Tell Us Your Favorite Latin American Filmmaker for a Chance to Win Passes to Latinbeat 2010!
Eva y Lola
Latinbeat 2010 starts this Wednesday, September 8! With 16 films from eight different countries, the 13th edition of New York's premier Latin American film festival better than ever!
We're giving away FIVE VIP Passes which allow you and a guest to receive complimentary tickets to every film in the Latinbeat series.
To enter, just tell us your favorite Latin American filmmaker in the comment section below (be sure to use a valid email address), or tweet @filmlinc with your answer and the hashtag #latinbeat10, or write your answer on our Facebook wall. The deadline is Tuesday, September 7th at Noon. We will choose five winners and notify them by 2PM on Tuesday.
Programmer Marcela Goglio and Carlos A. Gutiérrez share 10 Good Reasons (in Random Order) Not to Miss Latinbeat this Year
Latinbeat is back this year from September 8-18th! Below, find the 10 reasons not to miss Latinbeat this year, courtesy of Latinbeat programmer Marcela Goglio and Carlos A. Gutiérrez, co-founding director of Cinema Tropical.
Enter for Your Chance to Win Passes and 20th Century Fox DVDs!
We're thrilled to bring you a very special prize package in honor of our Labor Day series, Fasten Your Seatbelts: 75 Years of 20th Century Fox!
5 lucky winners will receive a pair of all-access pass to see pristine prints of 20th Century Fox classics over Labor Day weekend, including:
Alien
M*A*S*H!
Patton in 70mm
Cleopatra in 70mm
And more!
Plus, we'll also send you a surprise DVD in the mail, courtesy of 20th Century Fox.
Entering is simple. Just tell us your favorite film from the first 75 years of 20th Century Fox in the comment section below (be sure to use a valid email address), or tweet @filmlinc with your answer and the hashtag #fox75, or write your answer on our Facebook wall.
Enter by noon EST on Thursday, September 2. We'll choose 5 respondents at random and announce winners on Thursday at 3pm.
*** The lucky winners are:
Kenji F. (through film linc blog)
Elsa S. (through film linc blog)
Craig K. (through film linc blog)
Bill B. (through Twitter)
Sara B. (through Facebook)
We will message winners, so check your e-mail/facebook/twitters!
From All About Eve to Patton to Fight Club, Experience the Extraordinary History of 20th Century Fox
Did you know that Fox had Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra script bound in Moroccan leather and that they converted an entire building into her dressing room? Did you know that Taylor refused to work for the first two days of her menstrual period and that it was written into her CONTRACT? Let’s not even go into the details her very public on-set affair with co-star Richard Burton, both of whom were married at the time.
Crazy stories like that are part of 20th Century Fox’s colorful history… 75 years worth of history from Shirley Temple to Marilyn Monroe, and from Alien to Avatar. This Labor Day weekend, the Film Society will be celebrating the anniversary with a weekend of screenings and special appearances, including newly restored prints and 70mm epics.
I wonder how many New Yorkers have seen a pristine print of M*A*S*H or the director’s cut of Alien on the big screen. Plus, some of the screenings will feature in-person appearances by Elliot Gould, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, and Kathryn Altman.
Read on for highlights and video clips:
The Sign of Rohmer, August 18 to September 3
Special guest post by NYU Tisch School of the Arts student, Song Soon-Ho.
Claire's Knee
Eric Rohmer, one of the founding figures of the French New Wave, whose films represent wit, charm, and modernity of French cinema, died earlier this year. And this summer, Film Society bids its long-waited farewell with a special program, The Sign of Rohmer. This series will celebrate five decades of the filmmaker’s career featuring all of his films, including the lesser-known shorts.
Announcing the 48th New York Film Festival Main Slate
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Sunday, September 12. Enhanced festival website is coming soon.
