Thursday Gemsletter

FILM
On Screen NYC

• POLL STARS: SIGHT AND SOUND PICKS @ IFC Center featuring Casablanca, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, The Sweet East, Hitchcock’s Vertigo & more!

• PIN screens throughout the month at Spectacle Theater, as part “Best of Spectacle 2023.”

• The theatrical cut of Blackhat screens throughout the month at Roxy Cinema, presented by Michael Mann Facts, who will introduce a special screening on January 13.

• To Save and Project: The 20th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 90 newly preserved features and shorts from 18 countries through Feb. 4

EVENTS
Happenings in the Big Apple

• How to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in NYC

• SHOWGASM, the untamed recurring variety-show-meets-party, serving up comedy to burlesque and everything (and anything) in between by comedian and writer Julio Torres (SNL, Problemista, Los Espookys) is back by popular demand tonight @ 7:30 pm

• 1000 words with Jami Attenberg, a writer’s guide to staying creative, focused, and productive all year round in person at St. Anns Church and on Youtube Live, tonight @ 7 pm

• What Makes a Real New Yorker? upcoming virtual talk with NYC-based, award winning German journalists Christina Horsten and Felix Zeltner on January 17th @ 12 pm

• NYC Hotel Week is coming back with good deals this winter through Feb 4

• Comedians will reveal more than punchlines at Comedy Ugly, a show where performers will remove an article of clothing between jokes tonight at 9 pm!

• ‘Women Dressing Women’ at the Met featuring the work of over seventy women designers through March 3

• Untapped New York Insider Events - January 2024