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NYC 2000s

Jul 18—Jul 31, 2025
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2025
Take a look back at the Big Apple through the aughts—a city reeling from 9/11 and coping with realities of a recession, a housing crisis, and a changing climate. But also a resilient hive of culture and innovation, excitedly buzzing toward a future of limitless technology, unprecedented globalization, and increased security. These films collect the work of NYC filmmakers who captured a changing mega-metropolis on film, digital, and videotape. With towering hits like The Devil Wears Prada and Vanilla Sky alongside celebrated indies like Ramin Bahrani’s Man Push Cart and Peter Hodge’s Pieces of April, just like Gotham itself, there’s a little something for everyone in this energizing cinematic survey.
 

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  • Film

    Man Push Cart

    Jul 18—Jul 22, 2025

    Man Push Cart

    Jul 18—Jul 22, 2025
    Formerly a rock star in Pakistan, a widower adrift in New York searches for human connection and a sense of purpose while working long hours selling coffee and bagels from a midtown Manhattan food cart.
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    Man Push Cart

    Jul 18—Jul 22, 2025
    Formerly a rock star in Pakistan, a widower adrift in New York searches for human connection.
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    25th Hour

    Jul 18—Jul 20, 2025

    25th Hour

    Jul 18—Jul 20, 2025
    On his last day of freedom before a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs, a man accustomed to the good life in New York City visits friends and family as he reassesses his life and struggles to redeem himself.
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    25th Hour

    Jul 18—Jul 20, 2025
    On his last day of freedom before a prison sentence, a man visits friends and family in search of redemption.
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    Raising Victor Vargas

    Jul 19—Jul 21, 2025

    Raising Victor Vargas

    Jul 19—Jul 21, 2025
    Director Peter Sollett tapped untrained actors from his largely Dominican Lower East Side neighborhood to create this slice-of-life romantic comedy about a teenager out to cement his ladies’ man reputation.
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    Raising Victor Vargas

    Jul 19—Jul 21, 2025
    Untrained actors from a largely Dominican Lower East Side bring this romantic comedy to life.
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    Margaret - Extended Cut

    Sat, Jul 19, 2025

    Margaret - Extended Cut

    Sat, Jul 19, 2025
    A New York high school student who not only witnessed a fatal bus accident but also may have caused it reaches out attempting to make amends, involving numerous others in her mounting emotional turmoil.
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    Margaret - Extended Cut

    Sat, Jul 19, 2025
    A high school student who may have caused a fatal bus accident struggles to make amends.
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    The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

    Jul 19—Jul 23, 2025

    The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

    Jul 19—Jul 23, 2025
    A French-Middle Eastern artist lives the good life in post-9/11 Manhattan in Zeina Durra’s alluring, intelligent and funny look at the way the War on Terror seeps into everyday American life.
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    The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

    Jul 19—Jul 23, 2025
    Zeina Durra’s alluring debut feature looks at how the War on Terror seeps into everyday life.
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    Mutual Appreciation

    Jul 20—Jul 22, 2025

    Mutual Appreciation

    Jul 20—Jul 22, 2025
    Writer and director Andrew Bujalski crafts an utterly timeless yet distinctly mid-aughts portrait of 20-something life in New York City, with sharply drawn relationships and captivating conversations.
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    Mutual Appreciation

    Jul 20—Jul 22, 2025
    Andrew Bujalski crafts a timeless yet distinctly mid-aughts portrait of 20-something life.
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    Julie & Julia

    Sun, Jul 20, 2025

    Julie & Julia

    Sun, Jul 20, 2025
    Culinary legend Julia Child provides a frustrated office worker and fledgling writer with inspiration to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days in director Nora Ephron’s comedy about joy, obsession, and butter.
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    Julie & Julia

    Sun, Jul 20, 2025
    Culinary legend Julia Child inspires a fledgling writer to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days.
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    Requiem for a Dream

    Jul 20—Jul 23, 2025

    Requiem for a Dream

    Jul 20—Jul 23, 2025
    Director Darren Aronofsky transforms Hubert Selby Jr.’s novel about four New Yorkers trapped in cycles of drug addiction and self-delusion into a harrowing visual experience of hallucinatory intensity.
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    Requiem for a Dream

    Jul 20—Jul 23, 2025
    Four New Yorkers are caught in deadly spirals of drug addiction and self-delusion.
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    Phone Booth

    Jul 21—Jul 24, 2025

    Phone Booth

    Jul 21—Jul 24, 2025
    A dishonest New York City publicist picks up a ringing receiver in a Times Square phone booth and is told he’ll be killed if he leaves, a threat backed up with the tiny red light of a sniper’s sight.
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    Phone Booth