Opening Night
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, David Fincher, 2010, USA, 120 min
Centerpiece
THE TEMPEST, Julie Taymor, 2010, USA, 110 min
Closing Night
HEREAFTER, Clint Eastwood, 2010, USA, 126 min
ANOTHER YEAR, Mike Leigh, 2010, UK, 129 min
AURORA, Cristi Puiu, 2010, Romania, 181 min
BLACK VENUS, (Venus noire), Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 166 min
CARLOS, Olivier Assayas, 2010, France, 319 min
CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conformé), Abbas Kiarostami, 2010, France/Italy, 106 min
FILM SOCIALISME, Jean-Luc Godard, 2010, Switzerland, 101 min
INSIDE JOB, Charles Ferguson, 2010, USA, 120 min
LE QUATTRO VOLTE, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010, Italy, 88 min
LENNON NYC, Michael Epstein, 2010, USA, 115 min
MEEK'S CUTOFF, Kelly Reichardt, 2010, USA, 104 min
MY JOY (Schastye moe), Sergei Loznitsa, 2010, Ukraine/Germany, 127 min
MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Misterios de Lisboa), Raul Ruiz, Portugal/France, 272 min
OF GODS AND MEN (Des homes et des dieux), Xavier Beauvois, 2010, France, 120 min
OKI'S MOVIE (Ok hui ui yeonghwa), Hong Sang-soo, 2010, South Korea, 80 min
OLD CATS (Gatos viejos), Sebastian Silva, 2010, Chile, 88 min
POETRY (Shi), Lee Chang-dong, 2010, South Korea, 139 min
POST MORTEM, Pablo Larrain, 2010, Chile/Mexico/Germany, 98 min
REVOLUCION, Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Embecke, Amat Escalante, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo Garcia, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Carlos Reygadas, Patricia Riggen, 2010, Mexico, 110 min
THE ROBBER (Der Räuber), Benjamin Heisenberg, Austria/Germany, 90 min
ROBINSON IN RUINS, Patrick Keiller, 2010, UK, 101 min
SILENT SOULS (Ovsyanki), Alexei Fedorchenko, Russia, 75 min
THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (O estranho caso de Angélica), Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 97 min
TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (Marti, dupa craciun), Radu Muntean, Romania, 99 min
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL PAST LIVES (Lung Boonmee raluek chat), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, UK/Thailand, 113 min
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (Somos lo que hay), Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico, 90 min
What a Movie About Twitter Might Look Like
For your Friday afternoon enjoyment, "The Twit Network."
Oh, and remember to follow us on Twitter @filmlinc.
Not Quite Hollywood: This Week, Two Chances to Take in Awesomely Offbeat Cinema of Oz
In the latest issue of Film Comment magazine, Laura Kern takes us inside the latest offering from Blue-Tongue Films, a loose collective of young, mostly Aussie filmmaking talent. Animal Kingdom, playing as a part of Film Comment Selects on Tuesday night, is "based on a particularly volatile chapter in Melbourne’s history—the late Seventies through the early Nineties, when there was little distinction between cop and criminal—and specifically on a murder-revenge case known as the Walsh Street killings," writes Kern. In the article, she praises the characterizations in this intimate drama as "electrifying," as well as drawing attention to the film's taut pacing:" for the entire duration the sense of unease is relentless, the nerve-wracking sound design and use of slow motion impeccable."
See the film in advance of its official release on Tuesday, August 10 at 9pm. Click here for tickets...
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This Wednesday: Director Floyd Mutrux in person with Dusty and Sweets McGee and American Hot Wax!
"Of all the anomalous movies released by the major Hollywood studios during the Seventies, the strangest is Dusty and Sweets McGee."
-Thom Andersen, Film Comment
FILM COMMENT DOUBLE FEATURE: Dusty and Sweets McGee/American Hot Wax
Join us as Film Comment presents two key films by an unsung hero of the New American Cinema of the Seventies, Floyd Mutrux. "More a legend than a cult film," in the words of Thom Andersen, Mutrux's directorial debut Dusty and Sweets McGee is an ensemble depiction of heroin addicts on the streets of Los Angeles. Released by Warner Bros. in July 1971 and then quickly withdrawn, it has screened very seldom since.
American Hot Wax recounts the career of controversial 1950s D.J. Alan Freed, who introduced "the Devil's music" to the airwaves. The film features Jerry Lee Lewis and Jay Leno in supporting roles.
After the 6:30pm screening of Dusty and Sweets McGee, Mutrux will discuss his use of the landscape and locales of Los Angeles and the place pop music occupies in his work with Andersen, director of the acclaimed essay film Los Angeles Plays Itself.
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