Are you ready to get crazy? New York Asian Film Festival 2019 begins this Friday! 💥 This annual survey of essential—and often wild—films is New York’s most exhaustive selection of titles from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries across Southeast Asia. Programmed and operated by the New York Asian Film Foundation, the festival features contemporary and classic titles, plus a host of in-person appearances by up-and-coming and established stars and auteurs. See the full schedule and get tickets (including discount packages) at filmlinc.org/nyaff #nyaff #nyaff2019

Our ☀Summer of Film at Lincoln Center ☀ continues July 19-31 with 21st Century Debuts, a survey of the most important new filmmakers of the millennium: Jordan Peele, Maren Ade, Barry Jenkins, Lucrecia Martel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & more! Includes 15 pairs of debut features, with special 2-for-1 pricing. View lineup: filmlinc.org/21stcenturydebuts #filmlinc 🎞

Presenting the trailer for our Ermanno Olmi retrospective, which begins in one week! 🇮🇹 From June 14-26, join us in paying homage to this singular and sophisticated voice in Italian cinema, with the majority of films presented in 35mm. See the schedule + get tickets, including discount packages and passes, at filmlinc.org/olmi

"In my films I follow an opposite trajectory to that of the makers of political films. They have a skeleton, an idea and then they put on flesh: I have in the first place the flesh, the skeleton appears later." - Chantal Akerman, born on this day.

You’re invited to the Summer or Film at Lincoln Center, featuring free screenings, free talks, a survey of the best 21st century debuts, Scary Movies XII, outsider visions of America, films in the age of Reagan, Dance on Camera, and much more! Explore the expansive lineup at filmlinc.org/summer ☀️ 🎞 #filmlinc #filmlinc50

The 19th edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema begins this Thursday at 6pm with Claudio Giovannesi's singular coming-of-age story Piranhas, which won Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival. Newcomer Francesco Di Napoli stars as 15-year-old Nicola, who leads a pack of cocksure hellions captivated by the lifestyle of the local Camorra as they descend into the violent, paranoid world of Naples’s dominant crime group. Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, who co-wrote the screenplay and mined similar territory in his devastating Gomorrah, Piranhas is a haunting reflection on doomed adolescence. See the full festival schedule and save with a discount package or pass at filmlinc.org/openroads 🇮🇹

We're thrilled to announce the U.S. premiere of Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels, a once in-a-lifetime film and concert experience marrying cinema with traditional Korean music (gugak), on June 29 at Alice Tully Hall! The New York Asian Film Festival event features live traditional accompaniment performed by a 20-member ensemble from the National Gugak Center, the representative headquarters of Korean traditional performing arts, who will be playing the score for the first time in the United States. See more details and get tickets at filmlinc.org/kokdu. Purchase 4+ and save 20%! #Kokdu #KCCNY #NYAFF #filmlinc

Rolling Thunder Revue, the thrilling new film from Martin Scorsese, captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, it’s is a one-of-a-kind experience. Opens June 12 at Film at Lincoln Center! 🎸 Tickets now on sale. #martinscorsese #bobdylan #rollingthunderrevue #filmlinc

See the best in new Italian cinema at this year’s Open Roads, which begins in one week with Claudio Giovannesi’s haunting crime drama Piranhas! 🇮🇹 Through June 12, join us for more premieres, featuring a mix of emerging talents and esteemed veterans with many filmmakers in person. See more during the annual festival and save with a 3+ film package or All-Access Pass.

"In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see." - Agnès Varda, born on this day in 1928. ✨ 🎥 Pictured on the set of Cléo from 5 to 7, which kicks off our weekly free summer double features on June 27 in celebration of our 50th anniversary, paired with Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady. See the full schedule at filmlinc.org/mixtape

Starting on Thursday, the 26th edition of the New York African Film Festival pays tribute to a number of pioneering luminaries. On Friday, Oumarou Ganda's acclaimed Nigerian drama Le Wazzou Polygame plays with a behind-the-scenes look at Djibril Diop Mambéty's final work The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun. On Sunday, see a program of the greatest documentary shorts from Beninese/Senegalese director Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, who was a mentor to Mambéty, Ousmane Sembène, and Ababacar Samb-Makharam. The great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will join us on Monday for a screening of his 1978 political drama Baara. The sweeping epic Sarraounia, from Mauritanian director Med Hondo (who passed away this spring), plays on Tuesday at 8:30pm, preceded by the classic Nigerian-Brazilian mystical drama Black Goddess with filmmaker Ola Balogun in person. See the full schedule, including new premieres, at filmlinc.org/african and save with a discount package!

Happy 75th birthday, Jean-Pierre Léaud! Pictured with François Truffaut at Cannes Film Festival in 1959 for The 400 Blows.

