Press Releases
FLC announces Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan
Film at Lincoln Center announces Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan, August 23 – September 3. The presidency of Ronald Reagan was marked by such eighties movie events as First Blood, Conan the Barbarian, The King of Comedy, Gremlins, and The Terminator. These films, plus the birth of MTV, helped form the pop-cultural backdrop for the Cold War and the delirious 1984 presidential campaign that led to Reagan’s re-election. Read More
FLC announces Scary Movies XII
Film at Lincoln Center announces Scary Movies XII, the 12th edition of New York City’s top horror festival, August 16-21. Featuring the genre’s best from around the globe, Scary Movies, which returns as a summer series for the third year, offers moviegoers the cathartic treat of experiencing the exhilaration of suspense, thrills, and gore on the big screen as part of an audience. This year’s week of hair-raising premieres and rediscoveries features a series of specially themed double bills and exciting Opening and Closing Night premieres—all of which will have moviegoers watching the screen through their fingers. Read More
FLC announces Another Country: Outsider Visions of America
Film at Lincoln Center announces Another Country: Outsider Visions of America, a series that explores the many ways foreign and immigrant auteurs of the modern era have depicted and otherwise apprehended the United States onscreen, August 2-14. The films showcased in Another Country present many Americas, offering perspectives on a nation that reveal the peculiarities of its customs, the drama of its natural splendor, and the lacerating contradictions of its political mythologies. Collectively, these films continue the historical legacy of influential and incisive observations about the United States made by those born beyond its shores, in the tradition of exiled European directors who transformed Hollywood in the 1930s and ’40s. Read More
Film at Lincoln Center Presents 21st Century Debuts with 2-For-1 Double Features, July 19-31
Film at Lincoln Center announces This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts, a survey of the most important new filmmakers of the millennium, July 19-31. This summer, FLC is marking 50 years with Summer of Film at Lincoln Center, a season-long slate of exciting programming and events that celebrate our new name, new look, and cinema itself. As part of Summer of Film at Lincoln Center, This Is Cinema Now highlights those directors who have made their feature debuts since the year 2000—and who have all but begun to define what a 21st-century cinema might look like. Read More
FLC Announces Summer 2019 New Releases & Revivals
Film at Lincoln Center has announced its full lineup of new releases for the summer 2019 season. The lineup features Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Benjamín Naishtat’s Rojo, a 4K restoration of George T. Nierenberg’s Say Amen, Somebody, and Claudio Giovannesi’s Piranhas (Open Roads 2019). The lineup also includes three New Directors/New Films 2019 selections: Peter Parlow’s provocative The Plagiarists; Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load; and Philippe Lesage’s Genesis. FLC will also present two NYFF56 selections: Mariano Llinás’s six-episode, 14-hour opus La Flor and Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?. Read More
Lineup Announced for the 18th New York Asian Film Festival
Film at Lincoln Center and the New York Asian Film Foundation announce the 18th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), June 28 – July 14, 2019. After last year’s Savage Seventeen, this year’s program is dubbed the “Still Too Young to Die” edition with five international premieres, 23 North American premieres, four U.S. premieres, and eight New York premieres, showcasing the most exciting action, comedy, drama, thriller, romance, horror, and art-house films from East Asia, and bringing close to 30 directors and nine actors from Asia. Read More
FLC and Dance Films Association announce the 47th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, July 12-15
Film at Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association announce the 47th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, July 12-15. With an inspiring selection of films that explore dance from a variety of perspectives, the festival offers groundbreaking dance adventures along with honoring classic interpretation. From dancing off a rocky cliff in Greenland, to the stories from India and Spain presenting dance fashioning destiny and healing, these films bear witness to its power to ignite humanity. Read More
FLC announces Summer of Film at Lincoln Center, a season of free screenings, free talks, and special summer pricing
FLC announces Summer of Film at Lincoln Center, a season of expansive programming including free screenings, free talks, and special summer pricing. For those craving alternatives to multiplex fare during the hot months, Film at Lincoln Center is the destination. There’s much to celebrate: we have officially been around for half a century; we have a new name and a new look; and more than anything, we continue to celebrate cinema itself. On the occasion, Film at Lincoln Center presents a season of summer programming including audience favorites and lively provocations, engaging free talks, and additional free or discounted summer events that speak to the diversity, breadth, and excitement of what we have to offer. Read More
FLC and Governors Island Announce Free Summer Screenings for 2019
The Trust for Governors Island and Film at Lincoln Center announced today its lineup of free outdoor movie screenings for the 2019 season. For its second year, Film at Lincoln Center will curate three outdoor screenings throughout the season, inspired by the city we all call home. This year’s outdoor film series will take place on the Island’s historic Parade Ground, an eight-acre lawn with expansive open views of Lower Manhattan. The series will be produced by Rooftop Films. Read More
FLC and Istituto Luce Cinecittà announce Ermanno Olmi, a retrospective of the Italian Cinema Master
Following highly successful retrospectives of Luchino Visconti (2018), Marcello Mastroianni (2017), and Anna Magnani (2016), Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà collaborate once again, to co-present Ermanno Olmi, a near-complete retrospective of the Italian master’s feature films, with most screening on 35mm prints, June 14-26. Read More
