"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” - Ingmar Bergman, born 100 years ago today. Pictured on the set of The Seventh Seal.

This year, Mudbound DP Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar, a triumph that also underscored the troubling issue of gender inequality in the film industry. Few jobs on a movie set have been as historically closed to women as that of cinematographer—the persistence of the term “cameraman” says it all. Despite this lack of representation, trailblazing women have left their mark on the field through extraordinary artistry and profound vision. As seen through their eyes, films by directors like Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, Chantal Akerman, Ryan Coogler, and Lucrecia Martel are immeasurably richer, deeper, and more wondrous. Featuring in-person appearances, our international two-week series The Female Gaze (July 26-August 9) spotlights the amazing work of such accomplished female cinematographers as Agnès Godard, Natasha Braier, Kirsten Johnson, Joan Churchill, Maryse Alberti, Ellen Kuras, and Babette Mangolte, while also posing the question: is there such a thing as the “Female Gaze” at all? Tickets are now on sale at the link in bio, include discount packages.

“Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.” - Roger Ebert

Starting Friday, experience all 10 of their collaborations on the big screen with every screening in 35mm or 16mm. 💃 🕺🏼

Fred Astaire, photographed by Cecil Beaton. 📸

Fred & Ginger, a 10-film complete retrospective, starts Friday and Love, Cecil is now playing!

Few artists have as diverse a background as Ryuichi Sakamoto—composer, performer, producer, and environmentalist. Go on a personal journey through his life + career in the acclaimed Coda, now playing daily at 12:30, 2:30, 4:45, 7, and 9:30. MoviePass accepted at all screenings!

Our record-breaking Visconti retrospective returns next week with encore screenings of The Leopard, The Damned, Rocco and His Brothers, Sandra, and more! Nearly all Visconti screenings sold out last month, so we encourage to reserve your seats in advance. Full schedule + tickets available at filmlinc.org/visconti 🇮🇹

"Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself." - Vittorio De Sica, born on this day. Pictured on the set of Marriage Italian Style with Sophia Loren.

‪R.I.P. cinematographer Robby Müller (1940-2018). "When I choose to work on a film, the most important thing to me is that it is about human feelings. I try to work with directors who want their films to touch the audience, and make people discuss what the film was about long after they have left the cinema."‬

“Heaven, I’m in heaven.” Next week, we’re delighted to present a three-day complete retrospective of the dazzling films of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. See more and save with a discount package or pass, available at the link in bio.

This month at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. #FilmLivesHere

Portraits of Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton. Now playing, Love, Cecil illuminates the ambition and creativity of the British-born photographer, production designer, painter, and more! Don’t miss Q&As and book signings with director Lisa Vreeland at the 7:15pm screening on Friday and 1:15pm screening on Saturday.

The Female Gaze, a two-week survey of 36 films shot by 23 female cinematographers, begins July 26! See the full lineup + schedule at the link in bio or filmlinc.org/femalegaze

This series spotlights the amazing work of such accomplished international female cinematographers as Agnès Godard, Natasha Braier, Kirsten Johnson, Joan Churchill, Maryse Alberti, Ellen Kuras, Babette Mangolte, and Rachel Morrison. Laura Mulvey’s landmark 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” suggested an imbalance of power in film dominated by the male gaze and heterosexual male pleasure; this series poses the question: is there such a thing as the “Female Gaze”? This year, Morrison made history as the first woman nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar for Mudbound, a triumph that also underscored the troubling issue of gender inequality in the film industry. Few jobs on a movie set have been as historically closed to women as that of cinematographer—the persistence of the term “cameraman” says it all. Despite this lack of representation, trailblazing women have left their mark on the field through extraordinary artistry and profound vision. As seen through their eyes, films by directors like Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, Chantal Akerman, Ryan Coogler, and Lucrecia Martel are immeasurably richer, deeper, and more wondrous.

Luchino Visconti, Helmut Berger, and Romy Schneider on the set of Ludwig. There's only a few showtimes left of the Italian master's four-hour, gorgeously restored epic. Playing in 35mm today and tomorrow at 2pm and 6:45pm. More Visconti films will return July 17-19! Full schedule at the link in bio. Photograph by Mario Tursi.

"I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast." - Paul Thomas Anderson, born on this day. Pictured on the set of Phantom Thread.

#NationalSelfieDay, courtesy of Ozu, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, and Varda. 📸

Behind the scenes of Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers, playing tomorrow at 7pm, preceded by Death in Venice at 4:15pm. Following a week-long run of his four-hour restored epic Ludwig starting this Friday, our Visconti retrospective will return by popular demand July 17-19! Tickets now on sale for all screenings.

