{"title": "New York: A Documentary Film", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "SVA Theater", "address": "West 23rd Street 333, 10011 New York", "price": "Ticket prices start at $10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-york-a-documentary-film-shadows-of-the-past-screening-and-qa-tickets-2002228880480?aff=ebdssbdestsearch", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/new-york"], "description": "A screening of Episode 9, \"Shadows of the Past,\" of the docuseries New York: A Documentary Film, followed by a talkback and Q&A. It was made by director Ric Burns and co-writer and co-producer James Sanders, who debuted the five-part series on PBS in 1999, and is hosted by Open House New York. The episode explores the forces that shaped New York in the second half of the 20th century, as the city fell into the most threatening period of decline and disorder in its history, then rose again thanks to a stunning drop in crime. 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Documentary filmmakers from around the world trust the festival, known as NYDFF, to showcase their powerful stories. It offers audiences a chance to see nonfiction storytelling from many countries in one place. 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Drawing on unprecedented access to his personal archives, the film features never-before-seen stills, behind-the-lens footage and new interviews with his closest collaborators. 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James Gray has made a classical moral drama set in a personally remembered New York of the mid 1980s. Adam Driver plays Gary Pearl, a former New York police officer who draws his brother Irving, a middle-class Queens family man played by Miles Teller, into a get-rich-quick deal with local Russians working the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and the film charts the mounting, fearful consequences when things go wrong. Scarlett Johansson is mesmerizing as Irving's wife Hester, who clings to terrible secrets of her own, in a deeply felt tale of loyalty and sacrifice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sneak-preview-paper-tiger-with-james-gray-in-person-75470/", "official_url": "https://movingimage.org/event/paper-tiger-with-james-gray-in-person/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/59383cc2b69d594a804cf85e4a0d38267a0cdb2f910b145b4a61ef9bcd625c2e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Pierpaolo Mittica and Adam Higginbotham", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "Tickets Starting at 5.00", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/events/262/list?date=2026-11-03T00:00:00-0500&membershipIds=", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "A photographer lecture in the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks series at the International Center of Photography on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Environmentalist photographer and filmmaker Pierpaolo Mittica speaks about his career, including his coverage of Chernobyl that will be highlighted in a new documentary, in conversation with writer Adam Higginbotham and moderated by ICP's Director of Collections, Erin Barnett. The program takes place both in person and online, and the lecture series honors photography historian Naomi Rosenblum and is supported by the Rosenblum Family.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-naomi-rosenblum-icp-talks-photographer-lecture-series-wi-53181/", "official_url": "https://www.icp.org/events/naomi-rosenblum-icp-talks-photographer-lecture-series-pierpaolo-mittica-and-adam", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47626d8275403a6595bb73693dcf35796a8185f64c0bb968e7b98ca7d6483a1b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "News from Home + Interior NY Subway, 14th Street", "start": "2026-11-01T17:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31229&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#standard", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A double bill of two films shown together: Chantal Akerman's 'News from Home' and G. 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The screening is introduced by series curator Genevieve Yue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street-56679/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005065-news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0e387220b790665e9991ac12f62f9415157faaa56150001151cc2752699a0dc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Photobook Talk: Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bronx Documentary Center", "address": "Courtlandt Avenue 614", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/activism"], "description": "The Bronx Documentary Center hosts a photobook talk in which documentary photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his book This Short Life. The book combines photographs with oral histories to profile 12 Americans working toward a more just and equitable society during a period of political and social upheaval, exploring activism, community and imagined futures. Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photobook-talk-andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM.org | BAM | Visit", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/58836", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party is a two-day festival celebrating the artists, storytellers, and communities that have made Brooklyn one of the most culturally influential places in the world. 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