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Summer of Film July 2019 Film at Lincoln Center New Releases Film at Lincoln Center Summer of Film July 2019 New Releases Rojo The Plagiarists Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Festivals & Events 50th Mixtape: Free Weekly Double Features New York Asian Film Festival Free Screenings & Talks Dance on Camera Festival This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts Members save $5 Tickets: filmlinc.org Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 West 65th Street, New York, NY Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY SUMMER OF FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER Playing This Month Showtimes at filmlinc.org Members save $5 on all tickets! © Timothy-Greenfield-Sanders OPENS JULY 12 HELD OVER HELD OVER “Superbly sinister and stylish . “The Plagiarists upends indie tropes, and “Rousing . underscores the deeply A witheringly provocative examination of itself, in form-busting fashion.” humanistic soul responsible for broadening temporary moral eclipse becoming –Carson Lund, Slant the literary landscape.” permanent moral apocalypse.” –Nick Schager, Variety –Jessica Kiang, Variety The Plagiarists Peter Parlow, USA, 2019, 76m Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Rojo Co-written by experimental filmmakers James Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, USA, 2019, 119m Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/Brazil/France/ N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The With the peerless style and rich perspective on Netherlands/Germany/Belgium/Switzerland, Plagiarists is a hilarious send-up of low-budget Black America she brought to such acclaimed 2018, 109m In mid-’70s Argentina, at the height of American indie filmmaking and a probing novels as Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of that country’s infamous Dirty War, Claudio (Darío inquiry into race, relationships, and the social Solomon, Toni Morrison has earned a reputa- Grandinetti) is a well-heeled, cool-headed law- uncanny. A young novelist (Lucy Kaminsky) tion as one America’s greatest living writers. yer living with his wife and teenage daughter in a and her boyfriend (Eamon Monaghan) are Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful and comfortable provincial suburb. When an innocu- waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to intimate documentary about Morrison’s life ous dinner date ends in a startling altercation with upstate New York and are taken in by the kindly and work—from her working-class upbringing in a stranger, Claudio’s apparently placid lifestyle yet enigmatic Clip (Michael “Clip” Payne of Lorain, Ohio, and her 1970s-era book tours with is disrupted, and fault lines begin to appear in Parliament Funkadelic), who puts them up for Muhammad Ali, to the front lines with Angela the frictionless surface of his professional and the night. But an accidental discovery months Davis and her own riverfront writing room—and domestic existence. What follows is a brooding, later recasts in an unnerving light what had the countless people she has inspired. Featuring warm-hued fugue, where political calculations, seemed like an agreeable evening, stoking interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, economic stratagems, and tenuous social resentments both latent and not-so-latent. Hilton Als, Fran Lebowitz, and Morrison herself. mores are played out with slow-burning ferocity A 2019 ND/NF selection. A KimStim release. A Magnolia Pictures release. against a harmonic bassline of barely repressed indignation and simmering paranoia. Winner of Best Director, Actor, and Cinematography at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. A Distrib Films release. TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG SUMMER OF FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER Free Screenings, Talks & Events Learn more about our free event ticket policy and register for tickets at filmlinc.org/freetix 50th Mixtape: Weekly Double Features This summer, there’s much to celebrate here at Film at Lincoln Center. We have officially been around for half a century. We have a new name and a new look. More than anything, of course, we continue to celebrate cinema itself. To kick things off, as a special gift to our audiences—and all New York movie lovers—we’ve put together a free summer playlist. Through September, we will continue to celebrate its semi-centennial with a series of double features presented free of charge. We have handpicked 20 films—all-time and recent favorites—to be screened across 10 Thursdays, culminating on September 11 with a final selection to be decided by a public vote. All double features start at 6:00pm. JULY 11, 6PM JULY 18, 6PM JULY 25, 6PM Two English Girls Come Drink with Me The Leopard François Truffaut, France, 1971, 35mm, 130m King Hu, Hong Kong, 1966, 35mm, 95m Luchino Visconti, Italy/France, 1963, 186m Two English Girls plays variations on François The Chinese wuxia (martial-arts) genre was Luchino Visconti reached new heights of epic Truffaut’s earlier film Jules and Jim’s ménage à never the same after King Hu’s breakthrough fea- grandeur with this Palme d’Or–winning account trois: a young writer (Jean-Pierre