Past Films
COCAINE COWBOYS
Q&A with director Billy Corben & producer Alfred Spellman
Tickets will soon be available. The Miami-based production company Rakontur celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, having created numerous doc hits ranging from THE U (ESPN’s highest-rated documentary) to BROKE (premiering at this year’s ...More info »
FEED
Q&A with directors Kevin Rafferty & James Ridgeway
Tickets will soon be available “Best doc of the year” - Village Voice During the 1992 primary campaign season, directors Kevin Rafferty (ATOMIC CAFE) and James Ridgeway (Village Voice) took an insurgent approach by intercepting satellite feeds of ...More info »
F FOR FAKE
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles’s free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career—the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. ...
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BREASTS
Q&A with director Meema Spadola, producer Thom Powers & film subjects
STF Spring Season. Buy individual tickets or a season pass for $100 ($80 for IFC members). “A hilarious and equally poignant tribute to the cultural shape we’re in.” - The Hollywood Reporter “Strikingly original.” - New York Daily News Breasts ...More info »
JESSE OWENS
Q&A with director / producer Laurens Grant
STF Spring Season. Buy individual tickets or a season pass for $100 ($80 for IFC members). Selected as Opening Night film for Full Frame festival. He was the most famous athlete of his time, whose stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games ...More info »
WE’RE NOT BROKE
Q&A with directors Karin Hayes & Victoria Bruce
STF Spring Opening Night. Buy individual tickets or a season pass for $100 ($80 for IFC members). “Watch this movie and it will indicate why I support the spirit of OWS, if not every action” - @alecbaldwin Official selection of the 2012 ...More info »
ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK
Q&A with directors Nina Rosenblum, Daniel Allentuck and Mary Engel (daughter of Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin). Photo League members including the wife of Sid Grossman Miriam Grossman Cohen and Rebecca Lepkoff will be present in the audience to add to the conversation
8PM show sold out. NEW SHOW ADDED AT 9:50 PM with intro by filmmakers Pre-Season Spring Special. Buy individual tickets or a season pass that includes pre-season specials and regular 8-week season that begins April 10: $100 ($80 for IFC ...More info »
FROM HOLLYWOOD TO NUREMBERG: JOHN FORD, SAMUEL FULLER, GEORGE STEVENS
Q&A with director Christian Delage
U.S. Premiere! Pre-Season Spring Special. Buy individual tickets or a season pass that includes pre-season specials and regular 8-week season that begins April 10: $100 ($80 for IFC members). “An eye-opener for auteurists and armchair ...More info »
GIRL MODEL
Q&A with directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin and the founders of Model Alliance Sara Ziff and Jenna Sauers.
STF Winter Season Closing Night Co-presented with POV Description from TIFF 2011 catalog by Thom Powers: Girl Model shows a rarely seen side of the fashion industry. The film brings a novelist’s eye for emotional and psychological complexity to ...More info »
THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY
Q&A with director Carl Colby
A son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY uncovers the secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby’s son Carl, ...More info »
SMASH HIS CAMERA
Q&A with director Leon Gast
Please note: SMASH HIS CAMERA will start at 8:30 pm. “Famously and successfully sued by Jackie Onassis, and slugged just as famously and successfully by Marlon Brando, denounced from the pulpits of punditry for decades, [Ron] Galella has been a ...More info »
THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
Q&A with director Thom Zimny
Description from TIFF 2010 catalog by Thom Powers: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band for the recording of their pivotal album. Grammy Award® and Emmy ...More info »
TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT
Q&A with director Lisa Katzman
“Tootie represented a kind of soulfulness in the community, and a certain type of style, and everybody loved him.” – Wynton Marsalis TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT explores the complex relationships, rituals, history, and music of New Orleans’ vibrant Mardi ...More info »
ZELIG
Q&A with short film director Dana O'Keefe
”[Allen’s] remarkably self-assured comedy is to his career what… Berlin Alexanderplatz is to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s and… Fanny and Alexander is to Ingmar Bergman’s ... Zelig is not only pricelessly funny, it’s also, on occasion, very moving. It ...More info »
UNFINISHED SPACES
Q&A with directors Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray
“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961) Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, ...More info »
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Upcoming Screenings
May 22: SALESMAN
by Albert Maysles and David Maysles“I was spellbound. I’ve seen Salesman three times and each time I’ve been more impressed. Fascinating, very funny, unforgettable.” - Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES, April 18, 1969 “One of the most ...
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May 29: DELTA BOYS
by Andrew BerendsWORLD PREMIERE An American documentary filmmaker crosses the lines of Nigeria’s oil conflict in order to bear witness to the lives of the militants engaged in the struggle, and the civilians caught ...
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