Deeply human... visually and texturally truthful.” – Tomris Laffly, Variety

Photos: Tessa Dillman

https://buff.ly/EHmQR1t

06/18/2026

Film, glorious film! OLIVER!, the 1968 Best Picture Oscar-winning musical screens this Sunday, June 21 as part of Film Forum JR. 🥣🎩

Director Carol Reed, photographed on set with his stars Mark Lester and his nephew Oliver Reed.

And if you are begging for more Carol Reed, catch a double feature with THE THIRD MAN, screening in beautiful new 35mm.

https://buff.ly/eWhN1Hr

06/18/2026

We're pleased to exclusively premiere the trailer for Film Forum's two-week Laurel & Hardy celebration on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of their first film for producer Hal Roach.

Comedy icons Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) will be getting a well-deserved retrospective in NYC this summer. "Laurel & Hardy," a two-week festival featuring more than 50 comedy classics, will run at Film Forum from Friday, July 10, through Thursday, July 23. The retrospective....

06/17/2026

Happy 90th birthday, Ken Loach 👑

The uncompromising, fiercely compassionate filmmaker of KES, I, DANIEL BLAKE, and THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, was subject to a 21-film retrospective at Film Forum in 2024.

📸: Robin Holland