FSLC upcoming June events: Sneak peeks of The Overnight and 54: The Director's Cut & Bad Dads series

THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER’S UPCOMING JUNE SPECIAL EVENTS

SNEAK PREVIEWS OF THE OVERNIGHT AND 54: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

SPEND FATHER’S DAY WITH “BAD DADS”—INCLUDES SCREENINGS OF HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE STEPFATHER, AND DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

SOUND + VISION LIVE: MARTIN BISI

New York, NY (May 28, 2015) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center will present sneak previews throughout June, including Patrick Brice’s The Overnight on Wednesday, June 17, with Brice and actors Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman in attendance, and on Tuesday, June 23, Miramax's 54: The Director’s Cut, will screen, followed by a Q&A with director Mark Christopher. The film, now a cult classic, features an additional 44 minutes of never-before-seen material that was not included in the original release in 1998.  The previously announced sneak preview of Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack will screen on Thursday, June 11 with the director and subjects in attendance. The film opens theatrically at the Film Society the next day.

In celebration of Father’s Day, the Film Society will present a full day of Bad Dads on Sunday, June 21. Forget the time-honored rituals: calling the old man, feeling guilty for not making it home more often, because let’s face it: not all dads are beacons of integrity. Some are crotchety; some fiendish; some can shrink you to the size of a Cheerio. With that in mind, we’re turning the spotlight on cinematic father figures with significant character flaws. We invite you to come visit the pantheon of problematic patriarchs—and bring your dad if he’s free. Maybe afterward you’ll be more forgiving of his awful jokes. The day includes screenings of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Stepfather, and Devil’s Advocate.

On Thursday, June 25, Sound + Vision Live continues with a special one-night performance by Brooklyn guitarist and vocalist Martin Bisi. The event will include a screening of Ryan Douglass and Sarah Leavitt’s 2014 documentary Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio, which features footage of prominent bands like Sonic Youth recording in the space, interviews with many of the luminaries that have worked there, and fly-on-the-wall scenes from Bisi’s life.

Tickets for The Wolfpack sneak preview and Sound + Vision Live go on sale today; Bad Dads, The Overnight, and 54: The Director's Cut go on sale in early June. Special event pricing applies. Visit filmlinc.com for more information.

SNEAK PREVIEWS

The Wolfpack
Crystal Moselle, USA, 2015, DCP, 89m
First-time feature filmmaker Crystal Moselle trains her camera on an utterly unique subject in this documentary that seems destined to join the ranks of Grey Gardens and Poto and Cabengo as a portrait of fascinating figures dwelling in society’s margins—or, in this case, a housing project on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Angulos are a family with seven long-haired children—six boys and one girl, ages 16-24—whose names are culled from ancient Sanskrit and who have been homeschooled by their mother and forbidden from leaving their apartment by their withdrawn Hare Krishna father. However, no restrictions have been placed on the children’s movie-watching diets, and the six brothers have not only grown to become die-hard cinephiles, they also collaborate on elaborate, meticulously staged remakes of their favorite films. Their love for movies signals a long-suppressed desire to engage with the outside world—but how do you reconnect with society when the inside of your apartment and your vast DVD collection is all you’ve ever known? Moselle enjoys a tremendous degree of access to the Angulo brothers, who have managed to become sensitive, passionate, and surprisingly self-conscious people eager to bridge the gap between the world they’ve invented for themselves and the great outdoors. A Magnolia Pictures release.
Thursday, June 11, 7:00pm

The Overnight
Patrick Brice, USA, 2015, DCP, 80m
Seattle transplants Alex and Emily (Parks and Recreation’s Adam Scott and Orange Is the New Black’s Taylor Schilling) are settling into their new Los Angeles life with some difficulty (their young son makes friends more easily than they do). The two are overjoyed when outgoing fellow parent Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) invites them over for a dual playdate—one for the kids and one for the adults. Things take a turn for the bizarre when Kurt and his elegant French wife Charlotte (L’Auberge Espagnole’s Judith Godrèche) suggest putting the children to bed and continuing their couples date. The rare contemporary comedy that does not outstay its welcome, writer/director Patrick Brice’s second feature (after last year’s found-footage thriller Creep) capitalizes on Scott’s proven straight-man abilities and Schwartzman’s patented confidence, with art-house darling Godrèche more than holding her own amid seasoned comics. The Orchard release.
Wednesday, June 17, 8:00pm (Q&A with Patrick Brice, Adam Scott, and Jason Schwartzman)

54: The Director’s Cut
Mark Christopher, USA, 2015, DCP, 106m
“A dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the floor” was Andy Warhol’s description of Manhattan’s legendary nightclub Studio 54, where, for a moment in the late 1970s, “the stars are nobody because everybody’s a star.” Writer-director Mark Christopher spent five years researching the disco scene to sketch this authentic portrait of the notoriously outrageous party palace ruled by its founder, unctuous Steve Rubell (Mike Myers, in an acclaimed dramatic turn). When test audiences condemned some of the film’s controversial content (involving Ryan Phillippe’s busboy turned bartender and Breckin Meyer’s husband to club-diva Salma Hayek), Christopher was asked to recut the film and reshoot key scenes, including the finale. Seventeen years later, the filmmaker’s intent, which includes 44 minutes of never-been-seen material, has been restored. “The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,” claimed Rubell, and Christopher’s director’s cut honors that Dionysian vision.
Tuesday, June 23, 7:00pm (Q&A with Mark Christopher)

BAD DADS

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Joe Johnston, USA, 1989, DCP, 93m</strong>
Suburban inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) devises a ray gun with the power to make household objects microscopic. But he leaves it in reach of his two children, and soon they, along with a pair of kids from next door, find themselves shrunk to a quarter of an inch and accidentally taken out with the trash. Now the gang must fight to survive in their own backyard, where ants and scorpions are as large and terrifying as jungle beasts. This reimagining of The Incredible Shrinking Man was a box-office smash for Disney, and marked the directorial debut of Joe Johnston, responsible for such ’90s nostalgia as The Rocketeer and Jumanji. Moranis provides the glue as the worried pop who scours the yard with stilts and a magnifying glass.
Saturday, June 21, 2:00pm