Where the listings come from

One Night Only · Colophon

Nothing here is typed in by hand

8 sources are read on a schedule, normalised to one shape, and filtered down to the screenings that are rated O. Right now that is 2,745 listings across 44 venues.

A venue appears here because a source reached it, not because anyone chose it. That cuts both ways: the list is not a taste judgement, and a room this site cannot see is missing rather than excluded.

The sources

Alamo Drafthouse
Their three NYC rooms, from the public market schedule. The only source that reports a print.
1,352 listings
3 venues
repertory.nyc
The cinema core. Repertory and revival showtimes across the city, via their open API.
831 listings
12 venues
Fathom Entertainment
One-night and short-run events at AMC, Regal and Cinemark in the five boroughs: anniversary revivals, Met Opera encores, anime and concert films.
402 listings
21 venues
Rooftop Cinema Club
Their Midtown terrace, in season. Outdoor, and digital, so no format is ever claimed.
128 listings
1 venue
Elevent
Ticketing for microcinemas, museums and one-room venues that run their own box office.
30 listings
5 venues
Luma
Calendars kept by individual programmers, for screenings that never reach a box office.
1 listing
1 venue
The Paris Theater
Special engagements only. Their daily showtimes live behind a ticketing wall this does not read.
1 listing
1 venue
NYC Open Data
Free outdoor screenings run by NYC Parks, in season.
Nothing right now
read, but currently quiet

Two of those ask to be credited by name, and are, in the calendar and the feed as well as here.

The venues

Every room with a listing on the site today, and how many it has.

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn472
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan591
Alamo Drafthouse Staten Island289
AMC 19th St East 613
AMC 34th Street 1410
AMC Bay Plaza Cinema 1320
AMC Empire 2573
AMC Kips Bay 1539
AMC Lincoln Square 137
AMC Loews Bay Terrace 69
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 94
AMC Staten Island Mall 1111
AMC Village 79
Anthology Film Archives143
B Scene2
BAM Rose Cinemas131
Brooklyn Peace Center1
Film at Lincoln Center2
Film Forum63
IFC Center89
Maysles Cinema9
Metrograph146
Museum of the Moving Image41
New Plaza Cinema9
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park33
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg28
Paris Theater1
Quad Cinema60
Regal Atlas Park7
Regal Battery Park22
Regal Bricktown Charleston9
Regal Concourse8
Regal Essex Crossing & RPX36
Regal Tangram9
Regal Times Square20
Regal UA Kaufman Astoria26
Regal UA Midway11
Regal UA Sheepshead Bay22
Regal Union Square ScreenX & 4DX37
Rooftop Cinema Club Midtown128
Roxy Cinema86
Scandinavia House3
The Center4
Victor Borge Hall12

How often, and what goes wrong

The collector runs twice a day. A screening usually appears here within hours of a venue announcing it, and a cancellation is kept visible rather than deleted, so a listing that vanished tells you it was cancelled instead of quietly ceasing to exist.

The characteristic failure of a site like this is silence: a source that stops answering looks exactly like a quiet week. So a source that returns nothing does not wipe its listings. They are carried forward and marked, and the run says so rather than publishing an emptier city than the real one.

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