The IFC Center celebrates our 20th anniversary with a look back at some of the key films we’ve had the privilege of playing. Featuring a different title for each year we’ve been open, this series spans two decades of amazing cinema from around the world. We’re honoring the filmmakers whose work has helped make IFC Center what it is, like Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW), Ira Sachs (PASSAGES), Lars von Trier (ANTICHRIST), Hirokazu Kore-Eda (SHOPLIFTERS) and of course, David Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE).
ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (2005) - 8/29, 8/31, 9/4
Miranda July’s Sundance and Cannes award-winner, which had its U.S. theatrical premiere at IFC Center and was the first film the theater opened
INLAND EMPIRE (2006) 8/30, 8/31, 9/2, 9/4
David Lynch's hallucinatory vision returns with Laura Dern in a tour-de-force performance as, perhaps, an actress whose dream role quickly devolves into a nightmare.
David Lynch's hallucinatory vision returns with Laura Dern in a tour-de-force performance as, perhaps, an actress whose dream role quickly devolves into a nightmare.
FAY GRIM (2007) on 35mm! 8/29, 8/30
Hal Hartley’s offbeat caper stars Parker Posey as a widowed mom from Queens who finds herself caught up in the world of international espionage.
MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY (2008) 8/29, 9/1, 9/2, 9/4
Barry Jenkins love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something’s dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.
ANTICHRIST (2009) 8/30, 9/1, 9/3, 9/4
In Lars Von Trier's tale of a relationship in crisis, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are a bereaved couple who retreat to their remote cabin - ominously named Eden - to repair their broken marriage and confront their deepest fears.
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (2009) 8/29, 8/30
In Tom Six’s notorious bio-horror, a deranged surgeon (Dieter Laser) plans to make his morbid fantasy come true by suturing three people together through their gastric systems.
ENTER THE VOID (2010) on 35mm! 9/2, 9/3
Provocative, audacious and visionary, Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) pushes the boundaries of hallucinatory cinema with this exploration of sex, drugs, life and death.
Hal Hartley’s offbeat caper stars Parker Posey as a widowed mom from Queens who finds herself caught up in the world of international espionage.
MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY (2008) 8/29, 9/1, 9/2, 9/4
Barry Jenkins love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something’s dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.
ANTICHRIST (2009) 8/30, 9/1, 9/3, 9/4
In Lars Von Trier's tale of a relationship in crisis, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are a bereaved couple who retreat to their remote cabin - ominously named Eden - to repair their broken marriage and confront their deepest fears.
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (2009) 8/29, 8/30
In Tom Six’s notorious bio-horror, a deranged surgeon (Dieter Laser) plans to make his morbid fantasy come true by suturing three people together through their gastric systems.
ENTER THE VOID (2010) on 35mm! 9/2, 9/3
Provocative, audacious and visionary, Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) pushes the boundaries of hallucinatory cinema with this exploration of sex, drugs, life and death.
KABOOM (2011) on 35mm! 8/31, 9/1
Greg Araki's wild, witty and sex drenched horror-comedy thriller tells the story of an ambisexual 18-year old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town.
YOUR SISTER’S SISTER (2012) 8/29, 8/30, 9/2
Lynn Shelton's touching comedy follows Jack (Mark Duplass) , who falls into bed with his best friend's (Emily Blunt's) sister (Rosemarie DeWitt), leading to an unexpected love triangle.
LEVIATHAN (2013) 8/30, 9/1, 9/2, 9/3, 9/4
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, the makers of the acclaimed Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts, comes this visceral look at the high-risk world of commercial fishing.
BOYHOOD (2014) on 35mm! 8/31, 9/1
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes.
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2015) 9/26, 9/30, 10/1
A veteran actress (Juliette Binoche) comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
CAMERA PERSON (2016) (9/28, 9/29, 10,2)
Kirsten Johnson, the cinematographer behind such essential documentaries as Citizenfour, Farenheit 9/11, The Invisible War and dozens more, draws on the remarkable footage she’s shot throughout her career to craft an extraordinary, impressionistic, deeply poetic self-portrait.
*Sunday, 9/28 at 4:05pm: Q&A with director Kirsten Johnson after the screening
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2017) 9/27, 9/20, 10/1
Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Great Flood) pieces together the bizarre history of a collection of 500 films from the 1910s and 20s, lost until they were unearthed from a subarctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory in 1978. Accompanied by Alex Somers’ elegiac score, this meditation excavated both the rediscovered films and Dawson’s own glory days as the epicenter of the Klondike gold rush.
