IFC Center

Coordinates: 40°43′52″N 74°00′05″W / 40.731149°N 74.001516°W / 40.731149; -74.001516
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This article is about the New York City movie theater. For the integrated commercial development in Hong Kong's Central district, see International Finance Centre (Hong Kong).

40°43′52″N 74°00′05″W / 40.731149°N 74.001516°W / 40.731149; -74.001516

The IFC Center

IFC Center is an

IFC, We TV and Sundance TV and the offshoot film company IFC Films
.

Current use

Independent Film Channel) because IFC was to take over the building. IFC has converted the historic building, originally built as a church in the early 19th century, into a three-, and eventually five-theater facility. The theater is equipped to screen 35mm and high-definition digital video. The complex originally included digital editing suites, a meeting area, and a restaurant called The Waverly, in recognition of the site's past, but those spaces have since been converted. (The Waverly restaurant was closed and renovated into two additional screens, bringing the theater's total screen count to five in 2009.)[1]
In addition to regularly scheduled films, the Center plays host to special screenings such as premieres, educational programs and film festival screenings.

IFC Center opened on June 17, 2005 with the film

IATSE local 306.[1]

It currently hosts the

DOC NYC festival, and co-hosts the Human Rights Watch
Film Festival.

IFC's weekly series, formerly titled "At The Angelika" (filmed at the nearby

Angelika Theater
) relocated to IFC Center and thus the show was retitled "At The IFC". The show ran through the mid-2000s.

In popular culture

The Waverly Theatre is referenced numerous times in the 1968 Broadway musical Hair, including the song "Frank Mills" sung by the character Crissy at the end of Act One.

The Waverly was also known as the original home of the midnight audience-participation screenings of the movie version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which ran there for many years, spawning similar showings in other cities.

Back to the Well, the making-of documentary for

Clerks 2 has a scene filmed at the IFC Center where a test screening is held for Clerks 2 with Bob Weinstein
in attendance.

See also

References

  1. ^ Halter, Ed (July 26, 2005). "Celebrities get involved as IFC Center union protests continue". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on April 24, 2006. Retrieved March 31, 2006.

External links

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