Arts and Entertainment
December 10, 2022
From: Film at Lincoln CenterThis Week: Don't miss the final days of our Yoshimitsu Morita Retrospective through Sunday • On Dec. 14, drop by Film Comment's Best of 2022 Countdown before heading over to the Surprise Screening of their #1 Film of 2022––all tickets only $10! • NYFF60 selections The Eternal Daughter, Aftersun, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed & EO are held over • Limited tickets remain for our Corsage sneak preview on Dec. 15 introduced by Marie Kreutzer & Vicky Krieps in person • and more below!
Coming Soon
Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 9pm
Surprise Screening: Film Comment's #1 Film of 2022
On December 14, Film Comment will reveal the results of its annual Best Films of the Year poll—voted on by FC contributors and esteemed industry colleagues from around the world—at a special, free countdown event starting at 6:30pm. Following the countdown, the newly crowned #1 film will be screened at the Walter Reade Theater at 9pm.
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Now Playing
Through Sunday!
Yoshimitsu Morita Retrospective
Across a 30-plus-year career, Yoshimitsu Morita (1950–2011) amassed one of the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic and prolific bodies of work in modern Japanese cinema. Get lost with us these final days in his cinematic labyrinth of desire, chaos, and joy.
The Eternal Daughter
"With precision, gentle humor and some sly cinematic chicanery, Hogg and her brilliant actress turn something that looks ordinary into something quite extraordinary."—The New York Times, Best Movies of 2022
Joanna Hogg uses a Victorian gothic scenario for an entirely surprising, impeccably crafted, and, finally, overwhelming excavation of a parent-child relationship and the impulse toward artistic creation. And Tilda Swinton, in a performance of rich, endless surprise, turns in one of the most remarkable acting feats in her astonishing career.
Aftersun
"This debut feature feels so matter-of-fact and unaffected that you may not notice the complexity and assurance of its craft. Its emotional power, though, is unmistakable."—The New York Times, Best Movies of 2022
A textured memory piece starring Paul Mescal and Francesca Corio as a divorced father and his daughter whose close bond is quietly shaken during a brooding weekend at a coastal resort in Turkey.
Watch our recent Q&A with Charlotte Wells!
Poland's Oscar Entry
EO
"Skolimowski has made one of the rare movies that speak to life’s most essential questions, and he’s done so with the ecstatic vision and fearlessness of a cinematic genius who seems as if he’s just getting started."—The New York Times, #1 Movie of 2022
Top 10 Film of 2022 from John Waters, Cahiers du cinéma, and Amy Taubin!
Venice Golden Lion Winner
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
"[A] tough-minded, formally graceful portrait."—The New York Times, Best Movies of 2022
Coming Soon
Opens Dec. 23 · Sneak Preview Dec. 15 w. Marie Kreutzer & Vicky Krieps In Person
Corsage
Few tickets remain available for the 9:30pm sneak preview on Dec. 15 with Marie Kreutzer & Vicky Krieps in person preceded by a reception for all ticket holders. The 6:30pm screening is sold out. Tickets are also now on sale for screenings beginning Dec. 23!
Austria's Oscar Entry & Indie Spirit Award Nominee for Best International Film
Opens Dec. 16 · NYFF60 Spotlight Selection
The Super 8 Years
French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory, compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images taken from 1972 to 1981.
Opens Dec. 16 · NYFF60 Spotlight Selection
Lars von Trier's The Kingdom
FLC is excited to exclusively present newly restored director’s cuts of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom I (Dec. 16-22) and The Kingdom II (Dec. 23-27) and the latest installment, The Kingdom Exodus (Dec. 28-Jan. 5), an NYFF60 Spotlight selection.
See all three installments of The Kingdom and save: $30 (General Public) / $25 (FLC Members). Discount automatically applied at checkout.
Just Announced
January 12-23
32nd New York Jewish Film Festival
Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, NYJFF, in partnership with The Jewish Museum, presents the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. The 2023 edition will feature in-person screenings at the Walter Reade Theater and two virtual offerings. The line-up showcases 29 wide-ranging and exciting features and shorts (21 features and 8 shorts), including the latest works by dynamic voices in international cinema, as well as the world premiere of a new 4K restoration of the groundbreaking 1997 documentary A Life Apart: Hasidism in America by Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum.
Highlights include Opening Night film America by Ofir Raul Graizer, Centerpiece film Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, Closing Night film Alegría by Violeta Salama, June Zero, Where Life Begins, I Am Not, This Is National Wake, Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War, and several films that incorporate the Yiddish language.
For Your Eyes & Ears
The Latest
Film Comment
Critic Beatrice Loayza writes on Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, featuring Tilda Swinton in a mesmerizing double role as both child and parent, which reimagines the template of British gothic horror with specters both familiar and familial; Jessica Kiang and Nathan Lee join the podcast to battle over the relative merits and demerits of the much-buzzed-about TÁR; and in the Film Comment Recommends column, Saffron Maeve spotlights two mid-career works by the fiercely independent Japanese filmmaker Masashi Yamamoto.
Elsewhere
Gary Lucas’s Live Score of The Golem with Annette Insdorf
Watch 1920 silent film The Golem: How He Came into the World with Gary Lucas performing his original solo guitar score live, followed by a discussion with film historian Annette Insdorf. 6:30pm, December 15 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Elsewhere
Japan Society Presents Love Letters: Four Films by Shunji Iwai
Dec 9 & 10: Dubbed the Japanese equivalent of Wong Kar-wai, director Shunji Iwai tapped into the dreams and lives of Japan’s youth with his lyrical meditations on the hardships of young adulthood, capturing pivotal and unforgettable moments of life. Featuring a rare, archival 35mm presentation of his 2001 cult classic All About Lily Chou-Chou alongside earlier breakthrough films that remain undistributed in the West, Love Letters celebrates the defining works of one of the most daring and original talents to emerge from Japan in the ’90s.