Events

Tom Cruise is back! And so are movies at the Mulberry Street Library! Join the staff of the Mulberry Street Library for an in-person afternoon movie: Top Gun: Maverick! Tom Cruise is back, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot. Now he must confront the ghosts of his past when he returns to TOPGUN to train a group of new pilots! Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Original Song! D…

Join the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on March 31, 2023 from 5 - 7 PM for three 16mm films about legendary photographers Eugène Atget, Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams! Come to this rare opportunity to view documentary films that are part of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Reserve Film and Video Collection. This event will be held in Room 303 on the 3rd floor of the Library. Eugène Atget, Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams Atget (1966, run time 30 mi…

Travis Bickle, 26, has been honorably discharged from the Vietnam War. Suffering from insomnia due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he takes a job as a taxi driver. Bickle’s alienation drives him to obsession with the world’s corruption, leading him to take drastic measures in a bid to rid the streets of filth. (114 minutes) What kind of man deliberately jeopardizes a budding career by filming a story whose single ray of light is the platonic love affair between a pill-popping, pistol-packi…

Join us for film screenings Saturdays this month! Monsters, Inc. (2001) on the 1st, The Brave Little Toaster (1987) on the 8th, The Bad Guys (2022) on the 15th, The Muppets (2011) on the 22nd, and Rumble (2021) on the 29th. For ages 4-12 and adult caregivers.

Join us for an in-person film screening of the film Easy Rider (1969). Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware. Director: Dennis Hopper Runtime: 95 Minutes

This event is online and in-person. Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Quest" Program Description Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, QUEST is the moving portrait of a family from North Philadelphia. Beginning during the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" raise a family while nurturing a community of hip hop artists in their basement home music studio. Epic in scope, QUEST is a vivid illumination of…

Join us for a screening of Up (2009). A feisty septuagenarian reluctantly teams up with a young explorer in this Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature Film by Pixar. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman who dreams of seeing the wilds of South America, and it looks like he may get there after tying enough helium balloons to his house to take flight. The only kink in his plan is the 8-year-old stowaway on his front porch. Cast: Luis Varela, Matías Prats, Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, S…

If you need food assistance the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) may be able to help. SNAP benefits help low-income working people, seniors, the disabled and others feed their families. Eligibility and benefit levels are based on household size, income, expenses and other factors. Come to The Eastchester Library and find out if you qualify. A representative will provide a free & confidential pre-screening for benefits, and assist you through the application process. This e…

In one of his most personal works, Martin Scorsese sits down with his parents, Catherine and Charles, in their New York apartment for a free-flowing discussion that touches on family history, the immigrant experience, and the meaning of Italian American identity. “As Scorsese directs his mother in the opening scene – and she directs him back – this most personal of films lays bare the need to preserve such storytelling traditions, as well as the mechanics by which to do so.” - Matt Thrift Whil…

Join us for our screening of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996). The Bard gets a '90s makeover in this imaginative rendition of the ill-fated romance between the star-crossed lovers (Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes). Montague: Brian Dennehy. Tybalt: John Leguizamo. Laurence: Pete Postlethwaite. Baz Luhrmann directed.

Attend a screening of the 2022 film Easter Sunday Sypnosis A man returns home to celebrate Easter with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family. Cast Jo Koy, Lydia Gaston, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Carly Pope

Join us for film screenings Saturdays this month! Monsters, Inc. (2001) on the 1st, The Brave Little Toaster (1987) on the 8th, The Bad Guys (2022) on the 15th, The Muppets (2011) on the 22nd, and Rumble (2021) on the 29th. For ages 4-12 and adult caregivers.

Please join us for an in-person screening of the film The War of the Worlds. Scientist Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) and Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson) are the first to arrive at the site of a meteorite crash. Soon after, an alien war machine emerges and begins killing at random. The Marines are called in, but they're no match for the aliens' force field. Forrester and Van Buren, however, are able to wound one of the creatures and procure a sample of its blood. They take it to Los Angeles whe…

Join us for a screening of Wall-E (2008). Oscar-winning CGI-animated delight, set on a wasteland Earth circa 2800, where the last robot on the planet, a centuries-old trash compactor named WALL-E, romances a sleek, high-tech android. Cast: Ben Burtt, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, Elissa Knight Director(s): Andrew Stanton Rating: G Runtime: 1h 38min **Please note: Seating is limited to only 20 children with a parent/guardian on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to…

This will be an in-person event Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around. Director: Marc Forster Rated: PG-13 Studio: Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. Runtime: 126 minutes Cast: Tom Hanks, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Kailey Hyman, Cameron Britton

This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. REGISTER This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Dantza is a dance film like no other: it is “a stunning achievement in dance, color, and photography,” Film Threat wrote. This screening will be the first public screening of it in the US since its 2018 release. Using the language of Basque dance, as wielded by the imagination of a folklorist-choreographer, a sculptor of spect…

After losing his friend, an impetuous Navy pilot is accepted into Miramar's elite Fighter School. There, the pilot engages in a romance with his instructor while competing against a rival student flier for the program's coveted award. Directors Tony Scott Production year 1986 Rating PG Studio Paramount Pictures Runtime 110 minutes Cast Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer, Tim Robbins

This is an online program. Interested in reviving the cinema experience? Want to talk about classic and contemporary films with your community? Join our NYPL film club, Cinema Scene! Our format is nearly identical to a book club but instead of discussing a book, we will discuss a movie. **How to Register: Please click HERE** April's feature will be PRISIONEROS DE LA TIERRA (1939, d. Mario Soffici) (85 minutes). Each month The Film Foundation, an organization dedicated to film preservation and…

Attend a documentary screening about the life of pioneering artist Little Richard and talk back with director Lisa Cortes. IN-PERSON Director Lisa Cortés’s Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Join us for a screening of this magnetic documentary on the life of Little Richard, followed by a conversation with the film's director…

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick's late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.” Directors Joseph Kos…

Every Friday we'll watch a film as part of a rotating series. This week its Creed, as a special screening. This event takes place in person. No registration is required.

