{"title": "Begotten", "start": "2026-10-30T23:55:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T01:17:00-04:00", "place": "Nitehawk Cinema", "address": "Metropolitan Avenue 136, 11249 Brooklyn", "price": "USD 9–15", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "Begotten is a 1989 film by E. Elias Merhige, shown as a late-night screening. It has no characters in the ordinary sense, only figures named God Killing Himself, Mother Earth, and Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. God tears open his body and dies; Mother Earth rises from what remains and gives birth to the Son, who is seized, tortured, and killed by the Nomads before being briefly revived. After the Nomads destroy her too, robed figures grind down what remains of mother and son and return them to the soil, and the ground flowers.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/begotten-66937/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/movies/begotten/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/6f825a61e50ac610ecef79f7c86549851a05ff75a561a257ebfd1f24e652af7a-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T23:55:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T01:17:00-04:00", "place": "Nitehawk Cinema", "address": "Metropolitan Avenue 136, 11249 Brooklyn", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Holy Mountain", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/mouse/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/cult-film", "stage/magic"], "description": "The Holy Mountain is a feature film shown on the big screen in Manhattan. Writer-director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who also plays the lead role of 'The Alchemist,' made this scandal-causing follow-up to El Topo, filled with sacrilegious imagery, existential symbolism and outrageous violence. In the story, the Alchemist gathers people from all walks of life, renames them for the planets, strips them of their worldly baggage through strange mystical rites, and leads them to Lotus Island to ascend the Holy Mountain and displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe. The screening presents a new digital restoration overseen by the filmmaker himself.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/the-holy-mountain-53136/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-holy-mountain/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/67893bffbecc1216e41b67368a9184ad6d3b7339172f9c8214e75e2d5a1b6d66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stake Land", "start": "2026-10-29T13:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=585447~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "Stake Land is a post-apocalyptic film screening at IFC Center. It was conceived as a webseries by writer Nick Damici and director Jim Mickle and made with the film company MPI/Dark Sky as an epic, heartfelt story. It was shot over the course of four months to capture different seasons. Producer Larry Fessenden calls it a Glass Eye Pix movie that anticipated later projects like The Walking Dead and The Last of Us.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/stake-land-53125/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/stake-land-2/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/81a48a6b9c8f24440133a4d3afba3aca4a6df56d76a5c13edd1af39a85a2218c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Holy Destructors", "start": "2026-11-07T17:45:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T19:35:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["science/biology/microbiology", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary film Holy Destructors (Biodestruktoriai), followed by a film talk and Q&A with film composer Gediminas Jakubka. It is directed by Aistė Žegulytė and is part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The documentary delves into the invisible world of organisms that emerge during the decay of organic matter: biodestructors, microfungi that existed millions of years before humans and will likely outlive us, transforming bodies into energy that nourishes the soil and gives rise to new life. Blending archival and new footage with shots of growing fungi, the film takes viewers on an enigmatic journey through a microscope lens, where humans fight against time by preserving images, bodies, and memories; it won Best Directing at IDFA (2025), Best Baltic Documentary Film at Tallinn Black Nights (2025), and Best Documentary at Lithuania's Silver Crane Awards (2026).", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/holy-destructors-55698/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/holy-destructors-nybff-2026/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b2049dbbfb0992dc43057365766dff7ad83631ba2bbf61c8fdb9847ac4846df8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La Merde! The Mole!", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "$12 general, $10 student", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-merde-the-mole-tickets-2003685100072?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "art"], "description": "A screening of two films, Aline Bouvy's La Merde and Jakub Jansa's The Silence of the Mole, followed by a conversation with the artists. The program is guest-curated by Peter Sit and was created for the Luxembourg Pavilion and the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Jansa's film follows an aging performer who has spent his life embodying the beloved Czechoslovak Little Mole and retreats underground as an unlocatable sound disturbs his refuge, asking whether silence is a failure to act or a form of resistance. Bouvy's film follows an anthropomorphic excrement figure through everyday situations of discipline, rejection, and invisibility, combining grotesque humor and tenderness to examine shame as a social construct.