Film
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Anora at Lincoln Center's New York Film Festival
Sean Baker's Film Won the Palme d'or at Cannes
By: - Oct 03rd, 2024Sean Baker, who wrote and directed Anora, a Main Slate film at the Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival, pleaded at Cannes where he won the Palme d’Or in the spring, for compassion and support for sex workers. He does not see his film as mainstream, but you may if you give it a try. It is moving, fun, surprising and, yes, sympathetic.
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Almodovar's First English Film at Lincoln Center
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore Enthrall
By: - Oct 05th, 2024Pedro Almodovar will receive the 2025 Chaplin Award at Lincoln Center next spring. Some say he cannot make a bad movie. Certainly the painterly frames of each scene in his new film,The Room Next Door, are worthy of inclusion in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA. Is their purpose, in this film, to distance us in time from the subject of the film, euthanasia?
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Film at Lincoln Center Presents Siodmak
Great Filmmaker
By: - Dec 10th, 2024Film at Lincoln Center presents a Robert Siodmak retrospective from December 11 to December 19. Siodmak, according to his 98-year-old brother (with whom he worked),spent his entire life in film studios and on location. Robert made films in many different genres. Yet he is best known, and not well-enough known, for his contributions to the film noir form.
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Prototype Festival to Begin New Year
New York's Most Adventuresome Program Music
By: - Dec 28th, 2024The Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison starts the avant-garde music world off from January 9 to 19. One work has been around the city in various forms for a while. Black Lodge dives into William Burroughs’ life. Queer, the film starring Daniel Craig, has brought Burroughs mainstream attention. The film with music by David T. Little, wrestles with movies as canned opera.
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Frederick Wiseman at Lincoln Center
An American Institution Celebrated
By: - Jan 19th, 2025Film at Lincoln Center is presenting “Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution,” a retrospective featuring an extensive selection of films spanning decades of the filmmaker’s prolific career, all newly restored in 4K. Eleven of Wiseman’s films have been selected for the New York Film Festival since 1967. This series celebrates the long-standing relationship between FLC and this documentary filmmaker. The series will be presented from January 31 through March 5, 2025.
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Film at Lincoln Center Conjures Nosferatu
Films That Inspired Robert Eggers
By: - Feb 05th, 2025Where did Dracula, aka Count Orlok and Vlad the Impaler, a commanding figure of contemporary culture across the globe, come from? Film at Lincoln Center answers this question.
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Berlin Film Festival 2025 Opens
Tilda Swinton Gets an Honorary Golden Bear Hug
By: - Feb 13th, 2025The Berlin Film Festival opens with an honorary Golden Bear Award for actress Tilda Swinton and a new film by Tom Tykwer,
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Berin Film Festival Begins
Potsdamer Platz is Command Central
By: - Feb 15th, 2025Potsdamer Platz is command central for the Berlin Film Festival. While Babelsberger Studios, the oldest large-scale studio in the world, is outside Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, is near the center of the city. It sits between the home of the Berlin Philharmonic and New National Gallery, the only building Mies Van der Rohe designed in Europe after he emigrated from the continent.
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75th Berlinale, February 13 --23, 2025
Berlin's Yearly Film Festival
By: - Feb 24th, 2025Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, is, once more, the center of the 75th Berlinale, as it has been for many years. It is cold in the city, but the area around the film festival is crowded with spectators, press people and the arrival and departure of the film elite from all over the world. Happy and exciting times are here again, as always during the festival times, this year from February 13 – 23, 2025.
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Blue Moon in a Sunny Berlin
Kaplow, Linklater, and Hawke Team with Lorenz Hart
By: - Feb 25th, 2025For the screening of 240 films at its international berlinale, Berlin was sunny, sometimes crisply cold and at others, almost balmy. Perhaps because it is under the big sky, this city is a perfect place to see films in which the artists take their time, and let character and story emerge paced to the subject.
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Koln 75, the Movie, Premieres in Berlin
Keith Jarrett's Signature Evening and Engaging Film
By: - Mar 05th, 2025Keith Jarrett’s performance in Cologne, Germany, in 1975 is widely regarded as one of the great solo concerts of all time. The new film Koln '75 about this iconic moment asks, “How did the concert come to be?”
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Directors New Films at Lincoln Center and MOMA
What Is the Future of FIlm?
By: - Mar 27th, 2025New Directors/New Films runs at MOMA and Film at Lincoln Center from April 2 to 13.
