New York City’s movie theaters include the AMC Empire 25, Angelika Film Center, Film Forum, IFC Center, Paris Theatre and more.
Commercial theaters screen formulaic Hollywood blockbusters. Independent cinemas screen much more interesting films. Drive-ins became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But we encourage you to consider NYC’s film presenters because they screen excellent films every day and are a New York thing that you won’t find in other American cities except maybe Hollywood.
New York City screenings regularly sell out, so buy tickets online or arrive at least 45 minutes early.
Film Presenters
Film at Lincoln Center
Film at Lincoln Center (formerly Film Society) is one of New York City’s leading film…
Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is NYC’s museum of film, television and video. Museum…
Independent Cinemas
These independent cinemas occasionally screen Latin films.
Angelika Film Center
Angelika Film Center, in Greenwich Village, is one of NYC’s leading independent movie theaters. Angelika…
Cinépolis Chelsea
Cinépolis Chelsea is a popular independent movie theater in Chelsea, Manhattan. It is owned by…
Film Forum
Film Forum is a non-profit independent cinema in Hudson Square, Manhattan. Curation by and for…
Paris Theater
The Paris Theater, New York City’s longest-running arthouse cinema and Manhattan’s last single-screen movie house,…
Queens Drive-In Screens Lizzie Borden’s Feminist Sci-Fi “Born in Flames”
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Quad Cinema
GREENWICH VILLAGE ~ New York City’s first multiplex movie theater is newly renovated
Drive-In Cinemas
The Skyline Drive In is in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The Queens Drive-In is in the New York Hall of Science parking lot in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens.. The Uptown Drive-In is in the Yankee Stadium parking lot in Concourse, The Bronx.
New York City is a Motion Picture
Great human ideas often appear independently in two places at once, around the same time.
The first commercial movie screening was produced by the Lumiere brothers in 1895 Paris, but Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope began showing movies on machines in an amusement arcade at 1155 Broadway (at 27th St) in 1894.
The Black Maria at Edison’s labs in West Orange, New Jersey was the world’s first movie studio. It opened and made the first motion picture in 1893.
The first motion pictures were a lot like vaudeville. After all, it was the Vaudeville Era (1880s – 1920s). But after 1895, Edison began making “actualities” of street scenes of everyday life. Today we would call them short documentaries. New York City was the perfect scene.
The post-war Paris Theater in Midtown is Manhattan’s last single screen cinema. It was shut down, but was then purchased by Netflix.