Happy Birthday to
@ssrajamouli
! 🎉 We had so much fun hosting him last month! The rousing, action-packed
@RRRMovie
left such a big impression on audiences that we brought it back this week. See it on the big screen while you can!
Back on the big screen where it belongs for an
#encoRRRe
, RRR is an exhilarating, action-packed spectacular! This is a one-night-only event and tickets are going fast! See it at IFC Center on Wed June 1 at 7pm.
🐅 🎟️:
There is simply no better image to use for a tweet informing you that tickets are on sale now for David Lynch's remaster of INLAND EMPIRE and Andrea Arnold's first documentary COW.
This Saturday is BONG day at IFC Center! Come join us to celebrate the phenomenal success—including a historic 4 Oscar wins—of Director Bong Joon Ho, and of our most popular film ever, PARASITE!
RRR
DARK GLASSES
LOSING GROUND
LAST FLIGHT HOME
PRETTY PROBLEMS
Wong Kar Wai retrospective
Tickets are available now for the week of Oct 7th thru 13th! 🎟
"RRR is CINEMA! It is glorious!" (
@jenyamato
) and it deserves to be seen on the BIG SCREEN TONIGHT!
We have added a second showtime at 8pm. Don't miss out!
❗️🔥🐯:
We love Laura Dern almost as much as David Lynch does. Happy Birthday Laura! Can't wait for you to grace our screens again soon in a ✨new restoration✨ of INLAND EMPIRE!
Hard to believe DADDY LONGLEGS opened 10 years ago next week! If you missed it or want to watch it again it's available to watch now on
#IFCFilmsUnlimited
!
“A heart-thumping political allegory.” –
@ManohlaDargis
,
@nytimes
Mark your calendars! BACURAU, the Jury Prize-winner at the Cannes Film Festival, starts in one month!
Wong Kar Wai, we can’t quit you! Gorgeous new 4K restorations of masterworks IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS, HAPPY TOGETHER and more held over through August 19! Tickets & schedule:
"You don’t need a flux capacitor to build a time machine. All you need to do is make a film." ⚡️
@nytimes
loves STILL: A MICHAEL J FOX MOVIE. The new documentary from Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim is now playing!
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE: 1967-1975, an extraordinary documentary that we played in 2011, is streaming for free this month, offering a vital look at our recent history:
"The first song ever from an Indian production to be nominated for an Oscar." A banger x 1000.
If you need us anytime over the next month/year/life you can find us watching and rewatching this
#AcademyAwards
performance of Naatu Naatu from
@RRRMovie
.
What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?💕
Don't miss your window to see Richard Linklater's Before trilogy on the big screen.
BEFORE SUNRISE: Now playing + extended thru next week
BEFORE SUNSET: Starts Fri
BEFORE MIDNIGHT: Starts 4/7
The filthiest people alive! Their loves, their hates and their unquenchable thirst for notoriety!
See them in all their divine glory with a new 4K restoration of PINK FLAMINGOS, playing for one week only!
🦩🎟️:
Always nice to see a horror comedy do something a little different and I was delighted to discover mid way through 'ONE CUT OF THE DEAD' that it was a zombie film mixed up with Michael Frayn's play 'Noises Off'. Super funny and super sweet. Deserves its monster success. Do see!
Before RUSHMORE and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS there was BOTTLE ROCKET, Wes Anderson's offbeat, electric 1996 first feature. 🧨🎬
Showing daily at IFC Center Sept 2-8. 🎞 In 35mm!
See it Saturday for $3 for
#NationalCinemaDay
!
The
@Criterion
Collection and
@newlinecinema
present the 50th Anniversary 4K restoration of PINK FLAMINGOS!
See a Q&A with director John Waters on Sun Jun 12 at the 4:00pm show and extended introduction at the 5:15 show—but hurry! Tickets are going fast!
Based on R. Crumb’s legendary underground comix, Ralph Bakshi’s X-Rated FRITZ THE CAT pushed the boundaries of American animation into controversial new territory. Screening Friday & Saturday at midnight!
Our upcoming
@Shudder
Showcase is an incisive horror movie that's not for the faint of heart. Join us Feb 12 for the East Coast Premiere of HISTORY OF EVIL!
And did we mention that
@PaulWesley
will join us in person for Q&A? 🔥 Tickets going fast.
"BROKER is sentimental and sweet, often funny, and a lighter take on Kore-eda’s ongoing project of exploring chosen families." –
@alissamarie
,
@voxdotcom
BROKER is now playing!
“Everything in Argento’s movies is trying to kill you.” -
@RealGDT
Throw caution to the wind. See THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, THE CAT O' NINE TAILS, DEEP RED, INFERNO + OPERA today, part of our new series Panic Attacks: The Films of Dario Argento!
