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Dear Friends, film starts here I hope you have enjoyed the beautiful weather we’ve had this summer and, of course, a few movies here at the Film Society.

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Kick off your fall and spend Labor Day weekend with the Godfather of Soul James Brown and then soak in the one-of-a-kind world of John Waters. Catch up on your New film engages here York Film Festival history with NYFF Opening Acts by watching earlier works by today’s most energizing and important directors. Then dive right in to the 52nd New York Film ­Festival itself and see the work of master filmmakers alongside new talents. film provokes here Your support of our year-round work allows us to continue to inspire and challenge past, present, and future generations of filmmakers and filmgoers and provide a welcoming environment to all those who love film.

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festivals festivals 1 Photo byLawrence Irvine, ©Dreamland Productions.Courtesy ofTheKobal Collection Fifty Years ofJohnWaters: HowMuch CanYou Take? & series & The Blues Brothers Soul Power he work of James Brown was something radically new in the landscape of ’60s pop music: a marriage of movement and voice that felt both tightly regulated and out of control. It’s Tno surprise that Brown, whose art relied so heavily on gesture and dance, had a special relationship with the camera. Much of his finest work can be found in his film appearances, of which this series represents the cream of the crop. Antidote Films USA/The Kobal Collection Universal/The Kobal Collection

Black Caesar Ski Party Larry Cohen, USA, 1973, 35mm, 87m Alan Rafkin, USA, 1965, 35mm, 90m In this furious Blaxploitation riff on the Hollywood gang- Brown made an unforgettably zany cameo in this prime ster film, for which Brown composed the soundtrack, a example of ’60s youth movie, skiing uninvited into a cabin poor black shoeshine boy takes out a corrupt mob boss, full of teenagers and launching into a spontaneous rendi- only to accept the white man’s power structures when he tion of “I Feel Good.” With Frankie Avalon and Dwayne himself gains control. Hickman. August 29, 8:30pm August 29, 4:30pm August 30, 6:30pm August 30, 4:30pm

The Blues Brothers Soul Power James John Landis, USA, 1980, 35mm, 133m Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, USA, 2008, 35mm, 92m The Blues Brothers’s big-screen debut, a trigger-happy Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, the editor of When We Were Kings, action odyssey featuring Brown as a roof-raising gospel directed this exhilarating portrait of the three-day music preacher, remains their crowning achievement and sees festival held in Kinshasa before the Ali-Foreman match, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi at the height of their featuring, among many others, B.B King, Bill Withers, The comedic and dramatic powers. Spinners, and Brown at his finest. August 30, 8:30pm August 29, 6:30pm Brown September 1, 3:15pm August 30, 2:30pm James Brown Performance Compilation The T.A.M.I. Show Digital projection, approx. 75m Steve Binder, USA, 1964, 16mm, 123m A truly one-of-a-kind assortment of of the Godfather The Holy Grail of concert films—featuring Brown in an The Hardest Working of Soul, on stage and in his element. Spanning multiple earth-shaking, career-defining performance—is a show- periods of his career and featuring invaluable footage case for American pop music at the undisputed height of of Brown on The Ed Sullivan Show and Soul Street, this its passion, humor, pathos, virtuosity, and vigor. selection finds Mr. Dynamite workin’ it as only he could. August 31, 2:00pm & 6:30pm Man in Show Business August 31, 4:30pm & 9:00pm When We Were Kings Rocky IV Leon Gast, USA, 1996, 35mm, 88m August 29 – September 1 Sylvester Stallone, USA, 1985, 35mm, 91m Leon Gast’s now-classic documentary on the “Rumble The Italian Stallion went up against a cartoonishly impas- in the Jungle” is a snapshot of a moment when black sive Soviet “mountain of muscle” in Stallone’s bombastic Americans were starting to embrace their African heri- Special Holiday Weekend Pricing! Reagan-era take on U.S.-Russia relations, capped by a tage—thanks in part to the example of Muhammad Ali, standout Brown performance of “Living in America.” whose irrepressible presence dominates the film. SPECIAL THANKS: Adam Sekuler; Joe Lauro & Historic Films Archive September 1, 1:15pm & 6:00pm September 1, 8:00pm festivals & series 2 3 James brown Cecil B. Demented John Waters, USA, 2000, 35mm, 87m fifty years of Stephen Dorff and star as, respectively, the leader of a guerrilla band of horny misfit filmmakers (the Sprocket Holes), and the A-list movie star they kid- nap, Patty Hearst–style, in Waters’s freewheeling attack on the Hollywood star system. September 12, 7:00pm (Q&A with John Waters) Photo by Lawrence Irvine, © Dreamland Productions

