Original Daily News article with FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD headline (October 30, 1975) New York City in the 1970s was perceived as a place of danger, decay, and paranoia, where people “didn’t get involved” — especially following high-profile crimes like …

John Ford’s HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY OCTOBER 6 George Stevens’ SHANE CLASSICS FOR KIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES SUNDAYS @ 11am • ALL SEATS $13 & $11 (MEMBERS) • FALL 2024 OCTOBER 20 THE ORIGINAL PLANET OF THE APES (1968) OCTOBER 13 STAN & OLLIE & CO. 4 Hal Roach comedy shorts shot by George Stevens CLASSICS FOR KIDS …

THE FRENCH CONNECTION DATES/SHOWTIMES JULY 8 SAT 12:30, 2:40, 7:15 URGENT TEXT Directed by William Friedkin (1971) Traffic problems in Brooklyn, as Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle car-chases a killer-bearing B train, after being snookered by Fernando Rey in a cross-midtown shadowing topped by a classic subway door jamming. Multi-Oscared recreation …

KLUTE DATES/SHOWTIMES JULY 9 SUN 12:30, 5:10 JULY 13 THU 2:55 URGENT TEXT Directed by Alan J. Pakula Starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland (1971) Small town detective Donald Sutherland, journeying to NYC to seek a friend’s murderer, finds both were clients of high-priced call girl Jane Fonda – and then things get ominous. Ruthlessly stylized …

Jun 26, 2019 · MIR KUMEN ON Sunday, June 23 3:10 Wednesday, June 26 2:10 (1936, Aleksander Ford) Children Must Laugh. This Polish-made documentary offers a window into a little socialist paradise: a rural tuberculosis sanatorium set up by Jewish workers’ organizations for poor city kids, run democratically by the young patients themselves. DCP restoration. Approx. …

FILM FORUM small is beautiful You may have heard that Film Forum is renovating and building a 4th screen. While our expansion is a large undertaking for us, it is very small compared to other non-profit arts organizations. Several behemoth, multi-million dollar New York City cultural projects are being delayed, rethought, or scrapped altogether. We believe in thinking small …

NETWORK DATES/SHOWTIMES JULY 16 SUN 1:00 URGENT TEXT Directed by Sidney Lumet Starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (1976) “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” bellows “mad prophet of the airwaves” Peter Finch – with America seemingly joining in – as network news head William Holden breaks the news of …

Additionally, our members contribute more than $500,000 annually. This allows us to take risks on emerging filmmakers and challenging films. Film Forum has a $6 million endowment, begun in 2000 with a $1.25 million gift from the Ford Foundation. Film Forum is the only autonomous nonprofit cinema in New York City and one of the few in the U.S.

(1960) Joining the tragic exodus of millions from Italy’s impoverished south, the formidable matriarch of the Parondi clan (Katina Paxinou, Best Supporting Oscar, For Whom the Bell Tolls ) and her brood emerge from Milan’s looming Stazione Centrale in search of a better life in the industrial north. But, as they inch up the social ladder, family bonds are ruthlessly shredded, …

NEWS FROM HOME DATES/SHOWTIMES JULY 6 THU 12:30, 6:00, 10:10 URGENT TEXT Directed by Chantal Akerman (1976) Akerman returns to the personal avant-garde essay to evoke a ghost town Manhattan, the news from home coming through “love letters” to the filmmaker in New York from her mother in Belgium. “When you see the images, you realize that New York …