Cloudburst
NewFest 2012
July 27 - 31, 2012
In person: director Thom Fitzgerald and star Ryan Doucette!
A randy lesbian couple (Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker) embark on a road trip when their granddaughter tries to break them up in this raucous, heartfelt comedy from director Thom Fitzgerald.
In person: director Thom FItzgerald and star Ryan Doucette!
Dotty (Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot) and Stella (Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck) are an elderly couple living on the coastline of Maine. When Dotty takes a bad fall, her granddaughter Molly wonders if Grandma's “friend” Stella can truly care for her anymore. Unwilling to be separated by a nursing home, Stella and Dot climb into their pickup truck and hit the road to Nova Scotia, where they plan to get legally married. They pick up a wayward young hitchhiker as a disguise, whose own troubles sidetrack them on the way. The road is long and rough, and Stella begins to wonder if she really can take care of Dotty in their old age. After 31 years, can they keep their family together?
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FLC and NYAFF Announce Lineup and Awards of the 25th New York Asian Film Festival, July 10–26
The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) and Film at Lincoln Center today unveil the second wave of programming for its landmark 25th edition, adding more than 40 films to an already wide-ranging lineup, with very special final titles still to come.
Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine on Their Sci-Fi-Tinged Rose of Nevada
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 63rd New York Film Festival with Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin and actress Mary Woodvine.
Experience 10 Films Entirely on 70mm at “It’s All a Big Conspiracy,” July 1–9 at Film at Lincoln Center
Exploring conspiracy across Hollywood genres, from espionage and sci-fi to superhero cinema, political biography, Shakespearean adaptation, crime drama, cult psychodrama, and the modern action blockbuster, the series includes the first New York City theatrical screening of Tim Burton’s Batman on 70mm since its original release in 1989.