Ermanno Olmi, a master of Italian cinema, had a career that spanned more than six decades. Join us this June for a retrospective, presented nearly entirely in 35mm with the world premiere of a new restoration of The Profession of Arms. 🇮🇹 Updating the stylistic hallmarks of Italian neorealism to craft fiction films full of light and dignity, Olmi time and again captured the experience of work and family and expressed the churn of history with humor and grace. Known for his commitment to working with nonprofessional actors and to capturing the specific textures of the locations in which he filmed, Olmi, who started out as a self-taught documentarian, drew inspiration from his Catholic faith and from the social and cultural preoccupations of his native Lombardy region—personified by peasants in rural farming communities or by white-collar workers in the provincial capital of Milan. But Olmi, who passed away last year at age 86, was also always concerned with the political and economic systems underlying the social and physical environments in which his characters lived and dreamed. Tickets now on sale, including discount packages and passes, at filmlinc.org/olmi

Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns June 13-20, presenting challenging, provocative art that calls for justice and social change. This year’s edition includes the Opening Night selection Advocate, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner One Child Nation, the world premiere of the intimate portrait of immigration struggles, Accept the Call, and much more. Q&As at every screening! See the full schedule and reserve tickets, including discount packages, at filmlinc.org/hrwff #hrwffny

See the best in new Italian Cinema at this year’s Open Roads, returning June 6-12! 🇮🇹 Highlights include the haunting Opening Night selection Piranhas, Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro, the Alba Rohrwacher-led Lucia’s Grace, the Sundance hit The Disappearance of My Mother, and much more. Explore the schedule and save with a discount package or pass at filmlinc.org/openroads | Following Open Roads, join us for an Ermanno Olmi retrospective, June 14-26.

Starting next week, discover the unknown master of the Czechoslovak New Wave—Ester Krumbachová—at our retrospective! Highlights include her rarely-screened sole directorial effort The Murder of Mr. Devil, Věra Chytilovà’s landmark Daisies and her follow-up Fruit of Paradise, the newly restored Diamonds of the Night, Jaromil Jireš’s phantasmagorical Valerie and Her Week if Wonders, and more! See 3+ films and save with a discount package. 🇨🇿

The Souvenir writer-director Joanna Hogg and stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton joined us for a special sneak preview to discuss crafting one of the year’s most remarkable films! Watch/listen to the full Q&A on our YouTube channel or the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast. 🎤🎧 #thesouvenir #joannahogg #honorswintonbyrne #tildaswinton #a24 📸: Julie Cunnah

"My movies are not about being, but becoming." Happy birthday, Sofia Coppola! 📸: Behind the scenes of Lost in Translation.

Happy 80th birthday, Harvey Keitel! Pictured with Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese on the set of Clockers.

‪R.I.P. Doris Day (1922-2019)‬

Beginning May 30, New York African Film Festival reaches backward into time and forward into the unknown for its 26th edition to center audiences in the present, with cutting-edge films from throughout the ages, films that regale with resplendent tales of all things African. Tickets now on sale, including discount packages! Explore the schedule + reserve your seats at filmlinc.org/african

50 years ago on this day, Film at Lincoln Center was founded, with the stated aim to contribute to the recognition of the importance of film as a leading artistic form and a vital medium for aesthetic and social expressions. Thank you for your invaluable role in helping our nonprofit organization share cinema from around the world year-round. For the next 24 hours, all contributions up to $10,000 will be matched dollar for dollar, thanks to a generous 50th anniversary gift by Gregg M. Horowitz and Ellen S. Levy Donate today to help support us for the next 50 years! See details at filmlinc.org/support50 #filmlinc #filmlinc50 🎂🎞

Olivier Assayas’s Non-Fiction, starring Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet, is “an epiphany” and “a hilarious sex comedy,” raves RogerEbert.com, who give it four out of four stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Held over and playing daily!

Olivier Assayas introduces his delightfully witty new comedy Non-Fiction, which opens today at Film at Lincoln Center! Set within the world of publishing, Assayas’s new film finds two hopelessly intertwined couples—Guillaume Canet’s troubled book executive and Juliette Binoche’s weary actress; Vincent Macaigne’s boorish novelist and Nora Hamzawi’s straight-and-balanced political operative—obsessed with the state of things, and how (or when) it will (or might) change. #olivierassayas #nonfiction #nyff

Thank you to everyone who made our 50th birthday bash a special one! 💜🎂 Check out photo galleries capturing our 50th Anniversary Gala at the link in bio, along with a special Film at Lincoln Center podcast featuring highlights from Tilda Swinton, Martin Scorsese, Dee Rees, and more! 🎧 #filmlinc50 #jimjarmusch #tildaswinton #martinscorsese #pauldano #zoekazan #jakegyllenhaal #johnwaters #pedroalmodóvar