"Bittersweet and beautiful, BROKER sits easily amongst Kore-eda’s finest films, and as one of the best filmmakers working today that is surely saying something." –
@suspirialex
,
@awfj
BROKER starts tomorrow!
Get tickets now to see David Lynch films on 35mm!
THE STRAIGHT STORY
Wed May 17 - 4:20
Thu May 18 - 1:00 + 6:35
LOST HIGHWAY
Sun May 21 - 7:25
MULHOLLAND DR
Mon May 22 - 8:30
TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME
Thu May 25 - 6:25
ERASERHEAD
Mon May 29 - 7:05
You want it, you got it. Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN,
@SightSoundMag
's newly crowned best film of all time, opens next Fri, Dec 9th at IFC Center. Tickets and showtimes coming Monday!
Don't miss SUCKER PUNCH at IFC Center this weekend on Fri/Sat at 11:30PM, featuring recorded intro from Zack Snyder!
Get tickets:
And check out
@izzio123
's exclusive new interview with Zack Snyder only on our
@letterboxd
. ⬇️
And the
#AcademyAward
for Documentary Short Film goes to... THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS!
See it along with all the fellow short film nominees, now playing! 🐘
#oscars
Our two week series The Films of David Lynch starts in two days!🎥A retrospective of the iconoclastic filmmaker, including ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET, WILD AT HEART, THE STRAIGHT STORY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE, rare shorts and more.
🎟
🍁 If today's weather has you 🎶 California Dreamin', there's a film for that. It's called CHUNGKING EXPRESS by Wong Kar Wai and we are showing it today at 5:30 PM.🎟
🎹 21 days, 80 participants, 10 finalists, and four grueling competition stages.
Warsaw’s International Chopin Piano competition is the Olympics of classical music, and PIANOFORTE gives you a front row seat.
Opens tomorrow. Sneak tonight with Q&A!
Don’t be alarmed, folks—IFC Center isn’t going anywhere. We know some of you are concerned, but we’re just making some long-needed repairs to our beloved marquee. Should be finished later this week, and we’ll be all ready whenever theaters get the green light to reopen.
🚨We are giving away this official OLDBOY hammer, recreated by NEON in honor of the 4k re-release of Park Chan-wook's twisted masterpiece, now showing at IFC Center! 🔨
For a chance to win, reply with your hardest-hitting theatrical experience at IFC Center.
Announcing WILLIAM FRIEDKIN: FATE AND FAITH, a retrospective celebrating one of Hollywood’s most daring filmmakers.
Highlights:
⚡️50th anniversary 4K restoration of THE EXORCIST
⚡️RAMPAGE, JADE, THE GUARDIAN + THE EXORCIST’s Director’s Cut on 35mm
"You'll never have me"
But you could have one of these LOST HIGHWAY posters on sale
@Posteritati
plus musings by/about David Lynch on sale at concessions and our webstore:
Screening today!
🍿FALLEN ANGELS
🍿CHUNGKING EXPRESS
4k restorations. 🎬 As part of The World Of Wong Kar Wai, our theatrical retrospective that's back on the big screen, by popular demand.
NEWS: IFC Center is reopening next Fri, Mar 5, and we can't wait to welcome you back to the movies! After being dark for a year, NYC cinemas have been given the green-light to reopen. Updates on our programming, schedule and enhanced safety protocols coming soon—stay tuned!
Sundays are for
#TWD
. Join our
#TWDFamily
for a live-cast of the first two installments of the Last Episodes in a NYC theater, Oct 2nd at 9pm ET.
Tickets are free & so is the popcorn, but seating is limited. RSVP or sign up for future screenings:
#WatchWhatYouRead
- Some of you may have watched THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 recently. We'd like to highlight the literary companion - available from
@haymarketbooks
- for your consideration.
📣Want to see a great movie this weekend?
Fun Fact: of the 250 highest rated narrative films on
@letterboxd
, we're showing nine this weekend alone here at IFC Center.
Join us!
BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT is "a profile of unfathomable courage that deserves to be seen, in part to honor those who supported the film’s supply of footage and cannot be listed in the credits for fear of repercussion." –The Playlist | Now playing!
Announcing our new midnight series Trashterpieces of the 90s! 🤩🎉 Join us as we fondly revisit the some of the high water marks from a bygone era of trashy, tawdry theatrical releases with this six-film, late-night series of 90s eye-openers.
"Somebody had to speak for us."
BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT is a remarkable portrait of courage. We're so excited to welcome
@HEBobiwine
and
@BarbieItungoK
to IFC Center for Q&A following select screenings – filmmakers too. Get your tickets now!
