Tag: movies

By Nancy Novick The Margaret Mead Festival kicked off its 39th year this Thursday with a screening of “Circus Without Borders”, directed by Susan Gray

More than 40 years ago, the movie Panic in Needle Park highlighted the heroin epidemic on the Upper West Side. Those days seem to be long gone, but a new movie

50 Shades of Grey heroine Dakota Johnson is starring in a movie set to come out next year called How to be Single and they're shooting this week at Book Culture on the Upper West Side.

The Oscars may be over, but there's plenty of buzz about movies on the Upper West Side.

By Nancy Novick Documentary fans rejoice! The Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History is back for the 38th year in a row

Sure, your little boy is cute. But is he Jesse Eisenberg cute? If so, Hollywood wants to make him a movie star!

Moveigoers at the massive AMC Loews on 68th street and Broadway got quite a surprise on

Central Park is once again holding its summer film festival on the lawn between Sheep Meadow and 72nd street cross drive starting on Thursday, and this year viewers got to choose all of the films. So, if you don't like the movies, only you and your neighbors are to blame! ...

The owners of the Alamo Drafthouse Theater, the moviehouse coming to the former Metro Theater at 2626 Broadway (100th Street) next year, are applying for a permit to expand their lobby into the adjacent building at 2628 Broadway known as the Ariel East. The Drafthouse, a Texas company, is cramming ...

Texas movie theater chain the Alamo Drafthouse announced last April that it would open a new five-screen cineplex in the historic Metro Theater on Broadway between 99th and 100th streets. Upper West Siders were ecstatic that it would fill the empty space with movies once again. But for months after ...

As part of the Winter's Eve festival on Monday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is showing the hit 1982 movie Annie three times during the day, at 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m. The free showings are at the Elinor

The Alamo Drafthouse, a movie theater chain that is opening a new five-screen theater in the historic Metro Theater on Broadway between 99th and 100th Streets, was given the thumbs-up from a community board committee last night to get a liquor license, DNAinfo reported. The chain sells liquor and will ...

The Alamo Drafthouse, a Texas company that is opening a new movie theater in the historic Metro Theater on Broadway between 99th and 100th Streets, just applied for a liquor license. That's right, get ready to throw back a cold one while you watch a movie! (Caveat:

Nora Ephron, the writer and filmmaker who died last month, was an Upper West Sider. She was born here, lived much of her life here, and made the neighborhood the setting for some of her most acclaimed films. The JCC on 76th and Amsterdam is honoring Ephron next Tuesday (July ...

When the Alamo Drafthouse announced in April that it would be opening a new five-screen movie theater in the historic Metro Theater on 100th Street and Broadway next year, it was arguably the most exciting news to hit the Upper West Side in years. The Metro, which opened in 1933, ...

Summer movies are like a 20-ounce sugary shot of childhood nostalgia (get it now before the mayor bans it!). This summer, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is diving deep into your cerebral cortex down down down to the place where those sweet memories exist. The Film Society starts a ...

The Alamo Drafthouse, the Texas company that will be opening a new movie theater in the historic Metro Theater on Broadway and 99th Street next year, is famous for its strict no cellphone policy. In fact, the company created an advertisement consisting entirely of an angry voicemail left by one ...

By Laura Weiss You decide one night to make the trek to a local movie theater. You want to ditch Netflix for a change. You want to take in a film on the big screen with a humongous tub of buttery, salty popcorn at your side. But watch out junk ...

Starting today, the Film Center of Lincoln Center is putting on a film series it calls "Hollywood's Jew Wave" that celebrates the period from the 1960's and 1970's when a new group of Jewish writers, directors and actors produced a ton of influential Hollywood movies. From Woody Allen to Dustin ...

Goodfellas actor Paul Sorvino was hit by a car on the corner of 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Saturday at around noon and taken to St. Luke's hospital.