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The Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance announce 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, February 28 – March 10. Read More

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical announce the fourth edition of Neighboring Scenes, the annual festival of contemporary Latin American cinema, comprising 13 features and 10 shorts with seven filmmakers in person. Read More

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the lineup for the 19th edition of Film Comment magazine’s annual festival, Film Comment Selects, February 6-10. The cinematic showcase returns with a selection of titles curated by the magazine’s editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing North American, U.S., and New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment. Read More

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Yorgos Lanthimos, a five-film retrospective of the boldly iconoclastic director, February 1-5. Though Yorgos Lanthimos first came to attention as one of the leaders of the so-called Greek Weird Wave, his cinema has always been more complex and harder to pin down than that term suggests. His films are, to be sure, wondrously, imaginatively bonkers (what other director would make a courtly costume drama that so prominently features duck racing?), but they are also wickedly funny, impeccably stylized, and piercingly insightful about the human condition, owing as much to Luis Buñuel as they do to Greek mythology. Read More

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Complete Cuarón, an eight-film retrospective of visionary director Alfonso Cuarón, January 4-8. With his latest and most personal work, ROMA, Alfonso Cuarón has solidified his reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile and compelling voices. Read More

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the full lineup of repertory programs and festivals for the winter/spring 2019 season, including an eight-film Alfonso Cuarón retrospective presented with his latest masterpiece, ROMA; a survey of the brilliantly imaginative work of director Yorgos Lanthimos; a new digital restoration of Sergey Bondarchuk's epic War and Peace; the return of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema; and the 48th edition of the New Directors/New Films festival. In addition, the Film Society will present its annual festivals New York Jewish Film Festival, Film Comment Selects, and Neighboring Scenes. More details and series dates are listed below. Read More

The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present the 28th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 9–22, 2019. Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, the NYJFF each year presents the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the diverse Jewish experience. Featuring new work by fresh voices in international cinema as well as restored classics, the festival’s 2019 lineup includes 32 wide-ranging and exciting features and shorts from the iconic to the iconoclastic, many of which will be screening in their world, U.S., and New York premieres. Screenings are held at the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, NYC. Read More

Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey was revealed today with Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed taking the top spots among films released in 2018. Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor, and Khalik Allah’s Black Mother received the top rankings. Read More

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced its full lineup of new releases for the winter/spring 2019 season. The lineup features Hu Bo’s masterpiece An Elephant Sitting Still(ND/NF 2018), as well as five NYFF56 Main Slate selections: Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film, The Image Book, Hong Sangsoo’s affecting Hotel by the River, Christian Petzold’s haunting Transit, Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary tragicomedy Ash Is Purest White, and Alex Ross Perry’s visceral Her Smell. More details and release dates are listed below. Read More

Black Panther returns to the big screen with free screenings at nonprofit art house theaters nationwide on Tuesday, November 27 at 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET. Presented by Film Comment, a publication of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and supported by the Art House Convergence, the event will feature a post-screening Q&A with director Ryan Coogler, taking place at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, CA, streamed live to participating theaters. Read More