
The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice
Widely hailed as one of this century’s great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele’s era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-capitalist power structures to the rich lineage of the doppelgänger motif […]
Ninety years ago, former aviator and journalist Merian C. Cooper and his co-director, Ernest B. Schoedsack, forever changed the art of cinema with this prehistoric fever dream of humanity’s desire to exploit nature. Preceded by a 15-minute animated loop of Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Plate 626 on a specially-made 35mm print.
Victor Fleming
1939|
USA|
101 minutes
From its groundbreaking Technicolor camerawork and eye-popping set design, costuming, and choreography to its catchy music and enduring lyrics, The Wizard of Oz, adapted from L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, remains one of the most popular masterpieces of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Sidney Poitier
1972|
USA|
102 minutes
Sidney Poiter and Harry Belafonte forged one of the greatest and most daring artistic collaborations of the 1970s with the former’s directorial debut—the first major Hollywood Western from a Black director—produced with Belafonte, and starring the duo as the film’s titular characters.
Sidney Lumet
1978|
USA|
133 minutes
Set in 1970s New York, this glitzed-out spin on The Wizard of Oz—written by Joel Schumacher just after he penned Car Wash and Sparkle—stars Diana Ross as the timid Dorothy who gets swept away to the land of Oz for a journey of self-discovery and features an all-star cast.
Elem Klimov
1985|
Soviet Union|
142 minutes
One of the most shocking and affecting cinematic depictions of manmade atrocity, Come and See follows a 14-year-old boy in Nazi-occupied Belarus after he joins the local partisans and experiences firsthand the horrors of the Eastern Front.
Joseph Zito
1984|
USA|
91 minutes
Joseph Zito pulled out all the stops to make Friday the 13th a series worth continuing: from mordant humor and glass-shattering kills to baffling psychosexual subtext to a gonzo finale. Starring Crispin Glover and Corey Feldman.
Rob Reiner
1986|
USA|
89 minutes
Based on Stephen King’s novella “The Body,” Rob Reiner’s third feature upends the classic coming-of-age film by compressing time and adding elements of the road-trip movie as the buddies (played by Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell) go from boys to men literally overnight.
Marc Rocco
1989|
USA|
114 minutes
In one of the strangest body-swap films from the late 1980s, Corey Feldman stars opposite Jason Robards, who plays an eccentric researcher so hopelessly in love with his wife (Piper Laurie) that he conducts an experiment to consciously enter a dream state with her forever—but instead wakes up in Feldman’s body.
Eugenio Mira
2004|
Spain|
115 minutes
Part comedy of manners by way of Jerry Lewis, part phantasmagorical head trip, The Birthday is weirdo-horror of the highest order and peers straight into a traumatized headspace of relationship neuroses.
Widely hailed as one of this century’s great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele’s era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-capitalist power structures to the rich lineage of the doppelgänger motif and home-invasion thrillers. NOPE, his celebrated latest from 2022, might be his most stylistically adventurous yet: a big and kinetic, yet tightly controlled, Western-inflected UFO movie probing America’s legacy of exploitation and the spectacle of cinema itself. Indeed, few filmmakers working today are as skilled as Peele at leveling real-time social critiques within the look and textures of high-concept genre cinema, mixing the uncanny with the personal, and turning even the most bizarre into essential truths about living in the United States today. Join Film at Lincoln Center in the new year as we celebrate NOPE, featuring 70mm screenings with Peele in person and more: Peele has also handpicked an assortment of films that serve as a guide to understanding NOPE’s thematic interests—from Blaxploitation and America’s mythologized West to the moral implications of image-taking and child stardom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlcjJkhMDJs&ab_channel=LateNightwithSethMeyers
Organized by Florence Almozini, Tyler Wilson, and Jordan Peele.
Acknowledgments:
Universal Pictures; Ian Cooper and David Torres, Monkeypaw Productions; Katherine Rowe and Lindsay Stevens, Rowe PR; Eugenio Mira; Corey Feldman; Kino Lorber









