Film at Lincoln Center Podcast
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#337 - Directors Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo on the Making of Bad Tales
June 04, 2021 13:59 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re presenting a special conversation with Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo, the directors of Bad Tales, an Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2021 selection, moderated by FLC’s Assistant Programmer Dan Sullivan and translated by Michael Moore. Bad Tales is an absorbing, richly traced group portrait of youth on the precipice of puberty, set on the outskirts of Rome. Our protagonists are the children of dysfunctional homes, and we observe them as they ...
#336 - Revisiting Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue with Jia Zhangke
May 28, 2021 16:50 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re revisiting our conversation with Jia Zhangke from the 58th New York Film Festival, moderated by NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins, in anticipation of the filmmaker’s latest feature, Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, which is now playing in our theaters. The preeminent cinematic chronicler of 21st-century China, Jia Zhangke turns his sights to the more distant past in his surprising, complexly wrought new documentary. In Shanxi provin...
#335 - Robert Machoian and Clayne Crawford on the Making of The Killing Of Two Lovers
May 23, 2021 13:37 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a conversation from the 49th New Directors/New Films with The Killing of Two Lovers director Robert Machoian and star Clayne Crawford. After a startling opening image of extreme tension, first-time solo director Robert Machoian’s stark, slow-burn drama never quite goes where you expect. An evocative and atmospheric transmission from wintry Utah, The Killing of Two Lovers is a compact, economical portrait of a husband and father ...
#334 - In Conversation with Sara Driver
May 14, 2021 17:59 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special Q&A from the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films. Founding ND/NF programmer and current FLC board member Wendy Keys sat down for an extended conversation with Sara Driver about her acclaimed first feature, Sleepwalk, a selection from the 16th ND/NF in 1987. The two also discussed Driver’s distinctive and idiosyncratic body of work. This event was part of the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films, the annual fes...
#333 - Director Theo Anthony on All Light, Everywhere
May 07, 2021 14:10 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation from the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films, with Theo Anthony the director of All Light, Everywhere, this year's closing night selection, and FLC’s assistant programmer Tyler Wilson. Theo Anthony’s breakthrough sophomore feature uses the increased regularity of body cams in U.S. law enforcement as the anchor point for an ever-expanding exploration on perception, power, and policing. All Light, Everyw...
#332 - In Conversation with Youn Yuh-jung
April 30, 2021 14:16 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation between recent Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung and FLC’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim. Introduced to a wide American audience just last year as a strong-willed grandmother in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, Youn Yuh-jung has been a celebrated screen performer in her native Korea for half a century, giving life to a roster of singularly formidable women across genres and generations. In honor of her historic w...
#331 - The Cast and Crew of French Exit
April 23, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast, we’re featuring a special conversation with the cast and crew of French Exit, the closing night selection at the 58th New York Film Festival. Director Azazel Jacobs, writer Patrick deWitt, and actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges joined NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss the making of the film Michelle Pfeiffer is entirely bewitching as Frances Price, an imperious, widowed New York socialite whose once-extreme wealth has d...
#330 - New Directors/New Films 2021 Programmers' Preview
April 16, 2021 14:28 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a preview in anticipation of the 50th-anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films, a festival that has celebrated filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema, taking place virtually and in theaters from April 28 to May 8. In celebration of this year’s milestone, we’re excited to also present ND/NF@ 50, a free virtual retrospective looking back on the festival’s history, available nationwide in ...
#329 - Director Martín Rejtman on Silvia Prieto
April 08, 2021 14:28 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast, we’re featuring a special conversation between Cinema Tropical’s Co-founder and Executive Director, Carlos A. Gutiérrez, and Argentine director Martín Rejtman. A key figure of contemporary Argentine cinema, Rejtman discussed his filmography and the landmark deadpan comedy, Silvia Prieto. Silvia Prieto is a 1999 comedy of details that follows a young woman through a short, precarious stretch of her life in Buenos Aires. The new restoration of t...
