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PERMANENT VACATION: THE FILMS OF

Patrice Chéreau: The Love That Dares February 28 — March 5 | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema March 6 — 16 New Directors/New Films March 19 — 30 | Permanent Vacation: The Films of Jim Jarmusch April 2 — 10 Art of the Real April 11 — 26 | 41st Chaplin Award Gala honoring Rob Reiner April 28 Film Comment Double Feature March 18, April 29 MARCH 2014 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 12:55 Met Opera: Borodin’s Prince Igor VISIT FILMLINC.COM FOR TICKETS AND VENUE 7:00 The Flesh of the Orchid Follow us on 9:20 Son frère

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1:00 The Wounded Man Visit FilmLinc.com 6:30 Those Who Love Me 6:30 Judith Therpauve 7:30  On My Way 1:00 Love Is the Perfect Crime 1:00 Miss and the Doctors 3:20 Gabrielle for more information Can Take the Train 9:00 Intimacy ( Theater) 3:45 If You Don’t, I Will 4:00 2 Autumns, 3 Winters 5:20 Queen Margot 9:00 The Flesh of the Orchid 6:30 Age of Panic 6:30 Young & Beautiful 8:30 Judith Therpauve 9:00 Grand Central 9:00 Playing Dead Honey (Miele) OPENS

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 12:55 Met Opera: 1:30 The Marchers 12:00 Les Apaches 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 1:00 Eastern Boys 1:00 Playing Dead Borodin’s Prince Igor Massenet’s Werther 4:30 Suzanne 1:00 Age of Panic Borodin’s Prince Igor 1:00 His Wife 1:00 Tip Top 9:00 A Castle in Italy 5:00 If You Don’t, I Will 7:00 Mood Indigo 1:50 Miss and the Doctors 6:30 Les Apaches 4:00 Suzanne 3:30 The Marchers 7:15 The Gilded Cage 9:30 The Gilded Cage 3:30 Grand Central 9:00 Eastern Boys 4:00 Tonnerre 3:45 Under the Rainbow 4:00 Going Away 6:30 His Wife 6:30 Tonnerre 9:30 Going Away 6:30 Love Battles 9:00 Under the Rainbow 9:00 Tip Top 9:15 Love Is the Perfect Crime 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1:30 School of Babel Visit FilmLinc.com 12:55 Met Opera Encore: Visit FilmLinc.com 6:30 To Kill a Man 6:30 The Japanese Dog 1:30 The Vanquishing of the 3:40 The French Minister for more information Massenet’s Werther for more information 9:00 Quod Erat 9:00 Dear White People Witch Baba Yaga 6:30 Film Comment Double Demonstradum 3:45 We Come as Friends 6:30 A Castle in Italy Anita OPENS Feature: Two by 6:30 Mouton 9:00 The French Minister featuring The Romantic Eng- Nymphomaniac: 9:30 The Babadook lishwoman + Modesty Blaise. Volume I OPENS

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 1:15 Shorts Program 1 6:30 Of Horses and Men 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 6:30 The Strange Little Cat 6:30 Salvation Army 6:30 Trap Street 12:30 Shorts Program 2 3:30 Stop the Pounding Heart 9:00 The Double Massenet’s Werther 9:00 Return to Homs 9:00 Fish and Cat 3:00 Obvious Child 6:15 Buzzard + Person 6:30 A Spell to Ward Off the 5:30 to Person Darkness 9:00 She’s Lost Control 9:15 History of Fear 9:15 Youth + Shlomo X

30 31 1:15 The Strange Color 6:30 Film Society Free Talk: of Your Body’s Tears Laugh Track: The 4:00 Salvo 7:00; 9:30 20,000 Days Evolution of the Sitcom IN-PERSON APPEARANCES on Earth APRIL 2014

