Film at Lincoln Center Podcast
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#383 - Dana Stevens and Imogen Sara Smith on Buster Keaton
February 03, 2022 16:37 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a talk from Camera Man: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton, a recent FLC event celebrating the new book from author and Slate film critic Dana Stevens, moderated by writer Imogen Sara Smith and FLC Programming Assistant Maddie Whittle. The conversation ranged from the two authors’ love of Buster Keaton, the evolution of the filmmaker’s filmography, the perception of masculinity in Charles Reisner’s Steamboat Bill, Jr., and the lega...
#382 - Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kira Kovalenko In Conversation
January 28, 2022 15:38 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk from the 59th New York Film Festival with directors Maggie Gyllenhaal & Kira Kovalenko moderated by Maddie Whittle, NYFF Talks programmer, and translated by Sasha Korbut. Roiling currents of familial and feminist rebellion connect two extraordinary films in the NYFF59 lineup. In Spotlight selection The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s electrifying directorial debut, a reluctant mother is haunted by a crisis in...
#381 - Adam Leon on Italian Studies
January 19, 2022 20:25 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A with Italian Studies director Adam Leon, moderated by David Fear, Senior Editor and critic at Rolling Stone. From award-winning filmmaker Adam Leon, Italian Studies is a lyrical film about dislocation, connection, and the elusive nature of identity. While visiting New York City from her native London, writer Alina Reynolds, played by Academy Award®-nominee Vanessa Kirby, inexplicably loses her memory and suddenly becomes ...
#380 - Mamoru Hosoda on Belle
January 13, 2022 21:39 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A from the 59th New York Film Festival with Belle director Mamoru Hosoda, moderated by NYFF Programmer Rachel Rosen, and translated by Mikey McNamara. In his densely beautiful, eye-popping animated spectacle, Academy Award–nominated director Mamoru Hosoda tells the exhilarating story of a shy teenager who becomes an online sensation as a princess of pop. Still grieving over a childhood tragedy, Suzu has a difficult time sin...
#379 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Memoria
January 06, 2022 20:43 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk from the 59th New York Film Festival with Memoria director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. For over two decades, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has been celebrated as one of world cinema’s most original auteurs, with films that constantly refract and reinscribe the contours of narrative, reality, and temporality. His new feature—which comes six years after 2015’s Cemetery of Splendour (NYFF53)—reaffirms his peerless status...
#378 - Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, and Milena Smit on Parallel Mothers
December 21, 2021 20:57 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring an incredibly special talk from the 59th New York Film Festival with Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, and Milena Smit on Parallel Mothers, moderated by NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim. In this contemporary melodrama, two women, a generation apart, find themselves inextricably linked by their brief time together in a maternity ward. The circumstances that brought them to the Madrid hospital are quite different—one accide...
#377 - Directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin on The Rescue
December 16, 2021 19:15 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk with The Rescue co-directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, moderated by Film at Lincoln Center Executive Director Lesli Klainberg. The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Academy Award-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin ...
#376 - Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola on The Power of the Dog
December 10, 2021 20:02 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk with filmmakers Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola from the 59th New York Film Festival. Following her Best Director win at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Jane Campion returned to NYFF with her first feature since 2009’s Bright Star: The Power of the Dog, the Centerpiece selection of NYFF59. Known for her incisive portraits of womanhood, Campion turns her lens to masculinity in this new film, which adapts Thomas ...
#375 - Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes on 15 Years of Louverture Films
December 06, 2021 22:24 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A with Louverture Films co-producers Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes, moderated by FLC’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim. Following a screening of Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako, the opening night film of our week-long Danny Glover and Louverture Films series, the co-producers discussed the history of the production company, collaborating with directors, and how the landscape of international cinema has changed over the y...
#374 - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on the Influence of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and John Cassavetes
November 24, 2021 16:09 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk from the 59th New York Film Festival with Drive My Car director, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, moderated by filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. Making his return to NYFF with not one but two Main Slate selections, Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi affirms his stature as a true rising star of world cinema, and one of the foremost chroniclers of the ebbs and flows of human relationships. With Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fa...
#373 - Radu Jude on Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
November 18, 2021 15:32 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a remote live Q&A from the 59th New York Film Festival with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn director Radu Jude, moderated by NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn opens Friday, November 19. Get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/banging The targets are wide, the satire is broad, and every hit lands and stings in Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s angry, gleefully graceless Golden Bear winner from th...
