W27 – SPRING 2022
Where to Catch the Season’s Oscar Nominated Films in NYC. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHEN CAMPANELLA (ILLUSTRATION, ‘22)
Film at Lincoln Center
IFC Center
The Paris Theater
70 Lincoln Center Plaza #4, New York, NY
323 Avenue of the Americas (at W 3rd St), New York, NY
4 W 58th St, New York, NY
A relaxed spot for an easy-going screening, Film at Lincoln Center is a tiny theater right underneath the monumental Metropolitan Opera. Its bright orange exterior stands out from a distance. Offering specific and selective films from around the world, the Lincoln Center’s name is more intimidating than its casual comfortable interior. Signed posters of film’s greatest modern actors line the halls as guests enter, along with its newly reopened cafe, Indie Food & Wine.
Right outside of Washington Square Park, IFC may seem quaint from the outside, yet has remained one of the epicenters of NYC independent cinema for decades. Highlights include IFC’s everchanging film series screenings, themed around directors, genres, and themes, and also its devotion to showcasing the best of the Academy Awards every spring in all categories (Animated Short Films, Documentaries, etc.).
If you want to feel upscale without paying the price - this is the place. Located right next to The Plaza, with minimal, yet iconic screenings each week, the Paris Theater sets the mood with the current films’ soundtracks as guests take their seats inside its large Broadway-esque movie theater. Newly operated by Netflix, many of the streaming service’s films are premiered here, holding celebrity Q&A’s before and after select screenings.
Metrograph
Museum of the Moving Image
IMAX at AMC Lincoln Square
7 Ludlow St (at Canal St), New York, NY
36-01 35th Ave, Queens, Located in the depths of the Lower New York, NY East Side, Metrograph provides for Modern and vibrant, film exhibitions a unique late-night theater going filled with props, posters, and behind experience. Complete with an in- the scenes insight on the center’s house restaurant, The Commissary, current screenings, as well as drive-in and bar, Metrograph’s specialty is films in the park each summer and fall. its vintage atmosphere and up-scale Located inside the original Astoria scenery. Film Studios, the surrounding area filled with restaurants and nightlife proves for a great night out.
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1998 Broadway, New York, NY If you are looking for a surreal movie experience, the IMAX at Lincoln Square is home to the largest movie screen in NYC. The only way to describe this theater is go big, or go home - only for the biggest and loudest of blockbusters.
