Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
Q&A with David Wain and Cast of “Wanderlust”
By Daniel Rubinton
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February 29, 2012
Watch full video of this uproarious Q&A with the filmmaker and actors Alan Alda, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino and Kerri Kenney following an advanced screening of their new film "Wanderlust" during Film Comment Selects!
Unearthing the Films of Aleksei Guerman
By John Heavey
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February 28, 2012
Film Society is proud to present a complete, six-film retrospective of the accomplished but under-appreciated Russian director whose nearly impossible-to-find work ranks with that of Tarkovsky but has suffered at the hands of censorship, prohibition and neglect.
Q&A: James Franco on His Recut “My Own Private River”
By Jeffrey Bloomer
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February 28, 2012
Watch video of Franco's conversation with Film Comment editor Gavin Smith about his reworking of Gus Van Sant's New Queer Cinema touchstone "My Own Private Idaho" after a screening at this year's Film Comment Selects festival.
Film Comment Selects Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
By Nicolas Rapold
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February 28, 2012
An interview with the director of Alps and Dogtooth
NYFF19: Andrzej Wajda’s “Man of Iron”
By Daniel Rubinton
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February 27, 2012
Wajda's story of a determined young union leader and the birth of the Polish Solidarity movement played NYFF '81 and returns to Film Society tomorrow night at 6pm as part of our ongoing series "50 Years of the New York Film Festival."
Community Values: Gavin Smith Reports from Rotterdam 2012
By Gavin Smith
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February 27, 2012
The Tiger Competition bears its claws
New Monthly Series “Indie Night” and “Art of the Real” Coming in March
By Jeffrey Bloomer
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February 27, 2012
Two ongoing programs will highlight the best new independent narrative and documentary films, respectively, and further Film Society's commitment to discovering emerging cinematic talent. "Indie Night" will be guest curated by producer Ted Hope in 2012.
Asghar Farhadi: “I proudly offer this award to the people of my country”
By Eugene Hernandez
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February 27, 2012
A hit at this year's New York Film Festival, Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last night. Here's the text of Farhadi's speech.
From Film Society to the Kodak Theater
By John Heavey
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February 24, 2012
Heading into Sunday, a whopping 50 of this year's Academy Award nominations belong to movies that played at Film Society this year as part of the 49th New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, member and patron screenings, or in runs at our beautiful new Film Center!
Film Comment Selects Q&A: Alexander Zeldovich
By Violet Lucca
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February 24, 2012
A rare English-language interview with Alexander Zeldovich, director of the sprawling dystopian epic Target