MAY JUNE 2014 - Film Society of Lincoln Center

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FASSBINDER: ROMANTIC
ANARCHIST (PART 1)
The Bitter Tears of
Petra von Kant
MAY
JUNE
2014
Columbia University Film Festival May 2 — 6 | New York African Film Festival May 7 — 13 | Fassbinder: Romantic
Anarchist (Part 1) May 16 — June 1 | Open Roads: New Italian Cinema June 5 — 12 | Human Rights Watch
Film Festival June 13 — 22 | Film Comment Double Feature June 25 | New York Asian Film Festival June 27 ­— July 10
MAY 2014
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2:00 Frozen
5:00 CUFF Program G
7:00 CUFF Program H
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From Screen to Stage: Bullets Over Broadway
Wooden Hands
New African Shorts
M
ugabe: Villain
or Hero?
9:00 Aya of Yop City
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2:00 CUFF Program C
4:00 CUFF Program D
7:00 CUFF Program E
9:00 CUFF Program F
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2:00 Mugabe: Villain or Hero?
4:30 Winter of Discontent +
2:00 New African Shorts
4:30 Aya of Yop City
6:30 It’s Us
7:30 Convergence: APP
2:00 Ninah’s Dowry
4:00 Bastards + Beleh
7:00 Half of a Yellow Sun
9:45 Half of a Yellow Sun
12:55 Met Opera:
Così fan tutte
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1:45 It’s Us
3:45 Grigris + Columbite
12:55 Met Opera Encore:
Tantalite
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7:00 CUFF Program A
9:00 CUFF Program B
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4:00 C
reative Producing Pitch
6:00 Bastards + Beleh
9:00 Of Good Report
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12:55 Met Opera Encore:
The Rise of Episodic
Storytelling
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Contest
1:00 Winter of Discontent +
FRIDAY
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7:00 P
ANEL: Is it Television?
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THURSDAY
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La Cenerentola
Ninah’s Dowry
Sarraounia
Wooden Hands
7:00 Film Society Talks:
James Gray (The
Immigrant) Free event!
7:30 Confusion Na Wa
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8:45 Grigris + Columbite
La Cenerentola
6:30 Of Good Report
9:15 Confusion Na Wa
Palo Alto OPENS
Tantalite
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1:00 Gods of the Plague
3:00 The Merchant of Four Seasons
5:00 Gods of the Plague
7:00 Love Is Colder Than Death +
2:30 The Merchant of Four Seasons
4:30 Love Is Colder Than Death
The Bridegroom, the
Comedienne and the Pimp
9:20 The Merchant of Four Seasons
7:00 Gods of the Plague
9:00 Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
+ The Bridegroom, the
Comedienne and the Pimp
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1:00 Why Does Herr R. Run
4:00 Love Is Colder Than Death
12:55 Met Opera Encore:
5:00 Katzelmacher
9:00 Katzelmacher
2:45 Bremen Freedom
4:45 Nora Helmer
7:00 Bremen Freedom
9:00 Nora Helmer
2:00 Pioneers in Ingolstadt
4:00 The Bitter Tears of
2:00 The Niklashausen
Amok?
3:00 The American Soldier
4:45 The Merchant of Four
Seasons
+ The Bridegroom, the
Comedienne and the Pimp
6:30 The Merchant of Four
Seasons
La Cenerentola
6:30 Pioneers in Ingolstadt
8:30 The Merchant of Four
Seasons
9:20 The American Soldier
8:30 The Niklashausen Journey
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2:30 The Bitter Tears of
1:30 World on a Wire
5:30 Effi Briest
8:20 Beware of a Holy Whore +
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Petra von Kant
5:00 World on a Wire
9:00 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Cuba Libre
Petra von Kant
6:30 Martha
9:00 The Merchant of Four
Seasons
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2:00 Water Drops on Burning
Rocks
5:00 Tenderness of the Wolves
7:00 Water Drops on Burning Rocks
9:00 Tenderness of the Wolves
We Are the Best! OPENS
Journey
4:30 Whity
6:30 Beware of a Holy Whore +
Cuba Libre
9:00 Whity
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1:00 All That Heaven Allows
3:00 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
5:00 Far from Heaven
7:20 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
9:20 All That Heaven Allows
JUNE 2014
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artha
4:00 Special Event:
Jellyfish Eyes
6:30 Film Society Talks:
Takashi Murakami
(Jellyfish Eyes)
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ffi Briest
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1:00 T
hose Happy Years
4:00 The Human Factor
6:30 Those Happy Years
9:15 A Lonely Hero
1:00 Long Live Freedom
3:30 I Can Quit Whenever
I Want
6:30 The Fifth Wheel
9:30
The Human Factor
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Tir
The Mafia Only Kills
in Summer
Quiet Bliss
Long Live Freedom
2 Autumns, 3 Winters OPENS
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1:00 South Is Nothing
3:30
Small Homeland
6:30
Sacro GRA
9:00 I Can Quit Whenever
I Want
1:00
Quiet Bliss
4:00 Sacro GRA
6:30 The Administrator
9:00 South Is Nothing
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1:30 The Administrator
4:00 The Referee
6:30 A Lonely Hero
9:00 Happy to Be Different
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1:00 T
he Fifth Wheel
4:00 Happy to Be Different
6:30 A Street in Palermo
9:00 The Referee
1:30 A Street in Palermo
4:00 T
he Mafia Only Kills
in Summer
6:30 Tir
8:45 Small Homeland
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Private Violence
Policeman OPENS
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1:00 The Films of Lav Diaz:
Melancholia
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Starring the Unstable
Elements of Belarus
First to Fall
6:15 Watchers of the Sky
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Norte, The End of History OPENS
Archipelago OPENS
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MAY 2 — 6 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL 2014
The Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program presents the 27th Annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF),
a weeklong program of screenings, dramatic readings, and special events. All films will be screened on DCP.
