R.I.P. Bruno Ganz (1941-2019)

Pictured with Dennis Hopper on the set of Wim Wenders’s The American Friend.

Starting in one week, see the best in new Latin American cinema at Neighboring Scenes 2019! Check out the trailer premiere and save with a discount package at the link in bio. 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Happy Valentine’s Day 💕 #coldwarmovie #nowplaying

Starting next Friday, Neighboring Scenes exhibits the breadth of styles, techniques, and approaches employed by Latin American filmmakers today. This year's lineup includes Julio Hernández Cordón's exhilarating Cannes premiere Buy Me a Gun; Camila José Donoso's deeply personal Nona. If they soak me, I’ll burn them; Iván Fund's lyrical drama There Will Come Soft Rains; Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León The Wolf House, an animated film unlike any other; and more. Save with a discount package or pass! [📸: Carlos Reygadas's Centerpiece Screening Our Time]

Today’s mood. ❄️ Hong Sangsoo’s Hotel by the River opens Friday!

Congrats to Łukasz Żal for winning the top award at the American Society of Cinematographers ceremony for Cold War! 🎥 The stunning black-and-white romance is playing daily at FSLC. 🇵🇱

This Sunday at 2pm, join Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) director Abbas Fahdel at the Film Comment Selects premiere of their newest film Yara. “The latest from Iraqi-French filmmaker Abbas Fahdel forgoes the armed conflict that has up to now inspired his features in favor of something altogether unexpected but in some ways just as brave: a love story,” says Jordan Cronk. “Yara’s picturesque location—a remote valley in northern Lebanon, all grand expanses and gorgeously overgrown canyons—stands in sharp contrast to the modesty of the narrative, which follows the teenage title character (Michelle Wehbe), who lives and works with her hardscrabble grandmother (Mary Alkady) on a cliffside farm, and falls for a young hiker, Elias (Elias Freifer). The drama, if that’s not too strong a term, is of a purely romantic nature.”

R.I.P. Albert Finney (1936-2019)

Film Comment Selects pays tribute to the late, great cinematographer Robby Müller this Saturday at 8pm with the rarely-screened Honeysuckle Rose, featuring a Q&A with director Jerry Schatzberg. The 1980 gem stars Willie Nelson as a touring country music singer, Dyan Cannon as his wife, Slim Pickens as his bantering compadre, and Amy Irving as the woman he falls for on the road. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song for “On the Road Again,” which sums up its rambling spirit. 🎸 🎙

Son of Saul director László Nemes follows up his Academy Award-winning drama with Sunset, an audacious, spellbindingly shot new film about an orphaned young woman searching for her mysterious brother in Budapest at the beginning of the 20th century. See the New York premiere this Wednesday in 35mm at the opening night of Film Comment Selects 2019! Nemes will also return on Saturday at 5pm for a Film Comment Free Talk. See more during the five-day festival and save with a discount package.

Los Silencios is an ethereal, metaphysical journey into the borderlands between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. See the U.S. premiere this Friday at Film Comment Selects 2019 featuring a Q&A with writer-director Beatriz Seigner! See more during the festival and save with a discount package.

With echoes of Michael Glawogger, John Alton, Alien, and Dziga Vertov, Victor Moreno’s mesmerizing underground city symphony The Hidden City takes us into an unknown world of darkness and glimmering activity. Join the director in person at the U.S. premiere at Film Comment Selects this Wednesday and dive deep below Madrid into tunnels of all sorts that keep the city running.

Opening on February 15, we’re pleased to present a new digital restoration of Sergey Bondarchuk’s seven-hour-plus adaptation of Tolstoy’s magnificent novel War and Peace. The winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film sets the changing fortunes of several aristocratic families against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. On record as the most expensive Soviet film in history (more than $70 million after inflation), it is also perhaps the greatest epic ever made: an exquisite production of spectacle and realism, the political and personal, that endures as a monumental achievement in filmmaking. See the trailer premiere and get tickets at filmlinc.org/warandpeace

Yorgos Lanthimos is the rare auteur whose films have the power to provoke and entertain in equal measure. See his imaginative, wickedly funny movies during our retrospective, starting Friday, including a just-added screening of The Favourite, nominated for 10 Academy Awards! See more and save with a 3+ film package. #yorgoslanthimos #thefavourite #thelobster #rachelweisz #oliviacolman #emmastone #alps #kinetta #dogtooth #thekillingofasacreddeer

R.I.P. Michel Legrand (1932-2019)

Pictured on the set of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Jacques Demy. 🎵

