In this, our fourth Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our (now three-month!) calendar for April – June 2024. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Since we expanded the calendar, we have also expanded the podcast into two episodes. Look out for the second part in early May, which will...

In this, our third Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung, Bruce Goldstein, and Mike Maggiore provide a behind-the screens look at our February-March 2024 calendar. They discuss films and filmmakers, a little FF history, the programming process, and what they each find particularly exciting about upcoming programming. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia...

In this, our second Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung, Bruce Goldstein, and Mike Maggiore provide a behind-the screens look at our December 2023/January 2024 calendar. They discuss films and filmmakers, a little FF history, the programming process, and what they each find particularly exciting about upcoming programming. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel...

For today’s episode, we take a turn from our usual format to bring you a sneak peek at the October-November calendar, guided by our programmers Sonya Chung, Bruce Goldstein, and Mike Maggiore. They discuss films and filmmakers, a little FF history, the programming process, and what they each find particularly exciting about the October and November offerings. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside...

In today’s episode, we bring you a Q&A with filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov following the opening night screening of his film 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL on July 14, 2023. Chernov is a Ukrainian video journalist for the Associated Press who captured unspeakable atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops during their siege of the port town of Mariupol in Sprint 2022. This reporting, for which Chernov and his team were awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, is the...

In today’s episode, we bring you a Q&A with the filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb and her father, the legendary New York writer and editor Robert Gottlieb, following the U.S. theatrical premiere screening of Lizzie’s documentary TURN EVERY PAGE: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB on December 30, 2022. TURN EVERY PAGE is a portrait of the literary partnership between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, the former editor in chief at Knopf and The New...

In today’s episode, we bring you a Q&A with filmmaker Amanda Kim following a screening of her debut feature NAM JUN PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV on March 27, 2023. Kim’s acclaimed documentary weaves together rare archival material, interviews with art world luminaries, and mesmerizing footage of Nam June Paik’s work to create an engrossing portrait of the artist known as the “Father of Video Art.” The event was co-presented by the Korea Society and the Asian American Artists’ Workshop,...

In this episode, Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein has an informal chat with Beatrice Welles, daughter of Orson Welles, who appeared at Film Forum in 2015 for the re-release of her father’s Chimes at Midnight. Beatrice talks about growing up with her famous father and her Italian mother, Paola Mori and shares her memories of being a 5-year-old on the set of Welles’ THE TRIAL. A stunning new 4K restoration of THE TRIAL, starring Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy...

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation with Amir Naderi, writer and director of THE RUNNER, one of the most revered figures of the Iranian New Wave, and Madjid Niroumand, who was 11 when he played the film’s central role nearly 40 years ago. The two joined Film Forum’s repertory artistic director Bruce Goldstein for a discussion following our opening night screening of a new restoration of THE RUNNER on October 28. Released in Iran in 1984, THE RUNNER wasn’t seen in New York until...

In today’s episode, we bring you a dynamic, thought-provoking Q&A from opening night of THE TERRITORY, the new double Sundance prize-winning documentary, on August 19, 2022. THE TERRITORY is an urgent, and immersive look inside the struggle by the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people to protect their territory in the Northern Brazilian Amazon Rainforest from invasion and deforestation. Filmmaker and cinematographer Alex Pritz spent three years embedded in the Indigenous community before...

In today’s episode, we bring you the fascinating discussion around our recent screening of the bold 1972 Afrofuturist science fiction film SPACE IS THE PLACE. The film, directed by John Coney, stars the iconic jazz and experimental musician Sun Ra, who also composed the film’s soundtrack and co-wrote the screenplay. The screening was co-presented by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), in association with Carnegie Hall’s city-wide Afrofuturism festival. We were joined for the...

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation from the opening night, March 4, of Sebastian Meise’s new drama GREAT FREEDOM. The film centers on an incredible performance by world cinema superstar, Franz Rogowski, as a defiant gay man imprisoned in post-World War II Germany under the draconian Paragraph 175, which outlawed homosexuality. We were joined for this event by filmmaker Sebastian Meise, star Franz Rogowski, and the acclaimed American filmmaker Ira Sachs, who served as moderator....

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation from the opening night, February 18, of Lisa Hurwitz’s hit new film THE AUTOMAT. The documentary explores the history and legacy of the beloved 20th-century culinary institution, Horn & Hardart, aka The Automat, with a charming mix of nostalgic archival footage, and interviews with devotees including Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Colin Powell, along with former Automat employees and their families. We were joined for this event by...