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/la-merde-the-mole-52437/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783399/la-merde-the-mole-nbsp/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/671c6cfd380bb62ddc1ec1cc68e2448a288399bf17ce8b5919319c0f455bb9f7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Brood", "start": "2026-11-06T22:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31287", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "The Brood is a 1979 horror film directed by David Cronenberg, screening at The Metrograph. Samantha Eggar plays Nola, a mentally disturbed woman in a bitter divorce from her ex-husband Frank (Art Hindle), who is receiving experimental therapy from the renowned Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) at the Somafree Institute. When Frank notices that people on Nola's list of enemies keep dying at the hands of asexual, dwarfish assassins, he begins to wonder what the therapy really consists of. Written while Cronenberg was in his own divorce and custody battle, it is a brutal, bracing airing of anxieties gussied up in grindhouse trappings.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/the-brood-56700/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003255-the-brood/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b4e2a846cbfeaefe3cdc1647175236ec5840666a3aa47eefb39b46fdb22dfee9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Retribution", "start": "2026-10-31T18:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T20:15:00-04:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/asiastore", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/j-horror"], "description": "Retribution is a 2006 ghost story by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. A seasoned detective, played by Kōji Yakusho, investigates a series of murders across a waterlogged expanse of ruin and construction, while the ghost of a murder victim burrows into his mind and house and an earthquake threatens to slide the city into the sea. The screening is presented by the editors of Narrow Margin, a quarterly magazine of film criticism, in anticipation of its fifth issue, which pairs Kurosawa with one of his most important influences, Richard Fleischer. It will be introduced by Narrow Margin editor Hicham Awad.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/retribution-51113/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/retribution", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/3321116ed1328abc20d0eb9c2681c046eeacf715e6545f054945184644af69b3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nosferatu", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Moving Image", "address": "35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria", "price": "$17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / free for MoMI members", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nosferatu-with-live-music-by-olsen-tickets-2003528055347?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A screening of the 1922 film Nosferatu with live music by OLSEN at Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn. The silent classic follows Vampire Count Orlok, who expresses interest in a new residence and the wife of the real estate agent Hutter. The event pairs the landmark horror film with live musical accompaniment for Halloween. Film Noir Cinema is behind the screening.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/nosferatu-52555/", "official_url": "https://www.filmnoircinema.com/program/2026/10/31/olsen", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/1d63386914cb853d9791b952c351ba91efe8f11e41e7f1451474176da81a44fc-600.webp"}, {"title": "Depraved", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=585456~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/psychological-horror"], "description": "\"Depraved\" is a feature film screening. Director Larry Fessenden describes it as a low-budget re-telling of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, a modern Frankenstein steeped in the national PTSD of the Iraq war and pharmaceutical over-reach, with Alex Breaux as Adam, the doomed creature. It stars David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux and Ana Kayne. Fessenden cast an unknown as the monster, as Boris Karloff had been in 1931.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/depraved-53132/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/depraved/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/bf6b25c9c13c2813c65544e2327fb53841630b8c3ee5286bffce526e7e43d7df-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MISCHIEF NIGHT SCREENING", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Alice Austen House", "address": "Hylan Boulevard 2, 10305", "price": "Suggested Donation: $10", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An outdoor screening of the silent film HÄXAN (1922), the last of the season, presented at the Alice Austen House. It is held by the Subterranean Cinema Club together with the Alice Austen House, with a live, semi-improvised noise score by Sludgemisers, the experimental collaboration of percussionist Nick Gutilla and multi-instrumentalist Jenno Snyder. Blending documentary and horror, the groundbreaking film explores the history of witchcraft, superstition, and the persecution of women, examining how fear and social power have shaped their treatment throughout history. Aura photography will be available, and visitors are invited to come in costume for a spooky night out.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/mischief-night-screening-50915/", "official_url": "https://aliceausten.org/events/mischief-night-screening/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/26556b1b08d1fb5fe2a1746ba2a82ee79a5302326db73f607a6283b0d5ceb9f0-2000.webp"}]}