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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 2h

Prophetic and imaginative, few authors have captured the modern political imagination like George Orwell, author of “Animal Farm” and “1984.”

ORWELL: 2+2=5 is now playing! With historical clips, readings from Orwell’s diary and modern day footage. ifccenter.com/films/orwell...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 3h

Crispin Glover’s filmography as a director is one of filmdom’s strangest and most eccentric.

With NO! YOU’RE WRONG, he returns to IFC Center for a special presentation of his singular artistry, followed by a Q&A + book signing!

ONE WEEK ONLY! OCT 10-16!

IFC Center - No! YOU’RE WRONG.

Crispin Hellion Glover’s new film No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance.One-week only theatrical engagement Fri, Oct 10-Thu, Oct 16. Advance tickets now on sale for special screenings Fri-...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 3h

Featuring a heady score by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Jimmy Murakami’s painstakingly animated fable WHEN THE WIND BLOWS follows an aging English couple’s attempt to survive a nuclear war.

See it this weekend at midnight - usher Max Goodman's staff pick!

IFC Center - When the Wind Blows

Jim and Hilda Bloggs are the typical, retired couple in rural England. They drink endless cups of tea and have an unwavering faith in the wisdom of their government. They understand that a Third World...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 1d

Starring the ever-eccentric Crispin Glover, the Kafkaesque mystery MR. K offers a bold new take on falling down the rabbit hole.

Opens tomorrow, with a Q&A after the screening with star Crispin Glover!

IFC Center - Mr. K

Wednesday, October 8 & Thursday, October 9 at 6:30: Q&A with star Crispin Glover Please note that there are additional showtimes of MR. K that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue ...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 1d

“Harris Dickinson might be the most exciting new auteur since the Safdie Brothers!” - ELLE Magazine

Dickinson’s directorial debut URCHIN follows a street hustler navigating the margins of contemporary London with wry humor and empathy.

Starts Friday!
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IFC Center - Urchin

Thursday, October 9 at 6:45: Sneak Preview + Q&A with director Harris Dickinson after the show Thursday, October 9 at 9:25: Sneak Preview + introduction by director Harris Dickinson Friday, October 1...

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Talking to director Adrian Lyne about making Jacob’s Ladder yesterday @ifccenter.bsky.social. The restoration supervised by Lyne is gorgeous, playing all week, and the film is still extraordinary. Thanks to everyone who came out and made it a full house.

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 2d

ORWELL: 2+2=5 is now playing!

"A stark reminder of indisputable facts and the rate at which they are disappearing." @thefilmstage.com

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 2d

Worlds collide when a 15-year-old orphan becomes fascinated by an actress on a film shoot in THE ICE TOWER, an eerie new fantasia starring newcomer Clara Pacini and Marion Cotillard!

Now playing!
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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 2d

Tim Robbins gives an unforgettable performance as a Vietnam vet who descends deeper into madness in JACOB’S LADDER, “a truly creepy, nerve-jangling experience” (@chicagotribune.com) from director Adrian Lyne.

The new 4K restoration is now playing!

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 2d

The new 4K restoration of Adrian LYNE'S film JACOB'S LADDER at IFC Film Center was sublime; post-screening Q&A w/Adrian Lyne in person - as moderated by @badideas.bsky.social - was a treat💖

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

New York City!

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 4d

So honored to be doing a Q&A with the incredible director Adrian Lyne after a screening of the new 4K restoration of one of my all time favorite movies JACOB’S LADDER Sunday 410pm at NYC’s @ifccenter.bsky.social tickets here www.ifccenter.com/films/jacobs...

IFC Center - Jacob’s Ladder

35th Anniversary 4K Restoration! Sunday, October 5 at 4:10: Q&A with director Adrian Lyne, moderated by Aaron Stewart-Ahn (co-screenwriter, Mandy) Lyne followed his 80s blockbusters Flashdance, 9½ Wee...

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 5d

Orwell: 2+2=5 is fantastic, a savvy modern reckoning from one of our best documentarians. In keeping with doublespeak, it will make you feel crazy and understood at the same time www.avclub.com/orwell-2-2-5...

Orwell: 2+2=5 adds up everything keeping you awake at night

With Orwell: 2+2=5, documentarian Raoul Peck cuts into our modern hell, using George Orwell as his scalpel.

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 4d

fever in the bathtub, lost on bergen st... ❤️‍🩹 jacob's ladder (1990) inspired silent hill and now, even after 35 years of change, it is still the wounded heart of the franchise

💉 my essay for the new 4k restoration premiering today at @ifccenter.bsky.social:

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The best Silent Hill movie is the underrated '90s horror that originally inspired the games, and it's now back in theaters with a terrifying new restoration

Big Screen Spotlight | Jacob's Ladder is even more Silent Hill than Silent Hill

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 4d

So honored to be doing a Q&A with the incredible director Adrian Lyne after a screening of the new 4K restoration of one of my all time favorite movies JACOB’S LADDER Sunday 410pm at NYC’s @ifccenter.bsky.social tickets here www.ifccenter.com/films/jacobs...

