One of the newer venues in the running, the IFC Center (Independent Film Center) aims to be one of the draws for film-geeky New Yorkers. As it says in the interview with the “curator”, some New Yorkers lead a life of going to films day and night – it’s a phase many pass through in their early twenties.
This place shows a mix of “calendar” movies and indies that bridge the range of the audience in the area, covering both the more interesting of commercial releases and the things you will never see anywhere else. At this time, we are also in the throes of the Tribeca Film Festival, continuing through the weekend, which has basically taken over most of the city’s serious movie houses, both downtown and uptown.
Movies day and night? ..its a wonderful life !
The IFC Center was formerly known as the Waverly. The theater was immortalized in the song Frank Mills from the musical Hair. Let’s all sing:
I met a boy called Frank Mills
On September twelfth right here
In front of the Waverly
But unfortunately
I lost his address