"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. 🇩🇪

Our Jacques Tourneur series begins in two weeks! 🎞 Explore the schedule in our December 2018 calendar (available online or in theaters) and get tickets starting today, including discount packages and passes. 🎟

The largest-ever U.S. retrospective of the films of Christian Petzold begins tonight with the director in person! 🇩🇪 Transit plays at 6:30pm and Jerichow at 9:15pm. Petzold will return this weekend for The State I Am In, Phoenix, Yella, and The Sex Thief. "The most impressive filmmaker to emerge in Germany since the neue kino is given an overdue retrospective," says J. Hoberman. "Petzold treats old movies as myths; he has an uncanny knack for creating phantom, historically resonant versions of familiar melodramas." See more and save with a discount package at the link in bio.

Christian Petzold: The State We Are In, the largest U.S. retrospective of the director, begins Friday with a sneak preview of his haunting new film Transit and his 2008 feature Jerichow. Petzold will return this weekend in person for screenings of Phoenix, The State I Am In, Yella, and The Sex Thief! 🇩🇪 See more & save with a 3+ film package. Also available are limited $125 All Access Passes, which include all 20 films (and 3 shorts!). 🎟

"I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera." R.I.P. Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018)

Alongside Christian Petzold's works, our retrospective (Nov. 30-Dec. 13) includes a selection of his influences with Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st, John Berry’s He Ran All the Way (screening with Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country), François Truffaut’s The Woman Next Door, Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running, plus a special Harun Farocki program & more! Discount packages + passes include these screenings. Reserve yours at the link in bio.

"Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness." R.I.P. Nicolas Roeg (1928-2018) 📸: On the set of The Man Who Fell to Earth with David Bowie.

Our Christian Petzold retrospective, with the director in person, begins in one week, kicking off with a sneak preview of his his brilliant, haunting new film Transit! Petzold’s films are like no one else’s. At once intricately engaged with the real world and steeped in film history, they radically reimagine such genres as film noir, thriller, melodrama, and the spy drama, offering narrative mysteries, enigmatic protagonists immersed in even more enigmatic circumstances, an incomparable sense of atmosphere and style, and surprising links between Germany’s turbulent past and its fragile present. 🇩🇪 See more and save with a discount package.

This week, experience six of Hirokazu Kore-eda's most acclaimed films—Maborosi, After Life, Nobody Knows, Still Walking, I Wish, and Like Father, Like Son—on the big screen ahead of the release of his Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, opening Friday. 🇯🇵 See more and save with a discount package!

Congrats to the #SpiritAwards nominees, including Paul Dano's Wildlife and Lee Chang-dong's Burning! ✨ Both are playing daily.

Just announced! On December 10, hosts of the acclaimed, provocative, and hilarious podcast Chapo Trap House will join us for a special presentation of a film they have selected: Paul Verhoeven’s thrilling and subversive sci-fi spectacle Starship Troopers. After the screening, Chapo’s hosts will participate in an extended onstage discussion, with a book signing of their New York Times best-selling The Chapo Guide to Revolution to follow. Tickets now available at the link in bio or filmlinc.org/chapo #chapotraphouse #starshiptroopers #paulverhoeven

‪“A good writer is not someone who knows how to write—but how to rewrite.” R.I.P. William Goldman (1931-2018)‬

Hirokazu Kore-eda is “one of history’s best filmmakers at analyzing what the word family even means,” says RogerEbert.com. Next week, join us for six essential films from the Japanese master, leading up to the release of Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, opening November 23. See more & save with a discount package!

The complete schedule has been announced for Jacques Tourneur, Fearmaker, a wide-ranging retrospective and NYC’s largest in decades, taking place December 14 – January 3! Tourneur mixed the uncanny with the psychological, located even the most outlandish premises within familiar spheres, and roguishly circumvented financial constraints through his singular artistry. Tickets go on sale November 30. See the full schedule at filmlinc.org/tourneur

Limited edition 56th New York Film Festival posters, signed by Ed Lachman, are now available for purchase. 🖊 Order yours at filmlinc.org/merch #NYFF #EdLachman

Jean Seberg was born on this day in 1938. ✨ Photographed on the set of Breathless by Raymond Cauchetier.

On November 26, join us for free screenings of the 1989 holiday classic Prancer with free popcorn! ❄ Featuring indelible performances by Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, and Abe Vigoda, Prancer is a warm and richly acted fable about a town brought together by the power of friendship, kindness, and the holiday spirit. Screening at 3pm, 5pm & 7pm as part of Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square, New York’s largest holiday festival, featuring free entertainment, special performances, family activities, outdoor food tastings, and more. #winterseve #prancer #freescreening

Jacques Tourneur was born on this day in 1904. Pictured with Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer on the set of Out of the Past. On Dec. 14-Jan. 3, we present the largest NYC retrospective of his work in decades. Full schedule coming soon.

Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu, 1959) | Playing this Sunday at 2pm in 35mm at My First Film Fest.

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters opens in two weeks! To celebrate the release of his Palme d'Or winner, we're presenting six essential films from the Japanese master on Nov. 19-22, including Still Walking, After Life, Maborosi, Nobody Knows, and more. Tickets now on sale, including a discount package.

Starting tonight, experience family-friendly classics & new discoveries from around the world at My First Film Fest! Highlights include the New York premieres of the gorgeous, emotional documentary A Polar Year (tonight at 6:30pm) and the dazzling Tito and the Birds (Sat. at 6:45pm), both with director Q&As. Also, don't miss the compassionate tale of young, forbidden love in Rafiki (tonight at 9pm), plus beloved favorites from Yasujirō Ozu, Hayao Miyazaki & more! 17 or younger? Get discounted tickets or an all access pass at the link in bio.

Animation lovers: it’s a feast for the eyes this weekend at My First Film Fest! 🎨 Highlights include Naoko Yamada’s breathtaking coming-of-age tale A Silent Voice; the dazzling Tito and the Birds (w/ director Q&A!), which utilizes stunning oil painting drawings; Jiri Trinka’s masterpiece of balletic beauty A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hayao Miyazaki’s aerial adventure classic Porco Rosso; and more! See them all + save with a discount package at the link in bio.

Wang Bing: “I think that the most interesting thing to do in films is not to create a story – in any case, I’m not the kind of filmmaker who sets out to create one. I prefer to look at people. If you look at an interesting person for a while, then you will realize that in that person’s life there is a very interesting story. When I meet someone and his or her story really attracts me, then I decide that I would like to make a film about him or her. When I decide that there’s something really beautiful about that person, and that his or her life really touches me, is the moment when I want to film.” Next weekend, join the director in person for the N.Y. premiere of his new opus Dead Souls and a rare screening of his debut masterpiece West of the Tracks.

My First Film Fest kicks off this Friday with the New York premiere of A Polar Year! Set amidst the dazzling, otherworldly landscapes of arctic Greenland, this richly human documentary—about the unexpected bond between a Danish teacher and an Inuit boy—celebrates our capacity for cross-cultural connection. Q&A with director Samuel Collardey. 🎤

Interweaving rollicking action with heartfelt pro-feminist, anti-fascist themes, Porco Rosso is a captivating, one-of-a-kind aerial adventure as only Studio Ghibli could dream up. Hayao Miyazaki’s wondrous, rip-roaring animation plays this Saturday at My First Film Fest! 17 or younger? Get tickets for just $9.