“I wanted to make the kind of movie that would play at the
@IFCCenter
at midnight.”
@sapphicspielbrg
at the
#Sundance
world premiere of I SAW THE TV GLOW.
We’re goals, y’all 😍
Happy Birthday to one of our favorites! 🥳 We can't wait to host Kristen Stewart again, but in the meantime, here's a Q&A she did at the theater for CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA:
We'd be nothing without Stew 🎂 Wishing a very happy birthday to the multi-faceted and always entrancing Kristen Stewart, a star of 7 (!)
@IFCfilms
— here's to many more!!
On Christmas Day, join us for CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN.
We'll be showing Julien Temple's fantastic doc on what would have been MacGowan's 66th birthday, as a tribute to the legendary frontman for the Celtic punk band The Pogues.
🎟️
POLYESTER (1981, John Waters) is screening this Friday and Saturday at Midnight! Part of our 6-film series SICKS BY JOHN WATERS.
Smelling is believing... ‼️ Free smell-along Odorama™ cards for all attendees, while supplies last!
Dick Laurent is dead.
But NYC theatrical exhibition is alive and well! 🍿🎥 Choose from 18 different films screening at IFC Center this weekend, including the 4k restoration of David Lynch's 1997 masterpiece LOST HIGHWAY.
🎟
Current ranking of NYC movie theater popcorn:
1. Film at Lincoln Center
2. Alamo Drafthouse
3. Paris Theater
4. Film Forum
5. IFC
6. Angelika/Village East
7. AMC
Launched with seven Q&A shows with Director Bong and cast, PARASITE opened at IFC Center on October 11 and immediately starting setting attendance records.
The film was our biggest opening ever, and has gone on to become our biggest film ever, grossing more than $850,000.
Ahead of Ozon's PETER VON KANT, celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fassbinder's THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. See the NY premiere of the DCP of a 4K restoration. Also screening: THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS and FOX AND HIS FRIENDS. Starts Friday! 🎟
We are beyond excited to welcome
@RealGDT
to IFC Center in two days! 🎉 The 7 PM
@pinocchiomovie
screening with Q&A is sold out, but there are some tickets remaining for the just-announced 9:45 screening with an extended intro.
An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas that has long remained unavailable, the deeply felt coming-of-age drama COLD WATER at long last makes its way to IFC Center for one week only starting Fri!
There are only a few days left to catch this retrospective featuring new restorations! Get your tickets to see these masterworks of Wong Kar Wai on the big screen:
Let’s just say when we are invited to spend a few minutes in a closet with Louis Garrel, the photos would not be fit for socials and we will leave it at that
A delightful visit today from Louis Garrel! His new film THE INNOCENT—part crime thriller, part family farce which he directed, co-wrote, and stars in—is now playing at
@IFCCenter
courtesy of
@janusfilms
! ❤️ 🎟️
See showtimes and get tickets:
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's breathtaking reverie MEMORIA returns Fri, this time with select screenings on 🎞️35mm🎞️. The first 50 people at each 35mm show will get a MEMORIA film strip, featuring 5 stills from the movie!
THE DOOM GENERATION is now playing! Gregg Araki’s provocative fifth feature premiered at Sundance '95, but hasn’t been seen again in its complete form until now. Restoring scenes cut for the film’s original release, Araki has lovingly remastered DOOM to its full, unhinged glory.
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES, Chantal Akerman's 1975 feminist masterpiece, opens tomorrow at IFC Center. Make plans to see the newly-anointed greatest film of all time on the big screen.
A heartfelt congrats to
@NYFCC
Best Foreign Film winner BACURAU. We welcomed the great Sonia Braga & directors
@kmendoncafilho
and
@jdornelles
back in March, for what we didn’t know then would be our final Q&A of 2020. Much love to them & to the good folks at
@KinoLorber
. 🙌❤️😢
THE BEAST starts April 5th! ⚡️From NOCTURAMA director Bertrand Bonello comes an inventive new sci-fi journey through the outer reaches of time itself!
Starring Lea Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, and Dasha Nekrasova.
🎟️
Jane Campion returns the big screen and we are so excited!
Ticket holders for the 6:55pm shows of THE POWER OF THE DOG this weekend have the chance to win a
@Criterion
blu-ray of Campion's stunning earlier work, SWEETIE and AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE.
We're delighted to team with
@TheAcademy
to present OSCARS SPOTLIGHT: DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SHORTLIST, showcasing 15 docs that enlighten, inspire, and captivate (including some with Q&As)! 📹See the full schedule and get tickets here: