Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
Right Now, Wrong Then
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
A middle-aged art-film director and a fledgling artist meet—she knows he’s famous but doesn’t know his films, he’d like to see her paintings. Every word, pause, facial expression, and movement in Hong Sangsoo’s masterful new film is a negotiation between revelation and concealment. An NYFF53 selection. A Grasshopper Films release.
No Home Movie
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
Chantal Akerman’s intimate portrait of her mother in the last years of her life is as much a masterpiece as her 1975 career-defining Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
My Golden Days
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
Arnaud Desplechin reaches Shakespearean heights with his intimate yet expansive new film, three varied but interlocking episodes in the life of his hero, with the wondrous experience of first love between Paul (Quentin Dolmaire) and Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) at its core. An NYFF53 selection.
Mountains May Depart
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
An epically scaled canvas of life in contemporary China, Jia Zhangke’s new film spans three decades in the lives of its increasingly estranged characters, from the dawn of the capitalist explosion to the near future.
Microbe & Gasoline
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
Michel Gondry’s fresh, lyrical, handmade-SFX comedy is a story of two teenage misfits who build a house on wheels and take to the road, sputtering, pushing, and coasting their way across France.
Mia Madre
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
A filmmaker (Margherita Buy) tries to cope simultaneously with a mercurial American movie star (John Turturro) and the impending death of her mother (Giulia Lazzarini) in Nanni Moretti’s moving, hilarious, and subtly disquieting new film.
Maggie’s Plan
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
Rebecca Miller’s New York romantic comedy, starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, is as wise, funny, and suspenseful as a Jane Austen novel.
The Lobster
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
In the future, single people are rounded up and sent to a seaside compound, given a finite number of days to find a match, and turned into animals if they fail in Lanthimos’s Cannes Jury Prize winner.
The Forbidden Room
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
In his insane magnum opus, cinema’s reigning master of feverish filmic fetishism embarks on a phantasmagoric narrative adventure of stories within stories within dreams within flashbacks in a delirious globe-trotting mise en abyme, diving deeper than ever.
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank
By Alex Hunter
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August 19, 2015
Robert Frank friend and collaborator Laura Israel’s assembled portrait of the great Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker is a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages from the working life of an artist who reinvented himself the American way.