Film Forum

10/16/2026

WAJDA 100 enters its last week with new 4K restorations by the great Polish director of ASHES AND DIAMONDS, MAN OF MARBLE, MAN OF IRON, KORCZAK, and more, plus Q&As following the 8:10 shows of SWEET RUSH with star Paweł Szajda on Mon, 10/19 and WALESA: MAN OF HOPE with star Robert Więckiewicz on Thurs, 10/22.

“A true master…His craftsmanship, his fearless commitment to the truth, his deep love for his homeland, his obsessive passion for cinema—you can feel it all in every frame and every cut of every picture he ever made.” – Martin Scorsese

Tickets and schedule: https://buff.ly/KuDmllF

10/16/2026

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, William and David Greaves’ marvelous documentary masterpiece, opens today at Film Forum with Q&As tonight at 6pm & 7pm with David & Liani Greaves.

CRITIC’S PICK. “A house party for the ages... A blissout and one of the events of this cinematic season...One of the sustaining pleasures of this wonderful, spirit-lifting movie is that – even with many of its contributors now gone – it feels excitingly alive.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Tickets available at https://buff.ly/y7e2iGQ

10/15/2026

Last call! THE SCOUT, Paula González-Nasser’s delightful NYT critic’s pick feature debut, must end soon! Screens daily at 2:10 through Thursday, October 22.

"An all-time great film on filmmaking.” – Brandon Streussnig, In Review Online

https://buff.ly/OrrBZNh

10/15/2026

Happy birthday to the one and only Isaac Mizrahi! 🥂💃 See doug keeve’s UNZIPPED as it rolls along in a gorgeous 30th anniversary 4K restoration at Film Forum.

“Truly incredible. Everything that comes out of his mouth is poetry.” - Charli

📸 by Tessa Belle Dillman

10/14/2026

Calling all Film Forum JR. agents! SPY KIDS screens this Sunday, October 18 at 11am - a FF JR. STAFF PICK introduced by Film Forum staffer Kashif Haynes 🕶️

Your mission: bring your family, friends, and minions to celebrate 25 years of Robert Rodriguez’s imaginative world of gadgets, high-wire action, with an all-star cast of Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin, Tony Shalhoub, and Alan Cu***ng.

https://buff.ly/49TM8pS

10/13/2026

ThreeASFOUR: Full Circle, the captivating feature doc debut by Sean Ono Lennon, opens exclusively at Film Forum in exactly one month on Friday, November 13.

More soon: https://filmforum.org/film/threeasfour-full-circle

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

Check out our exclusive poster premiere for Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz's The Friend's House Is Here, opening at New York’s Film Forum on December 4 ahead of a nationwide theatrical release.

10/12/2026

Elaine May’s one-of-a-kind MIKEY AND NICKY – starring John Cassavetes’ two-bit mobster & best buddy Peter Falk – screens in two weeks on Monday, October 26 at 8pm, followed by a post-film conversation and book signing with Todd Berliner, author of “Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece,” moderated by FF Director Tabitha Jackson.

“To watch Cassavetes and Falk inhabit their roles is to watch two great jazz musicians riffing on a score.” – J. Hoberman, The New York Times

https://buff.ly/v7hKLAA

10/11/2026

NEW PODCAST ALERT! In our latest episode of ‘Unfolding the Calendar,’ Director Tabitha Jackson sits down with Premieres Artistic Director Mike Maggiore and Premieres Programming Consultant Ruth Somalo to preview highlights from our October-December calendar.

Journey from Harlem to Montenegro, Tehran, and Kyoto with fresh work from familiar Film Forum faces such as Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Paweł Pawlikowski, & Julia Loktev, and upcoming favorites THE FRIEND’S HOUSE IS HERE, threeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE, and TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN.

Listen now at filmforum.org/podcast.