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Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Philippe Lacôte to discuss the Ivory Coast filmmaker’s breakout feature The Night of Kings. Paying homage to the tradition of the griot in West African culture, this original vision tells the story of a pickpocket (Koné Bakary), newly arrived at a correctional facility in the Ivorian capital of Abidjan, who, in order to stay alive, must keep his fellow inmates entertained with wild tales over the course of a night. Interpretation by Isabelle Dupuis. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Bronx drive-in here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/night-of-the-kings/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer Florence Almozini is joined by director Chaitanya Tamhane to discuss The Disciple, the Indian filmmaker’s much-anticipated follow-up to Court. The Disciple is a finely crafted labor of love set in the world of Hindustani classical music, starring singer—and remarkable first-time actor—Aditya Modak as a man living in Mumbai who tries to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a maestro in the Khayal raag music tradition. Get tickets for Thursday's premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets available through Sunday at 8pm ET here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/the-disciple/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Pedro Almodóvar and actor Tilda Swinton to discuss their new short film The Human Voice. In the film, Swinton swallows up the screen as a woman traumatized by the end of a relationship. An impeccably designed yet combustible adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play The Human Voice, it marks the Spanish director’s English-language debut. They discussed the power and perseverance of cinema during tumultuous times, how their collaboration came about, the classic film influences they were inspired by, why the pandemic didn't influence Almodóvar's original design for the film, and more. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 58th New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema from September 17-October 11. This year’s festival features drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and virtual screenings available nationwide. See the comple

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by filmmaker Chloé Zhao to discuss Nomadland, the director’s richly textured follow-up to her acclaimed The Rider. The NYFF58 Centerpiece selection recounts a year in the life of Fern (Frances McDormand), a stoic, stubbornly independent widow who, having spent her adult life in a now-defunct company town, repurposes an old van and sets off in search of seasonal work. Mixing professionals and non-actors, Nomadland is a road movie for our precarious times. Nomadland is sponsored by Campari. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 58th New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema from September 17-October 11. This year’s festival features drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and virtual screenings available nationwide. Get tickets and see more information: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by director Steve McQueen to discuss Mangrove, making its world premiere at the festival. An epic piece of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Mangrove tells the true story of Frank Crichlow, the Trinidad-born owner of a café in Notting Hill who was arrested for protesting the police’s intimidation and brutality. This is a vivid and gripping dramatization of these events and the resulting landmark 1970 court case of Crichlow and the other defendants, who came to be known as the Mangrove Nine. Small Axe at the 58th NYFF is presented by Campari. Then, Lim is joined by Tsai Ming-liang to discuss one of the Taiwanese director’s best and sparest works, Days. In the film, Lee Kang-sheng plays a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment for a chronic illness; at the same time, a young Laotian immigrant working in Bangkok goes

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins sits down with director Matías Piñeiro to discuss the Argentinian filmmaker’s latest feature, Isabella. Never has Piñeiro’s art been more graceful or structurally complex than in his latest, in which he again uses a Shakespeare text to anchor a loose yet intellectually rigorous examination of life’s loves, labors, and futile pursuits. Get nationwide virtual tickets through Sept. 29: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/isabella/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans to discuss On the Rocks. A Spotlight selection at NYFF, Coppola’s latest work is a lighthearted but poignantly personal comedy about aging, marriage, and the tenuous bond between parents and grown children. The story follows a New York author and married mother-of-two who has become suspicious that her career-driven husband may be having an affair with a coworker—a speculation encouraged by her caddish, bon vivant father. On the Rocks is sponsored by Campari. Learn more about NYC drive-in and nationwide virtual tickets for NYFF: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer K. Austin Collins is joined by director Sam Pollard to discuss his new documentary MLK/FBI. Throughout his history-altering political career, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, veteran editor and director Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the 1950s and ’60s. Get tickets for tonight’s premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/mlk-fbi/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Garrett Bradley to discuss her extraordinary new documentary Time. Bradley detailed the process of capturing Fox Rich’s tireless 20-year campaign to secure her husband’s release after he received a 60-year prison sentence for robbery. Delicate yet forceful, the Main Slate selection is an exquisitely stitched-together narrative of the strength and resilience of one mother of six that also functions as a personal perspective on the crisis of Black mass incarceration in America. Bradley also discussed assembling years worth of footage, doing justice to the family's story, how festering systemic issues in the country have now been magnified, and much more. Get tickets for tonight’s nationwide virtual premiere: https://virtual.filmlinc.org

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Victor Kossakovsky to discuss his remarkable, heartbreaking documentary Gunda, which uses natural sound design and crisp, pastoral black-and-white cinematography to immerse the viewer in the compassionate tale of a sow who lives on a farm in Norway. The director discusses respecting nature, ethical considerations, how filmmaking is a powerful tool, the toll humanity has taken on the world, his unique approach to cinematography, and much more. Get tickets for tonight’s premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets at https://www.filmlinc.org