Jean Epstein's silent masterwork The Faithful Heart (Coeur fidèle) heralded "a 'new' cinema that pulses with emotion and which attempts to replace established systems with the prismatic orgasm of the kaleidoscope," says Senses of Cinema. This Thursday at 7:30pm, join us for a special one-night-only event screening with a live score by the Alloy Orchestra! 🎶 Tickets available at filmlinc.org/faithfulheart

Martin Scorsese: “I know when I enter this place, cinema will still be safe and protected because that has been their mission from the start.” Thank you for celebrating 50 years of Film at Lincoln Center with us tonight! 💜🎞 #filmlinc50

As we turn 50, we’re taking a look back. When is the moment you first fell in love with the movies? 💜🎥 Join us this summer for free double features combining all-time and recent favorites of Film at Lincoln Center programming staff! See selections in the gallery and explore the full lineup at filmlinc.org/FLC #filmlinc50 #filmlinc

Lyrical and uncompromising, the films of Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) are at once landmark works of Lebanese cinema and masterpieces of the essay film form. The poetic voiceovers of her movies recall Chris Marker, and her fragmented, diaristic images are reminiscent of Jonas Mekas. But Saab’s poetic vision, and her intimate interactions with the displaced, the exiled, and the voiceless, mark her films as uniquely her own. Trained as a radio and television journalist, Saab turned her attention to nonfiction films in the wake of the Lebanese Civil War. Playing this Sunday at 1:30pm, her epic, impressionistic trilogy of documentaries about Beirut capture a city at once wounded, mournful, and bristling with life and energy, chronicling a moment at which “a kind of bitter poetry has replaced the carelessness of the past.”

It's the final weekend of Art of the Real, featuring the NY premieres of The Game, Walden & Dark Suns, Toshio Matsumoto’s landmark queer film Funeral Parade of Roses, a tribute to Jocelyne Saab, a free Barbara Hammer program & more! See more of the best in hybrid filmmaking and save with a discount package.

In one week, join us for a special one-night-only event featuring Jean Epstein's lyrical, fleet-footed melodrama The Faithful Heart (Coeur fidèle) with a live score by the Alloy Orchestra! 🎶 The silent 1923 masterpiece is stylistically rooted in the tradition of French impressionist cinema, and narratively anticipates the full-fledged poetic realism of the 1930s.

A special message from Dee Rees, who will celebrate with us at our 50th Anniversary Gala this Monday: “It’s inspiring to celebrate a long-standing cultural institution that’s been such an important arbiter of taste in the New York film scene. For independent filmmakers like myself, ND/NF and NYFF have been critical springboards for challenging new works, and our city is made all the better by the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s continued growth.” Limited tickets available! Reserve yours at filmlinc.org/gala #deerees #mudbound #pariah #filmlinc50 #nyff

Charting a relationship from its origins through its aftermath, While We Are Here follows the lives of Lamis, a Lebanese woman, and a Brazilian man named Wilson, who one day meet while living in New York. In alternating voiceover, the pair reflect on their impressions of the city, their courtship, and their eventual separation, as vivid images of urban and rural life trace Lamis and Wilson’s individual paths from New York to Berlin and Brazil, respectively. Equal parts diary film, travelogue, and epistolary drama, this discreetly expanding fiction from partners Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti captures the beauty and fragility of love and its memory. See the North American premiere this Thursday at 6:30pm at Art of the Real with the directors in person, followed by the U.S. premiere of Nicole Vögele’s Closing Time, a vivid portrait of a curbside eatery in Taipei.

Opening next Wednesday, Rachel Lears’s emotional documentary Knock Down the House captures the extraordinary, impassioned grassroots campaigns of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other female candidates as they challenged local Democratic incumbents in the 2018 midterm elections. Join the director and producer Robin Blotnick for an Q&A on May 1 at the 6:30pm screening of the Sundance Festival Favorite Award winner. Tickets now on sale.

“For me, filmmaking is a journey into the impossible.” Happy birthday, Claire Denis! 💜 📸: Julie Cunnah

Tilda Swinton: “I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.” What’s your favorite performance from the actress?

Join Swinton & more special guests at our 50th Anniversary Gala on April 29! She’ll also be back on May 7 for a sneak preview of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, followed by a Q&A. Limited tickets available. #tildaswinton #filmlinc50 #filmliveshere

Presenting the posters of the sixth edition of Art of the Real, our annual hybrid filmmaking festival which is underway through April 28! 🎥 See 3+ films and save with a discount package.

