Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best date night in the Lower East Side, Manhattan next weekend, Sep 11–13, 2026: 5 picks, refreshed weekly.
5 picks · checked Sep 2
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMetrograph opens its Anja Breien retrospective with the 1973 Oslo talk-and-drift comedy Wives, in a 2K restoration. A conversation with film scholar Jane Gaines follows the screening.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMetrograph opens its Anja Breien retrospective with the 1973 Oslo talk-and-drift comedy Wives, in a 2K restoration. A conversation with film scholar Jane Gaines follows the screening.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1986 genre-scrambling caper in a 4K restoration, with Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. Part of Metrograph's Tsui Hark retrospective.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1986 genre-scrambling caper in a 4K restoration, with Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. Part of Metrograph's Tsui Hark retrospective.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMario Bava's 1961 peplum, with Christopher Lee presiding over the underworld, on a 35mm print. One Sunday-afternoon screening at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMario Bava's 1961 peplum, with Christopher Lee presiding over the underworld, on a 35mm print. One Sunday-afternoon screening at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe 1983 omnibus that broke Taiwanese cinema out of studio sentimentality, with an early Hou Hsiao-hsien segment. One noon screening this weekend.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe 1983 omnibus that broke Taiwanese cinema out of studio sentimentality, with an early Hou Hsiao-hsien segment. One noon screening this weekend.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsZu, Don't Play with Fire, Knock Off and Time and Tide play Metrograph in an 11-film Tsui Hark survey — two of them on 35mm prints.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsZu, Don't Play with Fire, Knock Off and Time and Tide play Metrograph in an 11-film Tsui Hark survey — two of them on 35mm prints.
Big weekends coming up — save them now, plan later.
