Film Forum

After exactly half a century (1972-2022) as the director of Film Forum, the nonprofit cinema in Lower Manhattan, Karen Cooper will step down from the position and will be succeeded by Sonya Chung. Film Forum’s board, headed by Gray Coleman,...

Karen Cooper, director of New York City’s Film Forum since 1972, announced more than one million dollars in gifts to commemorate the theater’s 50th anniversary this year. The anniversary is being celebrated with a $1 million gift from the Charles...

Marijuana. Venereal disease. Child brides. Peeping toms. All this and more is the subject of Film Forum series Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, starting this Friday and running throughout March. This seven-film series (plus shorts) features...