Big Screen Summer: NYFF58 Redux

Still from Hourglass Sanatorium. Courtesy of Fixafilm.
Now playing in our theaters through August 26!
Last fall, the New York Film Festival was forced to adapt to the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, with its screenings taking place virtually and at drive-in theaters across the city… but not in cinemas, of course. Now that it’s possible to hold in-theater screenings in New York City again, we thought it only right to bring back much of the NYFF58 lineup to be screened and seen as these films were meant to be. So, this summer, join Film at Lincoln Center in the air-conditioned darkness of the Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center to see these films writ large in a special series of encore screenings of 33 titles from NYFF58.
In addition to such highlights as Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance (screening on 35mm!), Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk, John Gianvito’s Her Socialist Smile, and Orson Welles’s Hopper/Welles, we’ll also be including a run of Anders Edström & C.W. Winter’s The Works and Days, Heinz Emigholz’s Streetscapes [Dialogue] alongside his two related works from last year’s Currents section (The Last City and The Lobby), Luis López Carrasco’s El futuro alongside a run of his Currents standout The Year of the Discovery, Cristi Puiu’s NYFF58 Main Slate entry Malmkrog, a special run of the new restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flowers of Shanghai, all five parts of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe (including a run of the NYFF58 Opening Night Film, Lovers Rock), and much, much more… See you at the movies!
For in-theater screenings, please review the FLC in-theater safety and health policies here.
Big Screen Summer: NYFF58 Redux is sponsored by:
Days
Isabella
Past Screenings
Mangrove
Red, White and Blue
Alex Wheatle
Education
Lovers Rock
The Monopoly of Violence
The Inheritance
There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse
Ouvertures
Hopper/Welles
Now playing!
In November 1970, two movie mavericks, one already a legend (Orson Welles) and the other on his way to mythic status (Dennis Hopper), met for an epochal conversation, sharing their candid thoughts and feelings about cinema, art, and life. This entertaining and revealing footage, never before seen in full, has been resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski.Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
Smooth Talk
Now Playing! · New 4K Restoration
In her first lead role, 18-year-old Laura Dern gave one of her most stirring, layered performances in Joyce Chopra’s adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story about a teenager whose sexual exploration during her summer days in the Northern California suburbs takes a dangerous turn when she meets a mysterious stranger.The Disciple
Her Socialist Smile
My Mexican Bretzel
Simone Barbes or Virtue
New 4K Restoration!
A criminally overlooked work from the post-post-New Wave era of French cinema, Marie-Claude Treilhou’s stylish and atmospheric feature debut follows a porno theater usher through a series of curious encounters with acquaintances and eccentric strangers alike.The Plastic House
Night of the Kings
Flowers of Shanghai
New 4K Restoration
Hou Hsiao-hsien made his seventh festival appearance with this transfixing masterwork, a ravishingly beautiful chamber drama that follows the intertwined fortunes and intrigues of four “flower girls” serving in the opulent brothels of fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai.The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
The Last City
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
The Lobby
The Year of the Discovery
El Futuro
Fauna
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
Beginning
Xiao Wu
New Restoration!
Among the most essential filmmakers of the past several decades, Jia Zhangke launched his career with this, his 1997 debut about a pickpocket struggling to keep up with the current of China’s transformation into an economic powerhouse.Atarrabi and Mikelats
Malmkrog
Slow Machine
Her Name Was Europa
The Hourglass Sanatorium
New 4K Restoration!
The collective trauma of the Holocaust looms over this adaptation of Jewish author Bruno Schulz’s visionary and poetic reflection on the nature of time and death, which won the Jury Award at Cannes.