The complete lineup for the 24th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual festival that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking, has been announced! The festival will return February 28 - March 10 featuring the Opening Night film, Pierre Salvadori's The Trouble with You (nominated for nine César Awards!), as well as new work from Bruno Dumont, Mia Hansen-Løve, Quentin Dupieux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and more. Tickets go on sale Feb. 8, with a FSLC member pre-sale beginning Feb. 4. See the schedule at filmlinc.org/RDV2019

Hong Sangsoo crafts an affecting examination of family, mortality, and the ways in which we attempt to heal wounds old and fresh in Hotel by the River, opening exclusively at the Film Society on February 15. ❄ See the trailer premiere + get tickets at filmlinc.org/hotel #hongsangsoo #hotelbytheriver #kimminhee #kijoobong #NYFF

Congrats to the 2019 Academy Awards nominees! 👏👏 Check our a photo gallery and Q&A playlist from their #NYFF premieres at filmlinc.org #thefavourite #roma #ifbealestreetcouldtalk #coldwar #theballadofbusterscruggs #firstreformed

Congrats to Paweł Pawlikowski and the Cold War team on their Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography! 👏 Now playing daily. #oscars #coldwarmovie #pawelpawlikowski #academyawards

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.” Happy birthday, David Lynch! Pictured on the set of The Straight Story.

Just announced! On February 14, join Jia Zhangke for a sneak preview of his extraordinary new film Ash Is Purest White, featuring a career-best performance from Zhao Tao. A tragicomedy in the fullest sense, the #NYFF selection is at once his funniest and saddest film, portraying the passage of time through narrative ellipses and, like his Mountains May Depart, a three-part structure. All ticket holders are invited to a pre-screening reception. Tickets now on sale at filmlinc.org/ashsneak #jiazhangke #zhaotao #ashispurestwhite

"It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people understand and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer." Happy birthday, Steven Soderbergh!
Join the director & cast for the N.Y. premiere of High Flying Bird at Film Comment Selects on 2/7! Tickets for FSLC members/FC subscribers go on sale this Friday, general public on 1/25.

The films of Yorgos Lanthimos are imaginatively bonkers, wickedly funny, impeccably stylized, and piercingly insightful. Experience them during our retrospective, Feb. 1-5. 🦞 Tickets on sale now, including discount packages.

Featuring over 30 films that explore the diversity of the Jewish experience, the 12-day New York Jewish Film Festival begins tonight! Limited tickets available for Toman, Brussels Transit, Echo & more this week. #NYJFF

Congrats to the American Society of Cinematographers nominees! Łukasz Żal, Cold War (now playing); Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (retrospective through Tuesday); Robbie Ryan, The Favourite (playing Friday); Matthew Libatique, A Star is Born; and Linus Sandgren, First Man 🎥

Just announced! Join Yorgos Lanthimos for a career-spanning conversation and a screening of The Favourite next Friday, preceded by a 35mm screening of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Barry Lyndon–an inspiration for his wildly intricate and darkly funny new film. Tickets now on sale. This February, return for a Lanthimos retrospective, including Dogtooth on 35mm and his rarely-screened Kinetta.

Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuarón's film student IDs at Mexico's Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, where they first met. Their visionary collaborations–from their debut Sólo con tu pareja in 35mm to Gravity in 3D–play through Tuesday!

For his second film, Alfonso Cuarón captures a youthful sense of delight and wonder with precise detail. A beautiful adaptation of the classic story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess shows how to handle difficult situations with clever perseverance. Playing this Saturday at 2pm & Sunday at 4:30pm in 35mm during our complete retrospective.

It’s the final days of our Jacques Tourneur retrospective! 🎊 Ring in the New Year with his noir classic Out of the Past tomorrow night, plus Stars in My Crown, Night of the Demon, Nightfall, Cat People, Way of a Gaucho, Great Day in the Morning & more screen this week—nearly all on 35mm. 🎞

Merry Christmas! 🎄 Anna May Wong in 1932 🎁

This holiday week, see the year’s best film about what defines a family: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards! Playing daily at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. 🎥 #shoplifters #hirokazukoreeda

Martin Scorsese: "In its own way, Cat People was as important as Citizen Kane in the development of a more mature American cinema." Playing tonight at 9:15 & Dec. 31, the most successful of the Val Lewton–produced horror films redefined Tourneur as a visionary filmmaker who bore a singular aesthetic under financial constraint. Made as a B picture with few special effects and changes in scenery, Cat People invokes its uncanny tale through a palpable sense of dread and innuendo: an inventive use of sound that effectively complements the film’s interplay of light and shadow (courtesy of DP Nicholas Musuraca, who would photograph Out of the Past five years later). 🐱😱

Paweł Pawlikowski discusses the personal inspiration behind Cold War (opening today!) and its companionship with Ida. 🇵🇱 #coldwarmovie #pawelpawlikowski #joannakulig #nyff

R.I.P. Penny Marshall (1943-2018)

On her friendship with Carrie Fisher: "Our crazy lives have meshed perfectly. We’ve always said it’s because we never liked the same drugs or men, but I know there’s more to it."