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 Visit FilmLinc.com 1:30 Down by Law 1:30 1:30 Ghost Dog: The Way of 12:55 Met Opera: Follow us on for more information 4:00 Night on Earth 3:30 Mystery Train the Samurai Puccini’s La Bohème 7:00 Stranger Than Paradise 6:30 4:00 6:00 Mystery Train 9:00 Permanent Vacation 9:00 Year of the Horse 6:30 Night on Earth 9:00 9:15 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai OPENS Nymphomaniac: Volume II OPENS 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1:15 Dead Man Visit FilmLinc.com 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 1:15 1:15 Coffee and Cigarettes 6:30 La última película 1:30 Manakamana 4:00 Permanent Vacation for more information Puccini’s La Bohème 3:45 3:45 Dead Man 9:15 The Second Game 4:30 Forest of Bliss 6:00 Broken Flowers 6:30 Dead Man 6:30 Ghost Dog: The Way of the 6:30 Red Hollywood 8:30 The Limits of Control 9:30 Down by Law Samurai OPENS 9:30 Bloody Beans 9:00 Coffee and Cigarettes

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2:00 Red Hollywood 5:00 Foreign Parts 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 4:00 Suitcase of Love and 6:30 Sweetgrass 5:00 Lukas the Strange 2:00 Time Goes by Like a 4:30 Bloody Beans 7:00 The Second Game Puccini’s La Bohème Shame + O Arquipélago 7:00 A Thousand Suns Roaring Lion 7:00 Eadweard Muybridge, 9:30 Jakub + Old Believers 5:30 Eadweard Muybridge, 7:00 As Long as There’s + Atlantiques 4:15 The Anabasis of May Zoopraxographer Zoopraxographer Breath + Untitled 9:00 Time Goes by Like a and Fusako Shigenobu... 9:30 Jaguar 7:00 Suitcase of Love and 9:15 Swiss Mountain Roaring Lion 6:30 The Ugly One Shame + O Arquipélago Transport Systems, 9:00 Castanha 9:30 Mother Dao the Turtlelike Radio Version

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2:30 A Thousand Suns 7:00 La Libertad + Ah, Liberty! 6:30 Anna 5:00 Castanha 5:00 To Singapore, with Love 5:00 Change of Life 5:30 US 41 + HF + signs + Atlantiques 9:00 Libera Me 7:15 To Singapore, with Love 7:00 A New Product + Just Like Us + 7:00 San Clemente 8:00 Actress + Rehearsal 4:30 Dust Breeding 9:15 Plot Point Trilogy + Pitts- Former Models 9:15 Blue + The Garden on Both River burgh 1968/69 9:00 Change of Life Banks 6:00  Amie Siegel: Recent Works 8:30 Lukas the Strange

27 28 29 30 41ST CHAPLIN AWARD GALA 12:55  Met Opera Encore: HONORING ROB REINER Mozart’s Così fan tutte FilmLinc.com/Gala for more info 6:30 Film Comment Double Feature: Sherlock Holmes IN-PERSON APPEARANCES Debunked featuring The Seven-Per-Cent Solution + The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes FILMS OF ROB REINER Visit FilmLinc.com for information and schedule. FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5 PATRICE CHÉREAU: THE LOVE THAT DARES

Patrice Chéreau, who passed away last October at the age of 67, was a prolific post–New Queen Margot Wave filmmaker whose diverse body of work spanned over 30 years and was united by his interest in the irrational and instinctive side of human motivation, his commitment to victims of economic exploitation and abuses of power, and his fascination with the trans- forming effects of passion.

