A quick guide to the week’s repertory screenings at New York venues, from restorations to curated series
The NYC repertory scene offers a dense slate of films every weekend, with repertory houses balancing festival-style retrospectives, fresh restorations, and anniversary tributes. If you enjoy seeing titles on original or restored formats and experiencing programs assembled by artists and curators, this roundup outlines notable screenings across the city and points you toward must-see prints and series. The listings below keep the focus on what makes each program distinctive: guest-curated selections, restoration premieres, and anniversary presentations that invite fresh viewing contexts.
Expect a mix of international auteurs, cult favorites, and archival rarities. Whether you prefer a freshly scanned 4K presentation, a warm 35mm projection, or a late-night experimental double bill, there’s a habit-forming program for you. Highlights this weekend include a tribute built around Tina Aumont, a filmmaker-curated lineup by a contemporary musician, several anniversary screenings shown on film, and a newly restored Japanese noir returning to the screen in high-resolution. Each venue section below summarises what to look for and why those prints matter.
At Anthology Film Archives, a tribute centered on Tina Aumont gathers films by Philippe Garrel, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pierre Clémenti, offering an opportunity to view work in a program assembled to highlight connections around a single performer. Over at Film Forum, a new retrospective devoted to director Terry Zwigoff opens, complemented by the beginning of a newly struck 4K restoration of No Picnic. Film Forum also continues to screen Jerry Schatzberg’s Reunion, and schedules a family-friendly presentation of Kiki’s Delivery Service on Sunday, making it a weekend stop for varied tastes and ages.
The Paris Theater brings a 35mm presentation of Barton Fink this Sunday, alongside a curated series that traces titles which inspired the television drama Beef, highlighted by a print of Revolutionary Road. The Roxy Cinema presents a surprising pairing programmed by musician Jack Harlow, who has selected prints of Birth and Pauline at the Beach, while also scheduling a screening of Predator for Sunday night, blending art-house choices with a crowd-pleasing genre film for a versatile program.
The Museum of the Moving Image marks milestones with two film anniversaries: director Richard Linklater presents a 20th-anniversary showing of Fast Food Nation on 35mm, and the cult classic Labyrinth returns in honor of its 40th anniversary. The museum also programs a Friday evening screening of How to Marry a Millionaire, adding a classic studio-era title to the weekend mix. Meanwhile, BAM offers a Robert Wilson-curated series that pairs films by Chantal Akerman with work by silent-era innovator Buster Keaton, highlighting strong contrasts in rhythm and staging across cinema history.
The IFC Center continues its run of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path, now available in a newly restored 4K transfer, and keeps screening Chime. Its late-night schedule stages a procession of influential and provocative titles including 2001, Blue Velvet, Noroi: The Curse, American Psycho, Midnight Cowboy, and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover. At Metrograph, several films play on 35mm—from Made in U.S.A. and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Bambi, The Emperor and the Assassin, and Chinatown—while the venue’s ongoing programs present titles and series such as Holy Trips, After the Case, The Westlake Files, a spotlight on Krzysztof Kieślowski, work linked to Tahar Cheriaa, and the film Empress Li.
Many of these screenings prioritize original projection formats and recently completed restorations, so if format is important to your viewing experience, check each venue’s technical notes before you go. The presence of guest curators and filmmaker introductions can also add context, turning a single screening into a compact event. Use the listings above to plan a weekend that matches your interest in restored prints, artist-led programming, or late-night cinematic surprises.