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209 W. Houston St. New York, NY 10014

212-727-8110

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Best Place to Watch Old Movies
Award Winner 2011

Hours: Daily 12:30pm-10:30pm

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The only autonomous nonprofit cinema in NYC, Film Forum is the downtown haven for discerning cineastes. The films shown are of consistently high quality, ranging from rarities and revivals to showcases of new indies, documentaries and foreign films. The theaters are small-to-medium, the seats might seem rigid, and you can expect to wait in an outdoor line for weekend shows that often sell out. However, with award-winning popcorn and top-notch sound/projection on three screens, Film Forum is still sui generis in NYC, offering unique and challenging programming to counter the not-always-cozy atmosphere.

Elena

1:00 p.m. daily from May 16 until May 29

Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev (2011).
All Quiet on the Western Front

2:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from May 25 until May 31

Dir. Lewis Milestone (1930).
Greed

4:30 p.m. May 27

Dir. Erich von Stroheim (1924). W/musical accompaniment by Steve Sterner.
5 Broken Cameras

1:00 p.m. daily from May 30 until June 12

Dir. Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (2011).
Django

5:20 p.m. May 5

Dir. Sergio Corbucci (1966).

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2011 | Best Movie Revival

Erupting for a week-long run out of Film Forum's already zesty Robert Ryan retro, Samuel Fuller's 1955 House of Bamboo is no one's idea of a classic: a wide-screen, luridly Technicolor tale of love and corruption in the pachinko parlors of Tokyo that reeks of grind-house and Eisenhower–era triumphalism. Writer-director Fuller went on location in Japan to make the movie, and he never lets you forget it, madly shoehorning as much local color as possible into the action (every other shot... More »
2011 | Best Place to Watch Old Movies

Full-time nonprofit cinema Film Forum is still your go-to place for watching classic, avant-garde, independent, and foreign art films, not only because it features more of them, consistently, than just about anyplace else, but also because, like many of the movies it shows, it has its own rich history. It opened in its initial spot in 1970 as a screening space with 50 folding chairs and a projector; now it's a three-screen movie theater with 489 seats, many with donor-name plaques on the... More »
2000 | Best Movie Theater Candy

Decadence is the word for the Film Forum snack experience, where you can sip cappuccino and fork homemade cake in a theater that offers mostly foreign and independent films. The best--yes, the best--lemon cake taunts you from its glass case. Giant cookies and cranberry cake, croissants, and orange-poppyseed slices line the shelves, and there's a whole rack of herbal and caffeinated teabags. You can't get regular candy bars like M&Ms and Twizzlers, but chunky, fat Toblerone bars in... More »

Au Hasard Balthasar

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Dir. Robert Bresson (1966). Bringing together all Bresson’s ideas about acting, sound, and editing, as well as grace, redemption, and human nature, his heartbreaking and magnificent account of a donkey’s life and death in rural France is the supre... More »
The Scarlet Letter

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Dir. Victor Sjostrom (1927). America’s greatest silent actress Lillian Gish is Hester Prynne in this surprisingly faithful, silent adaptation of the Hawthorne classic; Swedish director Victor Sjostrom has an obvious affinity for this chilly anti-P... More »
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Dir. Robert Bresson (1945). Bresson began to find his style in this fierce, strategically stilted tale of sexual revenge—a transposition of Diderot to the swells of German-occupied Paris featuring an electrifying performance by Maria Casares and J... More »
Greed

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, December 28, 2011

Dir. Eric von Stroheim (1924). Reedited by Irving Thalberg, Stroheim’s singular exercise in American naturalism is Hollywood’s quintessential lost masterpiece. Just enough remains to suggest how brutal Stroheim’s film originally was and how brutal... More »
Laura

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, December 28, 2011

Dir. Otto Preminger (1944). Beloved by second-generation surrealists as a time-liquidating dream narrative of l’amour fou, Preminger’s career-maker is best appreciated as a flawed anticipation of two far more delirious psychosexual cine-obsessions... More »
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Film Forum

209 W. Houston St. New York, NY 10014

212-727-8110

Description

Elena

1:00 p.m. daily from May 16 until May 29

All Quiet on the Western Front

2:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from May 25 until May 31

Greed

4:30 p.m. May 27

5 Broken Cameras

1:00 p.m. daily from May 30 until June 12

Django

5:20 p.m. May 5

2011 | Best Movie Revival

2011 | Best Place to Watch Old Movies

2000 | Best Movie Theater Candy

Au Hasard Balthasar

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

The Scarlet Letter

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, January 04, 2012

Greed

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, December 28, 2011

Laura

By Jim Hoberman | Wed, December 28, 2011

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