#328 - Director Jill Li and Producer Peter Yam on Lost Course
April 02, 2021 14:26 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast we’re featuring a special discussion with Lost Course director Jill Li and producer Peter Yam, moderated by Film at Lincoln Center’s Assistant Programmer Tyler Wilson. Nearly 10 years in the making, Jill Li’s revelatory debut film—a documentary about the struggle against corruption in South China—follows the grassroots movement for justice led by a group of people from the fishing port of Wukan. Lost Course offers a timely and deeply affecting ...
#327 - Director Thomas Vinterberg and James Gray on Another Round
March 25, 2021 16:09 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation between filmmakers Thomas Vinterberg and James Gray on Another Round, which was recently nominated for two Academy Awards. In the film, four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help th...
#326 - Ephraim Asili and Garrett Bradley
March 18, 2021 16:57 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation from the 58th New York Film Festival featuring Ephraim Asili and Garrett Bradley. Garrett Bradley’s Time, a Main Slate selection, and Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance, the Opening Night film of the Currents program, were two of NYFF58’s most formally inventive and politically astute films. Combining original and archival material in evocative and unpredictable ways, they engage deeply with radical Black le...
#325 - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Q&A with Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova & Jason Woliner
March 11, 2021 21:47 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, and director Jason Woliner. Moderated by Variety's Chief Film Critic Peter Debruge. In this satire on Trump’s America, Borat, a Kazakh journalist, is sent to America to deliver a gift from his government to Vice President Mike Pence. Along the way, his worldview is turned upside down and steadfast beliefs are challenged by his teenage da...
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Q&A with Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova & Jason Woliner
March 11, 2021 21:47 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, and director Jason Woliner. Moderated by Variety's Chief Film Critic Peter Debruge. In this satire on Trump’s America, Borat, a Kazakh journalist, is sent to America to deliver a gift from his government to Vice President Mike Pence. Along the way, his worldview is turned upside down and steadfast beliefs are challenged by his teenage da...
#324 - One Night In Miami... Q&A with Regina King, Kemp Powers & Cast
March 04, 2021 21:44 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation with One Night in Miami… director Regina King, screenwriter Kemp Powers, and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr. Moderated by Beandrea July. On the evening of February 25, 1964, four icons of sports, entertainment and activism celebrated one of the greatest upsets in boxing history in a modest motel room in Miami. After claiming the World Heavyweight title for the first tim...
One Night In Miami... Q&A with Regina King, Kemp Powers & Cast
March 04, 2021 21:44 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a special conversation with One Night in Miami… director Regina King, screenwriter Kemp Powers, and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr. Moderated by Beandrea July. On the evening of February 25, 1964, four icons of sports, entertainment and activism celebrated one of the greatest upsets in boxing history in a modest motel room in Miami. After claiming the World Heavyweight title for the first tim...
#323 - The Cast and Crew of Sound of Metal
February 25, 2021 16:35 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a conversation with Sound of Metal’s writer-director Darius Marder, actors Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Olivia Cooke, Chelsea Lee, Domenico Toledo, and actor/ASL coach Jeremy Stone. Moderated by Alison O’Daniel, a visual artist and filmmaker who is currently in production on her feature film, The Tuba Thieves. In the film, metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his c...
#322 - Shaka King on Judas And The Black Messiah
February 18, 2021 20:50 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A with Shaka King, director of Judas and the Black Messiah, moderated by Eugene Hernandez, Film at Lincoln Center’s Deputy Executive Director of Programs. Fred Hampton, a young, charismatic activist, becomes Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party — putting him directly in the crosshairs of the government, the FBI, and the Chicago Police. But to destroy the revolution, the authorities are going to need a...
#321 - Lee Isaac Chung and the Cast of Minari
February 12, 2021 15:33 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a Q&A with the director and cast of Minari, moderated by Film at Lincoln Center’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim. A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a h...
