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FRENZY, Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film opens in piercing new 4K on Friday, August 23.

Down-on-his-luck ex-RAF pilot Jon Finch is on the run from accusations of being ‘The Necktie Strangler’ in Hitch’s return to fiendish form and his most salacious, sordid picture, the only to receive an X-rating.

"A return to old forms by the master of suspense. This is the kind of thriller Hitchcock was making in the 1940s, filled with macabre details, incongruous humor, and the desperation of a man convicted of a crime he didn't commit." – Roger Ebert

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“It's only the dreamers who ever move mountains.” ⛰️

Werner Herzog’s monumental spectacle FITZCARRALDO continues with select screenings in tandem with our ongoing 4K presentation of Les Blank’s riveting making-of doc BURDEN OF DREAMS.

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THE COMPLETE MELVILLE opens this Friday, July 26!

An exhaustive appreciation of the legendary French director including major works such as LE CERCLE ROUGE, LE SAMOURAÏ and LÉON MORIN, PRIEST, and rarities like MAGNET OF DOOM, TWO MEN IN MANHATTAN, WHEN YOU READ THIS LETTER, and LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES.

On August 2, Melville’s 1969 Resistance masterpiece ARMY OF SHADOWS, starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Simone Signoret, opens in brand new 4K for an exclusive two-week engagement.

Tickets and showtimes now available: https://buff.ly/3zOhqds

Remembering POPEYE stars and fellow Cancers 🦀 Robin Williams ( in 1951) and Shelley Duvall 💛

Which version will you see today? ENO, a first-of-its-kind generative doc that’s different every day, continues with limited screenings through Thursday, July 25.

Shows have been selling out - don’t miss your chance at an utterly singular moviegoing experience! Tickets available here: https://buff.ly/3W5PoTv.

The luminous Natalie Wood was born on this day in 1938 🕊️

Seen here on location in Monument Valley, AZ with Patrick Wayne (son of John) during the production of John Ford’s mythic western masterpiece THE SEARCHERS, opening on Fri, 9/13 in a majestic, new 4K restoration scanned from the original VistaVision negative.

Our online ticketing system is back up!!

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BURDEN OF DREAMS, Les Blank’s enthralling behind-the-scenes doc, opens today in phenomenal 4K, plus select screenings of Werner Herzog’s obsessive epic FITZCARRALDO!

“A monument to Herzog's almost masochistic desire to do the impossible.” - Derek Malcolm, The Guardian

Editor Maureen Gosling, Harrod Blank, and Anthony Matt appear for a post-film Q&A after tomorrow (Sat) night's 7:40 show!

Tickets available at our box office.

“Beautiful. Cinematic poetry.” – Brad Hanford,

JULY RHAPSODY opens today!

Ann Hui’s lyrical, underseen 2002 gem of Hong Kong cinema starring Cantopop superstars Jacky Cheung and Anita Mui (in her final role), is finally bowing stateside, in gorgeous 4K.

Plus pre-recorded Q&As with Cinematographer KWAN Pun-Leung (Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046), moderated by filmmaker & Co-Founder Christine Choy:

-Tonight @ 8:00pm, co-presented by , with intro by writer/programmer Raymond Chow
- Tomorrow @ 3:30pm, co-presented by .cafe
- Sunday, July 21, 3:30pm, co-presented by and intro by Director of Programming, Frank Yan

Tix avail at our box office!

RIP Manfred Kirchheimer (1931-2024), the brilliant documentarian and friend of FF, whose indispensable NYC chronicles including STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED, FREE TIME, and WE WERE SO BELOVED from a 60+ year career have been a cherished fixture on our screens.

Photo 3: Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times
Photos 4 & 6: Elinor Kry, at Film Forum with Jacob Perlin () in May 2023

BLAXPLOITATION, BABY! is one month away! Full lineup is out and tickets are now on sale at https://buff.ly/3Y4Y79R

An explosive 16-film fest of the freshest, funkiest and foxiest flicks from the revolutionary ’70s film movement. Starting August 16, the weeklong series features iconic movies by Ossie Davis, Gordon Parks, Gordon Parks Jr., Larry Cohen, and Melvin Van Peebles and a kickass array of stars including Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Ron O’Neal, Tamara Dobson, Jim Brown, Vonetta McGee, Fred Williamson, Isaac Hayes, and more!

“Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation,” a new book by critic and series consultant Odie Henderson, will be on sale at our concession during the festival.

BLAXPLOITATION, BABY! is dedicated to author and pioneering film historian Donald Bogle, collaborator on FF’s first Blaxploitation festival in 1995, whose acclaimed TCM book “Hollywood Black,” a lavishly illustrated overview of African American movie history, will also be available for sale.

“Stanwyck doesn’t act a scene. She lives it.” - Frank Capra

Born Ruby Catherine Stevens on this day in Brooklyn in 1907, the ball of fire Barbara Stanwyck blazed an inimitable legacy, moving effortlessly across genres to etch countless indelible personas, from ice-cold femme fatales to riotous screwball seductresses, heartbreaking melodrama queens and fierce western dames.