A special message from John Waters: “For half a century, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has been introducing me to the feel-bad work of the biggest lunatic film directors from around the world and without their pernicious artistic guidance, I’d be just another underground film hack instead of the filth elder I am today.” Join the director and more special guests at our 50th Anniversary Gala on April 29! Reserve your seats at filmlinc.org/gala 🎉 #johnwaters #filmliveshere #filmlinc50

Charlie Chaplin was born on this day 130 years ago. Pictured at our inaugural Chaplin Award Gala in 1972, playfully bringing back his famous mustache. Join us on April 29 as we celebrate Chaplin & more at our 50th Anniversary Gala! 📸: Joel L. Freedman #filmlinc50 #filmliveshere

Martin Scorsese at Walter Reade Theater in 1993, presenting a series of the films that inspired him. In two weeks, join the legendary director at our 50th Anniversary Gala alongside Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodóvar, Jake Gyllenhaal, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Moore, Dee Rees, and John Waters! Tickets for the the most important fundraising event of our landmark anniversary year are now starting at $150. Reserve your seats at filmlinc.org/gala #filmlinc50 #filmliveshere #martinscorsese 🎞

‪R.I.P. Bibi Andersson (1935-2019)‬

Just announced! On May 7, join director Joanna Hogg and stars Honor Swinton Byrne & Tilda Swinton in person for a special sneak preview of their moving, eminently refined new drama The Souvenir. A Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, the much-anticipated follow-up to her 2013 feature Exhibition finds Hogg mining her own autobiography to craft a portrait of the artist as a young woman in early 1980s London. Caught between her dreams of becoming a filmmaker and her commitment to a toxic romance, 24-year-old Julie (an excellent Honor Swinton Byrne) comes home each night from film school to the Knightsbridge apartment owned by her mother (Tilda Swinton) only to discover some new, unpleasant surprise proffered by her boyfriend, Anthony (Tom Burke), a dandyish junkie whose sophisticated aura masks an abyss of selfishness and desperation. Tickets available at filmlinc.org/souvenir #thesouvenir #joannahogg #honorswintonbyrne #tildaswinton #a24 #filmliveshere

Bi Gan discusses his influences and pulling off an hour-long 3D single take in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, opening today! 🎥

On May 2, we're delighted to welcome back the Alloy Orchestra, who will perform an original score for Jean Epstein’s beautifully restored silent masterwork The Faithful Heart (Coeur fidèle). 🎶 The lyrical, fleet-footed melodrama tells a deceptively simple story of star-crossed lovers in sun-soaked Marseilles. Gina Manès plays Marie, a foundling raised to adulthood by the unloving married owners of a dockside café. Marie is in love with Jean (Léon Mathot), but has instead been promised to Petit Paul (Edmond van Daële), a hot-headed young drunk. Stylistically rooted in the tradition of French impressionist cinema, the film narratively anticipates the full-fledged poetic realism of the 1930s. Tickets now on sale.

Presenting the trailer for Art of the Real 2019, which begins in one week with the best in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking! Join us for a vibrant slate of brilliant new works by internationally acclaimed filmmakers with many in person. Limited All-Access Passes available, including a $50 pass for students. See the full schedule and reserve tickets at filmlinc.org/aotr

Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Max von Sydow! 🎥: Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)

That's a wrap on the 48th edition of New Directors/New Films! Thank you for joining us for 12 days of adventurous new work from around the world. 📸 Check out our photo round-ups at FilmLinc Daily and Q&As on our YouTube channel, with many more to come. See you next year! ✌️ #NDNF

R.I.P. Seymour Cassel (1935-2019)

"I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others." - Yasujirō Ozu, whose undeniably cool, hyper-stylized, and psychologically dense gangster classic Dragnet Girl plays tomorrow at 7:30pm, featuring a new atmospheric, transporting electro-ambient film score Coupler. All ticket holders invited to pre-reception beginning at 6pm at the Furman Gallery.

Happy 80th birthday, Francis Ford Coppola! Pictured with Jeff Bridges at the Chaplin Award Gala In 2002. 📸: Stephanie Berger

"Art must carry man’s craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist’s version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition–otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolizes the meaning of our existence." - Andrei Tarkovsky, born on this day in 1932.

A double prizewinner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Pippa Bianco’s unnerving feature debut Share is a profound and powerful examination of sexual assault and the increasingly volatile role the Internet plays in contemporary American society. Join the director and stars Rhianne Barreto & J.C. MacKenzie this Saturday for the New York premiere at New Directors/New Films. Limited tickets just added for 6pm screening. #NDNF

We’re pleased to announce that, after unexpected delays, Suburban Birds has been approved to screen this weekend at New Directors/New Films! In Qiu Sheng’s entrancing, enigmatic feature debut, a team of surveyors investigates an inexplicably subsiding suburban landscape while a group of children set out on youthful adventures. Playing Saturday at 8:30pm at MoMA (with Q&A) and Sunday at 7:45pm at FSLC. Tickets now on sale. #NDNF