#320 - Pete Docter and Dana Murray on Soul
February 04, 2021 22:20 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a conversation about Pixar’s Soul with director Pete Docter and producer Dana Murray moderated by Glenn Kiser, Senior Director of the Dolby Institute. Soul introduces Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, a band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before – a fantastical place where new souls get their persona...
#319 - David Fincher & Kent Jones on Mank
January 27, 2021 14:31 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re presenting a special conversation between filmmakers David Fincher and Kent Jones on Mank. Fincher's first film since his NYFF Opening Night selection Gone Girl follows the 1930s Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played by Gary Oldman, as he develops the screenplay for Citizen Kane. Mank is now available on Netflix. This talk was first available to FLC members, who play such a vital role in all we do. Memberships start at just...
#318 - The Filmmakers of Notturno and Identifying Features
January 22, 2021 15:32 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re presenting conversations on Notturno and Identifying Features, two equally impressive films, both of which are New York Times Critic's Picks and are now playing in our Virtual Cinema. The first discussion features Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Gianfranco Rosi, in conversation with New York Film Festival’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim on Rosi’s latest immersive work of nonfiction. Shot over the course of three years along the borders of...
#317 - Sam Pollard and Spike Lee In Conversation
January 19, 2021 17:16 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a conversation between filmmakers and long-time collaborators, Sam Pollard and Spike Lee. Sam Pollard's impressive career boasts collaborations with some of cinema's greatest filmmakers, including Spike Lee who has hailed Pollard as “a master filmmaker.” Timed to our Sam Pollard tribute and the release of his latest, MLK/FBI, join us for an in-depth conversation between the two legendary filmmakers. Get virtual tickets, availabl...
#316 - Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman on My Psychedelic Love Story
January 07, 2021 19:35 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast we’re featuring a conversation between filmmakers Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman on Morris’ new documentary My Psychedelic Love Story. Told through the lens of Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Timothy Leary’s lover, the film examines the possible CIA conspiracy and fascinating love story as Leary, the High Priest of LSD, seemingly sells out and becomes a narc in 1974. Through a series of candid interviews, Morris and Harcourt-Smith reexamine this ch...
#315 - Wong Kar Wai, Christopher Doyle & Brigitte Lin on Ashes of Time Redux
December 22, 2020 18:44 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, join a conversation with Wong Kar Wai, cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and actress Brigitte Lin from the 46th NYFF in 2008, moderated by J. Hoberman. Watch Ashes of Time Redux in our Wong Kar Wai retrospective, available nationwide: filmlinc.org/wong A film whose complicated production took such a toll on Wong that he wrote and shot Chungking Express during its editing process, Ashes of Time Redux is a hallucinatory wuxia like no other. Fir...
#314 - Steve McQueen, Cast & Crew on Small Axe
December 20, 2020 01:33 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBJoin director Steve McQueen, cinematographer Shabier Kirchner, actors Shaun Parkes and Letitia Wright, and co-writers Courttia Newland and Alastair Siddons in a conversation about Small Axe, an anthology of five films. This talk was moderated by NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim, following the premiere of three films at NYFF58. All five films in the anthology are now available digitally nationwide, courtesy of Amazon Studios. Film at Lincoln Center Talks are presented by HBO.
#313 - New Directors/New Films Critics' Preview
December 11, 2020 16:18 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBJoin a conversation with your favorite critics in anticipation of New Directors/New Films, a festival that has celebrated filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema, and whose daring work pushes the envelope in unexpected ways. Get tickets to this year’s NDNF, now playing through 12/20 in our Virtual Cinema, at filmlinc.org/ndnf The New Directors/New Films festival offers yearly proof of cinema's long and bright future—and this year's edition, arriving in virtua...
#312 - Sean Durkin and Carrie Coon on The Nest with Alex Ross Perry
December 06, 2020 16:04 - 51 minutes - 47 MBJoin director Sean Durkin and actress Carrie Coon in a conversation about their latest film, The Nest, with fellow filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. The Nest stars Jude Law and Carrie Coon, who play Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and Allison, his American wife. In the film, Rory persuades his wife and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor...
