Arts and Entertainment
January 22, 2024
From: Film at Lincoln CenterThe Latest: Jeff Bridges will receive the 49th Chaplin Award—Gala tickets available now! • Follow Lulu Wang’s Road to Expats, on sale now • NYT Critic’s Pick Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell opens tomorrow with director Q&As • Experience the 2024 New York Jewish Film Festival through Jan. 24 • Dance on Camera Festival tickets on sale now • Rare chance to see classics by Wenders, Sembène, Kurosawa, Godard, Bresson, and more on the big screen with Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s, opening Jan. 26 with special intros from Axelle Ropert and Ed Lachman! • Brazil’s Oscar entry Pictures of Ghosts opens Jan. 26 and Bas Devos’s Here opens Feb. 9, both on sale now
JUST ANNOUNCED
April 29
49th Chaplin Award Gala Honoring Jeff Bridges
The Chaplin Award Gala is the most important fundraising event of the year for Film at Lincoln Center, with all proceeds benefiting our year-round missing to celebrate cinema as an essential art form and foster a vibrant home for film culture to thrive. This year FLC is proud to celebrate Jeff Bridges as the recipient of the 49th Chaplin Award, to be presented on April 29 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The Chaplin Award Tribute will feature excerpts from a selection of Bridges’s work along with appearances by co-stars, friends, and colleagues. Tickets to the Tribute and Dinner are available now.
Feb. 13–15
Lulu Wang’s Road to Expats
Film at Lincoln Center presents a selection of films chosen by Lulu Wang that influenced her new Prime Video series, Expats, featuring the filmmaker in person on February 15 for a Q&A following the feature-length Expats episode “Central,” and an introduction to her 2019 hit The Farewell. Highlights from the series include the U.S. theatrical premiere of Joanna Bowers’s documentary The Helper, with an introduction by Wang and Bowers; the overdue New York theatrical premiere of Hlynur Pálmason's A White, White Day; a 4K restoration of Robert Altman’s Nashville; and films by Bong Joon Ho, Nicolas Roeg, and Lynne Ramsay presented on 35mm.
OPENING FRIDAY
New York Times Critic’s Pick!
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
“Challenging but seductive art cinema that invites comparisons to such titans as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, and even Theo Angelopoulos, without feeling derivative of any.” –Variety
Pham Thien An in person at the following screenings:
NOW PLAYING
Ends Jan. 24!
2024 New York Jewish Film Festival
Don’t miss highlights from the final week of the 2024 NYJFF: Stay With Us, an autobiographical comic drama about a French Jewish man who shocks his family when he decides to convert to Catholicism; My Daughter, My Love, a penetrating discussion on the foibles and difficulties we face in talking about parenting, relationships, love, and family; Delegation, a stirring drama about a trio of Israeli high school friends who reckon with the past and their unknown future while visiting Nazi-era Holocaust sites; and many more!
Now Playing at FLC
Today is the last chance to see Oscar-shortlisted (for Best International Feature Film) Fallen Leaves and Todd Haynes’s acclaimed May December!
Golden Globe winner for Best Screenplay and Best Picture (non-English Language) Anatomy of a Fall and Wim Wenders’s New York Times Critic’s Pick Anselm (presented in 3D) held over!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Jan. 26–Feb. 4
Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s
Film at Lincoln Center is excited to present a generous selection of the films French film critic Serge Daney championed in Cahiers du Cinéma, with many selections presented on 35mm. This is a rare chance to see classics on the big screen, such as Jacques Tati's Trafic, Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray’s 4K restoration of Lightning Over Water with a special intro from cinematographer Ed Lachman, and many more!
Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s is sponsored by MUBI.
Join filmmaker-critic Axelle Ropert, critic Richard Brody, and series co-programmer Nicholas Elliott for a free talk in the EBM Amphitheater on Jan. 27 at 4:00pm. Ropert and Ed Lachman will intro select screenings.
Feb. 9–12
Dance on Camera Festival
Dance on Camera Festival returns with 11 programs exploring dance films from around the globe, plus three free educational programs. Featuring the work of three female first-time filmmakers and one student filmmaker, the festival also highlights innovative artists such as Eiko, Jane Comfort, and Gus Solomons Jr.; the unheralded contributions of dancer George Lee; and the lasting legacy of Merce Cunningham.
Enjoy three free public programs at Dance on Camera Festival with a Conversation with Directors, Dance on Camera’s Production Grantees, and films posted to social media with #mydancefilm.
FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS
The Curse’s Benny Safdie on the Genre-Defying New Series
The Curse co-creator and co-star Benny Safdie breaks down the sensational Showtime series, working with Nathan Fielder for the first time, reuniting with Good Time co-star Barkhad Abdi, the series’ haunting score, and more. Enjoy more insightful conversations from filmmakers here!
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