Shoplifters, Burning, and Cold War have made the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film! ✨ See showtimes at the link in bio. Burning must end this Thursday + Cold War opens Friday.

The Vertigo Project, featuring 20 stunning dye transfer prints made from a rare original Technicolor negative of Alfred Hitchcock's classic, is now underway at Danziger Gallery through Jan. 26! Mention us with your purchase at the photography exhibit and 20% will benefit FSLC. 📸

Congratulations to Paweł Pawlikowski & team on sweeping the European Film Awards with Cold War, including Best Film, Director, Actress, Screenwriter and Editor. Opens this Friday! #EFA2018

‪Our Jacques Tourneur retrospective has begun! 🐱 🧟‍♂️ 🎞 Through January 3, see the films of the fascinating yet elusive director, who mixed the uncanny with the psychological, located even the most outlandish premises within familiar spheres, and roguishly circumvented financial constraints through his singular artistry.

Two masters meet: Hirokazu Kore-eda and Lee Chang-dong. ✨
See their extraordinary new films, Shoplifters and Burning, playing daily at FSLC! 📽

"Barbara is a film about the old Germany from one of the best directors working in the new: Christian Petzold,” says Manhola Dargis. Playing this Tuesday and Thursday in 35mm during the final week of our director retrospective, this masterfully controlled and totally absorbing Cold War thriller expertly details the costs of telling and withholding the truth.

Happy 102nd birthday, Kirk Douglas! Pictured with Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past, playing this Saturday and Dec. 25 & 31 during our Jacques Tourneur retrospective.

It’s the final week of Christian Petzold’s largest U.S. retrospective to date, featuring Phoenix, The State I Am In, Yella, Ghosts, Barbara, and more! 🇩🇪 On our YouTube channel, watch the director discuss crafting Transit (opening March 1), his admiration for Den of Thieves, the phantoms of history in his work, and much more. 📸: Julie Cunnah

“The shadows of the past live between us today, and that is what I try to film.”—Christian Petzold 🇩🇪 His largest U.S. retrospective to date continues through next week, including rarities and a special Harun Farocki program this Thursday at 6:30pm. See the full schedule at the link in bio and save with a discount package.

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, a New York Times Critic's Pick and Japan's Oscar entry, is playing daily! "Kore-eda has the sensitive, calibrated touch of a master safecracker, and he’s a virtuoso of emotional and narrative buildup," says Manohla Dargis. "His nuanced approach and self-effacing visual style give you room to breathe and to think; he doesn’t try to bludgeon you into feeling. (He knows the emotions will come.) His way of discreetly unwrapping stories and people is pleasurable; you never feel as if he’s gaming you." #shoplifters #hirokazukoreeda

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” Happy birthday, Jean-Luc Godard! The Image Book, his extraordinary, boundary-pushing cinematic collage, will open on January 25 at FSLC.

Christian Petzold will join us for a Q&A following Sunday’s 4pm screening of Yella. Inspired by Herk Harvey’s 1962 horror classic Carnival of Souls, his final entry in the “ghost trilogy” locates its chills in the cold cruelty of contemporary male-driven business culture. The title character, played with remarkable poise by Nina Hoss, is an eager businesswoman from the former East who discovers that the “good job” she’s just landed in Hanover isn’t as promising as it seems—and that her past life is not so easily left behind. Deftly pivoting between psychological horror and cool realism, Yella is at once an eerie reworking of genre norms and a potent rumination on neoliberal capitalism following the uneven reunification of the two Germanies. Following the screening and Q&A, Petzold will also introduce the 6:30pm screening of The Sex Thief.

Playing tonight at 6:45 with an introduction by Christian Petzold, Phoenix is a precisely and exquisitely crafted chamber piece, resonant and gripping, softly building up to a stunning finale. The screening will be preceded by his new short Where Are You, Christian Petzold?, in which the director examines in detail a set of stills from a sequence in Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man, ruminating on the nature of cinematic narration, and offering a subtle tribute to his late mentor and friend Harun Farocki. Also plays again next Sunday!

“I haven’t slept for 26 hours.” Christian Petzold, who got stuck in transit, introduces a sneak preview of Transit on the sold-out opening night of his career-spanning retrospective! The director will return tomorrow for The State I Am In at 4pm + Phoenix at 6:45pm, then Sunday for Yella at 4pm + The Sex Thief at 6:30pm. 🇩🇪