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.
The Yakuza
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February 2, 2015
East meets West in the form of two iconic stars in this special tribute to the late Japanese gangster film star Ken Takakura, here teamed with Robert Mitchum in a riveting thriller set in the treacherous waters of Tokyo’s criminal underworld.
The World of Kanako
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February 2, 2015
A super-intense revenge thriller about a former cop whose ex-wife enlists him to investigate the disappearance of their 17-year-old daughter, Kanako. Devastated by what he uncovers, he bludgeons his way through a lurid world of drug-using high-school kids, grudge-holding cops, and ruthless yakuzas in his search for the truth.
Voice Over
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February 2, 2015
A mother of two seeks to sever toxic technological dependencies, little realizing the repercussions her plan will have on those around her in this seriocomic portrait of a family and the dubious assumptions on which it’s founded. Co-presented with the Miami International Film Festival.
Tales
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February 2, 2015
Iran’s leading female filmmaker withdrew from features 10 years ago, but she’s back with a panoramic portrait of Tehran’s lower depths, cunningly shot as a series of shorts to evade censorship red tape.
Spring
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February 2, 2015
Escaping his life in an idyllic Italian coastal village, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) falls for the charming and elusive Louise (Nadiar Hiker)—but little does he know that she’s hiding a terrifying secret. What comes next defies standard genre categories and, in the name of love, brings Evan face to face with monstrous primordial forces rooted in a realm that’s nothing short of mythic.
The Smell of Us
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February 2, 2015
Unfortunately, Larry Clark can no longer attend this screening. There will be a Q&A with lead actress Diane Rouxel.Set in the streets and rave clubs of Paris and updated to a world of iPhones and digital cameras, Larry Clark’s The Smell of Us revisits the world of Kids for an impressionistic, immersive study of the lives of teen skateboarders and rent boys that delivers a strong dose of explicit sex and substance abuse.
Shock Value: The Movie—How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror
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February 2, 2015
Presented by USC archivist Dino Everett & author Jason ZinomanFor this unique feature-length compilation, archivist Dino Everett has assembled the student-film work of Dan O’Bannon, John Carpenter, and others who helped redefine the horror genre in the ’70s, to demonstrate that USC was a hotbed of genre filmmaking.
Phoenix
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February 2, 2015
Set in the period immediately following World War II, Phoenix is an engrossing reflection on the postwar reconstruction of identity couched as a noirish thriller of mistaken identity. Screening with the Hitchcock rumination Where Are You, Christian Petzold?
How To Live
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February 2, 2015
Somebody is always watching in Marcel Lozinski’s deeply unnerving and at times hilarious hybrid documentary about a summer camp run by the Union of Young Polish Socialists, where young families are observed and graded on their political commitment and their participation in activities.
High Society
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February 2, 2015
Q&A with Ana GirardotA delicately observed but incisive Bildungsroman that subtly explores the relationship between social class, love, and creativity through the affair of struggling fashion designer Alice (Ana Girardot) and her mentor’s son Antoine (Bastien Bouillon), a well-off artist who seeks to escape his privileged upbringing.