New York Korean Film Festival

"The seventh annual celebration of recent Korean film, with a special focus on films by legendary director Im Kwon-taek, and new works by Yoo Ha, Lee Chang-jae, Choi Ho, and others."

Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street, 12th St., Between 5th Ave and University Place

Check official website for dates and show times Concerts: Battles and Deerhoof

Free concert as part of the River to River Festival in lower Manhattan.

Friday, August 31st, 7:00pm to 9:00pm

South Street Seaport
Pier 17

Beyond

“This extraordinary exhibition of large-format composit color photographs provides a rare glimpse of the exotic terrains of Mars, Venus, and the moons of Jupiter (Europa and Io). Writer and filmmaker Michael Benson assembled the roughly 30 photos after searching the NASA and European Space Agency’s archives of images taken by unmanned space probes. The results of his years-long search were edited down to the most stunning finds: a global dust storm on Mars, lava flows on Venus, an 80-mile-high volcanic plume on IoIo and Europa, plus other wonders.” — Elizabeth Cline

Daily from 10:00am to 5:45pm

American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
212-769-5100

William Friedkin’s The French Connection

A classic 1971 thriller about a pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau who stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

August 31st to September 6th

The Film Forum
209 West Houston Street,
between 6th Ave and Varick

Alain Dister

"Seventies-era counterculture as pictured by the legendary French photographer."

Now until September 1st
11:00am to 6:00pm

Envoy
131 Chrystie St
212-226-4555