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ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER 144 WEST 65TH STREET WALTER READE THEATER 165 WEST 65TH STREET FILMLINC.ORG SERIES The Power of the Powerless: Free Events Banned Films from the Czechoslovak New Wave

SEPTEMBER 21–23 The Czecho- slovak New Wave was one of the Photo by Sean DiSerio most radical and brilliant bursts IFC Films Presents: Film Comment Free Talks of creativity in film history. After it came to an abrupt end with the 1968 Ethan Hawke Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Join us for a special conversation with the incomparable actor, filmmaker, and cinephile an intrepid generation of filmmakers Fruit of Paradise Ethan Hawke, whose latest directorial effort, continued to challenge Communist Blaze, opens in New York on September 7 from IFC Films. Based on the life of Blaze censorship with provocative, antiauthoritarian art. The government re- Foley, a lesser known but legendary figure sponded by banning them; many have gone unseen in their home country of the Texas outlaw music movement, played by Ben Dickey, who won Sundance’s for decades. Join us for a selection of subversive, savagely funny, dark, and Special Jury Award for Achievement in defiant films. Presented in collaboration with the Czech Center New York. Acting. Thursday, September 6, 7:30pm See more and save with the 3+ film package. Paul Dano Best known for his performances in Little Case for the New Hangman Fruit of Paradise Miss Sunshine and , Pavel Juracek, Czechoslovakia, 1969, 102m Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia/Belgium, 1970, Dano has made his stunning directorial Inspired by Gulliver’s Travels and infused 99m Vera Chytilova’s follow-up to her avant- debut with the family drama Wildlife, open- with the spirit of Kafka, this darkly surrealist garde landmark Daisies is a radical retelling of ing October 19. He’ll appear for an in-depth fantasia finds Lemuel Gulliver lost in an Adam and Eve, a richly enigmatic odyssey that Film Comment Free Talk about his first effort absurdist authoritarian mirror world that bears a unfolds in a kaleidoscopic swirl of senses-scram- as director and his approach to filmmaking. curious resemblance to 1960s Czechoslovakia. bling sound and image. Saturday, September Thursday, October 18, 7:00pm Saturday, September 22, 4:00pm . Sunday, 22, 8:00pm . Sunday, September 23, 2:00pm September 23, 6:00pm Free Outdoor Films on Daisies TRIBUTE TO Governors Island Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia, 1966, 35mm, 74m A pair of pixieish hell-raisers embark on a MILOS FORMAN The Last Dragon giddy, anything-goes pursuit of hedonistic plea- Black Peter Michael Shultz, USA, 1985, 109m Join us sure, gustatory excess, and patriarchy-smashing Milos Forman, Czechoslovakia, 1964, 85m for the final outdoor screening of the sum- destruction in Vera Chytilova’s exuberantly Milos Forman’s first narrative feature—a wry, mer! Inspired by a similarly named martial experimental call to rebellion. Friday, September sensitive snapshot of an awkward young man artist, Bruce Leroy (Taimak) searches New 21, 9:00pm . Saturday, September 22, 6:15pm stumbling into adulthood—laid the foundation York for a master to help him achieve the for the Czechoslovak New Wave with its air of highest form of martial-arts enlightenment, The End of a Priest brash irreverence and youthful abandon. Friday, “The Glow.” Set to an amazing soundtrack Evald Schorm, Czechoslovakia, 1969, 35mm, September 21, 7:00pm . Sunday, September produced by Berry Gordy, this delightful cult 98m One of four films notoriously banned 23, 4:00pm classic was filmed all over the city. “forever” by the Czech Communist government, Screening with: Hernia this blasphemous black comedy charts the Organized by Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson Jason Giampietro, USA, 2015, 12m chaos that erupts when a charlatan priest is Friday, September 14; Pre-show enter- Acknowledgments: Czech Center New York, Marie Dvorakova, appointed minister to a singularly sinful flock of Barbara Karpetova; Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association, tainment at 7:00pm, film begins at dusk. Joseph Balaz; Czech National Film Archive; Vaclav Havel’s 1978 parishioners. Saturday, September 22, 2:00pm essay The Power of the Powerless (Moc bezmocnych) Series produced by Rooftop Films . Sunday, September 23, 8:15pm

FOR TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG SPECIAL EVENTS Dennis Cooper Carte Blanche Marnie

SEPTEMBER 5–6 On the occasion of the premiere of their new feature film,Permanent Green Light, we invited Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley to program two films they had on their minds while making it. The works they selected share their own film’s aesthetic concerns and eerie atmosphere of

political indeterminacy: Philippe Grandrieux’s transfixing Un lac and James Photo by Universal/Kobal /REX/Shutterstock Benning’s anti-psychological take on “true crime,” Landscape Suicide. Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1964, 35mm, 130m Cooper and Farley will introduce both films, elaborating on the connections To celebrate the October 19th premiere of Nico between these haunting works and Permanent Green Light. Muhly’s Marnie at the Metropolitan Opera, the Film Society presents a panel discussion and screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 film version. Marnie, which scholar Robin Wood called “one of Hitchcock’s richest, most fully achieved and mature masterpieces,” unfolds as an uncanny mystery, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery as a tormented couple locked in a psychosexual power struggle. Presented in partnership with Metropolitan Opera. Thursday, September 20, 7:00pm (Pre- screening panel with Michael Mayer, director of the Met Opera production of Marnie, and Nicholas Wright, librettist) The Other Munch Permanent Green Light Karl Ove Knausgaard and Joachim & Emil Trier in person! An Evening with Dennis Cooper Acclaimed writer and artist Dennis Cooper will join the Film Society’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim for an extended onstage discussion exploring his singular body of work, his rich relationship with cinema, and his new feature film, the tense and metaphysical Permanent Green Light (co-directed by artist Zac Farley). Thursday, September 6, 7:00pm