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L.A. Rebellion Plays at Lincoln Center
A Visceral Picture of Black Life Brought to Film by Black Artists
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025In 1968, UCLA launched a groundbreaking initiative to increase enrollment of Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian film students. Though the program ended in 1973, it had already admitted a significant number of students of color, many of whom later attracted others to UCLA. This initiative produced a remarkable group of Black filmmakers. Film at Lincoln Center celebrates this legacy.
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Film at Lincoln Center Presents Yoshimuro
Brilliant and Underappreciated Filmmaker
By: - Nov 28th, 2025Film at Lincoln Center will present “Kozaburo Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion,” a retrospective of 13 films by one of the accomplished yet underappreciated figures of the golden age of Japanese cinema. Running from December 5 through December 11, 2025, the festival is presented in partnership with the Japan Foundation.
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Ginny Williams, Art Whisperer
A Moving Film
By: - Dec 10th, 2025Director Flemming Fynsk's moving film The Art Whisperer is in contention for awards this year. Its subject, Ginny Williams, was an art collector and gallery owner of remarkable instinct and vision.
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Timothee Chalamet as Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie's Film Enthralls and Sucks
By: - Dec 19th, 2025Marty Supreme starring Timothee Chalamet goes into wide release on Christmas Day. It is the Safdie Brothers “Uncut Gems" redux. Shot by the fabulous Darius Khondji in zoom close up, with the camera moving with the figures and placing us right beside characters we may not want to know so well, we are gripped for two and a half hours.
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One Battle After Another, Best Picture
Paul Thomas Anderson's Take on Pynchon's Vineland
By: - Jan 05th, 2026One Battle After Another comes out of the starting gate in first place, a position it deserves to keep. It has just won the Critics’ Choice Best Picture Award, along with Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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A Prayer for the Dying Premieres in Berlin
Dara Van Dusen is a Superb Filmmaker
By: - Feb 19th, 2026A film adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s novel A Prayer for the Dying premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. The director, Dara Van Dusen—Hollywood royalty as the granddaughter of Baby Doll’s Carroll Baker—is a creature of the world, countering America’s current image of backsliding into the past. Van Dusen studied film in Poland and now lives in Norway.
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The Red Hangar at the Berlin International Film Festival
A Resonating Story
By: - Feb 19th, 2026The Red Hangar (Hangar Rojo), a 2026 Chilean historical thriller directed by Juan Pablo Sallato, is being shown in the Perspectives section at the Berlin International Film Festival. Captain Jorge Silva is forced to choose between obeying orders and listening to his conscience. This uncomfortable dilemma does not arise only in the present moment of the 1973 Chilean military coup, but also from his past.
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Yo, or Love Is a Rebellious Bird, by Anna Fitch and Banker White
Silver Bear for Documentary In Berlin International Film Festuval
By: - Feb 21st, 2026Yo, the only documentary in the main competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, was shown at the Berlin Palast with "the team" in attendance. Banker White, co-director, cradled a puppet rendition of Yo, the film’s lead character, in his arms as he helped her “sign” a poster hung above the red carpet. Winner Silver Bear for Artistic Achievement
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Berlinale 2026 In Berlin
From February 12 to 22
By: - Feb 23rd, 2026One of the biggest international film festivals world wide, the Berlinale in Berlin, Germany is history for this year again. From February 12 to 22, around 200 films from all over the globe were shown in Berlin at the Potsdamer Platz film headquarters and around town.
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Everyone Digs Bill Evans in Berlin
Grant Gee Wins Silver Bear for Best Direction
By: - Feb 25th, 2026Bill Evans, as portrayed in the film Everybody Digs Bill Evans—which earned Grant Gee a Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2026—is inarguably one of the greatest jazz pianists of the last century.
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Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera
A Musical and Visual Treat
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?
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Christian Petzold at Lincoln Center
FLC Presents Iconic Filmmaker's Signatre Works
By: - Mar 12th, 2026Film at Lincoln Center announces “Christian Petzold In Person,” a seven-film showcase of the German director’s signature works, with most films presented on 35mm. Christian Petzold has said that he always wants to work in Kodak color, the only film stock that can convey his concepts. March 16-19 in advance of the US premiere of Petzhold's Miroirs No. 3.
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Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative
Economic Impact of Making Films in the Berkshires
By: - Jun 05th, 2015The Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC) has released an economic impact study to examine the effects of a film shoot on the economy of rural communities. The study, “When Movie Making Comes to Town: An Economic Impact Analysis and Strategies for Development†was authored by Rick Feldman of InCommN, LLC, who was one of the developers of IMPLAN, a widely used economic impact analysis software program.
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