Arts and Entertainment
November 12, 2024
From: Film at Lincoln CenterThe Latest: Get tickets to NYT Critic’s Picks Anora and Blitz, as well as Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Sergei Parajanov’s 4K restoration Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Join Mohammad Rasoulof in person for The Seed of the Sacred Fig sneak preview on Nov. 22 - Don’t miss three chances to catch Marianne Jean-Baptiste in person for Hard Truths and Secrets & Lies, tickets on sale now - More NYFF favorites coming soon to FLC theaters, including Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light and Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs, on sale now - Are you age 17-25? Enroll by Nov. 14 for a free FLC 25 & Under membership!
SPECIAL IN-PERSON APPEARANCES!
Opens December 6 for an exclusive one-week run | 2x Gotham Award nominee, including Outstanding Lead Performance
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh returns to a contemporary milieu for the first time since Another Year for this raw, uncompromising domestic drama starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste in a gutsy, excoriating performance as a middle-aged, working-class woman whose emotional and physical health problems have metastasized into a profound and relentless anger.
Special in-person screenings include:
- Friday, Dec. 6, 6:15pm - Q&A with Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin
- Saturday, Dec. 7, 12:15pm - Post-screening extended conversation with Marianne Jean-Baptiste
December 7 only w. Marianne Jean-Baptiste in person
Secrets & Lies
The acclaimed winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, the story details Cynthia, a working-class white woman whose personal and interpersonal lives are transformed when she learns that a Black optometrist is the child she gave up for adoption 27 years prior.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste in person for a special introduction for her Oscar-nominated performance!
Opens November 27 | Sneak preview on Nov. 22 w. Mohammad Rasoulof Q&A
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Winner of a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards at the Cannes Film Festival after its director escaped a prison sentence from Iran for criticizing the government, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama is an epic of anti-patriarchal political conviction about a judge’s investigator at odds with his progressive daughters.
NOW PLAYING DAILY
New York Times Critic’s Pick | 4x Gotham Award nominee, including Best Feature
Anora
Sean Baker’s rambunctious Palme d’Or winner continues in our theaters, starring Mikey Madison (Gotham Award nominee for Outstanding Lead Performance) as an exotic dancer from Brighton Beach thrust into the lap of luxury when she’s whisked away on a whirlwind romance with a wealthy young customer.
New York Times Critic’s Pick
Blitz
This authentic and astonishing recreation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II, about a working-class single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) separated from her 9-year-old son, George (newcomer Elliott Heffernan), pushes the artistry of Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) to ever more impressive levels.
Gotham Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature
Dahomey
The African kingdom of Dahomey, which ruled over its region at the west of the continent until the turn of the 20th century, saw hundreds of its splendid royal artifacts plundered by French colonial troops in its waning days. Now, as 26 of these treasures are set to return to their homeland-now within the Republic of Benin-filmmaker Mati Diop documents their voyage back.
New 4K Restoration
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
One of the most beloved Soviet-era films, winner of multiple international awards, Sergei Parajanov’s visionary 1965 feature summons a world of psychedelic folklore and ritual with bracing originality. Set in a remote village in the Carpathian Mountains, the story follows a pair of star-crossed lovers whose families are embroiled in a blood feud.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Opens November 15 | 2x Gotham Award nominee
All We Imagine as Light
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
Opens November 22
A Traveler’s Needs
Isabelle Huppert is a nomadic Frenchwoman who drifts into the lives of a disconnected group of people in a Seoul suburb in her third delightful outing with Hong Sangsoo, a gentle exploration of the surprising connections between people despite-or because of-language barriers.
FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS
Pedro Almodóvar, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro on The Room Next Door
Director Pedro Almodóvar and cast members Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro discuss The Room Next Door. Don’t miss the NYFF62 Centerpiece film when it opens at FLC on December 20. Tickets on sale November 22!
Isabelle Huppert on A Traveler’s Needs and Hong Sangsoo’s Process
Isabelle Huppert attended the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival for the North American premiere of Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs. Enjoy this conversation between Huppert and Film Comment editor Devika Girish ahead of the film opening at FLC on November 22.