Araki has spent thirty years making films that look like a candy-colored fever and cut like a razor, and a new one is an event for anyone who came up on The Doom Generation or Mysterious Skin. The Roxy's small underground room, with a hotel cocktail bar directly upstairs, is the right register of louche for it. If you want a late Tribeca film night that is not a franchise, this is the pick.
What to expect
A compact basement cinema with deep seats, a small screen and a late-night crowd that skews downtown. The film carries adult content throughout, in Araki's usual saturated palette. The Roxy Hotel bar upstairs is open before and after for a drink, and the room is small enough that the audience reacts as a group.
Good to know
- Roxy Cinema is at 2 Avenue of the Americas below the Roxy Hotel
- Take the A/C/E to Canal Street or the 1 to Franklin Street
- The film is explicitly adult — strictly a grown-up night out
- The theater is small, so booking online is safer than walking up
- The hotel bar upstairs runs late for a post-film drink
- The cinema is below ground; contact the venue about accessible access
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Common questions
Who directed it?
Gregg Araki, a central figure in New Queer Cinema, known for The Doom Generation and Mysterious Skin.
Is it playing anywhere else?
It has also been programmed at other New York cinemas; the Roxy screening is a late-night single showtime.
How explicit is it?
Araki's work is frank about sex and drugs, so treat it as strongly adult content.
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