Program A 81m
Amateur Dictator Zach Carver, Producers: Robert Richert & Willem Lee, USA,
2014, 15m Bittersweet Sixteen Clara Leac,
Producer: Julie Begey Seureau, USA, 2014,
15m Scumbag Luke Spears, Producer:
Shana Keegan, USA, 2014, 16m Fault
Lines Marisa Christine Medina, Producer:
Chandra Silver, USA, 2014, 15m Sina Forma
Garette Henson, Producer: Nicole Delaney,
USA, 2014, 20m May 2
Program B 80m
Moths Andy Fortenbacher, Producer: Madeleine Shapiro, USA, 2014, 18m Victoria,
Guanajuato Victor Hugo Duran, Producer:
Alexandra Vivas, Mexico, 2014, 11m Reaching Home Kenneth Murphy, Producer:
Rachel Brenna, USA, 2014, 17m Body of
Crime Laurence Vannicelli, Producer: Jesse
Gustafson, USA, 2014, 18m The Immaculate
Reception Charlotte Glynn, Producers:
Berkley Brady & Luke Spears, USA, 2014,
16m May 2
Program C 72m
Cain Zijian Yan, Producer: Miroslav Macala,
USA, 2014, 18m Concrete Chelvendra
Sathieaanandha, Producers: Andy Nguyen
& Mike De Caro, Australia, 2014, 15m
A Pinch of Salt Sebastian Nyman Agdur,
USA, 2014, 9m The King’s Pawn Jonah Bleicher, Producer: Rob Cristiano, USA, 2014,
20m Smut Tom Sveen, Producers: John
Wakayama Carey & Sarah Dorman, USA,
2014, 10m May 3
Program D 71m
American Gladiators Lara Gallagher,
Producer: Joanna Lagstein, USA, 2014, 11m
FishTANK Diogo Cronemberger, Producer:
Joelle Joseph, USA, 2014, 18m Post Winter
Jamal Joseph Jr., Producer: Tim Nesmith,
USA, 2014, 12m Knives Aaron David DeFazio, Producer: Larissa Rhodes, USA, 2014,
16m Alex the Magnificent Robert Monk
Davis, USA, 2014, 14m May 3
Program E 71m
Quinny A.L. Lee, Producer: Alex Ma, USA,
2014, 18m All That Glitters Saro Varjabedian, Producer: Demond Robertson, USA,
2012, 16m Idyllwild Aisha Porter-Christie,
Producer: Zenas Cao, China, 2014, 20m Do
the Damn Thing Adam Paschal, Producer:
Mimi Jeffries, USA, 2012, 17m May 3
Program F 76m
Rattlefly Min Ding, Producer: Layla Zhuqing
Ji, USA, 2014, 20m Scheherazade Mehrnoush Aliaghaei, Producer: Jamar Banks,
USA, 2014, 15m Old Bay Lane Rudnick, Producer: Reka Posta, USA, 2014, 19m Devil’s
Work Miguel Silveira, Producer: Jamar
Banks, USA, 2014, 22m May 3
Program G 79m
Roughstock Jessica Baclesse, Producer:
Laura Teodosio, USA, 2014, 13m The Unfamiliar (O Forasteiro) Diogo Cronemberger,
Brazil, 2014, 25m Oasis Carmen Jimenez,
Producer: Chris Boyce, USA, 2014, 16m
Holothurian Pei-Ju Hsieh, Producer: Jing
Wang, USA, 2014, 10m A Mighty Nice Man
Jonathan Dee, Producer: Daniella Kahane,
USA, 2014, DCP, 15m May 4
Program H 70m
Tobacco Burn Justin Liberman, Producer:
Alvaro R. Valente, USA, 2014, 17m Solid
Ground Rob Richert, Producer: Daniel
Grossman, USA, 2014, 15m Goodbye Casey
Trade Amanda Brennan, Producer: Hugo
Kenzo, USA, 2014, 13m Subordinate Clara
Leac, USA, 2014, 18m Party of Special
Things to Do Matt Black, Producer: Laurence Vannicelli, USA, 2014, 7m May 4
SPECIAL EVENT: FROZEN
Jennifer Lee, Producer: Chris Buck, USA,
2013, 102m Columbia alum Jennifer Lee will
participate in a Q&A following a screening of
her Academy Award– winning animated film
about a princess who can’t escape her icy
powers. May 4
FREE EVENTS IN THE ELINOR BUNIN
MUNROE FILM CENTER:
CREATIVE PRODUCING PITCH CONTEST
The art of pitching is a vital skill for any
filmmaker. Join eight Columbia MFA students
in the Creative Producing Program, as they
display their skills in action. May 6
PANEL: IS IT TELEVISION? THE RISE OF
EPISODIC STORYTELLING Panelists will
include accomplished Columbia alumni with
a diverse range of experience working in
television as writers, directors, and producers. Moderated by Frank Pugliese (House of
Cards). May 6
MAY 7 — 13 NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
The core of the 21st New York African Film Festival is the experience of revolution and
liberation in and from Africa in the 21st century. The festival presents a unique selection
of contemporary and classic African films, running the gamut from features, shorts,
and documentaries to animation and experimental films. In celebration of the centenary
of Nigerian unification, look for a couple of films from Nollywood, Africa’s largest
movie industry.
