The best movie screenings in NYC this week
Every week, we round up the best movie events happening outside New York’s multiplexes, from major international film festivals (such as Sundance, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival) and revivals at Film Forum and BAM to one-off movie screenings and in-person Q&As with stars, filmmakers and experts. New York also has a thriving film scene in galleries and pop-up venues, and in the summer months, you’ll find a wealth of outdoor screenings in NYC parks and gardens across the city.
Movie screenings and events in NYC
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick’s lavish William Makepeace Thackeray adaptation is, increasingly, the film that suggests his greatest mastery. It’s also his most heartbreaking picture, with a magnificent turn by Ryan O’Neal as the Irish social climber. IFC Center plays it as a part of a 20th-anniversary celebration of The Sopranos—series creator David Chase is a huge fan.
IFC Center, Greenwich Village (ifccenter.com). Sat 12 noon; $16.
Blackboard Jungle
A decade before becoming part of the solution in To Sir, with Love, Sidney Poitier was part of the problem in this energetic high-school drama, featuring Glenn Ford in the role of the embattled instructor. “Rock Around the Clock” became the first true rock & roll hit.
Museum of Modern Art, Midtown (moma.org). Wed 16 at 1:30pm; $12.
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Though we’d call it a “mindboggling fantasia” or something, Jacques Rivette’s greatest film can’t be summarized in a two-sentence blurb. Just go, and bring a small bag of hard candy along with you. You’ll see.
Quad Cinema, Greenwich Village (quadcinema.com). Sat 12 at 6:55pm; $16.
Born in Flames
A slice of sci-fi feminism with a punk spirit and an electro soundtrack, Michigan maverick Lizzie Borden’s docu-dystopia has nothing even slightly staid or conventional about it. The movie is set 10 years after a second American Revolution, in a Manhattan where women strive for the same rights as men.
Alamo Drafthouse, Downtown Brooklyn (drafthouse.com). Tue 15 at 7pm; $10.
Trouble in Paradise
When folks speak of the famous “Lubitsch touch,” this is the film they most often cite: an elegantly hilarious tale of two jewel thieves (Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins) quarreling over their latest target, wealthy widow Kay Francis. It’s one of the best movies to come out of Tinseltown’s golden age.
Metrograph, Lower East Side (metrograph.com). Sun 13 at 2:45pm; $15.
La Religieuse
Jean-Luc Godard’s muse Anna Karina plays an unlikely nun in a New Wave classic that caused a sensation for being anti-Catholic.
Film Forum, Greenwich Village (filmforum.org). Now playing through Thu 17 at various times; $15.
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