GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🚨 To celebrate our release of Masayuki Suo’s SHALL WE DANCE? on Friday, May 30, we are teaming up with the Fred Astaire Dance Studios and Film Movement to give away a dream set of FREE Fred Astaire classes & more! 💃 To enter, follow us @filmforumnyc, @fredastairedowntown, and @filmmovement, like this post, and tag your dance partner of choice in the comments. Three winners will be selected at random on Friday, May 30 (limited to NY-area residents only) and notified via DM. ✨ WINNERS WILL RECEIVE: 🏆 Grand Prize (Dance the Night Away): Five 45 min private class package - Learn 3 styles of dance: Ballroom, Latin, and social. 🥈 Second Place: (First Steps): One 30 min private class - introduction to ballroom dance: Learning a ballroom and Latin style. 🥉 Third Place (Take the Floor): An invitation for one (with two guests – three total) to one of Fred Astaire Downtown’s regular parties with champagne and dancing. Tickets for Suo’s SHALL WE DANCE? (1996) and our FF JR. show of SHALL WE DANCE (1937) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on June 1 are available at filmforum.org. (fb)

A very happy birthday to H. Jon Benjamin! The actor, comedian and voice actor joins us at FF on Friday, June 20 following FAMILIAR TOUCH for a special opening night Q&A, alongside filmmaker Sarah Friedland and fellow star Kathleen Chalfant. Tickets now on sale at filmforum.org. (fb)