OPENING NIGHT Confusion Na Wa Kenneth Gyang, Nigeria, 2013, 105m The fates of
a group of strangers become intertwined over
the course of 24 hours in a diverse Nigerian city,
where a blackmail plot hatched by some opportunistic slackers inadvertently leads to their own
downfall. New York Premiere May 7, 10
CENTERPIECE
Half of a Yellow Sun
Biyi Bandele, Nigeria/UK, 2013, DCP, 111m
Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
best-selling novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set
during the Nigerian-Biafran war in the 1960s
and follows two middle-class Nigerian twins
as their lives are torn apart by the conflict.
New York Premiere May 9
CLOSING NIGHT Sarraounia Med Hondo,
Burkina Faso/Mauritania/France, 1986,
120m Based on historical accounts of Queen
Sarraounia, who led the Azans into battle
against the French colonialists at the turn of
the century, Hondo’s influential postcolonial
African epic rivals any that American cinema
has produced. May 13
Aya of Yop City Marguerite Abouet &
Clément Oubrerie, Ivory Coast/France,
2013, 35mm, 85m A popular comic-book
series tracking the adventures of a young
female aspiring doctor in a 1970s West
African working-class suburb is brought to
cinematic life through vivid drawings and a
spectacular soundtrack. May 8, 11
Bastards Deborah Perkin, Morocco/
UK, 2013, DCP, 93m Screening with Beleh
Eka Christa Assam, Cameroon, 2013, 30m
A single mother fights to legalize her forced
marriage and register her “illegitimate” daughter in this galvanizing documentary that offers
an unprecedented look at the Moroccan
justice system. U.S. Premiere May 9, 12
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Grigris Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad/
France, 2013, DCP, 101m Screening with
Columbite Tantalite Chiwetel Ejiofor, UK,
2013, 12m A young dancer with a bum
leg sees his dreams dashed when his bad
decisions catch up with him in this elegant
character study from Cannes and Venice
award-winning director Mahamat-Saleh
Haroun. New York Premiere May 8, 12
Ninah’s Dowry Victor Viyouh, Cameroon,
2012, DCP, 95m A mother of three runs away
from home when her abusive husband refuses
to let her visit her seriously ill father, setting off
a whirlwind of suspense and adventure that
traverses the Cameroon landscape. New York
Premiere May 9, 13
It’s Us (Ni Si Si) Nick Reding, Kenya,
2013, DCP, 88m The 2008 Kenyan political
crisis is echoed in this story of a small community where what starts out as good-natured banter between friends takes a more
serious turn when rumors arise and a sudden
mistrust takes hold. U.S. Premiere May 8, 12
Mugabe: Villain or Hero? Roy Agyemang,
UK/Zimbabwe, 2012, 116m With unprecedented access to Zimbabwe’s longtime
leader, reviled by many in the West, Agyemang’s film reveals a complicated man
guiding a country still dealing with postcolonial fallout. May 7, 11
NEW AFRICAN SHORTS 110m
A short film program of fiction and nonfiction portrayals of the African experience.
Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams
Philippe Cordey, Congo, 2012, 25m
Aissa’s Story Iquo B. Essien, Nigeria/USA,
2013, 15m Kwaku Ananse Akosua Adoma
Owusu, Ghana/Mexico/USA, 2013, 26m
Soko Sonko (The Market King) Ekwa
Msangi-Omari, Kenya/USA, 2014, 22m
Afronauts Frances Bodomo, Ghana/USA,
2014, 15m Kuhani Ntare Guma Mbaho
Mwine, Uganda, 2013, 7m May 8, 11
Of Good Report Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South
Africa, 2013, DCP, 109m This tribute to film
noir explores how a man “of good report”
can get away with anything, in this case a
torrid affair with a 16-year-old student, in an
impoverished black community ignored by
South African society. New York Premiere
May 10, 12
Winter of Discontent (El sheita elli fat)
Ibrahim El Batout, Egypt, 2012, DCP, 96m
Screening with Wooden Hands Kaouther
Ben Hania, Tunisia, 2013, 23m This hardhitting political thriller set against the 2011
protests at Tahrir Square takes us on a journey
into the lives of an activist, a journalist, and a
state security officer, laying bare the police
state of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt.
U.S. Premiere May 7, 11
MAY 16 — JUNE 1 FASSBINDER: ROMANTIC ANARCHIST (PART 1)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder made nearly 40 features in just 14 years and left behind one of the most cohesive and provocative bodies of work in the
history of cinema. Our extensive two-part retrospective includes all of his theatrical movies and many of his television films, along with several works
connected with his eternally relevant artistry. Part 2 will take place in November.
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Love Is Colder Than Death West Germany, 1969, 35mm, 88m Screening with: The
Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the
Pimp Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany,
1968, 35mm, 23m For his feature debut,
Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama featuring a love triangle
between a Munich pimp, a mysterious
crook, and a prostitute. May 16, 17, 19
Martha West Germany, 1974, 35mm,
116m A beautiful virgin loses her father on
a trip to Rome and falls into the arms of an
older stranger. His sadism and her masochism set the stage for a claws-out satire of
bourgeois marriage. May 23, June 1
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? West Germany, 1970, 35mm, 88m Harrowing and
bleakly comic in equal measure, Fassbinder’s
story of explosive rage focuses on a man
with a perfect middle-class existence…until
he beats his family to death with a candlestick. May 17, 18
World on a Wire West Germany, 1973,
35mm, 212m A film many years ahead of its
time, this recently rediscovered labyrinth is a
paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the
future with dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt
Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick. May 25, 26
FASSBINDER AND HIS FRIENDS
The Merchant of Four Seasons West
Germany, 1971, DCP, 88m In one of
Fassbinder’s pivotal works, an ineffectual
ex-policeman newly home from the war
continues to disappoint his bourgeois
family by becoming a lowly fruit peddler.
Exclusive one-week run of new restoration! May 16 - 23
The Niklashausen Journey West Germany, 1970, 35mm, 90m A shepherd
turns to preaching when he is visited by
the Mother of God, but while his support
increases, he is filled with a dissatisfaction
that can be absolved only by embracing his
own destruction. May 19, 24
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul West Germany, 1974,
35mm, 93m This wry, tender romance/
social commentary about the unlikely love
between a Moroccan immigrant and an
older German widow remains one of the
director’s most popular films. May 25, 31
The American Soldier West Germany,
1970, 35mm, 80m An early example of
Fassbinder’s pessimistic vision and his
fierce, ravishing visual style, The American
Soldier is a baroque homage to Hollywood
cinema—film noir and gangster movies in
particular. May 18
Beware of a Holy Whore West Germany/
Italy, 1970, 35mm, 104m Screening with
Cuba Libre Albert Serra, Spain, 2013,
35mm, 18m A film’s cast and crew undergo
a series of skirmishes, psychosexual charades, and nonplussed power trips in what
may or may not be an accurate representation of Fassbinder’s behind-the-scenes
methods. May 24, 26
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant West
Germany, 1972, 35mm, 124m High camp
and claustrophobia abound in this chamber
psychodrama about the cruel cat-andmouse games between a fashion designer,
her model, and a faithful, longtime love
slave. May 23, 25
Bremen Freedom West Germany, 1972,
16mm, 87m This dark-as-pitch comedy
about a widow who over 15 years killed as
many people using butter laced with arsenic
is one of Fassbinder’s more ambitious stageto-television experiments. May 22
Effi Briest West Germany, 1974, 35mm,
141m This take on Theodor Fontane’s tale
of the rise and fall of a cosseted young
19th-century Candide whose “prison”
is a manor on the Baltic Sea is among Fassbinder’s most visually ravishing.
May 26, June 1
Gods of the Plague West Germany,
1970, 35mm, 91m Fassbinder’s interest
in teasing out the subtexts of American
genre films is on display in this stylized
noir exercise focused on the not-so-latent
homoerotic tensions at the very heart of
the gangster movie. May 16, 17
Katzelmacher West Germany, 1969,
16mm, 88m Fassbinder’s second
feature depicts the intolerance of a circle
of financially and sexually frustrated
friends when an immigrant laborer moves
to their Munich neighborhood.
