Film Forum To Screen GODZILLA and MOTHRA In Japanese Horror Festival Lineup

J-Horror fans, rejoice! The Film Forum in New York is screening a MONSTER amount of Japanese Horror films for the first fourteen days of March! From spooky Kurosawa classics like Throne of Blood, his take on William Shakespeare’s MacBeth, to Ishiro Honda’s iconic kaiju films Godzilla and Mothra, this is one lineup you won’t want to miss!

The screening of Godzilla will be followed by a post-show presentation by Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein, in which he compares the differences between Honda’s original Godzilla, and its American counterpart, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, starring Raymond Burr.

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“Spanning over 90 years of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the early 21st century, the festival includes work by Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kaneto Shindō, Ishirō Honda, Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hideo Nakata, among many others.

Including ONIBABA, KWAIDAN, HOUSE, RINGU, KURONEKO, AUDITION, UGETSU, THE FACE OF ANOTHER, CURE, THRONE OF BLOOD, DEMON POND, GODZILLA and much more.

Select titles presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film.

Presented in partnership with the Japan Foundation.“

Kaiju Showtimes

Mothra

Saturday, March 2
2:10

Tuesday, March 12
9:00

Wednesday, March 13
4:20

Godzilla

Sunday, March 3
6:40

Monday, March 4
5:30

Friday, March 8
4:40

Tuesday, March 12
4:50

About Film Forum

Film Forum is the only autonomous nonprofit cinema in New York City and one of the few in the U.S. The success of our distinctive position is evidenced by our over 50-year tenure, during which our programs and fiscal resources have grown steadily. Sadly, since the 1970s, dozens of NYC art-house theaters (and a great number throughout the U.S.) have closed their doors.

As a cinema of ideas, Film Forum is committed to presenting an international array of films that treat diverse social, political, historical and cultural realities. Unlike commercial cinemas that primarily “book” high-grossing, Hollywood films, Film Forum’s programs are thoughtfully selected, with attention to unique cinematic qualities, historical importance individually or within a genre and – particularly for documentaries – relevance to today’s world.