Special Event: Celluloid Atrocity Night! The Kobal Collection Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime evening as John Waters John Waters presents his first two features, and Multiple Maniacs, along with early short The Diane Linkletter Story, all on 16mm. These exceedingly rare prints are from Waters’s personal collection, and probably screening for How Much the last time ever! Waters will be joined onstage for a con- versation with critic Dennis Dermody. Featuring: Multiple Maniacs John Waters, USA, 1970, 16mm, 90m Can You The Diane Linkletter Story John Waters, USA, 1970, 16mm, 10m Mondo Trasho John Waters, USA, 1969, 16mm, 95m Take? September 11, 7:00pm

Cry-Baby John Waters, USA, 1990, 35mm, 85m Johnny Depp—already a teen icon for playing the lead on TV’s 21 Jump Street—appears as the titular bad-boy hero of Waters’s raucous, exuberant salute to the teen rock ’n’ roll films of the 1950s. With supporting turns by Joe Dallesandro, Traci Lords, and Iggy Pop. September 13, 3:00pm Fine Line Features/The Kobal Collection September 14, 8:00pm

Desperate Living John Waters, USA, 1977, 35mm, 90m Waters’s self-described “fairy tale for fucked-up children” was the last of his truly independent productions: a cata- log of horrors that veers between comedy and disgust and in which no taboo is left unbroken. September 7, 6:30pm

A Dirty Shame John Waters, USA, 2004, 35mm, 89m Cry-Baby For his last completed film to date, Waters combined the september 5–14 encyclopedic, freak-show flair of his earlier movies with the gentler tone of his later tributes to specific, defunct genres—in this case, the sexploitation film. With Tracey ver the course of 12 features—six maniacal midnight-movie classics and six subversive Ullman, Selma Blair, and Johnny Knoxville. exercises in genre revision made on the fringes of Hollywood—John Waters has created September 13, 5:00pm Photo by Henry Garfunkel © NBC Universal one of the most influential and beloved bodies of work in all of American underground O John Waters, USA, 1974, 35mm, 89m cinema. As part of our complete retrospective, Waters will also present a series of films, from British This hysterical, full-throated assault on celebrity culture domestic melodramas to Hollywood horror franchises, that, in his words, “I’m jealous I didn’t make.” pivots on an unforgettable performance by as a runaway who becomes a media icon in what might be the fullest expression of Waters’s career-long interest in the relationship of beauty to transgression and crime. Private See it all with an Access Pass, available for just $99! Opening Night party hosted by New Wave. See pg 26. September 5, 6:30pm (Q&A with John Waters SPECIAL THANKS: Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, LD Entertainment, Swedish Film Institute moderated by J. Hoberman) September 10, 9:00pm festivals & series 4 5 John Waters Pink Flamingos Crash The Mother John Waters, USA, 1988, 35mm, 92m

Ricki Lake stars as a heavyset teenager on a mission Photo by Lawrence I rvine, © Dreamland Productions. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection

to integrate a local TV dance show in this affectionate, Columbia TriStar/The Kobal Collection PG-rated tribute to growing up in early-1960s Baltimore that gave Waters an unexpected breakthrough hit—and BBC/Free Range Films/The Kobal featured Divine’s final screen performance. September 7, 4:30pm Collection/Ivan Kyncl