#372 - Alexandre Koberidze on Football and Fantasy in What Do You See When You Look At The Sky?
November 10, 2021 17:47 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A from the 59th New York Film Festival with What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? director Alexandre Koberidze, moderated by NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim. Among contemporary cinema’s most exciting and distinctive new voices, Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze has created an intimate city symphony like no other with his latest film. Beginning as an off-kilter romance in which footballer Giorgi and pharmacist ...
#371 - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on the Theme of Coincidence in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
November 05, 2021 16:33 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special Q&A from the 59th New York Film Festival with filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, the director of two NYFF59 selections, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car. Hamaguchi sat down with Film Comment's Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish following the premiere of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. In this altogether delightful triptych of stories, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi again proves he’s one of contemporary cinema’s most agile dramati...
#370 - Joanna Hogg on the Meta Self-Reflexiveness of The Souvenir Part II
October 29, 2021 15:37 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special Q&A from the 59th New York Film Festival with filmmaker Joanna Hogg and NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim. Grieving and depleted from the tragic end of a relationship with a boyfriend who had suffered from drug addiction, young Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) summons the emotional and creative fortitude to forge ahead as a film student in 1980s London. Continuing the remarkable autobiographical saga she had begun i...
#369 - Mia Hansen-Løve & Joachim Trier on the Cinematic Exploration of Romance, Creativity, and Self
October 28, 2021 15:49 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk from the 59th New York Film Festival between filmmakers Mia Hansen-Løve & Joachim Trier. With their respective NYFF59 Main Slate selections Bergman Island and The Worst Person in the World, Mia Hansen-Løve and Joachim Trier achieve new creative heights in their parallel trajectories as the preeminent European filmmakers of their generation. Both artists have spent the last 15 years interrogating, with great comp...
#368 - Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer on Dune
October 11, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWelcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! On the final episode of our daily NYFF59 edition, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez sits down with director Denis Villeneuve and composer Hans Zimmer to discuss Dune, a selection in the Spotlight section of this year’s festival. A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in t...
#367 - Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer on Dune
October 11, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWelcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! On the final episode of our daily NYFF59 edition, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez sits down with director Denis Villeneuve and composer Hans Zimmer to discuss Dune, a selection in the Spotlight section of this year’s festival. A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in t...
#368 - Céline Sciamma on Petite Maman
October 10, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWelcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! On today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 edition, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez sits down with director Céline Sciamma to discuss Petite Maman, a selection in the Main Slate section of this year’s festival. Following such singular inquiries into gender as Tomboy, Girlhood, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma proves again that she’s among the most accomplished and unpredictable of all contemporary French filmmakers with the gentle yet...
#367 - Céline Sciamma on Petite Maman
October 10, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWelcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! On today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 edition, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez sits down with director Céline Sciamma to discuss Petite Maman, a selection in the Main Slate section of this year’s festival. Following such singular inquiries into gender as Tomboy, Girlhood, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma proves again that she’s among the most accomplished and unpredictable of all contemporary French filmmakers with the gentle yet...
#366 - Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz & Milena Smit on Parallel Mothers
October 09, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez sits down with director Pedro Almodóvar and cast members Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit to discuss Parallel Mothers, the Closing Night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. In this muted contemporary melodrama, two women, a generation apart, find themselves inextricably linked by their brief time together in a maternity ward. The circumstances that brought them to the Madrid hospital are quite different—on...
#365 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton on Memoria
October 08, 2021 20:27 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim sits down with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and actress Tilda Swinton to discuss Memoria, a selection in the Main Slate section of this year’s festival. Collective and personal ghosts hover over every frame of Memoria, somehow the grandest yet most becalmed of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s works. Inspired by the Thai director’s own memories and those of people he encountered while traveling across C...
#364 - Mike Mills, Joaquin Phoenix & Molly Webster on C'mon C'mon
October 07, 2021 12:00 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez sits down with director Mike Mills and actors Joaquin Phoenix and Molly Webster to discuss C’mon C’mon, a selection in the Spotlight section of this year’s festival. After gracing audiences with Beginners and 20th Century Women (NYFF54), writer-director Mike Mills returns with another warm, insightful, and gratifyingly askew portrait of American family life. A soulful Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny, a kindhearted ...
