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.
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.
One From the Heart
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November 3, 2014
Francis Ford Coppola’s shimmering, Vegas-set nocturnal reverie—his doomed follow-up to Apocalypse Now—cries out for rediscovery. With Kinski as a beguiling circus tightrope walker.
The Moon in the Gutter
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November 3, 2014
With this hyper-stylized, noir-infused psychodrama, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Jacques Beineix gave Kinski possibly her most memorable screen entrance as a wealthy, mysterious femme fatale perched behind the wheel of a bright-red Ferrari Spider.
Maria’s Lovers
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November 3, 2014
As a Yugoslav immigrant in 1940s Pennsylvania, Kinski is the undeniable center of fascination in Maria’s Lovers, bickered over by the movie’s male characters but keeping the rest of the film at a vague, restless remove.
The Hotel New Hampshire
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November 3, 2014
Tony Richardson’s adaptation of John Irving’s epic, plot-stuffed tragicomic novel moves from the funny to the horrifying at the drop of a hat. With Kinski as a young woman who spends most of the film in full-body bear suit.
Faraway, So Close!
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November 3, 2014
This underrated sequel to Wings of Desire, set in a tenuously unified Berlin, gave Kinski one of her finest mid-career performances as a sympathetic, trench coat–clad angel.
Exposed
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November 3, 2014
Q&A with James Toback!Nastassja Kinski plays the part of a Midwestern English student turned New York supermodel in James Toback’s zigzagging urban odyssey.
Cat People
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November 3, 2014
In Paul Schrader’s audacious reimagining of Jacques Tourneur’s supernatural horror classic, Kinski perfected her ability to balance timid innocence with raw sexuality.