May 21
Nora Helmer West Germany, 1974, 16mm,
101m Fassbinder’s idiosyncratic take on
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House plays out as a blistering psychodrama visually refracted through
latticework, curtains, prismatic glasses, and
multi-paneled mirrors. May 22
Pioneers in Ingolstadt West Germany,
1971, 35mm, 83m Conflict arises between
a group of soldiers building a bridge in
a provincial town whose motto, “Where
there is no war, we’ll have to make one,”
plays out in ways both trivial and profoundly dangerous. May 20, 23
Whity West Germany, 1971, 35mm, 95m
Never distributed theatrically but long an
influential cult classic, Fassbinder’s seventh
feature is a hothouse gothic melodrama
shot in widescreen on Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western sets in Spain. May 24
All That Heaven Allows Douglas Sirk, USA,
1955, 35mm, 89m Love blossoms between
a suburban widow (Jane Wyman) and her
handsome gardener (Rock Hudson) in Sirk’s
sharp indictment of hypocrisy in 1950s
America that served as an inspiration for
Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and
Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven. May 31
Far from Heaven Todd Haynes, USA,
2002, DCP, 107m Haynes draws from Sirk
and Fassbinder in this delicate melodrama
starring Julianne Moore as a housewife
who discovers her husband (Dennis Quaid)
is gay and forms an intimate bond with her
black gardener (Dennis Haysbert). May 31
Tenderness of the Wolves Ulli Lommel, West Germany, 1973, HDCam,
82m Lommel cast his friend and mentor
Fassbinder as a sexually aggressive crook
in this psycho-thriller about a government
inspector who moonlights as a cannibalistic
serial killer. May 30
Water Drops on Burning Rocks François
Ozon, France, 2000, 35mm, 82m Ozon’s
confident third feature is an acerbic
romantic farce, adapted from Fassbinder’s
1966 stage play, about a smug, middle-aged
insurance salesman who falls for a beautiful
teenage boy. May 30
Shorts screening with Fassbinder films:
Cuba Libre May 24, 26 + The Bridegroom,
the Comedienne and the Pimp
May 16, 17, 19
JUNE 5 — 12 OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
One of our most popular annual programs, Open Roads has served as the leading North American showcase of contemporary
Italian cinema for the past 13 years. This exceptionally strong and diverse edition includes the latest work from established
veterans alongside promising new talents from both the commercial and independent spheres, with in-person appearances
at many screenings. Visit FilmLinc.com for more details.
murder of a high-profile member of the
city’s seedy nightlife. June 5, 6
I Can Quit Whenever I Want (Smetto
quando voglio) Sydney Sibilia, Italy, 2014,
100m A band of brilliant un(der)employed
academics turn to a life of crime in order to
survive in this biting parody of the plight of
the Italian middle class in the aftermath of
the economic crisis. June 6, 8
A Lonely Hero (L’intrepido) Gianni Amelio,
Italy, 2013, DCP, 104m Amelio’s deadpan
parable follows a small everyday hero from
Milan who throws himself at a wide array of
“substitute” jobs with a deep moral consistency as he reinvents himself from day to
day. U.S. Premiere June 5, 10
Long Live Freedom (Viva la libertà)
Roberto Andò, Italy, 2013, DCP, 93m His
party in decline, a seasoned politician (Toni
Servillo) flees to Paris to hide out with his
ex-girlfriend (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in
Andò’s scathing yet comic critique of Italian
political dynamics. U.S. Premiere June 6, 7
OPENING NIGHT Those Happy Years
(Anni felici) Daniele Luchetti, Italy, 2013,
DCP, 100m Luchetti’s warm-hearted, bittersweet autobiographical account of his
childhood as a budding filmmaker captures
a family’s radical transformations through
a son’s brand-new Super-8 camera. U.S.
Premiere June 5
The Administrator (L’amministratore) Vincenzo Marra, Italy, 2013, 83m In this lively
and absorbing documentary set in Naples,
a building administrator’s dealings with his
larger-than-life tenants provide a
tough-minded yet affectionate look at an
Italy mired in crisis. U.S. Premiere
June 9, 10
The Fifth Wheel (L’ultima ruota del
carro) Giovanni Veronesi, Italy, 2013,
DCP, 113m Veronesi’s irresistible romantic
comedy journeys through four decades
of recent Italian history on the back of a
good-hearted, honest middle-class guy who
always finds himself a step behind.