The Flesh of the Orchid France/Italy/West by his needy best friend, and stalked by an , 1975, Digibeta, 110m A beauti- admirer in Chéreau’s most whittled-down ful young woman (), vision of self-inflicted loneliness.Feb 28 imprisoned by her aunt in a castle-like asylum, flees for the open road only to wind Queen Margot France/Italy/Germany, up in the company of another fugitive: a 1994, DCP, 159m Chéreau’s highest- horse-rearing outsider on the run from two profile film was also his biggest departure: murderous gangsters. Mar 1, 4 a lavish, blood-spattered, gold-spangled costume drama starring a trio of French Gabrielle France/Italy/Germany, 2005, superstars (, Daniel 35mm, 90m Chéreau’s bold, theatrically Auteuil, Vincent Perez). Restored stylized adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Director’s Cut. Mar 2 short story “The Return” follows the disinte- grating relationship of a wealthy bourgeois Son frère France, 2003, 35mm, 95m In this couple (Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Hup- stripped-down relationship drama about the pert). Mar 2 shaky, sporadic connection between emo- tional and physical life, Chéreau captures Intimacy France/UK/Germany/Spain, the connection between two estranged 2001, 35mm, 119m Chéreau’s controversial brothers—one straight, the other gay; one English-language film is a chamber piece healthy, the other incurably ill—with equal about an isolated, divorced bartender who parts compassion and clear-eyed observa- longs to know more about the nameless tion. Mar 1 woman he meets every Wednesday for bouts of passionate yet emotionless sex. Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train Mar 5 France, 1998, 35mm, 122m A large, crisis- torn cast of characters attend the funeral of Judith Therpauve France, 1978, 35mm, a self-described “very minor late-20th-cen- 125m The great stars tury master” painter (Jean-Louis Trintignant) as an aging veteran of the French resistance in one of Chéreau’s most empathetic and who agrees to help protect a struggling moving films.Mar 4 left-leaning newspaper from its powerful competitors in Chéreau’s tragic second The Wounded Man France, 1983, 35mm, feature. Mar 2, 5 109m Chéreau came fully into his own with his third feature, the story of a young Persecution France/Germany, 2009, man (Jean-Hugues Anglade) who falls hard 35mm, 98m A tormented young Parisian for an older male hustler after a chance (Romain Duris) is adored by his long-suffer- encountewr in a train-station bathroom. ing lover (), clung to Feb 28, Mar 2 MARCH 6 - 16 RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA

This edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, a co-presentation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films, itself in this intense, brilliantly acted drama Tautou, naturally) in Michael Gondry’s manic, attests to the sheer variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking. The lineup includes established masters, critics’ favorites, starring Tahar Rahim and Léa Seydoux. Mar visionary adaptation of Boris Vian’s Foam of and actor-turned-directors who have fully come into their own as filmmakers, alongside some of the emerging talent from what has 7, 10 the Daze. Mar 9 been called France’s next New Wave. His Wife Michel Spinosa, France/India/ Playing Dead Jean-Paul Salomé, Suzanne Belgium, 2014, Digital projection, 108m France/Belgium, 2013, DCP, 104m A A widower travels to India to meet a young down-and-out actor takes a gig in a homi- Tamil newlywed who knew his late wife cide reenactment at a ski resort, sparking an (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and whose erratic antagonism-turned-romance with the chief behavior suggests that she may be possessed investigator and hilariously complicating by the dead woman. North American Pre- every step of the process. North American miere Mar 12 Premiere Mar 8, 14

If You Don’t, I Will Sophie Fillières, France, School of Babel Julie Bertuccelli, France, 2014, DCP, 102m Mathieu Amalric and 2013, DCP, 89m Shot over a year at a , the stars of Kings and secondary school in Paris’s 10th arrondisse- Queen, reunite in Sophie Fillières’s intimate ment, this observational documentary is a portrait of a couple whose marriage is on kind of nonfiction counterpart toThe Class the verge of collapsing. North American and a multifaceted look at the French melt- Premiere Mar 7, 15 ing pot. North American Premiere Mar 16