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we’re featuring two conversations from new films screening at the festival. First up, producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski joined programmer Rachel Rosen to discuss Hopper/Welles, a Spotlight selection at this year’s festival. In November 1970, two movie mavericks, one already a legend (Orson Welles) and the other on his way to mythic status (Dennis Hopper), met for an epochal conversation, sharing their candid thoughts and feelings about cinema, art, and life. This entertaining and revealing footage, never before seen in full, has been resurrected in the form of this new feature, which premieres tonight at 8pm at the Queens drive-in followed by virtual nationwide screenings beginning September 28. This conversation is followed by a Q&A from the Opening Night selection of our new Currents section, which complements the Main Slate, tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an

Welcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. On a special NYFF58 Opening Night edition, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by Steve McQueen to discuss Lovers Rock, which makes its world premiere tonight at the festival. A movie of tactile sensuality and levitating joy, Lovers Rock is part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology of decades-spanning films that alight on various lives in London’s West Indian community. Here, McQueen, in an ecstatic yet no less formally bold mode, charts the growing attraction between Martha (newcomer Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) and a brooding stranger (played by Micheal Ward) over the course of one night at a house party. Tickets for Brooklyn and Queens drive-in screenings and nationwide virtual tickets for Lovers Rock are available, along with two more films in the anthology, Mangrove and Red, White, and Blue. Get yours: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/guide Enjoy this conversation with director Steve McQueen on his remarkable, ambitious new project and how his Op

Welcome to the return of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! This Thursday, the New York Film Festival returns for a reimagined 58th edition that continues through October 11. This year’s festival offers the chance for moviegoers all around the country to experience the best in world cinema at drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens as well as virtual screenings available nationwide. The New York Film Festival has always been about bringing the community together to celebrate cinema and, whether you are joining us in our Virtual Cinema or at one of our drive-in venues, on behalf of everyone at Film at Lincoln Center we want to thank you for being a part of this historic edition. Learn more about the festival and purchase tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff To celebrate the launch of this year’s festival, we are kicking off our series of free talks with a special preview from the 58th New York Film Festival programming team. Programmers Devika Girish and Maddie Whittle led a discussion

Today, we’re sharing a special conversation with filmmaker Eliza Hittman and actress Talia Ryder following a patron screening of Never Rarely Sometimes Always at Film at Lincoln Center. Opening this weekend, the Sundance and Berlinale winner is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, they embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery, and compassion. This Monday, March 16, Hittman will return to Film at Lincoln Center for a free talk, presented by Film Comment magazine, in which she’ll discuss her new film and already rich body of work. See free RSVP details: www.filmlinc.org/free This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s rollicking thriller Bacurau, which is now playing at Film at Lincoln Center. The film follows the community of a vibrant, richly diverse Brazilian town who fight back when they become the targets of a group of armed mercenaries. The directors and legendary actress Sônia Braga will return to FLC this Sunday for a Q&A at the 6:15pm screening. The directors will also be back next week on March 10, 12, and 13 for Q&As at the 6:15pm screenings.  From March 13-24, we’re also proud to present Mapping Bacurau, an explosive 13-film series featuring influences hand-picked by the directors of Bacurau. From spaghetti westerns to horror and sci-fi gems to Brazilian classics, the series features John Carpenter’s Starman in 70mm, the 4K restoration of Robin Hardy’s folk horror classic The Wicker Man, Sergio Leone’s western epic Duck, You Sucker! in 35

Today on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers. Opening this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, the leading Romanian director’s first all-out genre film is a clever, swift, and elegant neo-noir with a wonderfully off-kilter central conceit. Following the adventures of a police detective who arrives on a mysterious island, the crime drama furthers the director’s explorations of the intricacies and limitations of language, but is also his most playful, even exuberant, film. See showtimes and get tickets: www.filmlinc.org/whistlers This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Pedro Costa’s masterful new drama Vitalina Varela. Opening this Friday exclusively at Film at Lincoln Center, the film follows a Cape Verdean woman who returns to Fontainhas for her husband’s funeral after being separated for decades. The grief of the present and the ghosts of the past commingle in Costa’s ravishing film, which might be the director’s most visually extraordinary work. See showtimes and get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/newreleases This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today we’re sharing a conversation following the 57th New York Film Festival premiere of Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole. Now in select theaters, his second feature follows two women in post-WWII Leningrad as they attempt to readjust to a haunted world. The 28-year-old director joined programmer Florence Almozini and translator Sasha Korbut to discuss the trauma of war, capturing human connection, and more. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

Today, we’re sharing a conversation with German master Angela Schanelec from the 57th New York Film Festival, where she presented her radical new film I Was at Home, But… Starting this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, join the director in person for her first complete New York retrospective. The series will kick off with a sneak preview of her new film, which opens next Friday, February 14, at FLC. See showtimes & get tickets, plus see 3 or more films during the retrospective and save: https://www.filmlinc.org/schanelec Likely the most singular and underappreciated among the contemporary German filmmakers collectively known as the Berlin School (which also includes Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, and Valeska Grisebach), Schanelec makes films that achieve nothing less than the rendering of the human soul on screen.  This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re sharing a conversation following a special screening of The Assistant with writer-director Kitty Green. The film, which opens in theaters this week, follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, the film explores the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day. Moderated by Madeline Whittle, Programming Assistant at Film at Lincoln Center. This podcast is brought to you by Film at Lincoln Center.