Built in 1963 in the shell of a turn of the century fire station, Cinema Village is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated art cinemas in the city. Moving from repertory cinema to highly alternative first run programming in the 1980's advent of home video, the Village's over forty year run has included American indie sleepers, revivals, documentaries, animation, independent and alternative film festivals, Japanese and Hong Kong cinema, the occasional Korean film and now the New York Korean Film Festival. In 2000, patron support was rewarded with a long deferred renovation and expansion of screens and reopened with a thoroughly modern three-screen facility with state-of-the-art presentation.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is known as one of the nation’s leading urban arts centers where one can enjoy films, cabaret-style music, humanities symposia, and spoken word events. BAM Rose Cinemas, a four-screen theater which opened in 1998, features first-run independent films, and BAMcinématek screens repertory classics, documentaries, retrospectives, festivals and sneak previews, often including Q&As with filmmakers, actors and screenwriters. Featuring perfect sightlines, Dolby Digital, and Surround Sound, the cinématek enjoys the support of BAM’s 25,000 members.