#363 - Gaspar Noé on Vortex
October 06, 2021 12:27 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBWelcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! On today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 edition, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim chats with filmmaker Gaspar Noé about his new film Vortex, a Main Slate selection of this year’s festival. Finding new depths of tenderness without forgoing the uncompromising fatalism that defines his work, Noé’s latest film guides us through a handful of dark days in the lives of an elderly couple in Paris: a retired psychiatrist (Françoise Lebrun) and a w...
#362 - Rebecca Hall, Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga & André Holland on Passing
October 05, 2021 17:09 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez speaks with director Rebecca Hall and cast members Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, and André Holland about Passing, a Main Slate selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. A cornerstone work of Harlem Renaissance literature, Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing is adapted to the screen with exquisite craft and skill by writer-director Rebecca Hall, who envelops the viewer in a bygone period that remains tragically pr...
#361 - Wes Anderson and Cast on The French Dispatch
October 04, 2021 15:16 - 26 minutes - 24 MBWelcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! On today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 edition, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez has a conversation with the team behind The French Dispatch: director Wes Anderson, producer Jeremy Dawson, and cast members Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Steve Park, and Jason Schwartzman Zooming in from Spain, and cast members Anjelica Fellini, Lois Smith, Bob Balaban, Léa Seydoux, and Jeffrey Wright joining in person from New York. The French Dispatch is a selection in...
#360 - Todd Haynes on The Velvet Underground
October 03, 2021 15:14 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez speaks with director Todd Haynes about The Velvet Underground, a Main Slate selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. The Velvet Underground opens in our theaters on Wednesday, October 13th. Tickets are now on sale. Given the ingeniously imagined musical worlds of Velvet Goldmine and I’m Not There, it should come as no surprise that Todd Haynes’s documentary about the seminal band The Velvet Underground mirr...
#359 - Jane Campion, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst & More on The Power of the Dog
October 02, 2021 14:44 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim speaks with director Jane Campion, cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and cinematographer Ari Wegner about The Power of the Dog, the Main Slate Centerpiece selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. With The Power of the Dog, her first film in nearly twelve years, Jane Campion reaffirms her status as one of the world’s greatest—and most gratifyingly eccentric—filmmake...
#358 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson & More on The Lost Daughter
September 30, 2021 15:24 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by The Lost Daughter writer & director Maggie Gyllenhaal and cast members Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Ed Harris, Paul Mescal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Dagmara Dominczyk to discuss their Spotlight selection of this year’s festival. The NYFF59 screenings of The Lost Daughter are presented by Citi. Based on the 2006 novel by Elena Ferrante, Gyllenhaal's screen adaptation stars Olivi...
#357 - Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon, and Agathe Rousselle on Titane
September 29, 2021 14:04 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Julia Ducournau and lead actors Vincent Lindon and Agathe Rousselle to discuss Titane, a Main Slate selection at NYFF59. Titane plays at the 59th New York Film Festival Wednesday, September 29 at 3:45pm. Standby only tickets may be available. The winner of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or, Titane is a thrillingly confident vision from Julia Ducournau that deposits the ...
#356 - Mira Nair, Sarita Choudhury, and Ed Lachman on Mississippi Masala
September 28, 2021 14:09 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, we’re joined by the creative team behind Mississippi Masala, a Revivals selection in this year’s New York Film Festival. In this talk sponsored by Turner Classic Movies, writer Jhumpa Lahiri speaks with director Mira Nair, lead actress Sarita Choudhury, and Director of Photography Ed Lachman about this seminal screen romance of the 1990s. In Mississippi Masala, Sarita Choudhury plays Mina, a Ugandan Indian from Kampala whose family leaves Uga...
#355 - Mia Hansen-Løve, Vicky Krieps & Anders Danielson Lie on Bergman Island
September 27, 2021 15:11 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by Bergman Island director Mia Hansen-Løve and two of her lead actors, Vicky Krieps and Anders Danielson Lie, to discuss their Main Slate selection of this year’s festival. Bergman Island opens at Film at Lincoln Center on October 15th. A masterful blend of the personal and the meta-cinematic, Mia Hansen-Løve’s meditation on the reconciliation of love and the creative process is also delightful...
