
March 16, 2022
tick, tick… BOOM! (2021) – AFI Movie Club
"tick, tick… BOOM! earns its exclamation point – an explosive testament to the driving powers of inspiration, aspiration and determination. Lin-Manuel Miranda soars to new heights with this enduring valentine to Jonathan Larson by exploring not just what it means to write, to direct, to produce…but to create. This high-energy, high-drama musical is driven forward...

November 10, 2021
AFI Movie Club: tick, tick…BOOM!
Adapted from the autobiographical stage production by “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson, tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) marks the feature directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda. The film premiered at AFI FEST 2021. Jon is a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great...

August 11, 2021
AFI FEST Announces 2021 Dates and Opening Night World Premiere of tick, tick…BOOM!
Today, AFI is thrilled to announce that the 2021 edition of AFI FEST will take place November 10–14, 2021, and open with the World Premiere of Netflix’s tick, tick…BOOM! This year’s hybrid festival will feature both in-person screenings and events in Los Angeles, CA, as well as virtual screenings, showcasing transformative stories from groundbreaking artists....

June 24, 2021
AFI Movie Club: WE THE PEOPLE
FREE LIVE EVENT at AFI DOCS Watch today, June 24 at 8:00 p.m. EDT - LEARN MORE HERE Reserve your ticket HERE World Premiere Event A vibrant call to action for everyone to rethink civics as a living and breathing thing, reframing our understanding of what government and citizenship mean in a modern world. Created by Chris Nee and executive produced...

February 25, 2021
AFI Movie Club: AFI AWARDS Special Award Honoree HAMILTON
“HAMILTON transcends the definition of movies and television to rise up to the highest of art. This work of dazzling brilliance now exists for the ages – standing as a monument to America’s founding fathers and an anthem to the power of art to tell our stories. In a year when many were isolated at...

November 4, 2020
AFI Movie Club: HAMILTON
Audiences at home could at long last feel as if they were in “the room where it happened,” when creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking and record-breaking Broadway blockbuster, HAMILTON, finally made its spectacular screen debut this past summer. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch HAMILTON Now HAMILTON – Reelgood Watch Debra Messing introduce the…

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