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.
The Seven Samurai
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Among the most oft-referenced and influential works in all of world cinema, Kurosawa’s epochal tale of Sengoku-era villagers hiring a band of ronin to protect their harvest from bandits remains a timeless masterpiece of action cinema.
Pour la Suite du Monde
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Perrault and Brault’s seminal work of ethnofiction follows the inhabitants of Île-aux-Coudres as they renew their centuries-old tradition of trapping beluga whales.
Pierrot le fou
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo leave middle-class life behind for a life on the run, out in the trees under the sun and the stars, by the wide blue sea.
Persona
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
One of Ingmar Bergman’s most enigmatic works, Persona is the story of an actress who has suddenly fallen mute (Liv Ullman), and retreats to the countryside with her nurse (Bibi Andersson) to convalesce.
The Misfits
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
The final film for stars Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and Huston’s lone collaboration with writer Arthur Miller, is a tough, ambiguous morality play about a principled divorcée torn between her love for an aging cowboy and her attachment to the natural world he wants to control.
Hiroshima mon amour
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Resnais’s devastating modernist masterwork, in which present and past are indistinguishable, follows a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who goes to Hiroshima to make a film and has an affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada).
Happy Together
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Wong’s raw, lushly stylized portrait of the life cycle of a love affair casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent pattern of infatuation and destructive jealousy.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
One of the all-time great works of science fiction, Spielberg’s fourth feature contemplates the possibility of life beyond Earth with a singular blend of awe, wonder, and fear.
Apocalypse Now (Final Cut)
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Coppola’s epic portrait of war as hell follows Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) as he undertakes a journey from South Vietnam to Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam War with orders to assassinate the rogue Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando).
Alien
By Jordan Raup
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January 31, 2024
Ridley Scott’s second feature used minimal gore and maximum claustrophobic tension to tell the now-iconic tale of an interstellar mining crew en route back to Earth with a very unfriendly stowaway on board.