Celebrate half-a-century of the Film Society of Lincoln Center at our 50th Anniversary Gala, featuring special guests Darren Aronofsky, Pedro Almodóvar, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marielle Heller, Dee Rees, Martin Scorsese, Tilda Swinton, and John Waters! Taking place on April 29 at Alice Tully Hall, the Gala is the most important fundraising event of the Film Society’s landmark anniversary year, and all proceeds will benefit the organization in its mission to support the art and craft of cinema. Reserve your seats at filmlinc.org/50th 🎞📽🥂 #FilmLivesHere

A celebration of cinema as a physical medium, the Berlinale highlight Bait makes its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films this Friday & Saturday. This delirious whatsit from Cornish director Mark Jenkin is quite unlike any feature film you’re likely to see this year. Martin (Edward Rowe) is a cove fisherman whose brother has started using their father’s boat to shuttle tourists, soon causing latent familial tensions—not to mention antagonisms between tourists and locals—to explode in ever-surprising fashion. Shot on tactile hand-processed black-and-white 16mm and unfolding with the staccato rhythms of avant-garde cinema, Bait marks a singular achievement: an idiosyncratic work of social realism fascinatingly pitched somewhere between documentary and political melodrama. #NDNF 🎣

We’re pleased to announce Martin Scorsese, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dee Rees, and Darren Aronofsky as added special guest speakers for our 50th Anniversary Gala on Monday, April 29, 2019 in Alice Tully Hall! ✨ They will join previously announced guests Pedro Almodóvar, Marielle Heller, Tilda Swinton, and John Waters at the gala honoring the organization’s legendary past and vibrant present, and looking ahead as it extends its commitment to the film community. The Gala is the most important fundraising event of the Film Society’s landmark anniversary year, and all proceeds will benefit the organization in its mission to support the art and craft of cinema. Reserve your seats at filmlinc.org/50th

That’s a wrap on Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2019! 🇫🇷 Thank you to Mia Hansen-Løve, Paul Schrader, Eva Husson, Russell Banks, Pierre Salvadori, Pio Marmaï, Sophie Fillières, Agathe Bonitzer, Mikhaël Hers, and all of the filmmakers who shared their stories with our audiences. See the full photo gallery at the link in bio and Q&As on our YouTube channel. Au revoir!

A staggering work of compassionate realism, Sudabeh Mortezai’s second fiction feature Joy makes its New York premiere at New Directors/New Films 2019 on March 28 & April 3. Winner of the top prize at the BFI London Film Festival, the drama follows Joy (Joy Anwulika Alphonsus), a young Nigerian sex worker living in Vienna, struggling to simultaneously create a better life for her family and pay off her madame. Joy finds herself increasingly implicated in the vicious cycle of human trafficking, and when she is tasked by her madame with mentoring a teenage Nigerian girl, she begins to understand her role within this dehumanizing machine and consider the possibility of a life outside of it. Sensitive yet unsentimental, intelligent and viscerally affecting, Joy is a politically incisive work and a moral act. #NDNF

Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary body of work has doubled as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations. His acclaimed new epic Ash Is Purest White is playing daily! 🇨🇳

New Directors/New Films 2019 begins next week! Featuring 35 films that exemplify the vitality of contemporary cinema, see the complete schedule + get tickets at newdirectors.org #NDNF

Though he’s best known for his modernist domestic dramas, the great Yasujiro Ozu began his career making eclectic genre pictures—each its own unique, breathless love letter to Hollywood. His undeniably cool Dragnet Girl takes its cue from American gangster films, particularly Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld, to tell the story of a moll (Kinuyo Tanaka) desperate to keep her boxer-turned-gangster boyfriend from falling for an innocent shop girl and going straight. Hyper-stylized and psychologically dense, this silent crime film begs to be experienced anew with the atmospheric, transporting electro-ambient film score by critically lauded musical group Coupler in its New York premiere. One night only on April 9! Tickets now on sale at filmlinc.org/dragnet

A set of international posters for Ash Is Purest White. 🇨🇳 Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary epic, starring a never better Zhao Tao, opens Friday!

Transit director Christian Petzold on one of his favorite scenes in Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country.

One of Cahiers du cinéma's top 5 films of 2018, Patricia Mazuy's Paul Sanchez Is Back! makes its North American premiere this Friday & Saturday at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. The police are reticent to believe that the notorious murderer Paul Sanchez is, indeed, back 10 years after he vanished without a trace. Yet adventure-hungry junior-officer Marion (César-winner Zita Hanrot, Fatima) can’t help obsessing over bread crumbs of hearsay, especially once a local reporter (Idir Chender, Occidental) begins receiving mysterious e-mails supposedly sent by Sanchez himself. Also starring Elle’s Laurent Lafitte, this long-awaited fifth feature from Mazuy (The King’s Daughters) spins a gripping caper with ample commentary on sensationalistic media narratives—but far from prosaic, it’s also an adrenaline rush of the imagination propelled by a percussive original score from John Cale. #rendezvous

Christian Petzold on what "transit" means to him. His daring, enigmatic new film is now playing daily!

