This event is in the past.It took place on June 11, 2026 at IFC Center.
Comedy Film
Comedy FilmWest Village, New York
🎬"Nearly a masterpiece, a film of such wit and comic invention" (The Village Voice)
🍿"One of the best romantic comedies ever made" (The New Yorker)
⏰No assigned seating, arrive early
Walter Matthau plays a trust fund disaster plotting to marry and murder a wealthy botanist for her fortune, but Elaine May's slapstick genius keeps stealing every scene. Mean one-liners fly in this restored 1971 anti-romcom that weaponizes awkwardness for laughs.
Elaine May's directorial debut
Walter Matthau gold-digger
1971 anti-romcom
4K restoration screening
Comedy FilmComedy FilmWest Village, New York
🎬"Nearly a masterpiece, a film of such wit and comic invention" (The Village Voice)
🍿"One of the best romantic comedies ever made" (The New Yorker)
⏰No assigned seating, arrive early
Walter Matthau plays a trust fund disaster plotting to marry and murder a wealthy botanist for her fortune, but Elaine May's slapstick genius keeps stealing every scene. Mean one-liners fly in this restored 1971 anti-romcom that weaponizes awkwardness for laughs.
Elaine May's directorial debut
Walter Matthau gold-digger
1971 anti-romcom
4K restoration screening