Film at Lincoln Center Podcast

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a conversation from the 49th New Directors/New Films with The Killing of Two Lovers director Robert Machoian and star Clayne Crawford. After a startling opening image of extreme tension, first-time solo director Robert Machoian’s stark, slow-burn drama never quite goes where you expect. An evocative and atmospheric transmission from wintry Utah, The Killing of Two Lovers is a compact, economical portrait of a husband and father and a compassionate depiction of a family in crisis, which moves at the ominous pace of a thriller. The Killing of Two Lovers is now playing in select theaters.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special Q&A from the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films. Founding ND/NF programmer and current FLC board member Wendy Keys sat down for an extended conversation with Sara Driver about her acclaimed first feature, Sleepwalk, a selection from the 16th ND/NF in 1987. The two also discussed Driver’s distinctive and idiosyncratic body of work. This event was part of the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films, the annual festival that celebrates filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art. Film at Lincoln Center Talks are presented by HBO.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation from the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films, with Theo Anthony the director of All Light, Everywhere, this year's closing night selection, and FLC’s assistant programmer Tyler Wilson. Theo Anthony’s breakthrough sophomore feature uses the increased regularity of body cams in U.S. law enforcement as the anchor point for an ever-expanding exploration on perception, power, and policing. All Light, Everywhere is now playing nationwide in our Virtual Cinema through May 13 during New Directors/New Films. If you missed a film from the first half of the festival, you can still watch it with our Virtual All-Access Pass. To celebrate this milestone year of ND/NF, use promo code “SAVE40” during checkout in our Virtual Cinema to get 40% off the pass.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation between recent Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung and FLC’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim. Introduced to a wide American audience just last year as a strong-willed grandmother in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, Youn Yuh-jung has been a celebrated screen performer in her native Korea for half a century, giving life to a roster of singularly formidable women across genres and generations. In honor of her historic win for Best Supporting Actress at the 93rd Academy Awards, our retrospective of her recent work has been extended to May 3! Go to filmlinc.org/youn for nationwide tickets in our virtual cinema.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast, we’re featuring a special conversation with the cast and crew of French Exit, the closing night selection at the 58th New York Film Festival. Director Azazel Jacobs, writer Patrick deWitt, and actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges joined NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss the making of the film Michelle Pfeiffer is entirely bewitching as Frances Price, an imperious, widowed New York socialite whose once-extreme wealth has dwindled down to a nub. Facing insolvency, she makes the decision to escape the city by cruise ship and relocate to her friend’s empty Paris apartment with her son, Malcolm (played by Lucas Hedges), and their cat, Small Frank (voiced by Tracy Letts). An adaptation of the best-selling novel by Patrick deWitt, French Exit is a rare American film of genuine eccentricity. The film is now playing in our theaters! For showtimes and our reopening health and safety policies, visit filmlinc.org/frenchexit.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a preview in anticipation of the 50th-anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films, a festival that has celebrated filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema, taking place virtually and in theaters from April 28 to May 8. In celebration of this year’s milestone, we’re excited to also present ND/NF@ 50, a free virtual retrospective looking back on the festival’s history, available nationwide in our Virtual Cinema from April 16 - 28. Join the programmers from Film at Lincoln Center, Florence Almozini, Dan Sullivan, Tyler Wilson, and Madeline Whittle, and the Museum of Modern Art, La Frances Hui, as they discuss their top picks from this year’s festival and retrospective, moderated by Wendy Keys. The 2021 feature committee comprises Florence Almozini (Co-Chair, FLC), La Frances Hui (Co-Chair, MoMA), Rajendra Roy (MoMA), Josh Siegel (MoMA), Dan Sullivan (FLC), and Tyler Wilson (FLC), and the shorts were programmed by Brittany Shaw (MoMA) and Madeline Whittle (FLC). This talk was first available to FLC members, who play such a vital role in all we do. If you're interested in supporting FLC by becoming a member and exploring member benefits, visit filmlinc.org/members for more information. This episode of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast is sponsored by Amazon Studios, presenting Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Time. Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. For your consideration. Click here to learn more. https://www.amazonstudiosguilds.com/films. This episode is also sponsored by Kino Lorber, presenting Charlène Favier's Slalom. Now playing in select theaters and virtual cinemas nationwide: kinomarquee.com/slalom

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast, we’re featuring a special conversation between Cinema Tropical’s Co-founder and Executive Director, Carlos A. Gutiérrez, and Argentine director Martín Rejtman. A key figure of contemporary Argentine cinema, Rejtman discussed his filmography and the landmark deadpan comedy, Silvia Prieto. Silvia Prieto is a 1999 comedy of details that follows a young woman through a short, precarious stretch of her life in Buenos Aires. The new restoration of the Argentine gem is now playing during Neighboring Scenes. This talk was part of the 6th edition of Neighboring Scenes, the annual festival celebrating New Latin American Cinema, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical, now playing in our Virtual Cinema through April 12. This talk is presented by HBO. This episode of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast is sponsored by Amazon Studios, presenting Sound of Metal and One Night in Miami. Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. For your consideration. Visit the link to learn more: https://www.amazonstudiosguilds.com/films

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast we’re featuring a special discussion with Lost Course director Jill Li and producer Peter Yam, moderated by Film at Lincoln Center’s Assistant Programmer Tyler Wilson. Nearly 10 years in the making, Jill Li’s revelatory debut film—a documentary about the struggle against corruption in South China—follows the grassroots movement for justice led by a group of people from the fishing port of Wukan. Lost Course offers a timely and deeply affecting look at government wrongdoing and its infective reach into even the most idealistic minds. Lost Course is now playing in our Virtual Cinema.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation between filmmakers Thomas Vinterberg and James Gray on Another Round, which was recently nominated for two Academy Awards. In the film, four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them find greater freedom and happiness. At first, they each find a new-found zest, but as the gang pushes their experiment further, issues that have been simmering for years come to a head, and the men are faced with a choice: reckon with their behavior or continue on the same course. Another Round is now playing in theaters and Hulu.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation from the 58th New York Film Festival featuring Ephraim Asili and Garrett Bradley. Garrett Bradley’s Time, a Main Slate selection, and Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance, the Opening Night film of the Currents program, were two of NYFF58’s most formally inventive and politically astute films. Combining original and archival material in evocative and unpredictable ways, they engage deeply with radical Black legacies of both cinema and political organizing. In this free talk, moderated by writer and researcher Yasmina Price, the two directors chatted about their approaches to representing history, working against dominant narrative forms through a focus on the everyday textures of life, and the impulses of activism and education that course through their art. Ephraim Asili’s The Diaspora Suite and The Inheritance are now playing in our Virtual Cinema, and Garrett Bradley’s Academy Award-nominated Time is now playing on Amazon Prime. This talk was presented by HBO.