Film at Lincoln Center has announced its full lineup of festival, repertory, and new release programming for the 2022 fall/winter season, from late September through the end of the year.

Late fall at FLC brings new releases and an abundance of official selections from the 60th New York Film Festival, including: Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Laura Poitras’s essential documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which brilliantly weaves together the narratives of the life and career of era-defining artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family; Park Chan-wook’s twisting Hitchcockian detective thriller Decision to Leave, which earned the filmmaker this year’s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival; Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon starring Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn, a contemporary thriller suffused with political intrigue and languid eroticism; Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage starring Vicky Krieps as Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who begins to see her life of royal privilege as a prison as she reaches her 40th birthday; legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, which follows the travels of a peripatetic donkey in one of Skolimowski’s spryest, most visually inventive films; and Hong Sangsoo’s playful and gently thought-provoking 27th feature The Novelist’s Film, in which Hong takes on the perspective of a prickly middle-aged novelist who embarks on a restorative journey that leads her to a chance encounter with a famous actress and former movie star. 

Highlights also include a special retrospective for the director Yoshimitsu Morita, who, across a 30-plus-year career, amassed one of the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic and prolific bodies of work in modern Japanese cinema; a one week only run of Nikyatu Jusu’s Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner Nanny, a psychologically complex fable of displacement tinged with supernatural horror starring the riveting Anna Diop as a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal and is hired to care for the adorable daughter of an affluent couple; and a new 4K restoration of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique starring Irène Jacob, winner of the Best Actress prize in Cannes for her portrait of two women—one Polish, one Parisian—who lead very different lives but are otherwise identical: sharing a sublime gift for singing, a cardiac disorder, and a mystical awareness of each other’s existence. 

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Film descriptions and additional details are listed below and on filmlinc.org. New releases and revival runs are organized by Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson.

FILMS & SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
All films screen at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.) or Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center  (144 W. 65th St.).

September 21 – Sneak Preview and Q&A with directors Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, and actors Emily Watson and Paul Mescal!
God’s Creatures
Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, 2022, UK/Ireland, 94m

God’s Creatures. Courtesy of A24.

A mother’s duty to her son is put to the test in Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer’s atmospheric, psychologically intricate drama. Emily Watson stars as Aileen, a team-leader at a fish processing plant who oversees her workers with a maternal sense of duty, throwing herself into her work when her home life—cohabitating with her ornery husband, Con (Declan Conlon), his catatonic brother, Paddy, and her adult daughter, Erin (Toni O’Rourke)—offers little reprieve. After having spent several years in Australia, her son, Brian (Paul Mescal), returns with a plan to relaunch Paddy’s long-inactive oyster farm, and the feelings of uneasiness spurred by his reappearance grow unbearably intense when he’s accused of sexual assault, leading to Aileen negotiating her obligation to her son and her own sense of morality. Featuring an exceptional ensemble cast and evocatively, commandingly lensed by Chayse Irvin, God’s Creatures is a moral tale that feels at once contemporary and timeless. An A24 release.

Opening October 19
Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook, 2022, South Korea, 138m
Korean and Chinese with English subtitles

Decision to Leave. Courtesy of MUBI.


Busan detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) finds that he’s increasingly obsessed with a puzzling new case: a middle-aged businessman has mysteriously fallen to his death during a rock climbing expedition. Upon discovering photos of his abused wife, a Chinese national named Seo-rae (Tang Wei), Hae-joon begins to suspect it wasn’t an accident, all the while becoming emotionally and erotically drawn to her. From this Hitchcockian situation, director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) weaves a swelling, expanding, ever more complex tale about a possible black widow and the investigator who just might be fashioning his own web. One of Park’s most enveloping and accomplished thrillers, which earned him the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Decision to Leave is a constantly surprising, elegantly constructed film that builds in power to a truly haunting denouement. An NYFF60 selection. A MUBI release.

Opening October 19
Stars at Noon
Claire Denis, 2022, France, 137m
English and Spanish with English subtitles

Stars at Noon. Courtesy of A24.

A dissolute young American journalist (Margaret Qualley) and an English businessman (Joe Alwyn) with ties to the oil industry meet by chance while on different, mysterious assignments in modern-day Nicaragua. The two tumble into a whirlwind romance, despite knowing little about each other’s true professional identities—all while abstract forces close in on them as they desperately try to book it out of a country that won’t seem to let them leave. Stars at Noon, based on the 1986 novel by Denis Johnson, represents a new mode for director Claire Denis, a contemporary thriller suffused with political intrigue and languid eroticism, moving entirely to the tactile rhythms of its actors, especially rising star Qualley, who gives a live-wire performance of fervid spontaneity and mercurial passion. Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. An NYFF60 selection. An A24 release.

Opening October 21 – Exclusive!
The Double Life of Véronique
Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991, France/Poland/Norway, 97m
French, Polish, and Italian with English subtitles
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s follow-up to his immense Dekalog finds the filmmaker in a dreamlike, contemplative mode, working for the first time outside his native Poland. At once enigmatic and psychologically acute, his ravishing fable stars Irène Jacob, winner of the Best Actress prize in Cannes for her portrait of two women—one Polish, one Parisian—who lead very different lives but are otherwise identical: sharing a sublime gift for singing, a cardiac disorder, and a mystical awareness of each other’s existence. Shot in a palette of spellbinding golden-green hues by Kieślowski’s longtime cinematographer Slawomir Idziak, accompanied by Zbignew Preisner’s haunting score, The Double Life of Véronique—among Kieślowski’s crowning achievements—is as much a bifurcated rumination on identity as it is a story about the inconceivable realms of superstition and human intuition. Opening Night of the 29th New York Film Festival. A Janus Films release. New 4K restoration under the supervision of director of photography Sławomir Idziak.