Love Battles , France, Suzanne Katell Quillévéré, France, 2013, DCP, 99m Two lovers unable to get 2013, DCP, 94m A teenage mother takes on the same page, psychosexually speaking, up with a local bad boy while her widowed strive to resolve the impasse through beauti- father and older sister try their best to keep fully filmed wrestling matches that test the family together in this coming-of-age their bodies as much as their souls. North story of epic proportions. Mar 9, 12 American Premiere Mar 10 Tip Top Serge Bozon, France/Lux- Love Is the Perfect Crime Arnaud and embourg/Belgium, 2013, DCP, 106m An Jean-Marie Larrieu, France/Switzerland, eccentric internal affairs agent (Isabelle 2013, DCP, 110m Mathieu Amalric plays Huppert) and her mousy new partner are a university professor whose perfect life summoned to investigate the murder of an turns sour when his latest undergradu- Algerian informant in this one-of-a-kind OPENING NIGHT Age of Panic Justine Triet, France, 2013, handsome Ukrainian at Gare du Nord, the ate conquest goes missing in this darkly screwball procedural. U.S. Premiere Mar 14 On My Way , France, DCP, 90m During a time of great political sex-for-hire encounter begets a home inva- funny thriller with an explosive finale.U.S. 2014, DCP, 113m plays change, a frazzled young mother tries to sion and then an unexpectedly profound Premiere Mar 7, 10 Tonnerre Guillaume Brac, France, 2013, against type and delivers a performance keep it together on the home front in this relationship. Mar 11, 12 DCP, 100m A struggling musician moves unlike any other in her legendary career as enormously promising first feature that mixes The Marchers Nabil Ben Yadir, France/ home to write and soon gets wrapped up in a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro comedy with documentary-style energy. U.S. The Gilded Cage Ruben Alves, France/ Belgium, 2013, DCP, 120m This rousing film a fling with a beautiful young journalist that owner who sets off on an unusual road trip. Premiere Mar 7, 10 Portugal, 2013, DCP, 95m José and Maria, reconstructs a decisive event in the history ends as suddenly as it started, leading U.S. Premiere Mar 6, Paris Theater a middle-aged Portuguese couple who have of French racial politics: a Mitterrand-era to a dark and troubling obsession. North Les Apaches Thierry de Peretti, France, been living in Paris for 30 years, are faced demonstration against racism and inequality American Premiere Mar 12, 14 CLOSING NIGHT 2013, DCP, 82m A group of poor Corsican with a difficult decision when they inherit a in which nine people marched 930 miles The French Minister , teenagers breaks into a seaside house owned family winery back home. North American from Marseilles to Paris. North American Under the Rainbow Agnès Jaoui, France, France, 2013, DCP, 113m A new Foreign by wealthy tourists, setting the scene for an Premiere Mar 9, 15 Premiere Mar 9, 14 2013, DCP, 112m The arrival of Prince Ministry speechwriter must navigate strong atmospheric thriller that intelligently explores Charming in a young woman’s life is personalities, internal politics, and the stress class and racial tensions. Mar 10, 11 Going Away , France, 2013, Miss and the Doctors Axelle Ropert, complicated by a very different but equally of finding his boss’s “voice” in Tavernier’s DCP, 95m This intimate, empathetic drama France, 2013, DCP, 100m Two sibling doc- alluring man in this contemporary fairy tale sly, energetic film about the daily grind of A Castle in Italy , follows the formation of an improbable bond tors take on a young diabetic patient and filled with twists and sharp existentialist diplomacy. U.S. Premiere Mar 16 France, 2013, DCP, 104m Valeria Bruni Tede- between a commitment-averse substitute both fall for the girl’s lovely mother, who humor. Mar 12, 14 schi directs and stars, alongside former part- teacher and a young student emotionally tends bar at a local watering hole, testing 2 Autumns, 3 Winters Sébastien Bet- ner Louis Garrel, in this boldly self-revealing, neglected by his separated parents. U.S. their fraternal bonds and professional rela- Young & Beautiful François Ozon, beder, France, 2013, DCP, 90m Director possibly cathartic work—a tender portrait of a Premiere Mar 10, 15 tionship. Mar 8, 10 France, 2013, DCP, 95m Ozon’s latest Sébastien Betbeder follows his acclaimed family whose glory days are over. Mar 13, 16 tracks a pivotal year in the life of a 17-year- debut, Nights with Theodore, with an Grand Central Rebecca Zlotowski, Mood Indigo , France/ old, observing her journey without judg- endearing, inventive romantic comedy, Eastern Boys Robin Campillo, France, France/, 2013, DCP, 94m A nuclear Belgium, 2013, DCP, 95m Romain Duris ment and reflecting on the emotions and steeped in offbeat charm and an offhand 2013, DCP, 128m When a middle-aged, power plant serves as the setting for a plays a wealthy bachelor who puts aside his insecurities that define her entrance into cinephilia. Mar 8 bourgeois Parisian approaches a boyishly forbidden romance as volatile as the facility eccentric hobbies to find love (with Audrey adulthood. Mar 8 MARCH 19 - 30 NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS

