Starring: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Jeannie Berlin, Julia Butters

A deeply personal portrait of 20th Century American childhood, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is a coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.

Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, Whoopi Goldberg, Jayme Lawson

Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world.

Starring: Javier Bardem, Hector P. Valenti, Constance Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley, Brett Gelman, Shawn Mendes

When the Primm family (Constance Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley) moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle – a singing crocodile (Shawn Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music – living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle’s existence is threatened by evil neighbor Mr. Grumps (Brett Gelman), the Primm’s must band together with Lyle’s charismatic owner, Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem), to show the world that family can come from the most unexpected places and there’s nothing wrong with a big singing crocodile with an even bigger personality.

Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek, Woody Harrelson, Dolly De Leon, Zlatko Buric, Iris Berben

In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.

Starring: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Carnavale, Evan Williams, Xavier Samuel

This film is rated NC-17 and includes depictions of sexual assault and abuse

Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

The second Sunday of every month sees Subway Cinema take over the Nitehawk to unleash an action classic from the golden days of Hong Kong cinema but this time we’re jumping to the year 2000 and going maximum Y2K by emptying a full clip of Millennial Mayhem directly into your face! We’re not telling you the title until it appears onscreen because it’s more fun that way but, trust us, this is one of Hong Kong’s most pioneering directors delivering a modern day action classic that rewrote the rules of cinema in a movie that stands as a monument to what might have been if anyone else had been brave enough to make the same warp speed jump so many light years ahead.

If that makes it sound like a sci-fi flick, you’re not far off. Even though it’s set in contemporary Hong Kong the city is shot like an alien landscape, there is so much running up walls, across ceilings, and down the sides of buildings the rules of physics seem to be suspended, and the cast are a multi-culti, polyglot crew of miraculous mutants whose luminous faces will get burned into your brains. No one ever screens this movie anymore, so this 35mm, subtitled print is our Halloween treat to you.

NoBudge is happy to present new work from a group of emerging indie filmmakers mostly based in New York. These eleven short films reflect a wide-ranging sampling of some of our preferred genres: absurd comedies, understated character studies, and strange visions. This edition also includes a music video and a classic short film from 2007. Six of the films are NYC or Brooklyn premieres, and all directors will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A and Afterparty.

NoBudge is an online platform spotlighting the best in low-budget indie filmmaking. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform.

The movies:

It’s All Related
New York Premiere
Director Peter Wagner present.
A medley of overheard banter and personal musings about love and the cliches of love.
(3 min)

Codependency (Music Video)
Director Sofia Dobrushin present
A campy, queer 1980’s-esque dating show unravels into a dream scape chaos of relationship expectations.
(4 min)

The Length of Your Rage
New York Premiere
Directors Juan Pablo Rivera Garza & Charlie Sosnick present.
After an angry fight with his boyfriend, Thomas walks across Manhattan to cool off.
(13 min)

Close Ties to Home Country
New York Premiere
Director Akanksha Cruczynski present.
An immigrant dogwalker finds home in the hearts of the rich people’s dogs she dogsits.
(15 min)

Jefferson Avenue
Director Hannah Whisenant present.
Zora, a young compulsive woman, adjusts to living with new neighbors after many months of isolation and living alone during a global pandemic.
(15 min)

Jellyfish
New York Premiere
Director Gabe Ross present.
A casual weekend hangout is thrown off course with the arrival of an unexpected guest.
(6 min)

Supernigga
New York Premiere
Director Daddy present.
Everything goes wrong for Sugar— a writer by day, DJ by night— after a superhero attempts to save her in this Blaxploitation inspired romantic comedy.
(8 min)

Radical Honesty
New York Premiere
Director Bianca Poletti present.
At the end of a great date, Jack and Rachel bond over a shared interest in deconstructing traditional relationship structures.
(7 min)

Sativa
Directors Kelly Cooper and Johnny Frohman present.
A lonely weed dealer spirals when she tries to make conversation with an uninterested client.
(7 min)

Cherry Cola
Director Amandine Thomas present.
When Sherri gets arrested for shoplifting from work, she needs to find money for legal fees. Opportunity strikes, and his name is Tom.
(12 min)

Death to the Tinman
Director Ray Tintori present.
Bill loves Jane, the pastor’s daughter. When Bill becomes a threat to the community, the pastor is forced to curse his ax.
(12 min)

Starring: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, David Newsom, Tracy Middendorf, Wes Craven

Reality and fantasy meet in unsettling ways in this installment of the long-running horror series, which finds director Wes Craven and actors Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund all portraying themselves. As Heather (Heather Langenkamp) considers making another film with Craven, her son, Dylan (Miko Hughes), falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy’s demonic spirit to save the soul of Dylan.

Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Ai Matsubara, Miki Jinbo, Eriko Tanaka, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Haruko Wanibuchi

In an effort to avoid spending time with her father and his creepy new lover, young Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) resolves to visit her aunt’s remote mansion. With six of her closest friends in tow, including the musically inclined Melody (Eriko Tanaka) and the geeky Prof (Ai Matsubara), Gorgeous arrives at the estate, where supernatural events occur almost immediately. A severed head takes flight, household appliances come to life and a portrait of a cat seems to contain an evil spirit.

Starring: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy

At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.