#311 - Alexander Nanau on Collective
November 30, 2020 15:27 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBA New Directors/New Films 2020 selection and the Romanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at next year's Academy Awards, Collective begins as a seeming exposé into a tragic accident and gradually turns into something deeper and more shocking in this revelatory documentary about state neglect. As Collective continues its run in our Virtual Cinema, director Alexander Nanau sat down with FLC's Deputy Executive Director, Eugene Hernandez, to discuss the nonfiction thriller that unc...
#310 - Art of the Real 2020 Preview
November 13, 2020 15:51 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThis week we’re featuring a preview in anticipation of Art of the Real 2020, an essential showcase for the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking, rescheduled from its original dates in April for November 13-26. Join the co-programmers of Art of the Real, FLC Director of Programming Dennis Lim, FLC Programmer-at-Large Rachael Rakes and program advisor Almudena Escobar Lopez, along with FLC programmer Dan Sullivan for an in-depth preview of this year's edition, di...
#309 - Laura Dern, Joyce Chopra, and Joyce Carol Oates on Smooth Talk
November 05, 2020 15:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBNYFF58 Revivals highlight Smooth Talk (1985) features the work of three powerhouse women: director Joyce Chopra; actress Laura Dern, in one of her first starring roles; and author Joyce Carol Oates, whose 1966 short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” provided the inspiration for the film. To celebrate the festival premiere of the film’s new restoration, Chopra, Dern, and Oates joined Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone for a talk about the creative work of adaptation and...
#308 - Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman on Documenting Decades of LGBTQ+ History
October 30, 2020 18:19 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBAs part of their nationwide virtual retrospective, directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman joined FLC programmer Dan Sullivan for a career-spanning conversation. Watch their essential work, featuring new restorations, through November 5 in our Virtual Cinema at filmlinc.org/tellingpics For more than 30 years, Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne powerful witness to gay life, creativity, and activism — documenting lost aspects of LGBTQ+ history and chronicling ...
#307 - NYFF58 Festival Report
October 23, 2020 14:35 - 1 hour - 82 MBFor the 58th New York Film Festival’s final week, a group of critics gathered together for a spirited discussion with Devika Girish, Assistant Editor of Film Comment and Talks programmer for the NYFF, about the movies they saw in this year's lineup and their tales from the trenches of the pandemic-era festival. Participants included Molly Haskell (author, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies), Eric Hynes (curator of film, Museum of the Moving Image), Ela Bittencourt (f...
#306 - Pietro Marcello on Martin Eden
October 16, 2020 13:54 - 16 minutes - 15 MBWelcome to a new episode of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we're featuring a conversation with Pietro Marcello, whose NYFF favorite Martin Eden opens in our Virtual Cinema today along with a weeklong four-film retrospective. This Q&A is from the 57th New York Film Festival, featuring Marcello in conversation with programmer Florence Almozini and interpretation by Michael Moore. Get tickets for Martin Eden and our retrospective here: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/ One of world cine...
#305 - Azazel Jacobs, Michelle Pfeiffer & Lucas Hedges on French Exit
October 10, 2020 14:36 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Programmer Florence Almozini is joined by director Azazel Jacobs and actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges to discuss French Exit. In the Closing Night selection, Pfeiffer is entirely bewitching as an imperious, widowed New York socialite who, facing financial insolvency, relocates to a friend’s empty apartment in Paris with her dyspeptic son, Malcolm (Lucas Hedges), and their mercurial cat, an...
#304 - Christian Petzold on Undine
October 09, 2020 15:55 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim connects with director Christian Petzold to discuss Undine, the latest from the filmmaker behind Phoenix and Transit, among others. In his new film, the German director injects a mythological element into a lush melodrama about a pair of star-crossed lovers—Undine (Paula Beer), a historian and museum tour guide specializing in urban development, and Christoph, an ...