    Jul 21—Jul 24, 2025
    A dishonest publicist is threatened with death if he leaves a Times Square phone booth.
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    In the Cut

    Jul 21—Jul 24, 2025

    In the Cut

    Jul 21—Jul 24, 2025
    An introverted English teacher and writer who witnesses a sexual act in a local bar gets pulled into a murder investigation, and drawn into an erotic encounter of her own.
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    In the Cut

    Jul 21—Jul 24, 2025
    An introverted teacher pulled into a murder investigation is drawn into an erotic encounter.
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    Pieces of April

    Jul 22—Jul 24, 2025

    Pieces of April

    Jul 22—Jul 24, 2025
    Edgy and rebellious April invites her straight-laced suburban family to her Lower East Side tenement for Thanksgiving dinner in this early-2000s lo-fi gem.
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    Pieces of April

    Jul 22—Jul 24, 2025
    Rebellious April invites her straight-laced suburban family over for Thanksgiving.
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    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wed, Jul 23, 2025

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wed, Jul 23, 2025
    Wes Anderson’s hilarious yet melancholic saga about a family of eccentric geniuses stars Ben Stiller, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray, and Luke and Owen Wilson.
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    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wed, Jul 23, 2025
    Wes Anderson’s hilarious yet melancholic saga about a family of eccentric geniuses.
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    Shortbus

    Jul 25—Jul 30, 2025

    Shortbus

    Jul 25—Jul 30, 2025
    Sexually frustrated New Yorkers gather for a weekly nexus of art, music, politics, and (unsimulated) polysexual carnality in John Cameron Mitchell’s 2006 film.
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    Shortbus

    Jul 25—Jul 30, 2025
    New Yorkers gather for a weekly salon of sorts in John Cameron Mitchell’s 2006 film.
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    Vanilla Sky

    Jul 26—Jul 31, 2025

    Vanilla Sky

    Jul 26—Jul 31, 2025
    Cameron Crowe’s 2001 psychological thriller stars Tom Cruise as a wealthy publishing tycoon who begins questioning reality after a fateful run-in with a jealous lover (Cameron Diaz) changes his life.
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    Vanilla Sky

    Jul 26—Jul 31, 2025
    Cameron Crowe’s 2001 thriller stars Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz.
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    Yeast

    Jul 26—Jul 28, 2025

    Yeast

    Jul 26—Jul 28, 2025
    Mary Bronstein directs and stars in this lo-fi monument to Brooklyn’s indie-sleaze era with Greta Gerwig, Bronstein, and Josh and Benny Safdie.
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    Yeast

    Jul 26—Jul 28, 2025
    Greta Gerwig, Mary Bronstein, and the Safdies star in this 2008 lo-fi monument.
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    The Devil Wears Prada

    Jul 27—Jul 29, 2025

    The Devil Wears Prada

    Jul 27—Jul 29, 2025
    Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway star in the endlessly quotable 2006 fashion flick that taught millions their sweater isn’t actually blue… it’s cerulean.
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    The Devil Wears Prada

    Jul 27—Jul 29, 2025
    Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway star in this endlessly quotable 2006 fashion flick.
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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Jul 27—Jul 30, 2025

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Jul 27—Jul 30, 2025
    Michael Gondry’s refractive meditation on love’s shadow stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, and David Cross.
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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Jul 27—Jul 30, 2025
    Michael Gondry’s refractive meditation on love stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.
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    Birth

    Jul 27—Jul 31, 2025

    Birth

    Jul 27—Jul 31, 2025
    Jonathan Glazer’s (The Zone of Interest, Under the Skin) 2004 psychological drama stars Nicole Kidman as a widow who is visited by a young boy claiming to be the reincarnation of her husband.
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    Birth

    Jul 27—Jul 31, 2025
    Jonathan Glazer probes the finite nature of life in his 2004 drama starring Nicole Kidman.
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    Brother to Brother

    Jul 28—Jul 31, 2025

    Brother to Brother

    Jul 28—Jul 31, 2025
    A Black and gay young artist comes face to face with a living legacy of which he is a part in Rodney Evan’s critically acclaimed 2004 film.
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    Brother to Brother

    Jul 28—Jul 31, 2025
    A young gay artist comes face to face with a living legacy in this acclaimed 2004 film.
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    Saving Face

    Jul 29—Jul 30, 2025

    Saving Face

    Jul 29—Jul 30, 2025
    Alice Wu’s film centers on a 48-year-old widow in Flushing who, after learning she’s pregnant, moves in with her less-than-enthused adult daughter in Manhattan.
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    Saving Face

    Jul 29—Jul 30, 2025
    A 48-year-old widow learns she’s pregnant and moves in with her adult daughter in Manhattan.

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