U.S. Premiere June 6, 11
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Happy to Be Different (Felice chi è
diverso) Gianni Amelio, Italy, 2014, 93m
A moving and enlightening work of oral
history, Amelio’s new documentary is a
chronicle of gay life in Italy from the fall
of Fascism through the early 1980s. June
10, 11
The Human Factor (La variabile umana)
Bruno Oliviero, Italy, 2013, DCP, 82m
Rendered darkly beautiful as a noir setting,
Milan is the electric backdrop for this story
of a troubled detective investigating the
The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (La
mafia uccide solo d’estate) Pierfrancesco
Diliberto, Italy, 2013, DCP, 89m In Pierfrancesco “Pif” Diliberto’s irreverent feature
debut, a young boy’s obsession with the
Mafia surpasses even his passion for the
beautiful schoolmate who remains his main
love interest until adulthood. U.S. Premiere
June 7, 12
Quiet Bliss (In grazia di Dio) Edoardo
Winspeare, Italy, 2014, 127m Three
generations of women seek refuge in their
family’s Salento olive grove after their small
textile business collapses in this warm
and vibrant drama set against the radiant
southern Italian landscape. June 7, 9
The Referee (L’arbitro) Paolo Zucca,
Italy/Argentina, 2013, 96m A third-league
Sardinian soccer team goes on a sudden
winning streak while conflict erupts
over archaic sheep-breeding codes in the
lush black-and-white world of Zucca’s
utterly distinctive first feature.
U.S. Premiere June 10, 11
Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/
France, 2013, DCP, 93m The first documentary to win the Golden Lion at the
Venice Film Festival, Rosi’s latest reveals
the sheer diversity of life bubbling around
the margins of the 43.5-mile highway
that encircles the Rome. U.S. Premiere
June 8, 9
Small Homeland (Piccola Patria)
Alessandro Rossetto, Italy, 2013, DCP,
111m Best friends Luisa and Renata long to
escape their stifling provincial town in
northeastern Italy, working as maids in a
hotel and supplementing their income
with sex work and a dubious blackmail
plot. U.S. Premiere June 8, 12
South Is Nothing (Il Sud e niente) Fabio
Mollo, Italy, 2013, DCP, 86m A teenage
tomboy who hasn’t spoken a word since
the death of her beloved brother runs away
from home and ends up on a quest to find
the truth about her lost sibling and also
herself. U.S. Premiere June 8, 9
A Street in Palermo (Via Castellana Bandiera) Emma Dante, Italy, 2013, DCP, 92m
The first film by theater director Emma
Dante takes place almost entirely in a narrow alleyway in a run-down neighborhood
of Palermo, where two carloads of stubborn characters face off over their refusal
to back up. U.S. Premiere June 11, 12
Tir Alberto Fasulo, Italy/Croatia,
2013, 83m A former teacher from Bosnia
takes a job driving a tractor trailer (“tir”)
through Europe, immersing the viewer in
the sounds, the landscape, and the longing
for company that goes with life on the
road. U.S. Premiere June 7, 12
JUNE 13 — 22 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL
The 25th anniversary edition of the festival arrives with a selection of films that bring human rights abuses to life through
storytelling—challenging each individual to empathize and demand justice for all. All films are New York premieres.
FOR FULL LINEUP, SCHEDULE, AND MORE INFORMATION, VISIT FILMLINC.COM OR FF.HRW.ORG.
OPENING NIGHT Private Violence
Cynthia Hill, USA, 2013, DCP, 81m Private
Violence explores a simple but deeply
disturbing fact of American life: the most
dangerous place for a woman in America is
her own home. June 13
First to Fall Rachel Beth Anderson & Tim
Grucza, UK/USA, 2013, DCP, 80m First to
Fall is a story of sacrifice and the madness
of war that follows two friends as they join
the fight to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
June 18
The Beekeeper Mano Khalil, Switzerland, 2013, DCP, 107m The Beekeeper
relates the touching story of Ibrahim Gezer,
a Kurdish beekeeper from southeast Turkey,
and his unusual experience of integration
into the seemingly conservative heart of
today’s Switzerland. June 17
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales Jasmila
Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013,
DCP, 72m For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
follows an Australian tourist as she discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities
in a seemingly idyllic town. June 16
Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus Madeleine
Sackler, USA/UK/Belarus, 2013, DCP,
76m Comprised of smuggled footage and
uncensored interviews, Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus gives
audiences a front-row seat to a resistance
movement as it unfolds. June 18
Evaporating Borders Iva Radivojevic, USA/
Cyprus, 2014, DCP, 73m A visual essay in five
parts, Evaporating Borders is told through a series of vignettes that explore the lives of asylum
seekers and refugees in Cyprus. June 17
Sepideh – Reaching for the Stars Berit
Madsen, Denmark/Iran/Germany/Norway/Sweden, 2013, DCP, 88m Sepideh is a
young Iranian woman who dares to dream.
As we follow her, it becomes clear just how
at odds her dreams are with her current
reality. June 21
Watchers of the Sky Edet Belzberg,
US, 2014, HDCam, 114m In her characteristic cinéma vérité style, Edet Belzberg
interweaves the stories of five humanitarians whose lives and work are linked
together by the ongoing crisis in Darfur.
June 19
JUN — FEB TIME REGAINED: THE FILMS OF LAV DIAZ
The Film Society is proud to present the most complete American retrospective to date of this major,
criminally underseen Filipino master, timed to the release of his latest film, Norte, the End of History.
