In advance of a gala celebration of the director’s career, we asked nine actresses about working with the auteur. They painted a picture of a precise artist.
Category: Film at Lincoln Center
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Film at Lincoln Center Chooses Daniel Battsek as Next President
At the production company Film4 he was instrumental in financing British movies. In New York, his goal is to attract a younger, more diverse audience.
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At New Directors/New Films, the Faces Tell the Story
They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren.
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‘Time of the Heathen’: Postwar Life and Death, an American Tale
Newly excavated and restored, Peter Kass’s 1961 movie, full of trippy distortions and grim associations, gets its first New York run at Film at Lincoln Center.
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At New Directors/New Films, the Kids Are Not All Right (Nobody Really Is)
This year’s edition of the festival tends toward familiar art-house fare, but there are standouts in which characters young and old grapple with childhood.
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A Mind-Bending 7-Hour Epic About Hitler Gets a Rare Screening
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s surreal film collage was a cause celebre when it reached the United States in 1980. It’s a fascinating contrast with current Holocaust dramas.
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‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some
Jean Eustache’s digitally restored 1973 film, now at Lincoln Center, is part of a full retrospective of his work.
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At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes
The New York Times – Movies:“Earth Mama,” “Tótem” and other strong entries offer proof that the art form is flourishing regardless of what’s happening in Hollywood.
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France’s Fault Lines Are Exposed in an American Film Showcase
The New York Times – Movies:The selections in Rendez-Vous With French Cinema at Lincoln Center explore hard truths about the nation in the years since the 2015 terrorist attacks.
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‘Chocolat’: What France Knew
The New York Times – Movies:Newly restored, Claire Denis’s quasi-autobiographical “Chocolat,” a child’s-eye view of French colonialism, is austere yet vivid.
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In New York, Masks Will Not Be Required at the Opera or Ballet
The New York Times – Music:Many arts groups, worried about alienating older patrons, have maintained strict rules. Now “the time has come to move on,” one leader said.