For 43 years New Directors/New Films, a co-presentation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, The Double Richard Ayoade, UK, 2013, who embarks on a quest for utopia in experi- has been an annual rite of spring in , bringing exciting discoveries from around the world to adventurous DCP, 93m Jesse Eisenberg stars as both mental film and art masters Rivers and Russell’s moviegoers. All aspects of cinema, from production to exhibition, have changed dramatically over the years, but the spirit of Simon James, a humdrum worker drone, and bewitching collaboration. Mar 25 innovation and the element of surprise that have always defined this festival remain intact. his gregarious doppelgänger, James Simon, VISIT NEWDIRECTORS.ORG FOR THE COMPLETE LINEUP AND SCHEDULE. in this cerebral and darkly funny Dostoevsky Stop the Pounding Heart Roberto adaptation. Mar 24 Minervini, Belgium/Italy/USA, 2013, DCP, 100m A young teenage girl’s first romantic The Double Mouton (Sheep) Gilles Deroo & Mari- stirrings make her wonder about her fixed anne Pistone, France, 2013, DCP, 100m A place in life, as predetermined by her devout 17-year-old is granted independence from Christian family. U.S. Premiere Mar 23 his troubled family and creates a good life for himself in a seaside town—until a freak Story of My Death Albert Serra, Spain/ accident changes things irrevocably. U.S. France, 2013, 35mm, 148m Against a back- Premiere Mar 22 drop of candlelit conversation and earthy carnality, Serra stages the 18th-century Of Horses and Men Benedikt Erlingsson, passage from rationalism to romanticism as Iceland, 2013, DCP, 80m Horse and human a tussle between Casanova and Dracula. share main billing in this perceptive, wildly U.S. Premiere Mar 29 original story of the relationship between man and beast, deeply embedded in the The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears Icelandic countryside. Mar 24 Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium/ France/Luxembourg, 2013, DCP, 102m Cattet Quod Erat Demonstrandum Andrei and Forzani’s super-fetishistic remix of Italian Gruzsniczki, Romania, 2013, DCP, 107m giallo and horror tropes tells the delirious In mid-1980s Romania, the Securitate baroque tale of a missing wife and the husband investigate a gifted mathematician when who obsessively searches for her. Mar 30 it comes to their attention that he has secretly arranged for an academic paper to The Strange Little Cat Ramon Zürcher, be published in an American journal. North Germany, 2013, DCP, 72m A comedic, American Premiere Mar 20 exquisitely layered examination of the everyday in which sons and daughters, aunts Salvation Army Abdellah Taïa, France/ and uncles, cats and cousins weave in and Morocco/Switzerland, 2013, DCP, 81m For around each other in the tight domestic his directorial debut, Abdellah Taïa adapts his space of a middle-class Berlin flat.Mar 26 own deeply personal novel that chronicles the sexual awakening of young gay man in Trap Street Vivian Qu, China, 2013, DCP, Morocco. Mar 27 94m Notions of surveillance and observation are turned inside out in this noirish tale of Salvo Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza, digital-mapping-company employee smitten Italy/France, 2013, DCP, 104m A mafioso by a beautiful female stranger who leads him invades a Palermo home, only to discover his down a mysterious path. Mar 28 prey’s blind sister in the basement, setting off a nail-biting, magnificently orchestrated game of Youth Tom Shoval, Israel/Germany, 2013, cat-and-mouse. Mar 30 DCP, 107m Two Israeli brothers bite off more than they can chew with an ill-advised kidnap- A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Ben Rivers ping scheme inspired equally by desperation & Ben Russell, Estonia/France, 2013, DCP, and a lifelong diet of violent mainstream 98m Musician Robert A.A. Lowe stars as a man American cinema. U.S. Premiere Mar 25 APRIL 2 - 10 PERMANENT VACATION: THE FILMS OF JIM JARMUSCH

