Love Free or Die
NewFest 2012
July 27 - 31, 2012
Director Macky Alston in person July 29!
Director Macky Alston’s riveting, Sundance-award winning documentary follows New Hampshire’s openly gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson as he confronts the central role that religious institutions have played in fostering homophobia and hatred.
Director Macky Alston in person July 29!
In 2003, the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire came under fire when it became the first to elect an openly gay bishop. Director Macky Alston follows Bishop Gene Robinson into the breach in the struggle for equality. While resolute in his calling, Robinson grows increasingly critical of the central role that religious institutions have played in fostering homophobia and hatred. Winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Prize for An Agent of Change at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
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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.