IFC Center - Jacob’s Ladder

35th Anniversary 4K Restoration! Sunday, October 5 at 4:10: Q&A with director Adrian Lyne, moderated by Aaron Stewart-Ahn (co-screenwriter, Mandy) Lyne followed his 80s blockbusters Flashdance, 9½ Wee...

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miles peery @drearypeery.bsky.social · 6d

i will be seated 👀

IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 7d

Discover why the @nytimes.com calls JACOB’S LADDER “a slick, riveting, viscerally scary film” when Adrian Lyne’s cult classic screens in a new 4K restoration, starting Friday!

Starring Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, and Danny Aiello. From Rialto Pictures

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 4d

Documentarian Raoul Peck’s ORWELL: 2+2=5 combines the George Orwell’s diaries, contemporary footage, and interviews to create an “intricate and multi-layered” (Time) meta-portrait of the prescient author.

Now playing – Q&As tonight and tomorrow!
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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 5d

When a 12-year-old girl falls violently ill, her mother enlists two priests as a last resort!

Linda Blair makes her shocking screen debut alongside Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow in William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST. See it tonight & tomorrow at 11:35 PM.
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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 5d

ORWELL: 2+2=5 is a @nytimes.com Critic's Pick!

“A whirlwind of ideas and images… It’s a work of visceral urgency from Peck.”

Be here for Q&A with acclaimed director Raoul Peck (Academy Award-nominated I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO) tonight & Sat. ifccenter.com/films/orwell...
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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 6d

From director Lucile Hadzihalilovic, writer of Gaspar Noe’s epic ENTER THE VOID, comes a new kind of fairytale!

Marion Cotillard stars as a mysterious queen who fascinates an orphan in 1970s France in THE ICE TOWER. Director Q&A at select screenings! ifccenter.com/films/the-ic...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight at 9:20 and completely unmissable! www.ifccenter.com/films/innoce...

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 6d

"imagine Little Red Riding Hood on a Picnic At Hanging Rock in the Garden of Eden, and you will have some idea of the sinister childhood adventures concocted by Hadžihalilović's Kafkaesque fantasia": INNOCENCE screens 9.20pm at @ifccenter.bsky.social with Q&A. projectedfigures.com/2015/04/21/i...

Innocence (2004) - Projected Figures

Lucile Hadzihalilovic's INNOCENCE merges anatomy, education, evolution & folkore into an unnervingly mysterious portrait of girls' rites of passage

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Amy Nicholson @filmsbyamy.bsky.social · 6d

Currently screening in NYC at the @ifccenter.bsky.social

David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 6d

I can't recommend ORWELL: 2+2=5 enough — a perfect use of a 20th century figure as a lens to examine 21st century authoritarianism, a great example of how to use mural-like filmmaking as a weapon, another reason why Raoul Peck is an invaluable documentarian. 📽️

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How Did a Documentary on George Orwell Become the Scariest Movie of 2025?

Orwell: 2+2=5 look at writer who gave us a modern dystopian classic—and examines how authoritarianism works that feels way too familiar.

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 6d

Winner of 1973 Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Mixing, William Friedkin’s shocking horror masterpiece THE EXORCIST is still terrifying 50 years later!

Part of Waverly Midnights: Every Day is Halloween. ifccenter.com/films/the-ex...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 6d

“THE ICE TOWER had me gripped with its two outstanding lead performances -- from Marion Cotillard and newcomer Clara Pacini” raves @theguardian.com's Peter Bradshaw

Starts Friday + director Lucile Hadžihalilovic in person Fri/Sat!

IFC Center - The Ice Tower

Friday, October 3 & Saturday, October 4 at 7:05: Q&A with director Lucile Hadžihalilovic after the screening! Jeanne (Clara Pacini), a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of ...

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight! See the epic 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.

IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 6d

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Thu, Oct 2 at 6:45
+ Q&A with dir Laura Poitras
Part of our series 20 Films for 20 Years.

"I can’t shake the feeling of being shook by it. I can’t wait to see it again." @davidlfear.bsky.social - @rollingstone.com

See it again tomorrow!

IFC Center - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Thursday, October 2 at 6:45: Q&A with director Laura Poitras after the screeningDirected by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is an epic, emotional and i...

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sampsey.bsky.social @sampsey.bsky.social · 6d

Come see Adrian Lyne this Sunday at IFC Center! bit.ly/46U1XWj

IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 7d

Tim Robbins stars as a Vietnam vet whose nightmares and hallucinations threaten to snap his connection to reality in JACOB’S LADDER, the acclaimed thriller from the director of 9 ½ WEEKS!

Starts Friday. Just announced: Adrian Lyne in person Sunday!
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