Win a Transit poster signed by Christian Petzold! To enter the giveaway, see his haunting, brilliant new film here at FSLC from today through this Sunday and tag us in a photo of your ticket. 📸 #christianpetzold #transitfilm

“An early contender for the best film of 2019.” - The A.V. Club

Christian Petzold’s bold, brilliant drama Transit is now playing daily! Following Barbara and Phoenix, the #NYFF selection completes the director’s “Love in the Times of Oppressive Systems” trilogy. The adaptation of German novelist Anna Seghers’s 1944 book follows a hollowed-out European refugee (Franz Rogowski), who has escaped from two concentration camps, arrives in Marseille assuming the identity of a dead novelist whose papers he is carrying. He enters the arid, threadbare world of the refugee community, where he becomes enmeshed in the lives of a desperate young mother and son and a mysterious woman named Marie (Paula Beer). Transit is a film told in two tenses: 1940 and right now, historic past and immediate present, like two translucent panes held up to the light and mysteriously contrasting and blending. #christianpetzold #transit #transitfilm

Making its U.S. premiere this Sunday at 1pm, Bruno Dumont’s CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans is “an incredible follow-up” to Li’l Quinquin and a “must-see on the big screen,” says Sean Baker. The director revisits his ragtag characters in a new absurdist epic that reckons with xenophobia in northern France. As gobs of ectoplasmic gunk fall from the sky without warning, the now-teenaged CoinCoin must again evade the spluttering police captain Van der Weyden and his deputy Carpentier as they zoom through sparse pastoral vistas, on the hunt for clues. Although they’re utterly ill-equipped to connect these splats to the sudden materialization of identical twins around town, their moments of prophetic lucidity are as surprising as they are revealing. Across this expansive canvas, CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans channels Jacques Tati, Antonin Artaud, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers into a deadpan fever dream, wholly singular and undeniably Dumont.

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema begins tonight! 🇫🇷 Join us for 11 days of premieres, Q&As, free talks & more. First weekend highlights include a special screening of François Truffaut's The 400 Blows featuring an introduction by Russell Banks and Serge Toubiana; Bruno Dumont’s Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, his deadpan fever dream sequel to 2014’s Li’l Quinquin, the uncompromising Golshifteh Farahani-led drama Girls of the Sun, Hélène Fillières's electric second film Raising Colors; Judith Davis’s playful and passionate feature directorial debut Whatever Happened to My Revolution; and more! See showtimes and reserve tickets at the link in bio.

Transit, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, An Elephant Sitting Still, a sneak preview of Kent Jones’s Diane, Ash is Purest White, and more at the Film Society this March! Pick up our calendar in theaters or explore online at filmlinc.org/calendar 🗓

We’re pleased to announce Tilda Swindon, Pedro Almodóvar, Marielle Heller, and John Waters as the first round of guest speakers for our 50th Anniversary Gala on Monday, April 29, 2019 in Alice Tully Hall! Reflecting and building upon the organization’s half-century introducing New York audiences to many of the industry’s most acclaimed and important filmmakers, the Gala will honor the Film Society’s legendary past and vibrant present, and look ahead as we extend our commitment to the film community. Reserve tickets at filmlinc.org/50th. Almodóvar, Heller, Swinton, and Waters, along with additional guest speakers to be announced, will tell the story of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s semi-centennial alongside a collection of interviews and archival footage, photographs, and film clips that will reflect upon the organization and its role in New York City film culture. In honoring the past, the evening will celebrate a film community that is helping to shape the future of our art form. The Gala is the most important fundraising event of the Film Society’s landmark anniversary year, and all proceeds will benefit the organization in its mission to support the art and craft of cinema. #FilmLivesHere

Christian Petzold’s Transit is “a stunning work,” says RogerEbert.com. The director’s brilliant and haunting adaption of Anna Seghers’s 1944 novel meshes the past and present in fascinating ways. The #NYFF selection opens Friday!

R.I.P. Stanley Donen (1924-2019) 📸: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Before the Academy Awards this Sunday, catch up with the Oscar-nominated #ColdWar and #Shoplifters! Both heart-stirring, intimate dramas have been held over and are playing daily. 🇵🇱 🇯🇵

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.