The series launches with a rare screening of his seven-and-a-half-hour Melancholia and continues with
one screening a month through February 2015.
Melancholia Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2008, 450m What starts as the story of a nun, a pimp, and a prostitute and their
role-playing games becomes an elegy for the power and imaginative vision of radical politics in an age of claustrophobia
and reactionary cynicism. Diaz’s soulful meditation on the difficulties of daily life is enlivened by strains of black comedy
and noir-heavy fatalism. June 22
JUNE 27 — JULY 10 NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
We’re back with our lucky 13th edition of North America’s leading festival of popular Asian cinema. Highlights include the explosive female juvenile delinquent drama May We Chat, Benny Chan’s resurrection of
the heroic bloodshed genre The White Storm, porn-industry comedy 3D Naked Ambition, superstar Andy
Lau in police thriller Firestorm, Chow Yun-fat reteaming with Wong Jing on gambling comedy From Vegas
to Macau, and screenings of Jimmy Wang-Yu vintage classics One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese
Boxer! Plus: Takashi Miike’s gangster comedy The Mole Song! Korean cops vs. criminal mastermind thriller
Cold Eyes! Japanese WWII fighter pilot drama The Eternal Zero! And Aim High in Creation!, a behind the
scenes look at the North Korean film industry!
MAY
NEW RELEASES
OPENS MAY 9
PALO ALTO
OPENS MAY 30
WE ARE THE BEST!
Gia Coppola, USA, 2013,
DCP, 98m
Based on the short-story
collection by James Franco
(who also co-stars), writerdirector Gia Coppola’s
mesmerizing debut chronicles
the interconnected lives of
several high-school students in
the affluent title California city.
James Franco in person
Lukas Moodysson,
Sweden, 2013, DCP, 102m
Best-friends Klara and
Bobo defy the stifling
conformity of their adolescence
by joining forces with a
Christian classmate to form
a punk-rock band in early1980s Stockholm.
OPENS JUNE 13 ONE WEEK ONLY!
POLICEMAN
OPENS JUNE 20 ONE WEEK ONLY!
NORTE, THE END OF
HISTORY
JUNE
OPENS JUNE 6 ONE WEEK ONLY!
2 AUTUMNS,
3 WINTERS
Sébastien Betbeder,
France, 2013, DCP, 90m
This endearing and inventive
romantic comedy tells the
story of sad-sack Arman
and his new love, Amélie.
Rendez-Vous with
French Cinema Official
Selection
Nadav Lapid, Israel,
2011, DCP, 100m
A boldly conceived drama
pivoting on the initially
unrelated activities of an
elite anti-terrorist police
unit and some wealthy
young anarchists.
NYFF51 and New York
Jewish Film Festival
Official Selection
Director in person!
OPENS JUNE 20 - TWO WEEKS ONLY!
EXHIBITION
Joanna Hogg, UK, 2013, DCP, 110m Joanna Hogg’s exactingly minimal and intimately character-driven
portrait of a married middle-aged couple—both artists—living and working in their unusual London home,
at once a labyrinth, a battleground, and a refuge. NYFF51 Director in person!
OPENS JUNE 27 - ONE WEEK ONLY!
UNRELATED
Joanna Hogg, UK, 2007, 100m Middle-aged, discontented Anna (Kathryn Worth) decides to spend her summer
holiday apart from her husband in Tuscany with her friends. As the days go by, she finds herself more attuned to
their teenage children (Tom Hiddleston and his sister Emma). NYFF51
OPENS JUNE 27 - ONE WEEK ONLY!
ARCHIPELAGO
Joanna Hogg, UK, 2010, 114m A group stays on the island of Tresco off of Sicily, animated by
resentments, jealousies, upheavals, and revelations that will ring true to anyone who has ever spent a vacation
with their family. NYFF51
Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2013,
DCP, 250 minutes
A careful rethinking of
Dostoevsky’s Crime and
Punishment shot in blazing
color, this tour de force offers
a masterful recapitulation of
Diaz’s longstanding obsessions:
cultural memory, national
guilt, and the origin of evil.
NYFF51 Official Selection
Director in person!
OPENS JUNE 27
SNOWPIERCER
Bong Joon-ho, South Korea/
USA, 2013, DCP, 125m
Decades into a second Ice Age,
a supertrain containing all
that remains of humanity—
divided into classes—circles
the globe. The Englishlanguage debut of Korean
master Bong Joon-ho stars
Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton.
Director in person!
MAY
MAY 5
FROM SCREEN TO
STAGE: BULLETS
OVER BROADWAY
MAY 8
CONVERGENCE: APP
(SNEAK PREVIEW)
Bobby Boermans, Netherlands,
2013, Blu-ray, 90m
FREE EVENT! In what has been
billed as the first “second-screen
feature film” due to its creative
use of mobile devices to augment
the otherwise linear storytelling, a
Dutch college student wakes up
after a night of partying to discover
a mysterious and potentially dangerous app installed on her phone.
