Film Comment Selects 2017
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A Woman's Life
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Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time
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Paul Newman Directs
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Harmonium
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God's Country
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Now in its 17th year, Film Comment Selects continues to offer the kinds of films you won’t see anywhere else in New York. As in the past, we’re pleased to bring you strikingly bold visions and fresh voices, mixing exclusive U.S. premieres of vital new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment. The terrific lineup of films in this year’s edition traces important trends in cinema today and follows the work of essential auteurs from around the world. All of the films in our premieres section are titles that have been written about by Film Comment, either in print or online.
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Organized by Dan Sullivan and Film Comment magazine staff.
Special thanks to Deutsche Kinemathek; EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Now in its 17th year, Film Comment Selects continues to offer the kinds of films you won’t see anywhere else in New York. As in the past, we’re pleased to bring you strikingly bold visions and fresh voices, mixing exclusive U.S. premieres of vital new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment. The terrific lineup of films in this year’s edition traces important trends in cinema today and follows the work of essential auteurs from around the world. All of the films in our premieres section are titles that have been written about by Film Comment, either in print or online.
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A Woman’s Life
Opening Night · U.S. Premiere
An aristocrat named Jeanne (Judith Chemla) moves from adolescence through unhappy marriage in Stéphane Brizé’s tightly composed, intricate adaptation of a novel by Guy de Maupassant.
Voyage of Time in Ultra-widescreen 3.6
Opening Night · A special presentation of the original Ultra-widescreen IMAX Experience
Terrence Malick’s long-awaited cosmic reflection, a purely experiential film featuring a soundtrack of only music, extrapolates and expanding upon the creation-of-life sequence in The Tree of Life. Due to popular demand, an encore screening has been added on February 22!
All These Sleepless Nights
Q&A with Michal Marczak
After a rough breakup with his college sweetheart, Krzysztof embarks on a hedonistic tour of house parties and group raves, flings and romances, foolishness and philosophical musings in Michal Marczak’s audacious cinematic happening.
Bitter Money
Wang Bing’s roving study of migrant laborers in modern China is a sometimes shocking, sometimes lulling immersion into a usually invisible swath of humanity.
Dogs
A man claims a huge inherited country estate and finds deep-rooted corruption in this impressive feature debut from Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Mirica, which takes its cues from American return-of-the-repressed backwater thrillers.
Guilty Men
U.S. Premiere
A love triangle ensues when a woman’s ex surfaces, to the displeasure of her corrupt strongman fiancé, in Gaona’s sharp debut feature, which taps into Colombia’s roiling discontent amidst corruption and the foreboding legacy of paramilitaries in the countryside.
The Untamed
The Woman Who Left
In Diaz’s Tolstoy-inspired epic, a woman discovers that, after 30 years in prison, her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder she was accused of, leading to her release and discovery of the man who framed her.
Raoul Coutard Tribute: Beyond the New Wave
Last November, the world lost the man who shot Breathless, Contempt, Jules and Jim, Lola, and Pierrot le Fou—to name only a few of the films that epitomized the French New Wave at its most dazzling and technically innovative. This tribute remembers Coutard (1924-2016) with a look at some of the rarer films on the legendary cinematographer’s résumé.
The Dark Room of Damocles (a.k.a. Like Two Drops of Water)
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, a withdrawn cigar store owner named Ducker finds his doppelganger in a Resistance parachutist, who calls upon him to help carry out attacks on the Gestapo.
Hail Mafia!
The vigor of cinematographer Raoul Coutard’s visual style sets the rhythm for this evocative crime drama about two hitmen hired to kill an American expatriate before he testifies against the mob.
La Poupée
Please Note: This screening has been canceled due to an issue with the print.
The titular poupée, or “doll,” is in fact the robot wife of a revolutionary impersonating the leader of a fictional Latin American country in Baratier’s playfully colorful and rarely screened final feature.
Wild Innocence
The final film Coutard shot, in sprawling black-and-white widescreen, was Philippe Garrel’s tale of a director shooting a film inspired by a past lover, a model who OD’d on heroin.
Revivals
Paul Newman Directs
Q&A with director-producer Jack Garfein, actress Lee Grant, and composer David Amram
Not seen publicly since 1962, On the Harmfulness of Tobacco is a recently rediscovered short Chekhov adaptation directed by Paul Newman. Showing with Newman’s poignant 1972 feature The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
God’s Country
Louis Malle first became acquainted with the everyday rhythms of Glencoe, Minnesota, while filming a TV documentary in 1979. After Reagan’s reelection, Malle revisited the farming community to find familiar faces steeped in a period of economic crisis.
Men…
This German screwball comedy about a jilted husband who, on the sly, becomes the roommate of and gradually befriends his wife’s new, artsy lover is fast-paced silliness, full of witty dialogue and engaging performances.
Live Film Comment Podcast: “Before and After”
Cinema après Trump! This live recording of the Film Comment Podcast tackles how we might view certain films and the cultural endeavor differently in light of the 2016 election and a wildly changed political landscape. Featuring Nicolas Rapold, Editor of Film Comment, and special guests to be announced.
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