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 Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy
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January 14, 2015
Opening NightIntroduction by Nina Collins on February 6Rockland County serves as the setting for Kathleen Collins’s first film, about three young Puerto Rican men whose lives are watched over by their father’s ghost and Miss Malloy, an elderly widow whose house needs some tender loving care.
Losing Ground
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January 14, 2015
Extended due to popular demand!Finally receiving a long overdue theatrical run, Losing Ground is one of the first feature films written and directed by a black woman and a groundbreaking romance exploring women’s sexuality, modern marriage, and the life of artists and scholars.
Free Talks: Xavier Dolan (Mommy)
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January 9, 2015
Free event!Xavier Dolan will discuss his electric new film Mommy, which won the Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival and opens at the Film Society on January 23.
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
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January 8, 2015
One-week exclusive runDirector Liv Corfixen and Nicolas Winding Refn in person at 6:20pm (Q&A) and 8:15pm (intro) shows on Saturday, February 28Half home movie, half treatise on the anxieties that plague every artist, this documentary by Liv Corfixen (aka Mrs. Refn) offers a warm, domestic perspective on the creative process and an all-access-granted portrait of one of world cinema’s most enigmatic figures.
Eastern Boys
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January 8, 2015
An arrangement between a French businessman and a young Ukrainian male prostitute begets a home invasion and then an unexpectedly profound relationship in this absorbing, continually surprising film by Robin Campillo (BPM: Beats Per Minute).
Girlhood
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January 8, 2015
Céline Sciamma’s third feature is one of the best coming-of-age films of recent years, capturing the lives of a gang of tough girls living in the Parisian banlieue with a rare empathy and a close, attentive eye.
Salvation Army
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January 8, 2015
One week exclusive runMoroccan author Abdellah Taïa’s directorial debut is a bracing, deeply personal account of a young gay man’s awakening that avoids both cliché and the trappings of autobiography, worthy of Bresson in its concreteness and lucidity.
Mommy
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January 8, 2015
Quebecois auteur Xavier Dolan’s most fully realized and idiosyncratic work to date stylishly revisits maternal angst and teen alienation when circumstances force brassy widow Diana to homeschool her violently hyperactive son Steve.
From What Is Before
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January 7, 2015
Lav Diaz’s magisterial new film (winner of the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival) is a thrilling and utterly harrowing picture of what was lost—and what was killed—in the years leading up to the Ferdinand Marcos’s 1972 declaration of martial law.
Gangs of Wasseypur
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January 7, 2015
Introduction by director Anurag Kashyap at 6:15pm show on January 16 and Q&A at 5:15pm show on January 17Dubbed “the godfather of modern Indian independent cinema,” director Anurag Kashyap offers his own Godfather of sorts, a riveting crime saga spanning seven decades of warfare between rival mob families in the titular coal town.