Film at Lincoln Center Podcast

NYFF58 Revivals highlight Smooth Talk (1985) features the work of three powerhouse women: director Joyce Chopra; actress Laura Dern, in one of her first starring roles; and author Joyce Carol Oates, whose 1966 short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” provided the inspiration for the film. To celebrate the festival premiere of the film’s new restoration, Chopra, Dern, and Oates joined Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone for a talk about the creative work of adaptation and the perennially resonant subject matter of a young woman’s early encounter with the powers and perils of her sexuality. Watch the new restoration of Smooth Talk, starting November 6 in our Virtual Cinema at filmlinc.org/smoothtalk This Film at Lincoln Center Talk is presented by HBO and sponsored by TCM.

As part of their nationwide virtual retrospective, directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman joined FLC programmer Dan Sullivan for a career-spanning conversation. Watch their essential work, featuring new restorations, through November 5 in our Virtual Cinema at filmlinc.org/tellingpics For more than 30 years, Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne powerful witness to gay life, creativity, and activism — documenting lost aspects of LGBTQ+ history and chronicling unfolding events with humor, compassion, and fierce urgency. In their films, extraordinary interviews make the political personal and unforgettable. With Paragraph 175 and The Celluloid Closet, Epstein and Friedman examined the persecution of gay men in Nazi Germany and Hollywood’s history of hidden homophobia. Their documentaries The AIDS Show, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Times of Harvey Milk, and Where Are We? have both chronicled and helped change history. Starting October 23, we look at their essential partnership and the endlessly empathetic, consciousness-building films it has yielded. Film at Lincoln Center Talks are presented by HBO.

For the 58th New York Film Festival’s final week, a group of critics gathered together for a spirited discussion with Devika Girish, Assistant Editor of Film Comment and Talks programmer for the NYFF, about the movies they saw in this year's lineup and their tales from the trenches of the pandemic-era festival. Participants included Molly Haskell (author, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies), Eric Hynes (curator of film, Museum of the Moving Image), Ela Bittencourt (freelance critic & curator), Monica Castillo (arts and culture reporter, CPR News), and Clinton Krute (digital editor, Film Comment). Their discussion covered a wide selection of films, including Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock and Mangrove, Hong Sang-soo's The Woman Who Ran, Victor Kossakovsky's Gunda, Marie-Claude Treilhou's Simone Barbes or Virtue, Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning, Chloé Zhao's Nomadland, Philippe Garrel's The Salt of Tears, and many others. All NYFF58 Free Talks are presented by HBO.

Welcome to a new episode of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we're featuring a conversation with Pietro Marcello, whose NYFF favorite Martin Eden opens in our Virtual Cinema today along with a weeklong four-film retrospective. This Q&A is from the 57th New York Film Festival, featuring Marcello in conversation with programmer Florence Almozini and interpretation by Michael Moore. Get tickets for Martin Eden and our retrospective here: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/ One of world cinema’s most exciting working directors, he has spent the last 15 years crafting a filmography that straddles past and present, documentary and fiction, folklore and political intervention. His idiosyncratic use of archival materials paired with his penchant for capturing, enlarging, and exalting the sensuous details of the physical world yields films that have distinguished themselves within today’s Italian cinema, or indeed, world cinema at large. In Marcello’s work, history, mythology, and the political situation of today cohere to forward a by-turns neorealist and fabulist image of the modern world as one shaped by invisible metaphysical and economic forces. On the occasion of the release of his latest feature, we’re proud to present four of the contemporary Italian master’s most striking films to date: Crossing the Line, Lost and Beautiful, The Silence of Pelesjan, and The Mouth of the Wolf. All films are available nationwide and one can see all four and save with a discount bundle.

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Programmer Florence Almozini is joined by director Azazel Jacobs and actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges to discuss French Exit. In the Closing Night selection, Pfeiffer is entirely bewitching as an imperious, widowed New York socialite who, facing financial insolvency, relocates to a friend’s empty apartment in Paris with her dyspeptic son, Malcolm (Lucas Hedges), and their mercurial cat, and begins to grimly plan for an impossible future. Azazel Jacobs’s adaptation of the best-selling novel by Patrick deWitt is a rare American film of genuine eccentricity, with a brilliant central performance. French Exit is sponsored by Campari. There's only a few virtual nationwide tickets remaining for tonight's premiere at 8pm ET. Get yours here: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim connects with director Christian Petzold to discuss Undine, the latest from the filmmaker behind Phoenix and Transit, among others. In his new film, the German director injects a mythological element into a lush melodrama about a pair of star-crossed lovers—Undine (Paula Beer), a historian and museum tour guide specializing in urban development, and Christoph, an industrial diver—linked by an affinity for the water. Get nationwide virtual tickets, premiering tonight at 8pm ET: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/undine/

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Tyler Wilson is joined by co-directors Paul Felten & Joe DeNardo and star Stephanie Hayes of the funny and alluring Slow Machine. Featuring an intriguingly eclectic cast—including experimental theater performers Hayes and Scott Shepherd, the musician Eleanor Friedberger, and Chloë Sevigny—Slow Machine follows an actress whose intimate relationship with a shadowy NYPD-affiliated operative ends abruptly and disastrously, leading her to hide out in a country house otherwise occupied by a band preparing their new record. The film explodes and reassembles the thriller genre, producing a work on paranoia, surveillance, and performance. Get nationwide virtual tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/slow-machine/

Director/actor/writer/producer Tim Robbins is proud to introduce Bobbo Supreme - originally conceived as a film and adapted for a new realm of aural entertainment in pandemic times. Bobbo Supreme is a hard-hitting, bitingly funny, no holds barred look at the hypocrisy, deception, and danger in the current American political landscape. A satirical fever dream in five parts. New York Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez was delighted to welcome Tim Robbins and his all-star cast–including Jack Black, Haley Joel Osment, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Rita Brent, Ray Wise, and Ted Levine, along with composer David Robbins–for a special panel discussion, followed by the premiere of the first episode. The immersive aural entertainment experience debuts today on Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/TimRobbinsPresents

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi joins NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss Notturno, Rosi’s latest immersive work of nonfiction. Shot over the course of three years along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon, Notturno is a nighttime ramble through a region rocked and shattered by catastrophe and violence.  All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/notturno/

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw to discuss their revelatory, earthy documentary The Truffle Hunters. This engaging and beautifully shot film immerses the viewer in the forests of Northern Italy where dogs, accompanied by their elderly and often irascible human owners of modest means, seek the precious white Alba truffle. All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/the-truffle-hunters/