Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, September 18, 2026.
Pet Sounds and Radio Free Brooklyn gather independent bands at Rubulad for the festival’s third edition.
E.B. Hudspeth brings his illustrated surgeon-and-monster mythology to the Twisted Spine with the follow-up to The Resurrectionist.
Cartoon Network becomes drag material at Madame X, where childhood television gets a decidedly grown-up stage adaptation.
Friday’s presentation combines 16mm and digital projection, a different way to encounter the film than the weekend’s single-channel screenings.
Beny Tchaicovsky’s 1997 computer animation travels from Eden to quantum mechanics through surreal early digital landscapes.
Alfreda’s Cinema brings Dancehall Queen to Flatbush Reformed Church for an open-air film session in the neighborhood.
Practical Magic becomes a live drinking-game performance at the Bell House, giving the witchy film a participatory afterlife.
Soprano saxophone explorer Sam Newsome leads a quintet in Smalls’ late evening slot, with the band close enough to study.
A masked man’s grudge against the British prime minister drives Jason Weitzman’s absurdly titled late show at the Tank.
Kevin Sun, Marty Kenney and Eliza Salem turn Close Up’s late slot into a set followed by a session.