Cria! (Cría cuervos)
Haunted by the deaths of her parents, an eight-year-old (Ana Torrent, star of The Spirit of the Beehive) spends a summer navigating fantasy and reality.
After waking up in the night to find her father dead, eight-year-old Ana (the precociously gifted Ana Torrent, star of Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive) spends her summer vacation navigating fantasy and reality, haunted by the memory of her deceased mother (Geraldine Chaplin). Shot in the waning years of the Franco regime, Saura’s film is a powerful evocation of the mysteries and terrors of childhood as well as a subtle critique of the legacies of Fascist rule.
“Ana Torrent, Conchita Perez and Maite Sanchez Alexandros constitute the most extraordinary incarnations of childhood I have seen on the screen. To watch these three girls … is to see childhood at long last as a jungle of wild feelings in which death is stared at without flinching” — Andrew Sarris
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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.
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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.
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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.
