Who’ll Stop the Rain
A late-decade peak in sleepless broken-dream trips came with Nick Nolte as a Marine smuggling heroin and ending up a fugitive with his friend’s wife (Weld).
A late-decade peak in Seventies broken dreams came with this sleepless adaptation of Robert Stone’s celebrated novel Dog Soldiers. Dazed Vietnam journalist John Converse (Michael Moriarty) finally crosses the line (or shuffles across it) by giving heroin dealing a shot; his buddy, Marines burnout Ray (Nick Nolte), smuggles the package to John’s bookstore-minding wife Marge (Weld). But bickering narcs send them fleeing into the wilderness and out to a sun-scorched hippie redoubt, while the narcotics send Marge reeling. Converse: “I’ve been waiting all my life to f*ck up like this.”
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FLC and NYAFF Announce Lineup and Awards of the 25th New York Asian Film Festival, July 10–26
The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) and Film at Lincoln Center today unveil the second wave of programming for its landmark 25th edition, adding more than 40 films to an already wide-ranging lineup, with very special final titles still to come.
Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine on Their Sci-Fi-Tinged Rose of Nevada
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 63rd New York Film Festival with Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin and actress Mary Woodvine.
Experience 10 Films Entirely on 70mm at “It’s All a Big Conspiracy,” July 1–9 at Film at Lincoln Center
Exploring conspiracy across Hollywood genres, from espionage and sci-fi to superhero cinema, political biography, Shakespearean adaptation, crime drama, cult psychodrama, and the modern action blockbuster, the series includes the first New York City theatrical screening of Tim Burton’s Batman on 70mm since its original release in 1989.
