Songs from the Second Floor
’Verse Jumping with Daniels
February 3 - 9, 2023
Rigorously staged vignettes in such striking settings as a furniture store, an airport, and a seemingly endless traffic jam build off of one another in Roy Andersson’s singular feature from 2000, which reckons with the melancholic norms and anomalies of the modern world.
Rigorously staged vignettes in such striking settings as a furniture store, an airport, and a seemingly endless traffic jam build off of one another in Roy Andersson’s singular feature from 2000, which reckons with the melancholic norms and anomalies of the modern world. Through a diverse cross-section of Swedish life—including an office worker, an immigrant, an arsonist, and a magician—Andersson finds humanistic pathos through what he has referred to as “the complex image,” a tableau aesthetic designed to instigate social criticism via static long shots and layered compositions. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
“There’s no one like Roy Andersson. A series of unforgettable, sad, beautiful, moving paintings we can’t wait to put on the big screen.”—Daniels
Read More
James Gray’s Paper Tiger Will Open the 64th New York Film Festival
FLC announces James Gray’s Paper Tiger as the Opening Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival, presented in partnership with Rolex. The film will make its North American premiere in a gala debut at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 25, with Gray and members of the cast and crew in attendance.
Scary Movies XIV Brings Horror and Genre-bending Cinema to Film at Lincoln Center, August 12–20
Running August 12 through August 20, the 16-film festival will premiere new works alongside special presentations of spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries conjured from the dark recesses of midnight-movie lore, with filmmakers and special guests appearing for post-screening Q&As.
Lana Daher on Her Documentary Do You Love Me
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 2026 edition of New Directors/New Films with Do You Love Me director Lana Daher.