#303 - Paul Felten, Joe DeNardo & Stephanie Hayes on Slow Machine
October 08, 2020 18:46 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Tyler Wilson is joined by co-directors Paul Felten & Joe DeNardo and star Stephanie Hayes of the funny and alluring Slow Machine. Featuring an intriguingly eclectic cast—including experimental theater performers Hayes and Scott Shepherd, the musician Eleanor Friedberger, and Chloë Sevigny—Slow Machine follows an actress whose intimate relationship with a shadowy NYPD-affiliated operative...
#302 - Tim Robbins & Cast Present Bobbo Supreme at the 58th NYFF
October 08, 2020 12:50 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBDirector/actor/writer/producer Tim Robbins is proud to introduce Bobbo Supreme - originally conceived as a film and adapted for a new realm of aural entertainment in pandemic times. Bobbo Supreme is a hard-hitting, bitingly funny, no holds barred look at the hypocrisy, deception, and danger in the current American political landscape. A satirical fever dream in five parts. New York Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez was delighted to welcome Tim Robbins and his all-star cast–including J...
#301 - Gianfranco Rosi on Notturno
October 06, 2020 15:12 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi joins NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss Notturno, Rosi’s latest immersive work of nonfiction. Shot over the course of three years along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon, Notturno is a nighttime ramble through a region rocked and shattered by catastrophe and violence. All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Fest...
#300 - Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw on The Truffle Hunters
October 05, 2020 14:18 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw to discuss their revelatory, earthy documentary The Truffle Hunters. This engaging and beautifully shot film immerses the viewer in the forests of Northern Italy where dogs, accompanied by their elderly and often irascible human owners of modest means, seek the precious white Alba truffle. All documentaries at the 58th...
#299 - David Byrne & Spike Lee on American Utopia
October 03, 2020 23:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by director Spike Lee and musician David Byrne to discuss American Utopia, Lee’s concert film recording of Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show. American Utopia is an exhilarating record of a seismic theater event as well as a momentous work of cinema in its own right. Both joyous and politically engaged, it’s a reckoning of these dark times through music and...
#298 - Steve McQueen on Red, White and Blue
October 03, 2020 13:35 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim connects with director Steve McQueen to discuss Red, White, and Blue, one of the three entries in McQueen’s Small Axe anthology playing at this year’s NYFF. Red, White, and Blue is a vivid adaptation of a true story set in the early ’80s and features an impassioned yet nuanced performance from John Boyega as Leroy Logan, a member of the London Metropolitan Police ...
#297 - Heidi Ewing, Ivan Garcia, Gerardo Zabaleta & Armando Espitia on I Carry You With Me
October 02, 2020 15:11 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBWelcome 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 Heidi Ewing, along with subjects Ivan Garcia & Gerardo Zabaleta, and actor Armando Espitia to discuss their film I Carry You With Me. Among the most emotionally resonant and innovatively conceived cinematic love stories in years, I Carry You With Me unexpectedly and brilliantly incorporates documentary elements into the tale of a burgeonin...
#296 - Jia Zhangke on Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
October 01, 2020 14:56 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWelcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins is joined by director Jia Zhangke to discuss the filmmaker’s evocative new documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue. Jia Zhangke gathers three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—in Shanxi province, where he grew up, to create a tapestry of testimonies about the drastic changes in Chinese life and culture that began with the social r...
#295 - Philippe Lacôte on Night of the Kings
September 30, 2020 15:51 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBWelcome 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...
#294 - Chaitanya Tamhane on The Disciple
September 30, 2020 14:20 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBWelcome 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 an...
#293 - Pedro Almodóvar & Tilda Swinton on The Human Voice
September 28, 2020 18:43 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBWelcome 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. The...
#292 - Chloé Zhao on Nomadland
September 26, 2020 16:21 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome 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 o...
#291 - Steve McQueen on Mangrove & Tsai Ming-liang on Days
September 25, 2020 17:11 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWelcome 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 drama...
#290 - Matías Piñeiro on Isabella
September 24, 2020 19:04 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWelcome 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...