50th Mixtape: Free Double Features
It’s our golden anniversary, and as a special gift to our audiences—and all New York movie lovers—we’ve put together a free summer playlist. From June to September, Film at Lincoln Center will continue to celebrate its semi-centennial with a series of double features presented free of charge. We have handpicked 20 films—a combination of our all-time and recent favorites—to be screened across 10 Thursdays, culminating on September 11 with a final selection to be decided by a public vote. Our “mixtape” zigzags across recent film history, pairing titles in a way that speaks to cinema’s diversity of expression, and includes important premieres and acclaimed films from our most popular year-round festivals, series, and new releases. As these selections illustrate, we plan to extend our commitment to introducing New York audiences to cinema’s most vital and innovative voices—past, present, and future.
June 27 – Cléo from 5 to 7 (6pm) and The Portrait of a Lady (8pm)
July 11 – Two English Girls (6pm) and Mulholland Dr. (8:45pm)
July 18 – Come Drink with Me (6pm) and The Assassin (8pm)
July 25 – The Leopard (6pm) and Happy as Lazzaro (9:30pm)
August 1 – Stalker (6pm) and High Life (9:15pm)
August 8 – School Daze (6pm) and Sorry to Bother You (8:30pm)
August 15 – Nocturama (6pm) and Burning (8:45pm)
August 22 – demonlover (6pm) and Elle (8:45pm)
August 29 – Velvet Goldmine (6pm) and Her Smell (8:30pm)
September 5 – Three Times (6pm) and Moonlight (8:30pm)
September 11 – Audience Choice: Esther Kahn (6pm) and Cries & Whispers (8:30pm)
• As a courtesy to others, advanced registration will be capped. There is a limit of one ticket per person. If you register for more than one ticket, only one registration will be honored.
• If you register online, you must arrive at least 20 minutes prior to showtime to claim your seat, at which point tickets may be forfeited in the event of a standby line.
• Online registrants should skip the box office by presenting your Print-at-Home ticket (via print-out or on your mobile device) to the theater usher.
• Please note: walk-ups will still be accepted; tickets to be distributed on a space-available basis.
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If you registered for tickets to 50th Mixtape screenings prior to July 22, please pick up your ticket from the Walter Reade Theater box office beginning one hour prior to showtime. Tickets not claimed 20 minutes prior to showtime may be forfeited in the event of a standby line.
If you registered for tickets to 50th Mixtape screenings on or after July 23, you should have received a Print-at-Home ticket. Skip the box office by showing your ticket (printed or on your mobile device) to the theater usher. Ticket holders must arrive at least 20 minutes prior to showtime to claim your seat, at which point tickets may be forfeited in the event of a standby line. If you did not receive your electronic ticket, please check your spam folder. If not there, contact [email protected].
Organized by Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson.
Sponsored by Radeberger
Acknowledgements
A24, American Genre Film Archive, The Criterion Collection, Cory Everett, Cinephile Game, Ella Sahlman, Gunpowder & Sky, IFC Films, Netflix, Two Chicks Cocktails, and United Artists Releasing
September 11 Double Feature
Audience choice!
Cries and Whispers
Esther Kahn
Previous Screenings
June 27 Double Feature
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Portrait of a Lady
Free screening • Complimentary Popcorn & Soda • Pre-Screening Reception
Sumptuously photographed and exceedingly smart, Jane Campion’s interpretation of The Portrait of a Lady is a cinematic fever dream fascinated by the pictorial and sensuous forms of dominance within James’s text, and the inextricable bond between romantic love and violence.July 11 Double Feature
Two English Girls
Free screening!
Based on a novel by Jules and Jim author Henri-Pierre Roché, Two English Girls plays variations on François Truffaut’s earlier film’s ménage à trois: a young writer (Jean-Pierre Léaud) falls in love with two beautiful sisters (Kika Markham and Sylvia Marriott) at the start of the 20th century.
Mulholland Dr.
Free screening!
An aspiring movie star (Naomi Watts) finds herself in an obscure world of trouble upon meeting an enigmatic amnesiac brunette (Laura Harring) in this unique puzzle movie steeped in the romance and artifice of a bygone Hollywood. Widely considered the masterpiece of his late career and the ultimate expression of David Lynch’s deep love-hate relationship with Hollywood.July 18 Double Feature
Come Drink with Me
Free screening!
The Chinese wuxia (martial-arts) genre was never the same after King Hu's breakthrough feature, which stars Cheng Pei-pei as Golden Swallow, a highly skilled swordswoman who goes on a mission to rescue her brother from a clan of bandits.
The Assassin
Free screening!
