New Releases at the Film Society

Brooklyn Castle

Director Katie Dellamaggiore in person for Q&A at the 7:00pm screening November 16!

Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team.

The Details

When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.

Starlet

An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale. Please be advised this film contains explicit sexual content.

Chasing Ice

Opens November 16!

Photographer James Balog documents the disappearance of glaciers in extraordinary time-lapse images while wrestling with a bad knee, faulty equipment and existential questions about our own uncertain future.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

Opens November 16! Q&A with Gregory Crewdson following Friday's 7:15pm screening, moderated by Noah Baumbach!

Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, this documentary reveals the process of acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson and is as mesmerizing and riveting as the images he creates.

Holy Motors

Returning (again) by popular demand!

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Special 40th Anniversary Screening!

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

4:44 Last Day on Earth

A Lower East Side couple await the end of the world in Abel Ferrara’s visceral imagining of the apocalypse, a haunting trance film and a mournful valentine to the director’s beloved New York.

Arbitrage

This feature directorial debut of writer Nicholas Jarecki starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandan, Tim Roth and Brit Marling is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance.

The Bay

Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

Boy

The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Inspired by the Oscar nominated Two Cars, One Night, Boy is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.

Coriolanus

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Corpo celeste

One week only!

Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church. Official Selection: 49th New York Film Festival.

Cosmopolis

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.

The Deep Blue Sea

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Delicacy

Audrey Tautou returns with this touching portrait of a woman trying to put her life back together after the loss of her husband, including embarking on an unexpected affair with a co-worker. A charming adult fable about starting over.

The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Director Serge Bromberg in person at Sunday's 8:30pm screening!

Presented in its fully restored original 1902 colors (and featuring a new, kinetic soundtrack by AIR), Georges Méliès’ classic adventure tale A Trip to the Moon is now as beautiful as ever. Preceded by Extraordinary Voyage, a fascinating documentary that chronicles the recent restoration of A Trip to the Moon to its original 1902 colors. Special Amphitheater ticket prices.

The Fairy

Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy follow their acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba with another Tati-inspired, candy-colored romp: this time, a charmingly off-kilter adventure about a hotel clerk who falls in love with a wish-granting fairy. Official Selection: 2011 Cannes International Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight).

First Position

A documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.

Hide Away

A successful businessman attempts to resurrect his life by purchasing and boarding a dilapidated sailboat.

Keep the Lights On

Keep the Lights On chronicles an emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in New York City through love, friendship, and addiction.

Mahler on the Couch

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud. Mahler on the Couch was the Opening Night film of the 2011 New York Jewish Film Festival.

Margaret

The film maudit of last year and in some critics’ estimation, one of the best, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s years-in-the-works second feature is a fascinating and often wrenching drama of moral crisis in post 9/11 New York.

Marley

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

Monsieur Lazhar

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, offers the school his services as a substitute teacher and is quickly hired. As he helps the children heal, he also learns to accept his own painful past. This moving film features exquisite performances by Fellag and a stunning ensemble of child actors.

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