#354 - Joachim Trier, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Renate Reinsve on The Worst Person in the World
September 26, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by Joachim Trier, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Renate Reinsve. Trier's latest film, The Worst Person in the World, is a Main Slate selection of this year’s festival. As proven in such exacting stories of lives on the edge as Reprise and Oslo, August 31, Norwegian director Joachim Trier is singularly adept at giving an invigorating modern twist to classically constructed character portraits. Trier ...
#353 - Paul Verhoeven on Benedetta
September 25, 2021 14:19 - 42 minutes - 39 MBOn today’s episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by Paul Verhoeven, whose latest film, Benedetta, is a Main Slate selection of this year’s festival and will be opening at the Film at Lincoln Center on December 3rd. Based on true events, Benedetta unearths the story of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century nun in Tuscany who believed she saw visions of Christ and engaged in a sexual relationship with a fellow sister at her abbey. Because this is ...
#352 - 59th New York Film Festival Preview
September 22, 2021 15:23 - 34 minutes - 32 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special preview in anticipation of the 59th New York Film Festival, taking place September 24 – October 10, 2021. An annual bellwether of the state of cinema that has shaped film culture since 1963, the festival continues a long-standing tradition of introducing audiences to bold and remarkable works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. Join NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez, NYFF Director of Programming Denn...
#351 - Andreas Fontana on the Suspense and Critique of Aristocracy in Azor
September 10, 2021 15:42 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're featuring a Q&A from the 50th New Directors/New Films with Andreas Fontana on his feature debut, Azor. Swiss director Andreas Fontana brings an astonishingly assured eye to this gripping debut feature set in the cloistered world of high finance in Argentina in the 1970s. With a finely tuned sense of impassive anxiety, Fabrizio Rongione plays a banker who has traveled from Geneva to Buenos Aires with his wife to disentangle the complicate...
Andreas Fontana on the Suspense and Critique of Aristocracy in Azor
September 10, 2021 15:42 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're featuring a Q&A from the 50th New Directors/New Films with Andreas Fontana on his feature debut, Azor. Swiss director Andreas Fontana brings an astonishingly assured eye to this gripping debut feature set in the cloistered world of high finance in Argentina in the 1970s. With a finely tuned sense of impassive anxiety, Fabrizio Rongione plays a banker who has traveled from Geneva to Buenos Aires with his wife to disentangle the complicate...
#350 - Jessica Beshir on the Importance of Myth, Circularity, and Nostalgia in Faya Dayi
September 03, 2021 15:14 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A from the 50th New Directors/New Films with Jessica Beshir on her hypnotic documentary feature, Faya Dayi. In Faya Dayi, Beshir returns to her hometown of Harar and explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents in the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant). Faya Dayi is neither a straightforward ...
Jessica Beshir on the Importance of Myth, Circularity, and Nostalgia in Faya Dayi
September 03, 2021 15:14 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A from the 50th New Directors/New Films with Jessica Beshir on her hypnotic documentary feature, Faya Dayi. In Faya Dayi, Beshir returns to her hometown of Harar and explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents in the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant). Faya Dayi is neither a straightforward ...
#349 - Screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson on Respect
August 26, 2021 20:51 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A on Liesl Tommy’s Respect with screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson, moderated by Emil Wilbekin, former editor of Vibe, Essence and founder of Native Son, a platform created to inspire and empower Black Gay Men. Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice, ...
#348 - Matías Piñeiro on Isabella and Nicolás Pereda on Fauna
August 20, 2021 16:21 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a conversation from the 58th New York Film Festival with filmmakers Matías Piñeiro and Nicolás Pereda. In Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella and Nicolás Pereda’s Fauna, one never knows where performance ends and life begins. The two films meditate in poignant ways on storytelling as both an artistic and an everyday act: Isabella continues Piñeiro’s wryly quotidian takes on Shakespearean dramas, while Fauna unearths the violence hauntin...
