Barbra Streisand to Receive 40th Annual Chaplin Award
Film Society is thrilled to announce that we will be honoring the two-time Academy Award winner at this year's landmark 40th Chaplin Award Gala on Monday, April 22, 2013!
Nagisa Oshima: The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Film Society Director of Programming Robert Koehler reflects on the life and legacy of the provocative filmmaker and the transgressive cinema moment he helped create in 1960s Japan.
A Close-Up of Abbas Kiarostami
We're thrilled to announce a comprehensive retrospective of the beloved Iranian master, including crowning achievements (Taste of Cherry, the Koker Trilogy), early features (The Experience, The Traveler), and little-seen docs and shorts (Fellow Citizen, "Solution No. 1"), plus a theatrical run of NYFF50 hit Like Someone in Love!
Interview: Radu Gabrea, “Three Days Till Christmas”
Romanian director Radu Gabrea talks about his latest docu-drama about the Romanian revolution and the final three days of the rule of communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena.
Sundance 2013 Selections; Milos Forman DGA Honor; The State of Romanian Cinema
Today's FilmLinc digest has some exciting news for fans of independent film, a troublesome piece on Romanian film culture, and much more!
Interview: “Of Snails and Men”
We sat down with director Tudor Giurgiu and actors Andi Vasluianu and Monica Bîrlădeanu to discuss their Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema opening night film, the true events that inspired it, balancing humor and drama, the Romanian film community, and sperm donation.
Interview: Casey Pugh, “Star Wars Uncut”
Back in June, we interviewed the creator of this shot-by-shot, "crowdsourced" tribute to George Lucas' sci-fi masterpiece, which has an encore screening this Friday in our ongoing midnight movies series!
What Would You Ask Christopher Nolan?
In under 15 years, Nolan has emerged as one of the greatest directors working today. He'll be in person at Film Society later this month to talk with Film Comment about his acclaimed Dark Knight Trilogy.
Interview: Julia Loktev, “The Loneliest Planet”
This NYFF '11 Main Slate selection has been dazzling festival audiences all year and is now in theaters in select cities. We spoke with the Georgian filmmaker about tongue twisters, the editing booth and her award-winning film starring Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg.
Stillness is the Move: Two Films by Keisuke Kinoshita
In two mid-career triumphs, a filmmaker struggles with the toll of fate and the burden of choice, the rush of conscious activity and the comfort—albeit sometimes oppressive—of inaction.
