series • August 19 - 25, 2022

Animating Funny Pages

Heavy Traffic
The Last American Virgin
Greaser's Palace
Lord Love a Duck
Office Space.
O Lucky Man!
Love and Death on Long Island
Lord Love a Duck.
Lilith.
Artists and Models.
Funny Pages Courtesy of A24.

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A highlight of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, actor-turned-director Owen Kline’s Funny Pages draws on an intricate network of film references—from the psychodrama and Hollywood teen comedies to underground cinema to Golden Age cartoon one-reelers. On the occasion of Film at Lincoln Center’s release of Funny Pages on August 26, Kline has handpicked an assortment of films that influenced the world to which his hilariously dark, pleasantly unexpected debut belongs, including works by Ralph Bakshi, Frank Tashlin, and Robert Downey, Sr.; 35mm cartoon pairings; and the premiere of an hour-long 35mm “Mystery Reel” assembled by Kline himself.

Organized by Owen Kline, Dan Sullivan, and Tyler Wilson.

Acknowledgements: A24; Academy Film Archive; Chicago Film Society; Thad Komorowski; Bob Furmanak; Jack Theakston.

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Funny Pages

Owen Kline
2022
USA
86 minutes
English
Opens August 26, 2022

Q&A with Owen Kline August 26 at 6:15pm and Intro by Owen Kline on August 26 at 8:45pm

Owen Kline’s hilariously dark, pleasantly unexpected coming-of-age feature, a promising 17-year-old cartoonist abandons school and his spoiled suburban lifestyle to live as a cartoonist on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey.

Owen Kline’s Mystery Reel

Owen Kline
2022
USA
35mm
60 minutes

Q&A with Owen Kline on August 19

A one-time-only screening made specially for this series, this hour-long, evolving 35mm print of film clips, commercials, trailers, and other surprising miscellany was handpicked and assembled by Owen Kline.

Artists and Models

Frank Tashlin
1955
USA
35mm
109 minutes

A struggling artist (Dean Martin) begins to use his comic book-obsessed roommate’s dreams as the basis for a successful comic book in Frank Tashlin’s eye-popping, hilarious satire of mid-1950s pop culture. Screening with Jerry Lewis’s Theater Chain Outtakes and Tashlin’s Swooner Crooner.

Greaser’s Palace

Robert Downey, Sr.
1972
USA
35mm
91 minutes

Robert Downey, Sr.’s seminal acid Western-cum-religious allegory transposes the life of Jesus to the American frontier to delirious effect. Screening with Friz Freleng’s Rabbit Every Monday.

Heavy Traffic

Ralph Bakshi
1973
USA
35mm
77 minutes

A pinball-playing cartoonist named Michael Corleone escapes the shocking and brutal experiences of living in 1970s New York City by satirizing them into something altogether more outlandish in adult animator Ralph Bakshi’s second feature. Screening with Chuck Jones’s Rabbit of Seville.

The Last American Virgin

Boaz Davidson
1982
USA
35mm
93 minutes

An early hit for schlock factory Cannon Films, this leering but ultimately surprisingly serious-minded teen sex comedy follows a trio of suburban L.A. youths chasing girls and competing for the attentions of a cute transfer student.

Lilith

Robert Rossen
1964
USA
35mm
114 minutes

Robert Rossen’s deeply personal final film is set in a psychiatric institution and follows the emerging relationship between an occupational therapist trainee (Warren Beatty) and an alluring, creative patient who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia (Jean Seberg). Screening with Dave Fleischer’s Minnie the Moocher.

Lord Love a Duck

George Axelrod
1966
USA
35mm
105 minutes

A masterpiece of American film comedy as undefinable as its title, Lord Love a Duck swings wildly between deadly-earnest pathos and wig-flipping Dada.

Love and Death on Long Island

Richard Kwietniowski
1998
UK/Canada
35mm
93 minutes

A meditation on obsession worthy of Vladimir Nabokov, Kwietniowski‘s 1998 feature follows a widower author (John Hurt) who becomes infatuated with a mediocre film actor (Jason Priestley) and heads to Long Island in hopes of meeting him.

O Lucky Man!

Lindsay Anderson
1973
UK
178 minutes

Stylistically bold, wildly entertaining, with a cast of British greats, O Lucky Man! is an epic road movie and modern-day Candide that stars Malcolm McDowell once again as Mick Travis, the everyman character made famous in If… (1968).

Office Space

Mike Judge
1999
USA
35mm
89 minutes

Mike Judge’s hilarious ode to white collar disaffection stars Ron Livingston as Peter, a disgruntled programmer who is left in a seemingly permanent state of blissful ambivalence after his “occupational hypnotherapist” puts him in a trance and then promptly dies of a heart attack.

Withnail & I

Bruce Robinson
1987
UK
35mm
107 minutes

Robinson’s debut feature is a cultishly beloved chronicle of the misadventures, follies, and misfortunes of two unemployed actors (Richard Grant and Paul McGann) on a disastrous holiday at a countryside cottage.

Tickets go on sale August 10! Save 20% on membership and get $5 off all tickets year-round.

Tickets are $15; $12 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $10 for Film at Lincoln Center members.

Present proof of purchase of a ticket to Funny Pages (opens August 26) at any Animating Funny Pages screening and get $5 off!

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$ 10

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