Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Thursday, August 20, 2026.
Low Cinema's archival Human Machine program is the odd nonfiction object hiding inside a day of better-known repertory.
Jo Passed and Maneka at Night Club 101 gives the rock side of the night a smaller, more jagged option.
This Hungarian acid-western entry gives Anthology's experimental-western run its strangest title of the night.
Good Room's Honey Trap and Accessory Records bill is the dance-floor pick with the most specific local ecosystem around it.
BAM's 35mm Oshima screening is the sharper Japanese-cinema choice beneath the more obvious crowd-pleasers.
Garchaster's Cornblade brings a director Q&A to Spectacle without losing the theater's handmade strangeness.
Xanadu's Latin skate benefit has more local social shape than the day's generic open-skate listings.
Anthology's Conner and Conrad pairing is a 16mm Essential Cinema detour for viewers who want the program more abrasive.
Baby's All Right's Thot Daughter Tour is late, bluntly named and better suited to this list than the bigger bills.
Hell's Highway keeps the late Spectacle slot in grimy road-horror territory rather than standard midnight nostalgia.