Filmmakers Dialogue - 45th Year
SVA Presents Ralph Appelbaum’s Filmmakers Dialogue
- Preview important new studio and independent releases and meet the films′ actors, directors, writers and producers
- Participants have met and spoken with more than 1,000 movie greats
- Screenings have included Academy Award winners Green Book and Roma, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Little Women, The Two Popes, 1917, God's Country, Emily the Criminal, Causeway, Holy Spider, The Wonder, She Said, Richard Jewell, First Man, Hotel Mumbai, Capernaum, Stan & Ollie, A Private War, Colette, Leave No Trace, Puzzle, What We Had, Wildlife, At Eternity’s Gate, Nowhere Special, The Climb, Eileen, Maestro, Sometimes I Think About Dying, Shayda, Irena's Vow, Summer Camp, and The Roads Not Taken.
- During our virtual season, films and guests have included Sound of Metal (Darius Marder), I Know This Much Is True (Derek Cianfrance, Jim Helton), The Courier (Dominic Cooke), Silk Road (Tiller Russell), Wild Mountain Thyme (John Patrick Shanley), The Nest (Sean Durkin), Sylvie’s Love (Eugene Ashe), Strip Down, Rise Up (Michele Ohayon), My Zoe (Julie Delpy), Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson), My Salinger Year (Philippe Falardeau, Joanna Rakoff), Days of the Bagnold Summer (Simon Bird), Half Brothers (Luke Greenfield), The Secrets We Keep (Yuval Adler), The Last Vermeer (Dan Friedkin), Da 5 Bloods (Jon Kilik), The Half of It (Alice Wu), Radioactive (Marjane Satrapi), The Lost Leonardo (Andreas Koefoed), Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott), Holler (Nicole Riegel), A Crime on the Bayou (Nancy Buirski), Encounter (Michael Pearce), My Zoe (Julie Delpy), Something from Tiffany's (Daryl Wein), Love Is Love Is Love (Eleanor Coppola), The Loneliest Whale (Joshua Zeman, Lisa Schiller).
Join us for an array of screenings plus bonus previews! New films and classics to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the series.
Dates for Class
Our SPRING 2025 Edition!
Enjoy movies plus bonus screenings and Filmmaker Q&As.
Spring 2025 / ON CAMPUS
TUESDAY EVENINGS
MARCH 4 through MAY 6, 2025
(dates subject to change)
TIME: 6:30 PM
LOCATION: SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street, NYC
(between 8th & 9th Avenues)
PRICE: $375
Program Details
Most avid filmgoers are critics, but there’s nobody to sound off to. Imagine being in a theater after previewing a major new film, the lights go up, and in front of you are the creators of the film.
Welcome to Ralph Appelbaum’s Filmmakers Dialogue, New York’s premier film preview series. Now celebrating its 45th year.
Without waiting in line (except maybe for popcorn) — you can preview important new studio and independent releases and meet the films′ actors, directors, writers and producers.
Since launching Filmmakers Dialogue in 1980, with a showing of The Elephant Man at the Library and Museum for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, to an audience of 100 New York film lovers and a post-screening discussion with director David Lynch, producer Jonathan Sanger and actor John Hurt, the series has been a special venue for previewing the best new films and discussing the creative process with the filmmakers themselves.
Our loyal film fans have been rewarded over the years with such important movies as Unbroken, Blackhat, Testament of Youth, Not Fade Away, Hitchcock, 127 Hours, Win Win, Blue Valentine, Hereafter, Million Dollar Baby, The Wrestler, Noah, The Sea Inside, Out of Africa, Terms of Endearment, Gorillas in the Mist, Field of Dreams, Scarface, In the Name of the Father, Sea of Love, Casino, The Crying Game, Tootsie, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Traffic, Good Will Hunting, Platoon, Jerry Maguire, Pretty Woman, Schindler’s List, Mystic River, Jarhead, American Splendor, Vera Drake, A Beautiful Mind and Zero Dark Thirty.
Notable Participants