*Tuesday, 9/30 at 6:55pm: Q&A with director Bill Morrison after the screening
SHOPLIFTERS (2018) 9/26, 9/28, 9/30, 10/2
In Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning drama, a makeshift family of castoffs and misfits ekes out a living by petty theft on the margins of Tokyo. On their way home from a shoplifting session, the father and son stumble across a seemingly abandoned little girl, and, despite their poverty, decide to take her in.
PARASITE (2019) 9/27, 9/29, 10/1, 10/2
Greed and class discrimination threaten the relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan in Bong Joon Ho's darkly hilarious modern fairytale.
*Winner 92nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film
BACARAU (2020) 9/28, 9/30, 10/1
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles. After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
TITANE (2021) 9/26, 9/29, 9/30
TITANE: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility. Dir. Julia Ducournau
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022) 9/27, 9/29, 10/2
Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
PASSAGES (2023) 9/26, 9/27, 10/1
Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs makes a breathtaking return with PASSAGES, a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on messy, modern relationships, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
LA CHIMERA (2024) 9/26, 9/28, 10/2
Oscar-nominated director Alice Rohrwacher’s otherworldly tale stars Josh O’Connor as a roguish English archaeologist with uncanny powers of divination. Just out of prison, he rejoins a ragtag gang of tomb raiders as they unearth ancient graves across rural Italy, plundering their treasures to sell on the black market.
Lynn Shelton's touching comedy follows Jack (Mark Duplass) , who falls into bed with his best friend's (Emily Blunt's) sister (Rosemarie DeWitt), leading to an unexpected love triangle.
LEVIATHAN (2013) 8/30, 9/1, 9/2, 9/3, 9/4
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, the makers of the acclaimed Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts, comes this visceral look at the high-risk world of commercial fishing.
BOYHOOD (2014) on 35mm! 8/31, 9/1
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes.
PART 2
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2015) 9/26, 9/30, 10/1
A veteran actress (Juliette Binoche) comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
CAMERA PERSON (2016) (9/28, 9/29, 10,2)
Kirsten Johnson, the cinematographer behind such essential documentaries as Citizenfour, Farenheit 9/11, The Invisible War and dozens more, draws on the remarkable footage she’s shot throughout her career to craft an extraordinary, impressionistic, deeply poetic self-portrait.
*Sunday, 9/28 at 4:05pm: Q&A with director Kirsten Johnson after the screening
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2017) 9/27, 9/20, 10/1
Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Great Flood) pieces together the bizarre history of a collection of 500 films from the 1910s and 20s, lost until they were unearthed from a subarctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory in 1978. Accompanied by Alex Somers’ elegiac score, this meditation excavated both the rediscovered films and Dawson’s own glory days as the epicenter of the Klondike gold rush.
*Tuesday, 9/30 at 6:55pm: Q&A with director Bill Morrison after the screening
SHOPLIFTERS (2018) 9/26, 9/28, 9/30, 10/2
In Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning drama, a makeshift family of castoffs and misfits ekes out a living by petty theft on the margins of Tokyo. On their way home from a shoplifting session, the father and son stumble across a seemingly abandoned little girl, and, despite their poverty, decide to take her in.
PARASITE (2019) 9/27, 9/29, 10/1, 10/2
Greed and class discrimination threaten the relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan in Bong Joon Ho's darkly hilarious modern fairytale.
*Winner 92nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film
BACARAU (2020) 9/28, 9/30, 10/1
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles. After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
TITANE (2021) 9/26, 9/29, 9/30
TITANE: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility. Dir. Julia Ducournau
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022) 9/27, 9/29, 10/2
Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
PASSAGES (2023) 9/26, 9/27, 10/1
Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs makes a breathtaking return with PASSAGES, a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on messy, modern relationships, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
LA CHIMERA (2024) 9/26, 9/28, 10/2
Oscar-nominated director Alice Rohrwacher’s otherworldly tale stars Josh O’Connor as a roguish English archaeologist with uncanny powers of divination. Just out of prison, he rejoins a ragtag gang of tomb raiders as they unearth ancient graves across rural Italy, plundering their treasures to sell on the black market.