Woody Allen, USA, 1994, 35mm,
98mTo celebrate the opening
of Bullets Over Broadway:
The Musical, the Film Society of
Lincoln Center will screen an
archival print of the 1994 Woody
Allen film on which the show
is based, followed by a conversation with Letty Aronson and
Julian Schlossberg and director/
choreographer Susan Stroman,
winner of five Tony Awards.
SPECIAL EVENTS
In association with Midsummer Night Swing.
JUNE
JUNE 1
JELLYFISH EYES
Takashi Murakami, Japan, 2013, 101m When a young boy moves with
his widowed mother to the Japanese countryside, he discovers that
their apartment is inhabited by a strange creature—and that very little is
what it appears to be in the sleepy town. Visual-artist Takashi Murakami’s
feature-film debut is a loving homage to Japanese popular culture.
FILM SOCIETY TALKS: TAKASHI MURAKAMI
FREE EVENT! In conjunction with the New York premiere of his first
feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, renowned Japanese pop artist Takashi
Murakami will present a collection of his animated works and discuss
his signature artistic style.
JUNE 21
THE TEXAS CHAIN
SAW MASSACRE
Tobe Hooper, USA, 1974,
DCP, 81m
Leatherface is back in this
40th-anniversary restoration
of one of the most influential horror movies of the
1970s. Death by meat hook,
sledgehammer, and, of course,
chainsaw await a group of
youngsters on a road trip.
JUNE 30
AKA DOC POMUS
Peter Miller & Will Hechter,
Canada/USA, 2012, Digital
Projection, 99m
FREE EVENT! Doc Pomus, a
colorful New York character and
unlikely rock ’n’ roll icon, responsible
for writing such smash hits as
“Viva Las Vegas,” “Save the Last
Dance for Me,” and “This Magic
Moment,” is the subject of this
in-depth documentary.
Followed by Q&A with director
Peter Miller and Doc Pomus’s
daughter, Sharyn Felder!
In association with Midsummer Night Swing.
JUNE 25 FILM COMMENT DOUBLE FEATURE: TWO BY RICHARD BROOKS
$ (Dollars) USA, 1971, 35mm, 121m A dynamic,
fast-moving heist thriller set in Hamburg, in which a
security consultant (Warren Beatty) and a call girl (Goldie
Hawn) plot to rob the safe deposit boxes of three criminals.
With Gert (Goldfinger) Fröbe as the bank’s manager
and a great Quincy Jones score.
Followed by Bite the Bullet USA, 1975, 35mm,
132m Lining up a stellar cast—Gene Hackman, James
Coburn, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Candice
Bergen—Brooks ponders human greed a second time
in a gritty Western about a real-life 700-mile horse race
across New Mexico in 1906 that tests the physical
and moral limits of its contestants.
TWO FILMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
ART EXHIBITS IN THE WALTER READE THEATER'S
FRIEDA & ROY FURMAN GALLERY
Now - May 4 Chaplin Forever! In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s character
“The Little Tramp,” don’t miss a rare opportunity to view a photo exhibit retracing some of the most
famous moments of his career! Presented by Jaeger-LeCoultre and curated by the Musée de l’Elysée.
The exhibit takes place in conjunction with the 41st Chaplin Award Gala.
May 8 - 13 Digital Africa A series of works by Congolese and American photographers, including
“Congolese Dreams” featuring work by acclaimed photographer Baudouin Mouanda, to be paired
with Adama Delphine Fawundu’s stunning portraits that capture residents of Tivoli Towers in Crown
Heights, Brooklyn. The exhibit takes place in conjunction with the New York African Film Festival.
June 13-22 The Unraveling: Journey Through the Central African Republic Crisis
The exhibit takes place in conjunction with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Bullets Over Broadway MoMA Film Archive, Roy Furman, Theatre Communications Group | New York African Film Festival Haden Guest and Mark Johnson, Harvard Film Archive; Cinema Tropical; Alwan for the ArtsHuman Rights Watch Film Festival
Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 1) Juliane Lorenz and Antonio Exacoustos, The Fassbinder Foundation; Goethe Institut - Vienna; Anne Morra, MoMA Film Archive; Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive | Jellyfish Eyes Cynthia Swartz, Liesl Copland
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Antonio Monda, the Alexander Bodini Foundation; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Human Rights Watch Film Festical Mahen Bonetti, New York African Film Festival
CREDITS: Bullets Over Broadway: Magnolia/Sweetland/The Kobal Collection/Brian Hamill The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant: The Kobal Collection/Tango $ (Dollars): Columbia/The Kobal Collection
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Kobal Collection/Vortex-Henkel-Hooper/Bryanston World on a Wire: WDR/The Kobal Collection Charles Chaplin, Modern Times, 1934-1935 - © Roy Export S.A.S, scan Cineteca di Bologna, courtesy Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne.jpg