Pecker John Waters, USA, 1998, 35mm, 87m A send-up of the New York art world that is also a lov- ing, detailed portrait of working-class life in Baltimore —where Waters, by the time of the film’s production, had become a bona fide local hero—and a sort-of allegory for Waters’s own rise to fame. September 14, 4:00pm John Waters Presents: Pink Flamingos John Waters, USA, 1972, 35mm, 93m Waters’s best-known and most controversial film, star- “Movies I’m Jealous I Didn’t Make” ring Divine as a trailer-park resident competing with her neighbors for the title of “filthiest person alive,” is a defiant laugh in the face of convention and a classic of ere they are—eight extreme, astoundingly perverse, darkly funny, and, most importantly, transgressive cinema. supremely surprising films that turn me green with envy. Why oh why can’t I make films like September 13, 9:15pm September 14, 6:00pm Hthese—ones that jolted me out of all cinematic lethargy? Exploitation, art, horror? There’s no Polyester such thing as genre when you’ve slipped to the other side of cinema-sanity. See for yourself John Waters, USA, 1981, DCP, 86m early Shorts by that drove me beyond the pale of normal movie madness. Jealousy over other directors’ careers is a Divine plays a sharp-nosed suburban housewife caught between the demands of her philandering porn-hawking john waters (free!) terrible thing to waste.—John Waters husband, her go-go dancer daughter, and her glue- September 5, 4:00pm sniffing son in Waters’s typically subversive take on September 6, 5:00pm & 9:30pm the Hollywood melodrama, employing his scintillating September 7, 6:30pm & 8:30pm Before I Forget The Mother TM Odorama . September 11, 5:00pm Jacques Nolot, France, 2007, 35mm, 108m Roger Michell, USA, 2003, 35mm, 112m September 6, 7:30pm (in Odorama) Join us for free screenings of the young Waters’s very This wonderfully depressing movie about an older HIV- A recently widowed grandmother turns horny and first forays into filmmaking. Made in his late teens and positive man is brave, funny, gayly incorrect, and smart has a secret affair with her daughter’s much younger, as a whip. The shitting-in-your-pants-when-you-try-to- loutish boyfriend (played by pre-Bond Daniel Craig). John Waters, USA, 1994, 35mm, 95m early twenties, these embryonic, DIY shorts are wildly subversive and scandalously irreverent, a glimpse of an go-out-cruising scene is one I will never be able to shake. Gerontophilia never seemed so exciting. A conscientious mother of two (Kathleen Turner, in a rafter- September 14, 1:45pm September 6, 5:00pm shaking performance) casually takes up serial murder out already prodigious talent. of a combination of boredom and mild irritation at per- Hag in a Black Leather Jacket Crash Night Games ceived slights and faux pas in Waters’s scathing suburban David Cronenberg, Canada/UK, 1996, 35mm, 100m Mai Zetterling, Sweden, 1966, 35mm, 105m satire, a kind of spiritual sequel to Polyester. John Waters, USA, 1964, 17m In Waters’s first short—shot on stolen 8mm film for $30 A hilariously brilliant and erotic movie about car crashes The Swedish art shocker that made board mem- September 5, 9:15pm (introduction by John Waters) and the sexual cultists who fetishize them. ber Shirley Temple Black quit the San Francisco September 6, 3:00pm on his parents’ rooftop when he was still a teenager—a wedding ceremony between an African-American man September 13, 7:00pm International Film Festival in protest over their refusal and a white ballerina takes a turn for the surreal. to pull it from the screening schedule. Final Destination September 6, 9:30pm Roman Candles James Wong, USA/Canada, 2000, 35mm, 98m John Waters, USA, 1966, 40m I’m a sucker for plane-crash scenes, and the opening of Of Unknown Origin Commemorate this Under the influence of Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, Waters this “you can’t cheat death” nail-biter was so suspense- George P. Cosmatos, Canada/USA, 1983, 35mm, 88m ful and horrifying that it spawned four sequels (all good, The best rat movie ever. Period. End of discussion. special occasion with a designed this free-form, disruptive collage of image and sound, working for the first time with many of the too!). You’ll never tell anyone to “have a safe flight” again. September 10, 7:00pm limited-edition tote bag actors—Divine, , —who would September 12, 9:30pm (introduction by John Waters) available exclusively at soon become constant presences in his life and work. Thérèse Killer Joe Alain Cavalier, France, 1986, 35mm, 94m the Film Society! Eat Your Makeup William Friedkin, USA, 2011, 35mm, 102m The insane life of nutcase Saint Theresa, told in a Available for purchase online John Waters, USA, 1968, 45m The best Russ Meyer film of the decade—only it’s haunting, minimalist way. Yes, she was in love with at filmlinc.com/shop or on-site Maelcum Soul plays a nanny who forces young women directed by an 80-year-old William Friedkin, proving the Jesus—but does that make her a bad person? Catholic at the Film Society theaters. to suffer brutal deaths-by-modeling in Waters’s first nar- adage “old chickens make good soup.” Gina Gershon, lunacy at its most disturbing. rative short, which also includes a 17-year-old Divine your performance here shocked me raw! September 7, 2:30pm doing his best Jackie Kennedy impression. September 7, 8:30pm festivals & series 6 7 John waters Stop the Pounding Heart Love Unto Death Dussart/Films Ariane/Films A2/The Kobal Collection

r o b e r t o minervini’s TEXAS TRILOGY september 19–25 september 19–25 talian-born Roberto Minervini strips away Lone OPENING The Passage Star preconceptions in a trilogy of films that bur- Roberto Minervini, USA/Belgium, 2011, DCP, 85m A middle-aged woman living alone in a border town is Irow deep into the mores of his new homeland. diagnosed with terminal cancer, befriends an ex-con, Observant but unobtrusive, Minervini merges docu- and convinces him to drive her to a faith healer in Marfa, acts Texas. Minervini’s graceful feature debut reveals a keen mentary and neo­realist techniques to render his ear for regional expression and a generosity of spirit com- parable to Sayles and Linklater. ith the 52nd annual New York Film Festival on the horizon, the Film Society invites you stories, and the people inhabiting them, with dignity September 21, 4:30pm to whet your appetite with a sampling of past triumphs by its Main Slate directors. From David September 23, 7:00pm W and compassion. Fincher to to the late , NYFF Opening Acts takes you deep into the back Low Tide Roberto Minervini, USA/Italy/Belgium, 2012, DCP, 92m catalogs of today’s foremost talents. Bearing traces of Huck Finn and Antoine Doinel, Low Tide’s nameless adolescent hero runs errands and cares for his substance-abusing mother. Minervini’s second All Is Forgiven Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. feature casts nonprofessionals to magnificently truthful Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 2007, 35mm, 105m September 25, 9:00pm effect and demonstrates his characteristic sensitivity for Mia Hansen-Løve makes her feature debut with this small Texas towns and their resilient denizens. sensitive chronicle of estrangement, redemption, and Bleak Moments September 21, 7:00pm the indissoluble parent-child bond, rendered emotionally Mike Leigh, UK, 1971, 35mm, 111m September 24, 7:00pm without a hint of bathos. Her efforts earned her a César Hailed as a masterpiece by before most of the The Passage nomination for Best First Film. world knew the director’s name, Leigh’s eloquent study of Low Tide September 20, 6:15pm unexamined lives remains as nuanced and humanistic as Opens September 19 his best later works, combining kitchen-sink realism with Stop the Pounding Heart Biggie and Tupac the emotional incisiveness of Cassavetes. NYFF18 (1980) Roberto Minervini, Belgium/Italy/USA, 2013, DCP, 100m Nick Broomfield, UK, 2002, 35mm, 108m September 22, 6:30pm Minervini’s third film is an authentic, impartial portrayal of Nick Broomfield adds to his canon of tabloid investiga- the Texas Bible Belt and an intimate, documentary-style tive journalism (Kurt & Courtney, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood portrait of a sheltered teen, one of 12 children from a Madam), using tactics that beggar description to score , USA, 1997, 35mm, 155m devout Christian family, who finds herself quietly drawn interviews with key figures in the murders of rappers A sprawling, brilliantly acted mosaic of the adult- to a young man from a vastly different background. ND/NF 2014 Official Selection. A Big World Pictures release. SPECIAL THANKS: Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy roberto minervini 8 9 NYFF opening acts Boogie Nights film industry from its ’70s heyday to its Reagan Era decline. “A big, bright, shining star” in the firmament of American film. With , , and a poignant . NYFF35 (1997) new york film festival September 21, 7:30pm

Cold Water Olivier Assayas, France, 1994, 35mm, 92m Two troubled teens steal, elude capture, crash a house party in the country, and set out for a storied artists’ commune. Writer/director Olivier Assayas culls this evocative tale of rebellion and rootlessness in the early

New Line/The Kobal Collection ’70s from his own autobiography. NYFF32 (1994) September 20, 8:45pm

The Color Wheel , USA, 2011, 35mm, 83m Alex Ross Perry’s second feature is an astonishing work of pathos and cynical vitriol, following sad-sack Colin and his irrepressible narcissist sister JR as they hit the road and plunge headfirst into a world that is some- how even crueler than they are. Q&A with director! September 22, 9:00pm

Corpo celeste Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/France/, 2011, 35mm, 100m Alice Rohrwacher’s extraordinarily impressive debut feature chronicles 13-year-old Marta’s private duel with the Church, carried out under the shadow of the physi- cal changes coursing through her and set in a small Film Four/Lafayette Films/The Kobal Collection seaside Calabrian town. NYFF49 (2011) September 20, 1:30pm

Love Unto Death Alain Resnais, France, 1984, 35mm, 92m An atheist couple come to grips with a near-death experience while their married pastor friends struggle with the suicide of a parishioner in Resnais’s heartfelt rumination on love, death, and what awaits us on “the other side.” September 25, 6:45pm Biggie and Tupac Los Muertos Zodiac Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/France/Netherlands/Swit- zer- land, 2004, 35mm, 78m ND Long takes of inordinate beauty coalesce with images THE 52 NEW YORK of natural horror as a convicted murderer journeys FILM FESTIVAL upriver through the Argentine jungle to see his daugh- Paramount/Warner Bros./The Kobal Collection/Merrick Morton ter after 20 years in prison in this immersive odyssey. SEPTEMBER 26–OCTOBER 12, 2014 Q&A with director! September 19, 6:45pm ALICE TULLY HALL Zodiac ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER David Fincher, USA, 2007, 35mm, 157m WALTER READE THEATER David Fincher invokes palpable dread and sustains it for nearly three hours in this meticulous account of the Zodiac killings and the cost of unsolved crimes to the souls of dedicated crime fighters. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., and Mark Ruffalo. September 19, 9:00pm © Laurie Simmons Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York nyff opening acts 10 11 new york film festival MAIN SLATE MAIN SLATE PROJECTIONS Two Days, The Occidental Hotel One Night

MAIN SLATE MAIN SLATE MAIN SLATE Timbuktu Misunderstood Beloved Sisters main slate | spotlight on documentary revivals | projections | convergence Joseph L. Mankiewicz retrospective NYFF talks | special events Ladd Company/Warner Bros./The Kobal Collection REVIVALS The Color of Pomegranates

SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY Red Army 20th Century Fox/The Kobal Collection

RETROSPECTIVE RETROSPECTIVE convergence REVIVALS People Will Talk Guys and Dolls Last Hijack Once Upon a Time in America DOWNLOAD THE APP TODAY! AVAILABLE FOR iOS OR ANDROID VIEW THE LINEUP AND LEARN MORE AT FILMLINC.COM/NYFF festivals & series 12 13 new york film festival On the occasion of her centenary, we present a retrospective of novelist ­investigation that brings out her morbid impulses in Marguerite Duras, who broke into film with her elliptical screenplay for Alain this moody, deliberate drama directed by theater giant Duras Shorts Program Resnais’s , opening in re-release on October 17. That Peter Brook. Co-scripted by Duras from her novel. October 21, 7:00pm October 16, 6:30pm Three featured shorts demonstrate Duras’s experiments film’s radical disjunction of sound and image evolved into her signature over October 21, 5:00pm with sound, as voiceover replaces dialogue and associa- By the course of her 19 formally daring works. tions between aural and visual elements must be inferred. Nathalie Granger Marguerite Duras, France, 1972, 35mm, 83m Cesarée The woman’s picture gets the Duras treatment with Marguerite Duras, France, 1978, 35mm, 11m dashes of absurdism in this spare account of two Duras’s heartrending narration elegizes Queen female cohabitants (Lucia Bosé and Jeanne Moreau) Berenice, banished from Rome by Emperor Titus in and their assorted vexations. the First Century. Footage consists of discarded shots Marguerite October 15, 4:30pm from Le Navire Night, with the Seine and Tuileries Détruire dit-elle October 18, 7:00pm Gardens “playing” the title locale, the speculative site of Berenice’s exile. Le Navire Night

Ancinex/The Kobal Collection Marguerite Duras, France, 1979, 35mm, 95m L’Homme atlantique Ever the iconoclast, Duras proffers two lovers who Marguerite Duras, France, 1981, 35mm, 42m never meet face to face, sequestering them in dark In this avant-garde short, Duras uses outtakes from DurasNathalie Granger rooms and cutting to empty streets as their words take Agatha et les lectures illimitées, removing Agatha and

Mouflet Et Cie/The Kobal Collection on lives of their own. leaving only the voice and likeness of her brother (Yann October 17, 7:00pm Andréa). Duras scholar Leslie Hill contends that for the first time in her work, “the gap between image and sound Sauve qui peut (la vie) / Every Man for Himself is now aligned with the fissure of sexual difference itself.” Jean-Luc Godard, France/Austria/West Germany/ Switzerland, 1980, 35mm, 87m Nuit noire, Calcutta Godard returns to character-based storytelling with Marin Karmitz, France, 1964, 35mm, 24m this cerebral portrait of restless, intertwining lives, Duras scripted this sketch of Jean, a writer struggling to october 15–22 survival in a capitalist state, and the myriad forms complete a Calcutta-based novel while battling alcohol- self-debasement can take, featuring an unforgettable ism and creative impotence. Most of the text is spoken anti-cameo by Duras. off-screen, evoking dislocation that’s echoed visually in October 17, 9:15pm the world beyond Jean’s window. With Maurice Garrel. Agatha et les lectures illimitées doesn’t wish to learn, believing knowledge serves Marguerite Duras, France, 1981, 35mm, 85m no purpose in a bankrupt world, in Duras’s final fea- Hiroshima Mon Amour at the shore. A brother and ture, a comment on vanishing childhood and untimely sister confront the nature of their relationship and try disillusionment. to break with the past. Duras foregrounds voiceover October 17, 4:30pm and vacant interior space to mirror the film’s reflective October 22, 4:30pm themes. October 21, 8:30pm Marguerite Duras, France, 1975, 35mm, 120m Le Camion / The Truck Delphine Seyrig is hypnotic as the wife of a disgraced Marguerite Duras, France, 1977, 35mm, 80m diplomat, suffering from “leprosy of the soul” in 1930s Duras and Gérard Depardieu sit and read from the India. With elaborate style, Duras captures the empti- script of a film that might have been, about an older ness of life in a gilded cage. woman hitching a ride with a trucker, in one of the October 15, 6:30pm director’s most beguiling yet accessible features. October 17, 2:00pm October 16, 8:30pm October 22, 2:30pm Mademoiselle Tony Richardson, France/UK, 1966, 35mm, 103m Détruire dit-elle / Destroy, She Said Duras adapted Jean Genet’s story of a repressed Marguerite Duras, France, 1969, 35mm, 98m schoolteacher who causes mayhem in her village and Duras’s solo directorial debut concerns four alienated blames an Italian woodcutter, in this lurid and scathing guests at an isolated hotel surrounded by dense for- indictment of humanity. Ancinex/The Kobal Collection est, and the effects of proximity and claustrophobia on October 16, 4:30pm their volatile identities. October 18, 9:15pm October 15, 9:00pm Les Enfants Peter Brook, France/Italy, 1960, 35mm, 91m Marguerite Duras, France, 1985, 35mm, 94m A bored wife and mother (Jeanne Moreau in a Cannes Seven-year-old Ernesto leaves school because he award-winning role) embroils herself in a murder

