Film Forum Presents

Our new Unfolding the Calendar episode introduces Film Forum's new Premieres Programming Consultant Ruth Somalo, who joins Premieres Artistic Director Mike Maggiore to discuss October - December 2026 programming with Director Tabitha Jackson. With these conversations, we hope to give a behind-the-screen look at upcoming programming – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.

Welcome to Lobby Talk, a new podcast series from Film Forum Presents. At Film Forum, the theaters are where you experience cinema - but the lobby is where you truly begin to engage with and make sense of cinema. Lobby Talk celebrates this magical space that has provoked over 55 years of conversation, good-humored disagreement, and impassioned hot takes. In these episodes, the die-hard movie people on staff at Film Forum weigh in on the upcoming programming they're excited about, and you'll also meet special guests that happen to be passing through the lobby. In this, our inaugural episode, we will be talking about COPPOLA, the exciting 25-film series devoted to beloved auteur Francis Ford Coppola, running August 20 - September 10.

In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum's Director Tabitha Jackson talks with Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein and Premieres Artistic Director Mike Maggiore about the programming on our calendar for July - September 2026. With these conversations, we hope to give a behind the screen look at upcoming programming – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.

In today's episode, filmmaker Philip Hartman discusses the enduring resonance of NO PICNIC, his gritty 1986 neo-noir drama and priceless artifact of pre-gentrication East Village, with film critic and writer Mark Asch in a conversation recorded at Film Forum specifically for this podcast. A new 4K restoration of NO PICNIC has been playing to sold-out crowds since it opened with us on April 20 of this year. We highly recommend that you read Mark's excellent article about the film at www.hellgatenyc.com. Photo by Chris Grubb.

In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum's newly-appointed Director Tabitha Jackson talks with Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein and Premieres Artistic Director Mike Maggiore about the programming on our calendar for April - June 2026. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.

In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our calendar for January - March 2026. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.

In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our calendar for October - December 2025. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.

In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our calendar for July - September 2025. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.

In this edition of UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR, we welcome back filmmaker Richard Shepard, who joined us previously to discuss last year's "Out of the 80s" series, which was inspired by his docu-memoir FILM GEEK. In today's episode, Shepard talks to our repertory artistic director Bruce Goldstein about the actor John Cazale, whose remarkable and all-too-brief five-title filmography is the subject of both our upcoming 90th anniversary tribute series and Shepard's 2009 documentary I KNEW IT WAS YOU: REDISCOVERING JOHN CAZALE. The series will run for one week only, from June 13th through 19th, featuring free admission screenings of I KNEW IT WAS YOU, and Shepard will be joining us in person at several screenings over opening weekend. The full schedule and special event information can be found at filmforum.org.

In our new Unfolding the Calendar episode, Film Forum programmers Sonya Chung and Mike Maggiore discuss upcoming premieres on our calendar for April - June 2025. With these conversations, we hope to introduce the people behind the programming here at Film Forum – and to provide some fun inside intel and trivia along the way. Please enjoy.