Films this week 10/24/2025 to 11/1/2025
by Gary Palmucci | 24th October 2025 | Gary's Corner
While this is probably our shortest week of screenings in 2025, you’ll see that we’ve tried to make maximum use of the allotted showtimes….including special Thursday night shows on both October 23 and 30.
This Thursday will lead off with the beloved June Squibb in Eleanor the Great, from debuting director Scarlett Johansson (a near-sellout in last weekend’s screening), Stiller & Meara- Nothing Is Lost , and Roman Polanski’s riveting An Officer and a Spy.
And on Sunday we’ve shoehorned in five films – please the note early 11:15 am start for Orwell: 2 +2 = 5, Raoul Peck’s provocative doc which literally feels more prescient by the hour; cutting-edge actor Harris Dickinson’s directing debut Urchin, featuring a searing young British thespian, Frank Dillane: an encore (by request, in an Open Captioned version) of Eleanor the Great; Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire with a Q&A hosted by filmmaker Oren Radavsky; and Shttl (a regular sellout since its opening earlier this month) with its tireless lead actor Moshe Lobel back for Q&A. We’re also expecting Moshe’s co-star Saul Rubinek to join us, though his appearance was not 100% confirmed at press time. Check our email blasts this week for full details.
Coming next weekend on an (almost) full schedule:
- Sunday Nov 2 at 5 pm –
McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Please note the change of showtime (due to local NYC Marathon finish-line activity) from 1215 to 5 pm. My colleague Dan Cahill and I will host this screening of Robert Altman’s smoky, funky western classic, featuring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Keith Carradine and Shelly Duvall, with, of course, soundtrack by Leonard Cohen.
- Saturday Nov 1 at 1215 pm
Riefenstahl – Just added at press time to our schedule, director Andres Veiel will join us for a special, award-season screening and Q&A of this unsparing portrait of Leni Riefenstahl. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, October 24.
- Saturday Nov 1 at 445 pm –
Turbulence – Through a series of tender, honest and visually stunning cinematic letters to her long lost mother, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion recounts her sometimes shocking odyssey in search of resolution and peace.
The filmmaker will join us for a Q&A , along with New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch.