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Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Garrett Bradley to discuss her extraordinary new documentary Time. Bradley detailed the process of capturing Fox Rich’s tireless 20-year campaign to secure her husband’s release after he received a 60-year prison sentence for robbery. Delicate yet forceful, the Main Slate selection is an exquisitely stitched-together narrative of the strength and resilience of one mother of six that also functions as a personal perspective on the crisis of Black mass incarceration in America. Bradley also discussed assembling years worth of footage, doing justice to the family's story, how festering systemic issues in the country have now been magnified, and much more. Get tickets for tonight’s nationwide virtual premiere: https://virtual.filmlinc.org

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Victor Kossakovsky to discuss his remarkable, heartbreaking documentary Gunda, which uses natural sound design and crisp, pastoral black-and-white cinematography to immerse the viewer in the compassionate tale of a sow who lives on a farm in Norway. The director discusses respecting nature, ethical considerations, how filmmaking is a powerful tool, the toll humanity has taken on the world, his unique approach to cinematography, and much more. Get tickets for tonight’s premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets at https://www.filmlinc.org

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we’re featuring two conversations from new films screening at the festival. First up, producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski joined programmer Rachel Rosen to discuss Hopper/Welles, a Spotlight selection at this year’s festival. 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 in the form of this new feature, which premieres tonight at 8pm at the Queens drive-in followed by virtual nationwide screenings beginning September 28. This conversation is followed by a Q&A from the Opening Night selection of our new Currents section, which complements the Main Slate, tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an

Welcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. On a special NYFF58 Opening Night edition, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by Steve McQueen to discuss Lovers Rock, which makes its world premiere tonight at the festival. A movie of tactile sensuality and levitating joy, Lovers Rock is part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology of decades-spanning films that alight on various lives in London’s West Indian community. Here, McQueen, in an ecstatic yet no less formally bold mode, charts the growing attraction between Martha (newcomer Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) and a brooding stranger (played by Micheal Ward) over the course of one night at a house party. Tickets for Brooklyn and Queens drive-in screenings and nationwide virtual tickets for Lovers Rock are available, along with two more films in the anthology, Mangrove and Red, White, and Blue. Get yours: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/guide Enjoy this conversation with director Steve McQueen on his remarkable, ambitious new project and how his Op

Welcome to the return of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! This Thursday, the New York Film Festival returns for a reimagined 58th edition that continues through October 11. This year’s festival offers the chance for moviegoers all around the country to experience the best in world cinema at drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens as well as virtual screenings available nationwide. The New York Film Festival has always been about bringing the community together to celebrate cinema and, whether you are joining us in our Virtual Cinema or at one of our drive-in venues, on behalf of everyone at Film at Lincoln Center we want to thank you for being a part of this historic edition. Learn more about the festival and purchase tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff To celebrate the launch of this year’s festival, we are kicking off our series of free talks with a special preview from the 58th New York Film Festival programming team. Programmers Devika Girish and Maddie Whittle led a discussion

Today, we’re sharing a special conversation with filmmaker Eliza Hittman and actress Talia Ryder following a patron screening of Never Rarely Sometimes Always at Film at Lincoln Center. Opening this weekend, the Sundance and Berlinale winner is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, they embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery, and compassion. This Monday, March 16, Hittman will return to Film at Lincoln Center for a free talk, presented by Film Comment magazine, in which she’ll discuss her new film and already rich body of work. See free RSVP details: www.filmlinc.org/free This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s rollicking thriller Bacurau, which is now playing at Film at Lincoln Center. The film follows the community of a vibrant, richly diverse Brazilian town who fight back when they become the targets of a group of armed mercenaries. The directors and legendary actress Sônia Braga will return to FLC this Sunday for a Q&A at the 6:15pm screening. The directors will also be back next week on March 10, 12, and 13 for Q&As at the 6:15pm screenings.  From March 13-24, we’re also proud to present Mapping Bacurau, an explosive 13-film series featuring influences hand-picked by the directors of Bacurau. From spaghetti westerns to horror and sci-fi gems to Brazilian classics, the series features John Carpenter’s Starman in 70mm, the 4K restoration of Robin Hardy’s folk horror classic The Wicker Man, Sergio Leone’s western epic Duck, You Sucker! in 35

Today on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers. Opening this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, the leading Romanian director’s first all-out genre film is a clever, swift, and elegant neo-noir with a wonderfully off-kilter central conceit. Following the adventures of a police detective who arrives on a mysterious island, the crime drama furthers the director’s explorations of the intricacies and limitations of language, but is also his most playful, even exuberant, film. See showtimes and get tickets: www.filmlinc.org/whistlers This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Pedro Costa’s masterful new drama Vitalina Varela. Opening this Friday exclusively at Film at Lincoln Center, the film follows a Cape Verdean woman who returns to Fontainhas for her husband’s funeral after being separated for decades. The grief of the present and the ghosts of the past commingle in Costa’s ravishing film, which might be the director’s most visually extraordinary work. See showtimes and get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/newreleases This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole. Now in select theaters, his second feature follows two women in post-WWII Leningrad as they attempt to readjust to a haunted world. The 28-year-old director joined programmer Florence Almozini and translator Sasha Korbut to discuss the trauma of war, capturing human connection, and more. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today, we’re sharing a conversation with German master Angela Schanelec from the 57th New York Film Festival, where she presented her radical new film I Was at Home, But… Starting this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, join the director in person for her first complete New York retrospective. The series will kick off with a sneak preview of her new film, which opens next Friday, February 14, at FLC. See showtimes & get tickets, plus see 3 or more films during the retrospective and save: https://www.filmlinc.org/schanelec Likely the most singular and underappreciated among the contemporary German filmmakers collectively known as the Berlin School (which also includes Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, and Valeska Grisebach), Schanelec makes films that achieve nothing less than the rendering of the human soul on screen.  This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following a special screening of The Assistant with writer-director Kitty Green. The film, which opens in theaters this week, follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, the film explores the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day. Moderated by Madeline Whittle, Programming Assistant at Film at Lincoln Center. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the U.S. premiere of Bertrand Bonello’s Zombi Child at the 57th New York Film Festival. Opening this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, the film is an unconventional plunge into horror-fantasy that feverishly dissolves boundaries of time and space as it questions colonialist mythmaking. Moderated by programmer Florence Almozini, they discussed voodoo, Haitian history, boarding schools, the two-part shoot, and more. See showtimes & get tickets for Zombi Child, which is a New York Times Critic's Pick, at filmlinc.org/zombi This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today, we’re sharing a conversation following our special screening of the new 4K restoration of The Limey. Steven Soderbergh, Luis Guzmán, Lesley Ann Warren, editor Sarah Flack, and cinematographer Ed Lachman joined Film at Lincoln Center to discuss their radical, fragmentary take on the film noir. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the team talked about the shooting and editing process for the movie, which endures as a seminal work of American film modernism and a love letter to the art cinema of the sixties. Moderated by Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today, we’re sharing a conversation with Parasite director-writer Bong Joon Ho and actor Song Kang Ho, who joined us for a special Q&A following a screening of their Palme d'Or and Golden Globe winner, which continues playing daily at Film at Lincoln Center. They discussed the worldwide acclaim for the film, the twists beyond the first act, and the future of their long-running collaboration. Starting this week at Film at Lincoln Center and underway through January 14, join us for The Bong Show, a complete Bong Joon Ho retrospective featuring his brilliant debut Barking Dogs Never Bite, his hugely entertaining monster movie The Host, his genre-defying drama Mother, his star-studded English-language debut Snowpiercer, rarely-screened shorts, and more. The series also includes Bong's hand-picked influences with films by John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kim Ki-young, and more. See more films during the retrospective and save with a 3+ film package! See showtimes and get tickets at filmlinc.org/thebongshow Thi

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're sharing a conversation from our recent series Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers, which put a spotlight on the radical recent films from the country. Writer-director Karim Aïnouz joined us for the New York premiere of his tropical melodrama, Invisible Life, which opens at Film at Lincoln Center this Friday, January 3. The winner of the Un Certain Regard award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and Brazil’s submission for this year’s Oscars, it tells the tale of two inseparable sisters in 1940s Rio de Janeiro. The conversation was moderated by Mary Jane Marcasiano from Cinema Tropical. See showtimes and get tickets at filmlinc.org This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This Friday, our career-spanning Agnès Varda retrospective kicks off here at Film at Lincoln Center and continues through January 6 with Rosalie Varda in person. To celebrate the series, we’re sharing a conversation with the French New Wave pioneer from our archives. In 2015, she joined us for our annual Art of the Real festival and participated in a special Q&A with programmer Rachael Rakes. They discussed her enormously influential feature debut La Pointe Courte, directed when she was just 25 years old, and which many critics and scholars now consider as the first proper entry in what would become the Nouvelle Vague. Besides sharing fascinating anecdotes from the making of the film, Varda also told stories of her interactions with other icons of French cinema like Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, and André Bazin. See showtimes and get tickets for the retrospective at filmlinc.org/varda This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're sharing a conversation with Cunningham director Alla Kovgan from the 57th New York Film Festival. Her breathtaking new film, opening this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, pays tribute to one of the most visionary choreographers of the 20th century, Merce Cunningham. The director will return to FLC for opening weekend Q&As this Saturday and Sunday! Get tickets at filmlinc.org This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation on the emotional, vibrant new drama Waves. Writer-director Trey Edward Shults and cast members Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Alexa Demie, and Renée Elise Goldsberry joined Film at Lincoln Center following a sneak preview. They discussed the personal history of the story, the kinetic filmmaking on display, the casting process, and much more. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing an extensive conversation with Mati Diop. The French-Senegalese director earned the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for her debut film Atlantics, which is now in theatrical release and arrives on Netflix this Friday. At the 57th New York Film Festival, Diop was on hand at a Directors Dialogue to discuss her first feature, which is a hypnotic yet grounded ghost and love story, with FLC Director of Programming Dennis Lim. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.