Cinema / Theater

Screw lake houses and boats. New York is the place to be on the 4th of July. The City is the home of epic fireworks, even more epic skylines, and a world famous hot dog eating competition. Whether you’re watching Macy’s epic fireworks above the hudson river (beginning at approximately 9 p.m.), or heading to Coney Island for the wieners you’ll have a blast.

Casino O'Fortune Cookie Productions, the Eastern Seaboard's premier purveyors of pop-culture burlesque, return to the Joe's Pub stage on February Saturday 26th, with the funniest, sexiest striptease and variety tribute ever to two guys named John. They're two of the most influential and beloved moviemakers ever: between them they defined for a generation what it was to be scared, and what it meant to be a teenager.

The New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) is a preeminent showcase for world cinema that investigates, records, and celebrates the Jewish experience. A collaboration between The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New York Jewish Film Festival presents a diverse program of narrative features, documentaries, and short films, including world, United States, and New York premieres. 

Director Vicki Abeles turns the personal political, igniting a national conversation in her new documentary about the pressures faced by American school children and their teachers in a system and culture obsessed with the illusion of achievement, competition and the pressure to perform.  Check it out Thursday, January 13 at the 92Y in Tribeca!