Where the listings come from

One Night Only · Colophon

Nothing here is typed in by hand

7 sources are read on a schedule, normalised to one shape, and filtered down to the screenings that are rated O. Right now that is 3,008 listings across 51 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

repertory.nyc
The cinema core. Repertory and revival showtimes across the city, via their open API.
1,532 listings
11 venues
Alamo Drafthouse
Their three NYC rooms, from the public market schedule. The only source that reports a print.
1,248 listings
3 venues
Rooftop Cinema Club
Their Midtown terrace, in season. Outdoor, and digital, so no format is ever claimed.
108 listings
1 venue
Elevent
Ticketing for microcinemas, museums and one-room venues that run their own box office.
91 listings
17 venues
NYC Open Data
Free outdoor screenings run by NYC Parks, in season.
22 listings
18 venues
The Paris Theater
Special engagements only. Their daily showtimes live behind a ticketing wall this does not read.
7 listings
1 venue
Luma
Calendars kept by individual programmers, for screenings that never reach a box office.
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 Brooklyn475
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan496
Alamo Drafthouse Staten Island277
Anthology Film Archives124
BAM Cinemas6
BAM Rose Cinemas247
Bloomingdale Park1
Chelsea Green1
Directors Guild Theater1
Elmhurst Park1
Film at Lincoln Center257
Film Forum134
Fred Samuel Playground1
Fulton Street and Callahan Kelly Playground- Basketball Courts1
Gansevoort Plaza, Meatpacking District1
Helen Marshall Playground1
IFC Center181
Inwood Hill Park3
Jackie Robinson Park2
Julio Carballo Fields1
L/CPL Thomas P. Noonan Jr. Playground1
Lemon Creek Park1
Maysles Cinema10
Melrose Ballroom1
Metrograph148
Murray Playground1
Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI)1
New Plaza Cinema24
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park73
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg75
Nitehawk Prospect Park - Th 12
Nitehawk Prospect Park - Th 34
Noble Playground1
Paris Theater7
Pier 571
Quad Cinema177
RECEPTION - Acadia Restaurant, FILM- Directors Guild Theater1
Rooftop Cinema Club Midtown108
Roxy Cinema92
Samuel Seabury Playground1
Scandinavia House5
Softball Field1
SVA - Beatrice10
SVA - Silas13
The LGBT Community Center2
Union Square Park1
Van Cortlandt Park2
Victor Borge Hall6
Village East Cinema - Auditorium 26
Virtual21
Von Briesen Park1

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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