If you’re the type of seasoned or aspiring New York cinephile that’s easily overwhelmed by the sheer range and frequency of classic movie screenings and repertory film programming on offer any given day of the week in this city, prepare to be pushed to the brink. Gone are the days of crawling Fandango or binge-following local indies, only to realize your aggregation efforts are incomplete, prohibitively hyper-regionalized, or, worst of all, screen-time-reliant to a fault. This is thanks to Film Revival NYC, a new and incredibly comprehensive resource we discovered during a recent Reddit dive, which does the work of crawling the listings of 40+ theaters throughout the city to come up with about as full and fleshed-out a schedule of cult and critical darlings playing in the five boroughs as you’ll come by anywhere. on the internet.
Take today, for instance. Sure, you can see the IP-farming Michael Jackson biopic, or catch Anne Hathaway’s return to a world of fashion editorial that never actually existed in the Devil Wears Prada 2, or whatever the Marvel/Disney machine has in rotation at just about any big box theater. But you could also drop that $20 into the coffers of the Regal in Sheepshead Bay, where there’s 40th anniversary screenings of Top Gun; or at the Paris Theater, where you can see Michel Gondry’s prescient and powerful Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind; or at the Downtown Manhattan Alamo Drafthouse location, which has a 25th anniversary screening of Shrek in the books. And that’s just a tiny fragment of what’s playing tonight.
Film Revival NYC can be searched by theater, by location, and by format (35mm or 70mm), and is viewable as a list, or more practically, as a calendar, filled to the brim with showtimes of old and new-to-you films. “I used to spend hours trying to stay on top of all the repertory films playing around the city, and finally said enough is enough,” the site’s creator wrote in the thread.
Head over to the site and start putting together your viewing itinerary today.
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