SPECIAL THANKS: Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy festivals & series 14 15 by marguerite duras Krzysztof Kies´ lowski’s decalogue october 24–26

n this masterwork of modern cinema, initially aired as a series on Polish television, influen- Itial filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Col- ors trilogy) brings his Solidarity-era characters face to face with the Bible’s Ten Commandments. The complete cycle of 10 self-contained, hour- special long “episodes” will be shown in 35mm over one weekend, making it possible to plunge headfirst into Kieślowski’s enigmatic and poignantly hu- man world. Plus, explore the role of morality in human evolution, a central theme in Kieślowski’s work, with a free talk on October 25. programs

Time Regained: The Films of Lav Diaz Presented in association with the White Light Festival Century of Birthing

festivals & series 16 17 one-night-only events Double Feature

JEFF KOONS–WORLD PREMIERE Jeff, Embrace Your Past Two films for the price of one!

Jeff, Embrace Your Past United Artists/The Kobal Collection United Artists/The Kobal Collection Roger Teich, USA, 2013, HDCAM, 40m Semi-Tough The Return of the Pink Teich’s compelling documentary, filmed in and around Panther Jeff Koons’s 1992 solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is a multi-sided portrait of a man whose work continues to raise difficult questions about the role of the artist in society. Q&A with filmmaker. September 17, 7:00pm

La Ciudad at Fifteen La Ciudad David Riker, USA, 1998, Newly Remastered DCP, 88m Filmed over the course of seven years with a cast of Burt Reynolds, Football Pro Pink Panther 50th Anniversary mostly nonprofessional immigrant workers, La Ciudad is September 16, 6:30pm October 23, 6:30pm a unique portrait of New York at the end of the last cen- La Ciudad Semi-Tough The Return of the Pink Panther tury, and a powerful exploration of what it means to be Michael Ritchie, USA, 1977, 35mm, 107m Blake Edwards, UK, 1974, 35mm, 113m American. This 15th Anniversary screening features a Playing professional football player roomies, Reynolds A decade after the first two installments of thePink Panther discussion with the filmmaker and cast members. and Kris Kristofferson co-star with Jill Clayburgh in this series, Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards reteam, scaling October 22, 7:30pm romantic comedy send-up of the self-improvement new heights of comic mayhem and mangled English - “human potential movement” adapted from Dan Jenkins’s logue at the hands of the incompetent Inspector Clouseau. SOUND + VISION presents 1972 novel by veteran screenwriter Walter Bernstein. Co-starring Christopher Plummer and Herbert Lom. Staring at Sound: Emar Diem As part of our ongoing music documentary series, enjoy an Followed by The Longest Yard Followed by The Pink Panther Strikes Again exciting lineup of intimate concerts paired with bound- Photo by Victor Sira Robert Aldrich, USA, 1974, 35mm, 122m Blake Edwards, UK, 1976, 35mm, 103m ary- pushing video work. Staring at Sound kicks off with Sentenced to one year in a Florida State Prison for drunk Peter Sellers’s comic genius is on full display again in the Emar Diem, an improvised collaboration between David driving, former NFL star Crewe (Reynolds) is blackmailed by fifth installment of the series, but the great Herbert Lom is Moore and Mauro Remiddi, aka Porcelain Raft. the warden (Eddie Albert) to help train the guards’ football not far behind, with his twitching, psychotic Dreyfus, now October 23, 7:00pm team for an upcoming semi-professional championship. transformed into a James Bond–style supervillain, intent on eliminating the bumbling Clouseau.

time regained: the films of lav diaz “There’s no other cinema magazine remotely like it.”—Steven Soderbergh is the award-winning magazine published bimonthly by The most complete American retrospective to date of the major, criminally underseen Filipino the Film Society. For over 50 years, it has served as a critical window onto the state of world cinema, featur- master continues now through February 2015 with one screening per month from Lav Diaz’s ing essays, interviews, festival coverage, reviews, and more. Learn why it’s the preferred film magazine of remarkable body of work. critics, filmmakers, and film lovers around the globe. FILMCOMMENT.COM

