DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, April 30Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 97 minutes NYC PREMIERE In rural Georgia, the self-taught African-American artist Nellie Mae Rowe created a breathtaking body of work across a plethora of mediums, reflecting the broader concerns of American political and social movements across most of […]
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, April 2Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 99 minutes Series Opening Night NYC PREMIERE The enduring fascination with comedian Andy Kaufman, who passed away 40 years ago, goes well beyond his very original style of comedy. In a world where freedom and autonomy are often […]
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, April 23Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 90 minutes NYC PREMIERE MoviePass, MovieCrash chronicles the origin story, meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the theatrical movie subscription app, MoviePass, as told through the eyes of the visionary co-founders. The film details the unique challenges they faced […]
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, April 9Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 81 minutes NYC PREMIERE In the 2022 Colombian presidential campaign, Francia Márquez, a Black woman from a rural background, challenges the status quo by declaring her candidacy. Reappropriating the derogatory term “igualada,” Márquez disrupts more than Colombia’s conservative […]
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, May 7Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 90 minutes MANHATTAN PREMIERE DOC NYC celebrates Star Wars Day (a little bit late, but c’est la guerre) with this irreverent portrait of comedian Connor Ratliff, who has been impersonating the iconic Star Wars creator George Lucas in a live cult comedy show […]
DOC NYC Selects: Winter 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, February 13Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 87 minutes NYC PREMIERE Emmy-nominated editor and first-time feature director Carla Gutiérrez takes the rare step of using the iconic Mexican artist’s own words, culled from diaries, letters, interviews and other sources. Mixing visceral animation of Kahlo’s influential […]
DOC NYC Selects: Winter 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, March 12Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 96 minutes NYC PREMIERE Crosstown High in Memphis, Tennessee, is a part of a national movement aimed at redefining the future of learning in the U.S. Lee Hirsch’s closely observed verité film immerses viewers into the lives of […]
DOC NYC Selects: Winter 2024 SeasonDate: Tuesday, February 27Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 90 minutes NYC PREMIERE More than six years after the 2017 reckoning of sex and power dynamics in the entertainment industry, filmmakers Caroline Suh and Cara Mones raise provocative questions about the impact of the movement and the public’s […]
DOC NYC Selects: Winter 2024 Season Date: Tuesday, February 20Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 96 minutes NYC PREMIERE Filmmaker J.M. Harper crafts an astonishing cinematic equivalent of the blistering emotional force of rap music itself in As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial, a Sundance 2024 competition entry. Harper’s cinematic composition follows rap […]
DOC NYC Selects: Spring 2023 Season Date: Tuesday, April 18Time: 7:00pm ETVenue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYCTRT: 119 minutes With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, filmmaker James Adolphus constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary’s sixty-year career in show business. The film reveals a complex icon, weaving Mary’s […]