It's festival season! Get ready to see some amazing new films!
All events will be posted on my google calendar (below) and you can always check the links. Do you like it this way? Please let me know below!
SERIES
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OCTOBER 13TH - 23RD
Gotham Screen International Film Festival
Tribeca Cinemas, New York, NY
Pretty much what it says – a film festival and A screenplay contest. The GOTHAM SCREEN screenplay contest was launched in 2007 by a group of New York-based producers and production companies, to find up-and-coming screenwriting talent and great new stories. The contest was a great success, and several scripts have already been optioned for development and production. GOTHAM SCREEN decided to expand and add a film festival in 2008, and became the GSIFF International Film Festival.
OCTOBER 13TH - 17TH
Royal Flush Film Festival
Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Since 2005, Royal Flush Festival has had a huge audience, rabid for the latest and best in independent film, underground art & rock and roll. Royal Flush Festivalis a NYC’S unique arts festival, acclaimed by the press for it’s eclectic choices and punk rock aesthetics. Held every year at New York’s famed Knitting Factory, the RFF is the most-excellent, anticipated & must-see event of the entire year!
OCTOBER 13TH - 16TH
New York Comic Con
Javits Center, New York, NY
New York Comic Con is the East Coast's biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. Our show floor plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Our panels and autograph sessions give fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators. Our screening rooms feature sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either big or small screens. And with dedicated professional hours, New York Comic Con is a market place, bringing together the major players in the entertainment industry. New York Comic Con is the second largest pop culture convention in America and the only one that takes place in the comic book, publishing, media, and licensing capital of the world -- Gotham City.
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SEPTEMBER 30TH - OCTOBER 16TH
NYFF Main Slate
Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
Since 1963, The New York Film Festival has continued to bring new and important cinematic works by filmmakers from around the world. The Festival includes Main Slate selections along with special events, panel discussions, the experimental film showcase Views from the Avant-Garde, and much more.
The New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by Peña also includes: Melissa Anderson, Contributor, The Village Voice; Scott Foundas, Associate Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Dennis Lim, Editor, Moving Image Source & Freelance Critic; and Todd McCarthy, Critic indieWire.
SEPTEMBER 30TH - OCTOBER 16TH
NYFF: Special Events
Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
The 49th New York Film Festival will include more special screenings and events than ever before. From debuts to forums to industry dialogues, the Film Society of Lincoln Center can't wait to bring you a truly 360-degree view of the film world today. Stay tuned for even more additions to this exciting list of programs!
SEPTEMBER 30TH - OCTOBER 16TH
NYFF: Masterworks
Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
The New York Film Festival is proud to present these pieces of cinematic history the way they were meant to be seen—on the big screen. From the classic to the rare, from the familiar to the long-lost, each of these masterpieces has been meticulously and beautifully restored to their full glory.
Ben-Hur, Invasion, The Gold Rush, We Can't Go Home Again, You Are Not I
SEPTEMBER 30TH - OCTOBER 16TH
NYFF: Celebrating Nikkatsu
Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
“Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses†was organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center with Nikkatsu Corporation, the Japan Foundation, and the National Film Center of Japan. This Centenary Celebration of Nikkatsu will be screened later this year at the Festival of 3 Continents in Nantes, France, as well as at the Cinémathèque Française.
OCTOBER 1ST - 15TH
NYFF: Forums - some with online streaming
Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
At this year's New York Film Festival we are excited to debut a series of forums and panels designed to give you unprecedented industry insight and intimate access to NYFF filmmakers. All events are FREE (on a space available basis) at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater unless otherwise noted. Additional events take place at the Apple Store, Upper West Side (1981 Broadway). Many of the forums will be available to watch online via Livestream.
OCTOBER 2ND - 16TH
HBO Films Directors Dialogues
Francesca Beale Theater, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY
The popular HBO Films® Directors Dialogues returns to the New York Film Festival with a new home, the state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. The Directors Dialogues pair a director with a journalist as they discuss the filmmaker’s career, views on their own approach to making movies as well as the current state of the art of filmmaking.
SEPTEMBER 30TH - OCTOBER 13TH
The Last Picture Show
Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York NY 10014
OCTOBER 1ST - 31ST
Beneath the Earth Online Film Festival
Beneath the Earth is an online film festival that was created out of the idea that the Internet has given us new power to influence what content gets consumed and who gets noticed. We're already seeing it happen in music where musicians are discovered through the followings they create online. And now we'd like to see it happen for film and use this new-found power to shine the light on the little guy who's created something beautiful but hasn't been able to cut through the red Hollywood tape.
OCTOBER 1ST - NOVEMBER 2ND
BAMcinématek The Complete Vincente Minnelli
Few directors harnessed the explosive visual and emotional capacities of the widescreen, Technicolor frame as fully as Vincente Minnelli. A master stylist who honed his craft in the theater, Minnelli brought an eye for elaborate mise-en-scene and an intensity of feeling to some of the most spectacular films ever produced in Hollywood. This retrospective collects both the classic musicals that earned him his reputation, as well as the subversive and deeply personal melodramas that reveal the sensitive soul of one of cinema’s greatest artists.
Proudly presented in conjunction with the Festival del film Locarno.
This week: Double Bill: Father of the Bride + Father's Little Dividend
OTHER SCREENINGS
Below is the Google calendar with all upcoming events. Please comment below if you're going to an event or if you know of something else happening!
Feature by Melissa Hanson.