#347 - Leos Carax on Annette, His Need for Chaos, and Adam Driver's Physicality
August 13, 2021 16:09 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring an incredibly special conversation from the opening weekend of Annette. Director Leos Carax sat down with Film Comment’s Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish, to discuss the making of his much-anticipated follow-up to 2012’s Holy Motors. A years-spanning musical melodrama drenched in greens and yellows, scored by oddball art-pop duo Sparks and based on their original story, Annette marks the French director’s first English-language f...
#346 - Tsai Ming-liang on the Making of Days
August 05, 2021 20:44 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a talk from the 58th New York Film Festival with Tsai Ming-liang, the director of Days, moderated by NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim and interpreted by Vincent Cheng. The great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection featuring his muse Lee Kang-sheng for decades. His latest film, Days will undoubtedly stand as one...
#345 - In Conversation with Madeline Anderson
July 29, 2021 18:18 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk with the legendary filmmaker, Madeline Anderson. Cited as the first Black woman to direct a televised documentary film, Anderson’s work shines a light on the workers and activists in the civil rights movement. Originally recorded in 2015, following a screening of I Am Somebody, Integration Report #1, and A Tribute to Malcolm X at Film at Lincoln Center's series 'Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York,...
#344 - The Filmmakers of Ailey on Capturing the Spirit of a Legend
July 22, 2021 20:30 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're featuring a special Q&A on Ailey, an affectionate portrait of the world-renowned dancer and choreographer, Alvin Ailey, with director Jamila Wignot, and producer Lauren DeFilippo. The two filmmakers discussed the new film with Liz Wolff, Co-Curator of the Dance on Camera Festival, following our outdoor screening at Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages. Ailey poetically examines how its subject’s fascinating life inspired his passion for danc...
#343 - The Directors of Summer of Soul and Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
July 15, 2021 18:43 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring two Q&As with filmmakers whose debut features are arriving this month. Our first Q&A is with director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson discussing his first film, Summer of Soul, with NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez, presented after our outdoor screening at Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages. This conversation is followed by a Q&A from the 50th New Directors/New Films with the director duo Chuko and Arie Esiri and their debut film Eyimofe ...
The Directors of Summer of Soul and Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
July 15, 2021 18:43 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring two Q&As with filmmakers whose debut features are arriving this month. Our first Q&A is with director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson discussing his first film, Summer of Soul, with NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez, presented after our outdoor screening at Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages. This conversation is followed by a Q&A from the 50th New Directors/New Films with the director duo Chuko and Arie Esiri and their debut film Eyimofe ...
#342 - Revisiting Hong Sangsoo's Directors Dialogue
July 08, 2021 20:03 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re revisiting a directors dialogue from the 55th New York Film Festival with Hong Sangsoo in anticipation of the filmmaker’s latest feature, The Woman Who Ran, opening in our theaters. Moderated by Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for Film at Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival. Divided into three casually threaded yet distinct sections, Hong Sangsoo’s latest delight follows Gamhee—played by the director’s regular collaborator ...
#341 - Muhammad Ali and James Baldwin: Black Athletes and Artists in the Public Eye
July 01, 2021 14:36 - 1 hour - 60 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special roundtable from the 58th New York Film Festival on a pair of intimate, rarely seen portraits of two towering figures of American history: Terrence Dixon’s Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris and William Klein’s Muhammad Ali, the Greatest. In capturing the tensions experienced by both Baldwin and Ali as outspoken Black public figures in the ’70s, the films raise questions that are strikingly relevant to the present...
#340 - Rethinking World Cinema With the Filmmakers from NYFF58
June 24, 2021 19:03 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special discussion from the 58th New York Film Festival about filmmakers around the world breaking boundaries and inventing new international canons. Featuring directors Dea Kulumbegashvili (Beginning), Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), Philippe Lacôte (Night of the Kings), and members of The Living and the Dead Ensemble (Ouvertures), moderated by NYFF Talks programmer and Co-Deputy Editor of Film Comment, Devika Girish. The f...
#339 - François Ozon & the Cast of Summer of 85
June 17, 2021 14:35 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast, we’re featuring a special conversation on Summer of 85 from Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2021 as it begins its theatrical release in our theaters Join director François Ozon, stars Benjamin Voisin and Félix Lefebvre, and FLC’s programming assistant Maddie Whittle in a discussion about the making of the coming of age romance. After meeting in Normandy in 1985, Alexis and David become fast friends, and Alexis starts working for David’s affect...