The IFC Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a retrospective series showcasing two decades of independent cinema in New York.<\/p>\n
Beginning this week, the Greenwich Village theater is screening \u201c20 Films for 20 Years,\u201d a lineup of one movie from each year since its opening in 2005.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Selections include \u201cMe and You and Everyone We Know,\u201d \u201cBoyhood\u201d and \u201cParasite\u201d \u2014 films that helped defined the center\u2019s place in New York\u2019s film culture.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a real honor to have been around for so long,\u201d IFC Center senior vice president and general manager Harris Dew said in an interview with \u201cMornings On 1.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re all living in a time where things change so rapidly, especially in New York. And to think that people have been supporting us for 20 years, been coming to see films there, having a great time, it\u2019s really special.\u201d<\/p>\n The curators set out to capture the diversity of the last two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely wanted to strike a real balance,\u201d Dew said. \u201cWe wanted to have films from all over the world. We wanted to have films that represented filmmakers that we\u2019d worked with a lot, but also filmmakers who maybe it was their first film. We wanted to have documentaries. We wanted to have dramas. We wanted to have comedies.\u201d<\/p>\n Some films have left a lasting mark on the center. \u201cBoyhood,\u201d Richard Linklater\u2019s coming-of-age drama, became IFC\u2019s longest-running title, playing for more than nine months, Dew said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt kind of was fitting,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a film that was shot over 12 years, so it felt appropriate to hold onto it that long. But it\u2019s such a great movie. It\u2019s such a really special movie.\u201d<\/p>\n Other moments carried the thrill of discovery. When IFC opened Bong Joon-ho\u2019s \u201cParasite,\u201d the buzz was already strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEvery screening was sold out the opening weekend, from, you know, 10:30 in the morning all the way to midnight. It packed houses,\u201d Dew said. \u201cWe had the filmmaker and the cast there for some shows, and it was just really electric in the room. And, you know, from there it just sort of built and built.\u201d<\/p>\n The film would later sweep the Oscars.<\/p>\n Over the years, the center has also welcomed some of cinema\u2019s most idiosyncratic figures. Dew recalled David Lynch presenting \u201cInland Empire\u201d at IFC. The theater honored the director with a marquee tribute after his death.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJustin Theroux, who\u2019s an actor who has been in his films and lives nearby, walked by and asked if he could come introduce a film,\u201d Dew said. \u201cAnd we were like, yeah, sure, come on in. We\u2019d love to have you introduce a film. So he surprised the audience, and it was an amazing thing. And he ended up bringing Naomi Watts and Scott Coffey.\u201d<\/p>\n Dew says the audience\u2019s appetite for the unexpected has kept the IFC Center thriving.<\/p>\n \u201cNew Yorkers have always been known for being really adventurous and always seeking out something new and something to surprise them,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve been a part of that process, or we\u2019ve tried to be a part of that process.\u201d<\/p>\n The anniversary, Dew added, is less about looking back than about showing what\u2019s next.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think people get excited when they see something they love and they want to tell their friends, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re there for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IFC Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a retrospective series showcasing two decades of independent cinema…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,104767,7448,104768,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,24032,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-187003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-mornings-on-1","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-mornings-on-1","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-patrick-adcroft","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115117114352830579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n