A new TV series Cinema Q&A with Chuck Rose will air Thursday nights on NYC Life Channel 25, the flagship station of the official broadcast network for the City of NY, NYC Media, starting September 19, 2024.

Each week, Host and Executive Producer Chuck Rose will select one outstanding movie that is soon-to-be-released in New York or nationally, and make it the focus of the half-hour show. The film’s director, actors and/or other key talent will join Chuck to discuss how their movie was developed, cast, shot and completed.

“As Hollywood withers under the anvil of superhero-sequel-slasher fatigue, Cinema Q&A will aim to serve as a go-to resource for everyone who loves movies,” notes Chuck,  “Film buffs want to know what’s worth watching now. Cinema Q&A will tell them every Thursday for 12 weeks, highlighting the filmmakers and actors who make the most exciting indie, international, prestige studio and documentary films. When a film wins an award at Sundance, Cannes or Toronto, we’ll go deep with the creators on the eve of their American release.”

The first episode of Cinema Q&A will feature Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Best Directing Award-winner, In The Summers. Director Alessandra Lacorazza will join Chuck for a fascinating discussion on September 19th on NYC Life; then on September 20th, In The Summers will open at the IFC Center in New York.

After 33 years of moderating Q&A’s with live audiences, Chuck is convinced that, “There has been a need for a show like Cinema Q&A for a long time. Siskel and Ebert had the highest rated weekly entertainment series in the history of public broadcasting. They had strong opinions. They didn’t praise every movie opening on Friday. Nowadays, big media and social media rave and bloviate about everything. And everybody’s a critic. I am not a critic. I am a curator. My first job is to identify the small fraction of movies worthy of attention, and tune out the rest. Quite often, there’s a brilliant little film from a small or medium-size distributor with limited  resources that will be undiscovered by many movie lovers. That’s the one I want! And if Hollywood studios return to making more than an occasional great, big, original, challenging, smart, director-driven picture, I’ll be cheering, and inviting those movies too.”

NYC Life is available in 18 million cable homes, and is carried by Comcast, Optimum, Spectrum, Astound, FiOS, DIRECTV and Dish. NYC Media apps are on iOS (iPhone, iPad, AppleTV), Roku, Amazon Fire and Android TV.

“Cinema Q&A with Chuck Rose is the perfect example of the content NYC Media creates and airs round-the-clock to keep New Yorkers entertained and educated about their city, including what movies to go see," said NYC Media General Manager Karen Johnson. "This fall, Thursdays on the flagship channel for the NYC Media network, NYC Life, New Yorkers will get behind-the-scenes look at movies hitting the theaters, from blockbusters to indie darlings; Chuck will cover it all!” 

Chuck Rose has documented and championed the evolution of American and international cinema in his role as founder, curator and moderator of Arthouse Film Festival for 33 years. He has curated and staged 2,058 movie premieres, interviewing 1,286 actors and filmmakers from all over the world, among them: Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Hugh Jackman, Ethan Hawke, Brie Larson, Viggo Mortensen, Mary Stuart Masterson, Jesse Eisenberg, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Danai Gurira, Anne Hathaway, Kevin Smith, Chazz Palminteri, David Strathairn, Melissa Leo, Lakeith Stanfield, Eddie Redmayne, Tom McCarthy, John Sayles and Aaron Sorkin.

Chuck’s film festivals and symposia have been sponsored/supported by Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Rutgers University, Kean University, Caldwell University and more than a dozen other film industry, academic and arts organizations. He has authored 32 screenplays, directed Vietnam Vets starring Danny Aiello, worked in the story department at Orion Pictures, served as a Contributing Editor at Movies USA and written feature articles for The Hollywood Reporter. Chuck has held faculty positions at Seton Hall University, Adelphi University and The New School for Social Research where he developed a program in Film Script Analysis adopted by executives at HBO and ABC. Chuck is an alumnus of the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop, and holds an MA in Cinema History, Criticism and Aesthetics from USC and a BFA in Film Production from NYU.

NYC Media is part of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and is the official broadcast network and media production group of the City of New York. As a network, NYC Media's goals are to inform, educate, and entertain New Yorkers about the City's diverse people and neighborhoods, government, services, attractions and activities. NYC Media's flagship channel, NYC Life, explores arts and culture, entertainment and lifestyle, and history and education, and features the people and places that make NYC unique. Viewers can also now watch our content on a number of other channels and expanding platforms, such as iTunes, the NYC Media iOS app, and Taxi TV. NYC Media was the recipient of four 2023 NY Emmy Award wins for its original programming.