Opening October 28 – Exclusive!
The Novelist’s Film
Hong Sangsoo, 2022, South Korea, 92m
Korean with English subtitles

The Novelist’s Film. Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.

For his playful and gently thought-provoking 27th feature, Hong Sangsoo takes on the perspective of a prickly middle-aged novelist, Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung, the magnetic star of Hong’s In Front of Your Face). After revisiting an old friend who now runs a bookshop outside of Seoul, she embarks on a restorative journey that leads her to a chance encounter with a famous actress and former movie star (Kim Minhee); the two make an instant connection that stokes both women’s dormant creative impulses. Within this simple, loose-limbed premise, Hong locates a deep well of emotional truth, and poses a bounty of questions about the necessities and expectations of art-making, leading to a poignant, entirely unexpected, mode-shifting climax. An NYFF60 selection. A Cinema Guild release.

Opening November 18
EO
Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022, Poland/Italy, 86m
Polish, Italian, English, and French with English subtitles

EO. Courtesy of Janus FIlms and Sideshow.

At age 84, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Deep End, Moonlighting) has directed one of his spryest, most visually inventive films, following the travels of a peripatetic donkey named EO. After being removed from the only life he’s ever known in a traveling circus, EO begins a journey across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness, captivity and freedom. Skolimowski imagines the animal’s mesmerizing journey as an ever-shifting interior landscape, marked by absurdity and warmth in equal measure, putting the viewer in the unique perspective of the protagonist. Skolimowski has constructed his own bold vision about the follies of human nature, seen from the ultimate outsider’s perspective. An NYFF60 selection. A Sideshow and Janus Films release.

Opening November 23
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras, 2022, USA, 116m

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. Courtesy Nan Goldin.

In her essential, urgent, and arrestingly structured new documentary from Participant, Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) weaves two narratives: the fabled life and career of era-defining artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty Goldin personally took on in her fight to hold accountable those responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic. Following her own personal struggle with opioid addiction, Goldin, who rose from the New York “No Wave” underground to become one of the great photographers of the late 20th century, put herself at the forefront of the battle against the Sacklers, both as an activist at art institutions around the world that had accepted millions from the family and as an advocate for the destigmatization of drug addiction. Illustrated with a rich trove of photographs by Goldin, who mesmerizingly narrates her own story, including her dysfunctional suburban upbringing, the loss of her teenage sister, and her community’s fight against AIDS in the 1980s, Poitras’s film is an enthralling, empowering work that stirringly connects personal tragedy, political awareness, and artistic expression. An NYFF60 selection. A NEON release.

Opening November 23 – One week only!
Nanny
Nikyatu Jusu, 2022, USA, 99m
English and Wolof with English subtitles

Nanny

A riveting Anna Diop commands nearly every frame of director Nikyatu Jusu’s feature debut, a breakout at this year’s Sundance, where it won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. In this psychologically complex fable of displacement tinged with supernatural horror, Diop plays Aisha, a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal and is hired to care for the adorable daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood. Increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life, though desperate to make enough money to bring over her young son from Senegal, Aisha begins to unravel, finding her life in America to be more nightmare than dream. Mixing domestic melodrama with American genre elements and West African folklore, Nanny is a spellbinding experience that defies expectation. A 2022 New Directors/New Films selection. A Blumhouse-Amazon Prime Video release.

December 2–11
Yoshimitsu Morita Retrospective

Across a 30-plus-year career, Yoshimitsu Morita (1950–2011) amassed one of the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic and prolific bodies of work in modern Japanese cinema. From his irreverently comic 1981 Something Like It to his 1983 breakout black comedy The Family Game (a New Directors/New Films 1984 selection) to forays into melodrama (And Then, 1985), the gangster film (Deaths in Tokimeki, 1984), the pink film/roman porno (Top Stripper, 1982), horror (The Black House, 1999) and romantic comedy/drama (Haru, 1996), Morita’s work is marked by an incomparable sensitivity to the peaks and valleys of the inner landscape of Japanese society, a penchant for subtle injections of surreality to highlight the absurdity of certain aspects of Japanese life, an omnipresent sense of irony, and a boldly iconoclastic approach to visual composition. Morita’s films deal with many of the same subjects as those of his better-known predecessors and successors, but from a wholly singular point of view, yielding a richly heterogeneous and perpetually surprising oeuvre overdue for discovery. Join Film at Lincoln Center for a special retrospective of Morita’s films and get lost with us in his cinematic labyrinth of desire, chaos, and joy. Organized by Aiko Masubuchi and Dan Sullivan. Co-presented with the Japan Foundation.

Opening December 23
Corsage
Marie Kreutzer, 2022, Austria, 113m
German with English subtitles

Corsage. Courtesy of IFC Films.

In a perceptive, nuanced performance, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) quietly dominates the screen as Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who begins to see her life of royal privilege as a prison as she reaches her 40th birthday. Marie Kreutzer boldly imagines Elizabeth’s cloistered, late-19th-century world within the Austro-Hungarian Empire with both austere realism and fanciful anachronism, while staying true and intensely close to the woman’s private melancholy and political struggle amidst a crumbling, combative marriage and escalating scrutiny. Star and director have together created a remarkable vision of a strong-willed political figure whose emergence from a veiled, corseted existence stands for a Europe on the cusp of major, irrevocable transformation. An NYFF60 selection. An IFC Films release.

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