There's 100 days until the 56th New York Film Festival begins! Secure your #NYFF ticket pass by July 2 and save. Reserve now at filmlinc.org/nyff 📽

Tickets are now on sale for the savage seventeen edition of New York Asian Film Festival, kicking off next Friday! Featuring 58 thrilling films, the annual survey is New York’s most exhaustive selection of titles from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries across Southeast Asia. Reserve your seats now at filmlinc.org/nyaff, including discount packages and All Access Passes. #NYAFF

Get your dancing shoes on. Fred and Ginger, a complete retrospective of the iconic duo's shared oeuvre, 85 years after their first collaboration, is coming July 13-15! 💃🕺 It was an artistic partnership that would revolutionize and reimagine the Hollywood musical, reshaping the genre’s legacy for generations to come. The 10-film retrospective follows the progression of Fred and Ginger’s work together in chronological order, kicking off with a free screening of their first collaboration, Flying Down to Rio, and continuing with Top Hat’s “Cheek to Cheek” dance; their unforgettable performances in Swing Time; the end of their RKO run in the surprisingly moving The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; and their final film, after ten years apart, The Barkleys of Broadway. Tickets go on sale this Friday. See the full schedule at the link in bio or filmlinc.org/FredGinger

This Wednesday, world-famous film preservationist and entertainer Serge Bromberg returns to the Film Society with his traveling show Saved from the Flame, a program of rare shorts that conjures the dazzling wonder and excitement of early cinema exhibition. Bromberg and his company Lobster Films hold one of the most important private collections of films. Culling from the best surviving prints and negatives from around the world, Bromberg and collaborators use the latest digital technology to painstakingly restore each work and present them as if they were screening a century ago. This year’s show—for which Bromberg accompanies on piano and provides insightful commentary—is full of amazing discoveries and restored works from the silent era. The program includes once-thought-lost spectacles by the great Georges Méliès, including 1902’s hand-painted Robinson Crusoe and the East Coast premiere of a new reconstruction of the comedic Faust adaptation The Merry Frolics of Satan; the restored, complete version of Percy Pembroke’s Detained, starring Stan Laurel; a collection of the first stereoscopic 3D films ever; and more. Save with a double feature package, including Tuesday’s N.Y. premiere of a restoration of the silent masterpiece A Page of Madness, available at the link in bio.

"I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater." - Luchino Visconti

Our complete director retrospective continues through June 28, including encore screenings of Sandra, Rocco and His Brothers, and Death in Venice next week, plus a one-week run of a new 35mm restoration of his 4-hour epic Ludwig, starting June 22!

Secure your seats to the fall’s most anticipated event. Festival Passes to the 56th New York Film Festival are now on sale! Save $50 through July 2, now available at filmlinc.org/NYFF56Passes 🎟 #NYFF

The trailer for the 17th New York Asian Film Festival has been unleashed! Featuring 58 thrilling films, the festival returns June 29-July 15. Tickets go on sale this Tuesday. Full schedule at nyaff.org #NYAFF

By popular demand, we've added encore Luchino Visconti screenings next week for Rocco and His Brothers (June 21, 7pm), Death in Venice (June 21, 4:15pm), and Sandra (June 19, 4pm). Tickets now available at the link in bio. 🇮🇹 Screenings continue all month long, including The Damned, The Innocent, Conversation Piece, and more this weekend, as well as a one-week run of a 35mm restoration of Ludwig starting June 22! With many films selling out, we also recommend reserving seats in advance.

The New York Asian Film Festival returns with its Savage Seventeenth edition from June 29-July 15, featuring 58 films! From vicious, life-destroying phone scams to balletic battles between equally corrupt cops and yakuza, #NYAFF offers films that reflect on contemporary society while offering extreme genre pleasures. There are self-referential takes on cinematic zombies, existential date nights, and teens finding their own corners of the world despite familial and societal expectations. After last year’s Sweet Sixteen, this year’s program is dubbed the Savage Seventeenth edition with four world premieres, three international premieres, 21 North American premieres, three U.S. premieres, and twelve New York premieres, showcasing the most exciting comedies, dramas, thrillers, romances, horrors and arthouse films from East Asia. Explore the full lineup at the link in bio or filmlinc.org/NYAFF2018 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇮🇩 🇲🇾 🇵🇭 🇰🇷 🇹🇼

Next week, join us for a special Silent Showcase. 📽 On Tuesday (June 19), The Alloy Orchestra returns to the Film Society with an original, live musical accompaniment to Teinosuke Kinugasa’s masterpiece of avant-garde cinema, A Page of Madness, marking the New York premiere of a new digital restoration. On Wednesday (June 20), world-famous film preservationist and entertainer Serge Bromberg returns with his traveling show Saved from the Flame, a program of rare shorts that conjures the dazzling wonder and excitement of early cinema exhibition. This year's edition features once-thought-lost spectacles by the great Georges Méliès, and much more. Save with a double feature package at the link in bio!

