Press Releases
FLC announces the Spotlight on Documentary section for NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces the complete lineup for the Spotlight on Documentary section of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27–October 13). This year’s series of dispatches from the front lines of nonfiction cinema features incisive portraits of iconic figures, intimate reports from inside the American prison system, New York stories both personal and political, and much more. Read More
FLC announces a retrospective of Agnès Varda, the most comprehensive survey to date
Film at Lincoln Center announces its holiday series, a career-spanning retrospective of Agnès Varda, the most comprehensive survey to date of the late filmmaker’s vast canon, opening December 20 through January 9 and presented in partnership with Janus Films. The director’s final work, Varda by Agnès, is a 57th New York Film Festival Main Slate selection and will open at FLC on November 22 to coincide with the retrospective. Film at Lincoln Center has also announced the 57th New York Film Festival will be dedicated to Varda’s memory. Read More
FLC announces the Convergence lineup for NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces the complete lineup for the Convergence section of the 57th New York Film Festival, October 10-13. The eighth edition of the annual program delves into innovative modes of storytelling via interactive experiences, featuring Virtual Reality, Immersive Cinema, game play, and more. Read More
FLC announces the complete lineup for the Projections section of NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces the complete lineup for the Projections section of the 57th New York Film Festival, to take place October 3-6. The slate is comprised of six features, seven shorts programs, and two videos that will be looped in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater. This international selection of film and video work expands upon our notions of what the moving image can do and be. Drawing on a broad range of innovative modes and techniques, including experimental narratives, avant-garde poetics, crossovers into documentary realms, and contemporary art practices, Projections brings together a diverse offering of short, medium, and feature-length work by some of today’s most essential and groundbreaking filmmakers and artists. Read More
FLC announces the Main Slate selections for NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces the 29 films for the Main Slate of the 57th New York Film Festival, September 27 – October 13. NYFF Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, “Cinema is the domain of freedom, and it’s an ongoing struggle to maintain that freedom. It’s getting harder and harder for anyone to make films of real ambition anywhere in this world. Each and every movie in this lineup, big or small, whether it’s made in Italy or Senegal or New York City, is the result of artists behind the camera fighting on multiple fronts to realize a vision and create something new in the world. Read More
FLC announces Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn as Closing Night of NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn as Closing Night of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), making its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 11, 2019. The film will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures later this year. In an unusually bold adaptation, writer-director Edward Norton has transplanted the main character of Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling novel Motherless Brooklyn from modern Brooklyn into an entirely new, richly woven neo-noir narrative, re-set in 1950s New York. Read More
FLC announces Two Free Women: Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner
Film at Lincoln Center announces Two Free Women: Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner, September 12-16. A testament to the collaborative nature of art and show business, the career of beloved comic actor Lily Tomlin has long been intimately connected to that of her partner Jane Wagner. This dual retrospective considers their projects together across a variety of formats, in which writer and sometimes director Wagner’s sharp-eyed observations and deftly drawn characters are animated through Tomlin’s tremendous versatility on screen. Read More
FLC announces Sci-Fi Visionary: Piotr Szulkin
Film at Lincoln Center is pleased to announce Sci-Fi Visionary: Piotr Szulkin, a retrospective celebrating one of Poland’s most revolutionary filmmakers, September 6-8. A director, screenwriter, novelist, theatrical director, and painter, Piotr Szulkin regularly faced censorship from the Polish Communist regime of the late ’70s and early ’80s for his unabashedly political works. Read More
FLC announces Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story as Centerpiece of NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story as Centerpiece of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), making its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 4, 2019. Marriage Story will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year. Read More
FLC announces the World Premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman as Opening Night of NYFF57
Film at Lincoln Center announces Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman as Opening Night of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), making its World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 27, 2019. The Irishman will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year. Read More