Permanent Green Light photography evokes Gerhard Richter and Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, France, 2018, Casper David Friedrich. Wednesday, 91m In Cooper and Farley’s tense new feature September 5, 9:00pm (Introduction by Dennis set in the French suburbs, a young man wishes Cooper and Zac Farley) Emil & Joachim Trier, Norway, 2018, 55m to blow himself up in public for no reason other This engrossing documentary follows than the sheer spectacle of the act. Wednesday, Landscape Suicide much-acclaimed­ Norwegian writer Karl Ove September 5, 6:30pm (Q&A with Dennis James Benning, USA, 1986, 16mm, 92m Knausgaard as he prepares an exhibition of Cooper and Zac Farley) For his career-long excavation of the American paintings by Edvard Munch and explores the national character, James Benning found two links between his unique interpretation of Un lac of his most striking case studies in Bernadette Munch’s work and his own literary oeuvre. Philippe Grandrieux, France, 2008, 35mm, Protti and Ed Gein,a pair of murderers whose Presented with the support of the Royal 90m In Grandrieux’s fable-like tale, a family crimes took place 30 years and more than half Norwegian Consulate General New York. ekes out a primitive existence deep in the the country apart. Thursday, September 6, Tuesday, September 25, 8:00pm (Extended middle of a forest, until one day a mysterious 8:30pm (Introduction by Dennis Cooper discussion with writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, stranger arrives. Blurry, desaturated landscape and Zac Farley) and directors Emil & Joachim Trier)

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“Marked by both an intense love of film and the fiery passions of youth.” “The best arthouse film of all time… It is as close to transcendence as –Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter cinema gets.” –Steve Rose, The Guardian

A Paris Education Andrei Rublev Jean-Paul Civeyrac, France, 2018, 137m Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1966, 205m A movie-mad jeune homme discovers the pleasures and perils of the Tarkovsky’s second film is this multifaceted retelling of the 15th-century icon bohemian life when he moves to Paris in this bittersweet ode to cinema and painter, perhaps Russia’s first great artist, as he faces violence and cruelty the heady days of youth. A Kino Lorber release. and, eventually, a crisis of faith. A Janus Films release. Opening in October Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Courtesy of IFC Films Entertainment Go USA Courtesy of Well

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“A polished, well-calibrated thriller—a best-in- “Dano, it’s immediately clear, is a natural born “A noir-style mystery—gripping and unnerving.” class showcase of the possibilities of cinema.” filmmaker.” –Alissa Wilkinson, Vox –Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com –Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly Burning The Guilty Wildlife Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 2018, 148m Gustav Möller, Denmark, 2017, 85m Paul Dano, USA, 2018, 104m Expanded from Haruki Murakami’s story “Barn In this pulsating crime thriller set entirely In the impressive directorial debut from actor Burning,” the sixth feature from Korean master inside a claustrophobic emergency call center, Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), a carefully Lee Chang-dong, known best for such searing, police officer Asger is assigned to dispatcher wrought adaptation of ’s 1990 novel, emotional dramas as Secret Sunshine and duty following a fatal incident. An initially slow a family comes apart one loosely stitched seam Poetry, begins by tracing a romantic triangle evening takes a sharp turn when he receives at a time. We are in the lonely expanses of the of sorts: Jongsu (Yoo Ah-in), an aspiring writer, a mysterious call for help, and Asger must American west in the mid-’60s. An affable man becomes involved with a woman he knew from spring into action, embarking on a hair-raising (), down on his luck, runs off to childhood, Haemi (Jun Jong-seo), who is about journey—on the phone—to bring the caller to fight the wildfires raging in the mountains. His to embark on a trip to Africa. She returns some safety. Debut feature filmmaker Gustav Möller wife () strikes out blindly in search weeks later with a fellow Korean, the Gatsby- keeps the tension and the viewer’s imagination of security and finds herself running amok. It is esque Ben (Steven Yeun), who has a mysterious alive in this chamber piece that won audience left to their adolescent son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) source of income and a very unusual hobby. A awards at the Rotterdam and Sundance film to hold the center. Co-written by , tense, haunting multiple-character study, the festivals. A Magnolia Pictures release. Wildlife is made with a sensitivity and at a level of film conjures a totalizing mood of uncertainty Opens October 19 craft that are increasingly rare in movies. An IFC and bends the contours of the thriller genre to Films release. brilliant effect. A Well Go USA release. Opens October 19 Opens October 26

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