Barry Jenkins says Let the Sunshine In is “a richly rewarding, clear-eyed, humane film.” Claire Denis’s extraordinary new film has been held over & playing daily at 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. ☀️

Following a 20th anniversary screening of The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman & cast discussed the making of their American indie classic. Watch the full Q&A on our YouTube channel or listen on The Close-Up podcast.🕺💃

“I want the spectator to have a physical experience, for him or her to feel time. Films are generally made to literally and metaphorically pass the time. But I want you to experience the time of a character.” - Chantal Akerman #bornonthisday

Jacques Demy, born on this day, pictured with Françoise Dorléac and Catherine Deneuve on the set of The Young Girls of Rochefort. Photographed by Bernard Allemane.

Coming soon to the Film Society of Lincoln Center. #FilmLivesHere

Our complete Luchino Visconti retrospective, featuring new restorations and rare imported prints, begins in one week! See more + save with a discount package, available at link in bio. 🇮🇹

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, born on this day, named Luchino Visconti's The Damned his favorite film of all-time: "The film that I think means as much to the history of film as Shakespeare to the history of theatre." See Visconti's epic symphony of decadence on June 16 & 17 during our complete director retrospective.

"I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever." Happy 90th birthday, Agnès Varda! ✨

Today we’ve announced our full summer 2018 new releases & revival slate! The lineup: Araby (June 22), a restoration of Ludwig (June 22), Love, Cecil (June 29), Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (July 6), Generation Wealth (July 20), Memoir of War (August 17), Notes on an Appearance (August 17), a restoration of Andrei Rublev (August 24), and A Paris Education (August 31). See more details of all films at the link in bio, and we’ll see you this summer! ☀️

"The strongest moments in my life are when I'm filming." - Jean-Pierre Léaud, who turns 74 today. Pictured with François Truffaut on the set of Two English Girls. #bornonthisday

This year at Open Roads (May 31-June 6), we pay tribute to legendary filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Vittorio sadly passed away this April at age 88), with special screenings of both classic (The Night of the Shooting Stars, June 4) and new works (Rainbow: A Private Affair, June 1 & 4). Also among the lineup is a digital restoration of The Ape Woman (June 5), a signature work from iconoclast Marco Ferreri, preceded by a new documentary about this important provocateur. See everything and save with a discount package or pass, available at the link in bio. 🇮🇹

See the best in new Italian cinema at Open Roads 2018, starting in one week! 🇮🇹 Showtimes + tickets, including discount packages, at the link in bio.

The only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films, this year’s 18th edition again strikes a balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries, with in-person appearances by many of the filmmakers. This year, we are also pleased to present special screenings of both classic and new works by legendary filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Vittorio sadly passed away this April at age 88), as well as a new digital restoration of a signature work from iconoclast Marco Ferreri, alongside a new documentary about this important provocateur. Presented with Instituto Luce Cinecittà.

Remembering the great Seijun Suzuki, who would've turned 95 today.

Luchino Visconti's #TheLeopard won the Palme d'Or 55 years ago today at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. See his majestic masterpiece during our complete retrospective of the director starting June 8. Tickets, including discount packages, are now available at the link in bio.

🎥This June, we're giving you something worth getting out of bed for: our Italian cinema extravaganza. Tickets on sale now for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and 3-week Visconti retrospective! Get tickets at link in bio 🎟

👑 In honor of the #RoyalWedding, we give you Meghan Markle arriving at a special tribute for cinema royalty, queen of the screen Cate Blanchett, at the 51st New York Film Festival. 👑 #NYFF

"What I love about film is that you can see so many different experiences from all over the world." – Sofia Coppola #BornOnThisDay 🎥

Celebrating 25 years of the New York African Film Festival, the 2018 anniversary-edition returns with 66 films from 25 countries that pay homage to the past, present, and future of African cinema. 🎟️: filmlinc.org/african

Only two more days to catch NYT Critic’s Picks ZAMA and GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI at the Film Society. Must end Thursday! For 🎟 and showtimes: filmlinc.org/newreleases