🚨LAST CALL🚨

Jeff Zimbalist's captivating HOW TO COME ALIVE With Norman Mailer, Agnieszka Holland's viscerally powerful GREEN BORDER and De Sica's neo-realist gem SHOESHINE all must end this Thursday!

🎟️: http://buff.ly/2VMZIhX

Lino Ventura, the erstwhile wrestling champ-turned-immortal cinematic tough guy was 105 years ago.

Ventura leads ARMY OF SHADOWS, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 masterpiece, opposite an all-star cast of Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Paul Meurisse. The rivering WWII resistance film wasn’t released stateside until 2006 when it dominated best-of lists; it returns to FF on Friday, August 2 in a stunning 4K restoration, a week after our complete Melville retrospective (including Ventura’s star role in the rarely screened crime epic LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE).

The one and only Harrison Ford turns 82 today! 🤠 🎈 💫

Catch Indy light up our screens in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM & INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE this September as part of our expansive Spielberg festival.

Happy birthday Ana Torrent! 🍰 The enchanting Spanish actress will soon grace FF screens in Víctor Erice’s poetic swan song CLOSE YOUR EYES (opening 8/23), 50 years after she burst onto the scene as a Frankenstein-obsessed six-year-old in Erice’s haunting masterpiece THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE.

ENO, a first-of-its-kind generative doc that’s different every day, opens today with limited screenings through Thursday, July 25!

CRITIC’S PICK. “There’s a pure joy to this documentary, a sense that creativity is miraculous and we ought to be grateful that we get to participate in it.” – Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

Infinitely iterative (with 52 quintillion possible versions), Gary Hustwit's groundbreaking portrait channels the creative ethos of the hugely influential, self-described “sonic landscaper” Brian Eno, and mines from a trove of unseen footage and interviews with Eno and collaborators including Roxy Music, David Bowie, U2, Laurie Anderson, and Talking Heads.

Tickets are going fast! https://buff.ly/3W5PoTv

R.I.P. Shelley Duvall (1949-2024)

Feast your eyes on 7 magnificent vintage posters for Kurosawa’s electrifying epic. SEVEN SAMURAI is now playing in breathtaking 4K for the very first time - with a 15-minute intermission!

Tickets: https://buff.ly/3KyGCHa

Remembering the late, great Richard Roundtree, born on this day in 1942.

Catch his badder-than-bad star role in SHAFT as part of our upcoming 16-film fest BLAXPLOITATION, BABY!, running August 16-22. Can you dig it?

Happy birthday to the magnificent Anjelica Huston! 💙

SUGARCANE, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s powerful Sundance prize-winning doc opens on Friday, August 9.

After unmarked graves are discovered around Canadian church-run boarding schools, a hundred-year effort to strip First Nations children of their culture and identity is exposed. With tremendous empathy, co-directors NoiseCat and Kassie illuminate the intrepid investigation at St. Joseph’s Mission, capturing the intimate memories of survivors — including NoiseCat’s own father and grandmother, whose tragic story went unspoken for years.

https://buff.ly/4eT2JGe

"To explain De Sica, we must go back to the source of his art, namely, his tenderness, his love. The quality shared in common by MIRACLE IN MILAN and THE BICYCLE THIEF is the author's inexhaustible affection for his characters.” - André Bazin on Vittorio De Sica, in 1901 ♥️

Critics agree Agnieszka Holland's migrant thriller GREEN BORDER is essential viewing! Now playing at 1:30pm daily!

“EXTRAORDINARY. POISED TO BE ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR. Blends compassion with artistry so purely that there’s no way to separate them.”
– Stephanie Zacharek, TIME

“SEARINGLY POWERFUL. A work of devastating intelligence, striking visual clarity, and extraordinarily propulsive anger.”
– Justin Chang, The New Yorker

“The best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year.”
– Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com

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“Melville was not just a father figure to the French New Wave. He was ascetic warrior priest.” – J. Hoberman

THE COMPLETE MELVILLE starts July 26! The weeklong spotlight on the master French filmmaker runs the gamut from essentials such as LE CERCLE ROUGE, LE SAMOURAÏ and LÉON MORIN, PRIEST, to lesser-screened gems like LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE, BOB LE FLAMBEUR and MAGNET OF DOOM. The festival leads up to the new 4K presentation of Melville’s 1969 masterpiece ARMY OF SHADOWS, which opens on August 2 for a two-week engagement.

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🔊 NEW PODCAST ALERT! 🔊

In our latest ep of Unfolding the Calendar, FF Programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss premiere highlights from our July – September calendar featuring a constantly evolving, generative doc on Brian Eno, an immersive simulation in the White House Situation Room, a long-awaited swan song by Spanish master Víctor Erice, the fascinating world of NYC psychics, and more!

Listen now: buff.ly/2VtSKgy

Living legend Eva Marie Saint turns 100 tomorrow!🎇🍰

Spend your Fourth of July at FF celebrating the screen goddess in two of her most unforgettable roles: Kazan’s ON THE WATERFRONT at 2:30 and Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST at 7pm!

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