Century of Birthing Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2011, HDCAM, 360m In this interrogation of faith confronted by disaster, a tor- THE MET: LIVE in hd tured filmmaker (modeled after Diaz) struggles to finish Experience the thrill of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014–2015 season live on the big screen! his magnum opus, crossing paths with a cult leader, an Macbeth Verdi’s Macbeth investigative photographer, and a philosophical poet. Starring Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Željko Lučić, September 21, 1:00pm René Pape. Conducted by Fabio Luisi. October 13, 12:55pm & 5:55pm (Encore) Batang West Side Lav Diaz, Philippines/USA, 2001, 35mm, 315m New Production: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro The sidewalk murder of a Filipino teen from Jersey City Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Marlis Petersen, Isabel starts a police investigation that reveals an underworld of Leonard, Peter Mattei, Ildar Abdrazakov. Conducted by crystal meth and gang warfare in Diaz’s study of the myth James Levine. of the American dream. October 18, 12:55pm (Live) October 19, 1:00pm Le Nozze di Figaro October 20, 12:55pm (Encore)

Batang West Side SPECIAL THANKS: Austrian Film Museum special programs 18 19 special programs The Congress Opens September 5 – Exclusive First Week The Congress Ari Folman, Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg/ France/Belgium, 2013, DCP, 122m Robin Wright plays an aging, out-of-work actress who reluctantly accepts her final offer—preserving her digital image for future Hollywood productions over which she will have no control—in this mix of live action and psyche- delic animation from the director of the Oscar-nominated . A Drafthouse Films release.

Opens September 12 – Exclusive One Week Only © William Laxton Stray Dogs Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France, 2013, DCP, 138m Tsai Ming-liang’s fable of a homeless family living the cruel- est of existences on the ragged edges of the modern world is bracingly pure in its anger and its compassion, and as visually powerful as it is emotionally overwhelm- ing. One of the finest works of an extraordinary artist. NYFF51 Official Selection. A Cinema Guild release.

Opens September 19 – Exclusive One Week Only Stop the Pounding Heart Roberto Minervini, Belgium/Italy/USA, 2013, DCP, 100m Minervini’s third film is an authentic, impartial portrayal of Stray Dogs the Texas Bible Belt and an intimate, documentary-style portrait of a sheltered teenage girl from a devout Christian family who finds herself drawn to a young man from a vastly different background. A Big World Pictures release. Screening as part of Robert Minervini’s Texas Trilogy. See pg. 8.

Opens October 17 – Two Weeks Only Listen Up Philip Alex Ross Perry, USA, 2014, DCP, 108m Perry’s sly portrait of artistic egomania, a brazen mix- ture of bitter humor and unexpected pathos, stars Jason Schwartzman as a precocious literary star, as his long-suffering girlfriend, and Jonathan Pryce as a Philip Roth–like literary lion. NYFF52 Official Stop the Pounding Heart Selection. A Tribeca Film release. Director in person! ©

Opens October 17 – Two Weeks Only Hiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais, France/Japan, 1959, 4K DCP, 90m Written by Marguerite Duras and starring (Oscar nominee for Amour) and Eiji Okada, this debut fea- ture from Alain Resnais is a story told in two tenses about the aftereffect of the atomic bomb as experienced by two lovers in Hiroshima. One of the great masterworks of modern cinema, long unavailable and now fully restored. NEW NYFF52 Official Selection. A Rialto Pictures release. Plus, on the occasion of her centenary, don’t miss a retrospective of Listen Up Philip Marguerite Duras (Oct 15–22). See pgs. 14-15. Hiroshima Mon Amour Opens October 29 – Two Weeks Only Jean-Luc Godard, France, 2014, DCP, 70m Godard’s 43rd feature, shot in 3-D and “starring” his RELEASES beloved dog Roxy, is a work of great freedom and joy, as impossible to summarize as a poem by Wallace Stevens or a Messiaen quartet. It was the only film at the 2014 to get a round of applause mid-screening. Goodbye to Language NYFF52 Official Selection. A Lorber release.

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