Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
Locarno: Portraits of Past and Future Lives
By Laya Maheshwari
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September 3, 2013
Two Locarno Film Festival entries, Hong Sang-soo's Our Sunhi and Chang Tso-chi's A Time in Quchi, present mirroring portraits of characters making life-changing moves.
Locarno: Sex and Disability in “Gabrielle” and “The Special Need”
By Adriana Floridia
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August 31, 2013
Adriana Floridia participated in the 2013 Locarno Film Critics Academy. In this article from the recent festival, she explores sexuality among people living with disabilities in two films that screened at the event, Gabrielle and The Special Need.
Locarno: Upstairs, Downstairs, and Brief Encounters On an Escalator
By Michael Pattison
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August 27, 2013
Public and domestic space inform the storytelling in Joanna Hogg's Exhibition and Claire Simon's Gare du Nord, both of which premiered at the recent Locarno Film Festival.
Locarno: We Had a Good Run, The Festival Fete for Paulo Rocha
By Ronan Doyle
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August 26, 2013
Locarno celebrated late Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha's prolific career with screenings of his latest film, If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal, and his debut, The Green Years, which won Best First Feature at the fest 50 years ago.
Locarno: It’s “About Time” for Some Good Romance
By Tara Karajica
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August 22, 2013
Richard Curtis' About Time and the challenges facing the once popular romantic comedy genre.
Locarno: Hong Sang-soo Channels the Spirit of Jacques Tati’s Comedies
By Ingrid Raison
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August 22, 2013
In this dispatch from the festival, Locarno Critics Academy member Ingrid Raison takes a look at Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Our Sunhi and its universal comic elements, comparing the film to French filmmaker/actor Jacques Tati's work.
Locarno: Chemical Amnesia and Cinematic Awareness in “Pays Barbare”
By Ingrid Raison
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August 21, 2013
In their new film, avant-garde documentary filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi resculpt home movies from the Italian occupation of Ethiopia into a damning deconstruction of fascism and colonialism.
Locarno: Quentin Dupieux’s American Myths and the Double-Edged Sword of Absurdity
By James Berclaz-Lewis
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August 21, 2013
James Berclaz-Lewis is a member of the second annual Critics Academy at the Locarno Film Festival. In this dispatch from the festival, he looks at the good cop-bad cop role in Quentin Dupieux's Wrong Cops.
Locarno Fills a Gender Gap with “The Amazing Catfish” & “Gloria”
By Laya Maheshwari
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August 20, 2013
Locarno's The Amazing Catfish and Gloria fill a screen void left by Hollywood: movies with smart stories featuring female protagonists. But if Catfish and Gloria make it to American shores, audiences will likely be seduced by the strong performances of these two lead actresses.
Locarno: Catharsis on Display in “Exhibition”
By James Berclaz-Lewis
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August 20, 2013
The heady cinema of British filmmaker Joanna Hogg sidesteps emotional manipulation in favor of her own cerebral and formally rigorous brand of storytelling. Her new film, which premiered at Locarno earlier this month, is no exception.