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.
Roxanne
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November 12, 2014
A decent but immature guy in his late thirties finds out from his secret police file that he might have fathered a son, but this proves to be just the first blast from a complicated past…
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
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November 12, 2014
Q&A with actor Florin Piersic, Jr. and producer Velvet Moraru.A brilliant mathematician, his best friend’s wife, and the secret police agent who’s tracking them both are drawn together in this tense story of paranoia and betrayal shot in black and white.
The Journey
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November 12, 2014
Introduction by director Stere Gulea.This remarkable adaptation of Marin Preda’s novel covers the years preceding World War II in a village in the Danube Plain, with its visible and invisible tensions as its residents contend with the early consolidation of capitalism in the rural area. Featuring a monumental lead performance by Victor Rebengiuc.
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
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November 11, 2014
One week exclusive run!Robert A.A. Lowe, the celebrated musician behind Lichens and Om, gives a strangely affecting, trance-inducing performance as a quixotic man who embarks on a quest for utopia—the holy grail of infinite truth, self-knowledge, and spiritual connectedness.
I’m an Old Communist Hag
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November 10, 2014
Q&A with director Stere Gulea and actress Ana Ularu at both screenings.A bittersweet drama about the generation gap that contrasts Romanian national identity before and after the ’89 Revolution.
Viktoria
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November 10, 2014
Closing Night followed by a reception open to all ticket holders!A Bulgarian/Romanian co-production, Viktoria is a truly innovative epic infused with strikingly surreal images that offers a unique perspective on the communist chimera.
The Japanese Dog
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November 10, 2014
Opening Night followed by a reception open to all ticket holders!Q&A with director Tudor Cristian Jurgiu on December 4, introduction on December 5.This understated first feature about family reconciliation has a touch of Ozu and is Romania’s entry in the upcoming foreign-language Oscar race.
Late Fred Zinnemann
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November 7, 2014
Five Days One Summer (Fred Zinnemann, 1982):Set in 1932, Zinnemann’s impeccably crafted swan song details the unraveling of a covert love affair between a middle-aged doctor (Sean Connery) and his young niece (Betsy Brantley) during an Alpine mountaineering vacation, precipitated by the attentions of their attractive guide (Lambert Wilson).</p>Julia (Fred Zinnemann, 1977):Zinnemann’s penultimate film explores the test of courage faced by celebrated playwright Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda), whose childhood friend, wealthy heiress Julia (Vanessa Redgrave), asks her to risk her life in the name of the anti-Nazi cause during a trip from Paris to Berlin in 1930s Europe.
Tess
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November 3, 2014
Due to travel issues, Nastassja Kinski will no longer be in person for this screening. Ticket buyers will be contacted. We apologize for the inconvenience.In her breakthrough performance, Kinski gave the heroine of Roman Polanski’s beautifully shot Thomas Hardy adaptation a forceful, smoldering presence and a tragic breadth of spirit.
Paris, Texas
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November 3, 2014
Wim Wenders’s emotionally overwhelming, Palme d’Or–winning odyssey stars Harry Dean Stanton as a lonely amnesiac seeking out his estranged wife and son, and Nastassja Kinski giving what might be her finest performance to date.