Dive deeper into the life and legacy of the renowned Iowan in the Iowa PBS documentary, Meredith Willson: America’s Music Man, the composer, arranger, bandleader, and playwright behind The Music Man. He performed under Sousa and Toscanini. He scored films for the likes of Chaplin and wrote popular songs performed by Sinatra and The Beatles. And when the River City boys band marched on Broadway, Meredith Willson caught the whole world’s ear. Meredith Willson: America’s Music Man premiered in Feb…

This event will take place in person at West Farms Library. Families will join us for a screening of the 2022 film Paws of Fury.

Join us here at the library for live, real-time, in-house audio description for screenings of exciting Hollywood blockbusters, curated with an eye toward promoting discussions on topics that matter. Discussion to follow Screening. The Cider House Rules A classic coming of age story about a compassionate young man, played by Tobey Maguire raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world. Winner, 2000 Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor, Michael Ca…

Join us for film screenings Saturdays this month! Monsters, Inc. (2001) on the 1st, The Brave Little Toaster (1987) on the 8th, The Bad Guys (2022) on the 15th, The Muppets (2011) on the 22nd, and Rumble (2021) on the 29th. For ages 4-12 and adult caregivers.

Join us for an in-person film screening of the film 12 Angry Men (1957). The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict. Director: Sidney Lumet Runtime: 96 Minutes

Join us for a screening of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012). In a land where real vegetation is rare, a young boy (voice of Zac Efron) seeks to impress his pretty neighbor by getting a tree. But in the process, he encounters the Lorax, a cantankerous yet endearing creature intent on preserving the forest. Cast: Ben Burtt, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, Elissa Knight Director(s): Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda Rating: PG Runtime: 1h 34min **Please note: Seating is limited to only 2…

This event is online and in-person. Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Winter's Yearning" Program Description In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first steps towards economic renewal and political sovereignty. Directed by Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog and S…

This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Register An American Ballet Story (documentary, 94 minutes, 2022). Seven years in the making! Screening will be followed by a Q & A with moderator Walter Rutledge of Out & About NYC Magazine and the producers of the film. 1964 – A time of major shifts in civil rights, women’s and gay rights. New York City was alive – you could feel it on the streets. The Joffrey Ballet splits in two over a struggle for…

Attend a screening of the 2022 film Bullet Train Sypnosis Ladybug is an unlucky assassin who's determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs has gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans as his latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe -- all with connected yet conflicting objectives -- on the world's fastest train. Cast Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koj

Join us for film screenings Saturdays this month! Monsters, Inc. (2001) on the 1st, The Brave Little Toaster (1987) on the 8th, The Bad Guys (2022) on the 15th, The Muppets (2011) on the 22nd, and Rumble (2021) on the 29th. For ages 4-12 and adult caregivers.

Join us for an in-person film screening of the film Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022). A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Director: George Miller Runtime: 108 Minutes

Join us for a screening of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006). In this sequel to the animated hit, Manny, Sid and Diego flee their melting homeland and meet a female mammoth who thinks she's a possum. Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott Director(s): Carlos Saldanha Rating: PG Runtime: 1h 31min **Please note: Seating is limited to only 20 children with a parent/guardian on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to all, no tickets or registration req…

This event is online and in-person. Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Thirst" Program Description Examining water conflicts in Bolivia, India and Stockton, California, Thirst shows that popular opposition to the privatization of water sparks remarkable coalitions that cross partisan lines. When it comes to water, many people demand local control and fear the arrival of multinational corporations with large lobbying budgets and little local loyalty. This film is…

In recognition of Earth Day, we will screen Anne Belle’s 1976 film Baymen-- Our Waters are Dying, which addressed the threat of water pollution to the clam diggers of eastern Long Island, and discuss with marine biologist and Back to the Bays Aquaculture Coordinator Kate Rossi-Snook whether conservation efforts implemented since the film’s production have been successful. REGISTER The What's Happening? Series: This monthly program features films on issues of public concern and notable topics.…

Join us for film screenings Saturdays this month! Monsters, Inc. (2001) on the 1st, The Brave Little Toaster (1987) on the 8th, The Bad Guys (2022) on the 15th, The Muppets (2011) on the 22nd, and Rumble (2021) on the 29th. For ages 4-12 and adult caregivers.

Join the Parkchester Library for an afternoon Film Screening on the last Sunday of every month. Movies will be picked by the library staff or by patron suggestions. Open to adults and teens. ***Sign up for NYPL Connect to get updates from NYPL and information about our digital resources and services available during our temporary closure.”

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one year after the director’s inter­na­tional sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes. “Luis Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel" (1962) is a macabre comedy, a mordant…

Attend a screening of the 2022 film Beast Sypnosis Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them. Cast Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, Leah Jeffries, Iyana Halley

Mildred Pierce lives an idyllic life in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job for a bit of extra cash, which eventually allows her to open a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get her daughter, Veda, into high society. Yet, the greedy, self-absorbed Veda is still ungrateful, and her restlessness leads to her being ensnared in the world of police and suspicion when Monte is mysteriously murdered. (111…