Today’s From the Archives episode features an audience Q&A at Film Forum with the Iranian master filmmaker Asghar Farhadi from January 10, 2012. He appeared during our premiere run of his drama A SEPARATION, which won that year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The Q&A was translated by Sheida Deyani. Today’s episode is presented in anticipation of our opening of Mr. Farhadi’s latest feature, A HERO, on January 7. It will be the sixth of his films to have its US theatrical...

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation with Ryûsuke Hamaguchi from November 30, following a screening of his newest film, the critically acclaimed drama, DRIVE MY CAR. The film just won Best International Feature at the 2021 Gotham Awards, and is Japan’s official submission in the same category for the 2022 Academy Awards. The discussion was moderated by Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson. Please check www.filmforum.org for showtimes and tickets.

We bring you the premiere screening of a new restoration of HALLELUJAH! the opening of our series Nina Mae McKinney, Hollywood’s First Black Star. The evening began with a talk between author Donald Bogle and Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Repertory Program Director, talking about Nina Mae McKinney, King Vidor and HALLELUJAH!. Margaret Bodde of the Film Foundation and David Pierce of the Library of Congress talked about the 35mm photochemical restoration. You can follow along here:...

We were honored to have the renowned Iranian artist Shirin Neshat join us to introduce a screening of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s sumptuous 1976 melodrama CHESS OF THE WIND on Sunday, November 7. Here she’s introduced by Bruce Goldstein. HIVE is an engrossing drama about a young widow overcoming tragic circumstances in post-war Kosova. Popular Kosovan actress Yllka Gashi gives a steely performance in the film, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize, and Directing Award at the 2021 Sundance Film...

Film Forum presents a Q&A from the opening of SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, on Oct., 29th. The film is based on hours of recordings between Speer, the highest ranking Nazi to be spared the death penalty, and screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who was hired by Paramount to write a script of Speer’s life story. We were joined for the Q&A by filmmaker Vanessa Lapa and producer Tomer Eliav, moderated by Roger Berkowitz, the director of Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center. Please check...

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A with Robert Yapkowitz, co-director of the new documentary, KAREN DALTON: IN MY OWN TIME, about the mesmerizingly talented, and largely underrecognized folk musician Karen Dalton. The event was recorded on opening night - Friday, October 1st. The Q&A was moderated by Rolling Stone associate editor Angie Martoccio.

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A from opening weekend of the new documentary, IN BALANCHINE’S CLASSROOM, about the brilliant artistry of ballet legend George Balanchine as both a choreographer and teacher, recorded on Sunday, September 19th. Filmmaker Connie Hochman was joined by renowned Balanchine ballerina Merrill Ashley for the Q&A, which was moderated by writer Amanda Vaill. IN BALANCHINE’S CLASSROOM is now playing.

Film Forum presents a lively Q&A from the opening night of FIRE MUSIC, an engrossing chronicle of the free jazz movement. Joining us for the Q&A were FIRE MUSIC director Tom Surgal, executive producer Thurston Moore--founder of the iconic band Sonic Youth--and legendary jazz drummer Warren Smith, who has played with a wide array of artists, including Charles Mingus, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, and Nat King Cole. In addition to his work in feature films, Photo by...

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A with filmmaker Bassam Tariq and star Riz Ahmed from the opening night of their acclaimed new drama MOGUL MOWGLI on September 3. In the film, Ahmed (who also produced and co-wrote the film with Tariq) gives a tour-de-force performance as a British Pakistani rapper whose successful career is threatened by a sudden illness that forces him to reckon with his own family, identity, and heritage.

Film Forum presents a conversation between filmmaker Wayne Wang and New Yorker writer Hua Hsu from the opening night of the new restoration of Wang’s groundbreaking independent film CHAN IS MISSING, on August 20th. Wang went on to make the acclaimed Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel THE JOY LUCK CLUB, which also screened during our run of CHAN IS MISSING. He continues to make vibrant work that centers on the Asian-American experience.

In this two-part episode devoted to EYIMOFE (THIS IS MY DESIRE): a Q&A from our July 23rd opening night screening with co-director Arie Esiri and producer Melissa Adeyemo, moderated by premieres programmer Mike Maggiore. EYIMOFE, the Esiri Brothers’ powerful debut feature, is a portrait of life in their native Lagos, Nigeria through the stories of two aspirational individuals navigating the vast, vibrant, and often unforgiving city. Please check www.filmforum.org for the showtime...