Léaud) falls ture, in which Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-pei), of political upheaval and generational sea change in love with two beautiful sisters (Kika Markham a highly skilled swordswoman goes on a mission in Risorgimento-era Italy, starring Burt Lancaster and Sylvia Marriott) at the start of the 20th to rescue her brother from a clan of bandits. Print as the leonine patriarch of a ruling-class family. century. An NYFF10 selection. courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive. screening with screening with screening with Happy as Lazzaro Mulholland Dr. The Assassin Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 2018, 128m A throng of David Lynch, France/USA, 2001, 35mm, 147m Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, tobacco farmers working on an estate live in a An aspiring movie star (Naomi Watts) finds 2015, 105m Crystalline in beauty and oblique state of extreme deprivation, but nothing is what herself in an obscure world of trouble upon in narrative, Cannes Best Director winner Hou it seems in Alice Rohrwacher’s transfiguring and meeting an enigmatic amnesiac brunette Hsiao-hsien’s wuxia stars Shu Qi as a Tang transfixing fable. An NYFF56 selection. Special (Laura Harring) in this unique puzzle movie, Dynasty assassin, dedicated to the art of killing thanks to Netflix for their generous support. widely considered the masterpiece of David until memory transforms her course of action. Lynch’s late career. An NYFF39 selection. An NYFF53 selection. Organized by Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson. © 2016 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved. Photo Mettie by Ostrowski Photo Sean by DiSerio Disney/Pixar’s Coco and Live Escape in New York: Film Comment Talk: Ari Aster Performance by La Santa Cecilia Films on Governors Island We’re pleased to welcome back Ari Aster for Presented as part of Lincoln Centers Out of For the second year in a row, Film at Lincoln another free summer talk, following his conver- Doors, join us for a special performance by the Center is delighted to present outdoor summer sation last year for Hereditary. This time, Aster Grammy-winning Latin fusion band La Santa screenings on Governors Island. Screenings are will discuss his latest chilling vision, Midsommar, Cecilia, named for the patron saint of music, free and open to the public with pre-show enter- about an American couple, Dani and Christian, followed by a screening of Disney/Pixar’s tainment kicking off at 6:00pm, including a beer whose relationship is falling apart. But after a Oscar-winning Coco. This tale of family, fun, and garden and food vendors, and the films beginning family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving adventure centers on a young musician in Santa at dusk. July’s selection is After Hours (Martin Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends Cecilia named Miguel who is accidentally trans- Scorsese, 1985, 98m), preceded by Ada (Eleanore on a trip to a midsummer festival in a remote ported to the Land of the Dead. Thursday, July 25, Pienta, 2018, 11m). Presented in partnership with Swedish village. But what begins as a carefree 7:00pm at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park the Trust for Governors Island and produced by summer holiday takes a sinister turn. Midsommar Rooftop Films. Friday, July 12, 7:00pm is an A24 release. Tuesday, July 9, 7:00pm #FILMLINC SUMMER OF FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER Dance on Camera Festival JULY 12-15 Featuring 11 programs over four days, including films from 17 countries, Dance on Camera Festival celebrates its 47th edition with a selection of titles that explore dance from a variety of perspectives. From a film in which a woman dances off a rocky cliff in Greenland, to a tribute to the great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, to stories of women overcoming © Jet Tone Films Ltd © Jet Tone extraordinary odds while taking control of their destiny through dance, See You Tomorrow this festival bears witness to the power of dance to ignite humanity. Highlights this year include a special Charles Atlas tribute to the artistry New York of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham with rare footage of their Asian Film collaborations. Presented in partnership with Dance Films Association. See more and save with the All-Access Pass or 3+ film discount package. Festival All screenings held at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) unless otherwise noted. JUNE 28 – JULY 11 OPENING NIGHT have.” Grateful thanks to the Trust for their The 18th edition features 23 North From Knee to Heart assistance. Saturday, July 13, 8:00pm American premieres, four U.S. Susana Barranco, Spain, 2018, 83m A portrait of the personal journey of charismatic Spanish Mitten premieres, and eight New York dancer and choreographer Sol Picò, this Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes, premieres, showcasing the most documentary highlights the artistic career of Belgium, 2019, 53m Mitten tells the story of this force of nature from street theater to the the making of the performance “Mitten wir exciting action, comedy, drama, creation of her company.
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