Crystalline in beauty and oblique in narrative, Cannes Best Director winner Hou Hsiao-hsien’s wuxia stars Shu Qi as a Tang Dynasty assassin, dedicated to the art of killing until memory transforms her course of action.July 25 Double Feature
The Leopard
Free screening! · Post-Screening Reception
Visconti reached new heights of epic grandeur with his sweeping, Palme d’Or-winning account of political upheaval and generational sea change in Risorgimento-era Italy, starring Burt Lancaster as the leonine patriarch of a ruling class Bourbon family in the last gasps of its dominance.
Happy as Lazzaro
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
A throng of tobacco farmers working on an estate live in a state of extreme deprivation, but nothing is what it seems in Alice Rohrwacher’s transfiguring and transfixing fable, which touches on perennial class struggle and enters the realm of parable.August 1 Double Feature
Stalker
Free screening! · Post-Screening Reception
Experience the mysteries and revelations of Andrei Tarkovsky’s visually extraordinary and philosophically provocative 1979 science-fiction fable in this gorgeous digital restoration.
High Life
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
Claire Denis’s latest film—which features some of the most unsettling passages she has ever directed, as well as moments of the greatest delicacy and tenderness—is set aboard a spacecraft piloted by death row prisoners on a decades-long suicide mission to enter and harness the power of a black hole.August 8 Double Feature
School Daze
Free screening! · Post-Screening Reception
One year before his culture-shaking breakthrough Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee zeroed in on the racial and social divisions at an all-black college campus for this eminently listenable musical comedy.
Sorry to Bother You
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
In Boots Riley’s funny, scathing, weird, and audacious debut feature, Lakeith Stanfield plays a telemarketer at a company with a brave new world in mind for the country.August 15 Double Feature
Nocturama
Free screening! · Post-Screening Reception
This audacious film from Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent) is both a precision-crafted thriller about a mass-scale terrorist attack on Paris and a provocative exploration of consumerism and millennial disaffection.
Burning
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
Korean master Lee Chang-dong’s expansion of Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning” is a love triangle (linked by rising star Steven Yeun) and a tense, haunting multiple-character study that bends the contours of the thriller genre to brilliant effect.August 22 Double Feature
Elle
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
Paul Verhoeven’s first film in French ranks among his most incendiary, improbable concoctions: a wry, almost-screwball comedy of manners about a woman (a brilliant Isabelle Huppert) who responds to rape by refusing the mantle of victimhood.August 29 Double Feature
Velvet Goldmine
Free screening! · Introduction by Alex Ross Perry · Post-Screening Reception
Todd Haynes’s delirious rock opera about a journalist (Christian Bale) hired to reconstruct the sordid life story of the failed glam star (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) he’d idolized as a young man is as colorful, noisy, and chaotic as Haynes’s Safe had been clinically restrained.
Her Smell
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
In a powerhouse performance, Elisabeth Moss is Becky Something, the influential lead singer of a popular ’90s alt-rock outfit spiraling out of control as she struggles with her demons. The latest from Alex Ross Perry tracks Becky’s self-destruction—and potential creative redemption.September 5 Double Feature
Three Times
Free screening! · Post-Screening Reception
This rapturously beautiful 2005 feature by Hou Hsiao-hsien is a triumph about the melancholy play of time and memory. The action is broken into three different love stories set in different eras—a 1966 pool hall, a prosperous 1911 brothel, and contemporary Taipei—but starring the same leads, the impossibly glamorous Shu Qi and Chang Chen.
Moonlight
Free screening! · Pre-Screening Reception
Barry Jenkins’s three-part narrative spans the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of a gay African-American man who survives Miami’s drug-plagued inner city, finding love in unexpected places and the possibility of change within himself.New! We’re happy to introduce new advance registration for Film at Lincoln Center free events taking place at the Walter Reade Theater and Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
• As a courtesy to others, advanced registration will be capped. There is a limit of one ticket per person. If you register for more than one ticket, only one registration will be honored.
• If you register online, you must arrive at least 20 minutes prior to showtime to claim your seat, at which point tickets may be forfeited in the event of a standby line.
• Online registrants should skip the box office by presenting your Print-at-Home ticket (via print-out or on your mobile device) to the theater usher.
• Please note: walk-ups will still be accepted; tickets to be distributed on a space-available basis.
_________
If you registered for tickets to 50th Mixtape screenings prior to July 22, please pick up your ticket from the Walter Reade Theater box office beginning one hour prior to showtime. Tickets not claimed 20 minutes prior to showtime may be forfeited in the event of a standby line.
If you registered for tickets to 50th Mixtape screenings on or after July 23, you should have received a Print-at-Home ticket. Skip the box office by showing your ticket (printed or on your mobile device) to the theater usher. Ticket holders must arrive at least 20 minutes prior to showtime to claim your seat, at which point tickets may be forfeited in the event of a standby line. If you did not receive your electronic ticket, please check your spam folder. If not there, contact [email protected].
All tickets subject to availability.
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