IFC Center is a five-screen, state-of-the-art, independent movie theater in Manhattan’s West Village. It is the AMC Networks cinema. The former Waverly Theater popularized the Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1976.
IFC Center News
Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s tale of a Scottish woman who starts hallucinating in the Colombian jungle, returns for one week to IFC Center in the West Village Fri, Apr 1-7. $13. ifccenter.com 🇨🇴
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The Year at IFC Center
April at IFC Center
2022
Mississippi Masala
Mississippi Masala, Mira Nair’s 1991 film about a South Asian from Uganda who falls in love with an African American (Denzel Washington) in Mississippi, opens at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri, Apr 15. $13. ifccenter.com 🇮🇳🇺🇬🇺🇸
Paris, 13th District
Paris, 13th District, Jacques Audiard’s tale of a Chinese French woman who falls in love with an African French man in the Quartier Asiatique, opens at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri, Apr 15. $13. It was a Cannes Official Selection. ifccenter.com 🇫🇷
Vortex
Vortex, Gaspar Noé’s story of an elderly couple whose life together comes apart from dementia and declining health, opens at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri, Apr 29. $13. It was a Cannes and NY Film Festival selection. ifccenter.com 🇫🇷
The Former Waverly Theater
Today, IFC Center launches independent films that feed into the Independent Film Channel. It also hosts DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival in November.
The 1807 building was originally the Dutch Reform Church.
In the 1930s, the old church was converted into The Waverly Theater which became a well-known art house cinema.
In the 1960s The Waverly became a hangout for young people in The Village. It’s mentioned several times in the 1967 Rock musical “Hair” produced by the Public Theater in the East Village.
In 1976, The Waverly became the home of midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show which grew into a nationwide audience participation cinema experience. As a kid in the Los Angeles suburbs, I remember thinking how strange the Rocky Horror fans were. After living in and around New York City for more than a decade, nothing seems strange anymore.
The Waverly closed in 2001 right after the 9/11 attack shocked New York City. IFC Center opened in 2005.
Previously at IFC Center
The Hand of God, Paulo Sorrentino’s (The Great Beauty) 1980s Neapolitan coming of age story that involves Maradona, opened at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri Dec 3. $13. 🇮🇹 ifccenter.org
Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven’s story of a nun’s forbidden passion, opened at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri, Dec 3. $13. 🇫🇷ifccenter.com
The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhall’s directorial debut based on Elena Ferrante’s Italian novel, opens at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri, Dec 17 with director Q&As Fri, Dec 17 at 8pm. $13. 🇮🇹 ifccenter.org
“Passing” by Rebecca Hall, a thoughtful film about passing as White, at IFC Center in the West Village is extended to Thu, Dec 2. $13. 🇺🇸
The DOC NYC documentary film festival is at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea for one week Wed-Thu, Nov 10-18, 2021. docnyc.net
El Planeta by Amalia Ulman is at IFC Center in the West Village is extended to Thu, Oct 21. 🇪🇸
Azor (2021) by Andreas Fontana, a Swiss film about Argentine finance in the 1970s, is at IFC Center in the West Village is extended to Thu, Oct 21. 🇦🇷
Arrebato (1979) by Iván Zulueta, Pedro Almodóvar’s favorite horror film, is at IFC Center in the West Village Fri-Sat, Oct 15-16. $17. 🇪🇸
Titane by Julia Ducournau (Cannes Palme d’Or winner) opened at IFC Center in the West Village Oct 1. $13. 🇫🇷