Over the course of a single-minded yet constantly surprising career that has now spanned more than three decades, Jim Jarmusch has Broken Flowers USA/France, 2005, 35mm, of action, a mystery that takes place almost become a beloved, forever-cool icon of independent American (and world) cinema. This comprehensive retrospective leads up to the 106m Screening with Int. Trailer. Night. 10m entirely in the time between plot points, and a April 11th release of Jarmusch’s latest feature, Only Lovers Left Alive (NYFF51). Jarmusch in person at select screenings! After receiving an unsigned letter informing movie whose Bond hails from the him that he’s the father of a 19-year-old son, Ivory Coast rather than Scotland. Apr 6, 9 Broken Flowers ’s aging, lethargic lothario Don Johnson sets out on a tour through America to Mystery Train USA/Japan, 1989, 35mm, visit a set of five old flames.Apr 6, 9 110m Screening with Joe Strummer – When Pigs Fly Score 30m This small group portrait Coffee and Cigarettes USA/Japan/Italy, of misfits and foreigners adrift in the American 2003, 35mm, 95m Screening with The Garage South gives attention to the cultural memory Tapes 12m The motley cast of this patchwork of places and a sense of the way taste can quilt of caffeine-fueled conversations, hangout both bring people together and keep them sessions, and chance encounters includes Iggy apart. Apr 3, 5 Pop, , the Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Buscemi, and many more. Apr 3, 10 Night on Earth USA/France/UK/Germany/ Japan, 1991, 35mm, 128m Screening with Dead Man USA/Germany/Japan, 1995, – I Don’t Wanna Grow Up 3m 35mm, 121m Screening with – One of Jarmusch’s warmest films,Night on Dead Man Score 5m Jarmusch’s masterpiece Earth veers from broad comedy to more sober is a hypnotic Western about the spiritual rebirth territory with its set of five taxicab vignettes of a dying 19th-century accountant (Johnny in L.A., New York, Paris, , and Helsinki. Depp) that doubles as a barbed reflection on Apr 2, 4 America’s treatment of its indigenous people. Apr 5, 6, 9, 10 Permanent Vacation USA, 1980, 35mm, 75m Screening with Talking Heads – The Lady Down by Law USA/West Germany, 1986, Don’t Mind 4m Jarmusch’s debut feature, 75 35mm, 107m Screening with Tom Waits – It’s minutes of frayed downtown cool, is a touch- Alright with Me 5m Three rebellious dead- ing vision of what it was like to be head over beats (Tom Waits, , ) heels with art, love, and oneself in late-1970s form an unlikely alliance when they land in the New York. Apr 2, 6 same New Orleans jail cell in this pitch-perfect and endlessly quotable comic odyssey. Apr 2, 9 Stranger Than Paradise USA/West Germany, 1984, 35mm, 89m Screening with Talking Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai USA/ Heads – The Lady Don’t Mind 4m This France/Germany/Japan, 1999, 35mm, low-budget, black-and-white portrait of three 116m Screening with Big Audio Dynamite directionless young people—a detached New – Sightsee M.C. 5m Forest Whitaker plays an York hipster, his fedora’d best friend, and his impassive master killer who lives on a roof in an 16-year-old Hungarian cousin—established unnamed city, quotes generously from samurai Jarmusch as a major new talent. Apr 2, 3 manuals, and communicates exclusively by carrier pigeon in Year of the Horse USA, 1997, 35mm, 106m Jarmusch’s revisionist genre film.Apr 4, 10 Screening with Neil Young – Big Time 7m Jarmusch’s only documentary to date is a The Limits of Control USA/Japan, 2009, scrapbook of interviews, archival clips, and 35mm, 116m Screening with The Racon- concert footage of Neil Young’s band Crazy teurs – Steady as She Goes 4m Jarmusch’s Horse, shot over the course of their 1996 intoxicating thriller is a spy film gutted world tour. Apr 3, 4 APRIL 11 — 26 ART OF THE REAL

Our new annual series Art of the Real is a nonfiction showcase founded on the most expansive possible view of documentary 95m This chronicle of the daily life of an ailing A New Product Harun Farocki, Germany, film. The inaugural edition features new work from around the world alongside retrospective selections by both known and unjustly middle-aged actor who supports himself and 2012, digital projection, 37m Screening forgotten filmmakers. It is a platform for filmmakers and artists who have given us a wider view of nonfiction cinema and at the same his mother working as a cross-dressing night- with Just Like Us Jesse McLean, USA, 2013, time brought the form full circle, back to its early, boundary-pushing days. club MC takes haunting and confounding turns Blu-ray, 15m and Former Models Benjamin that blur the line between his fantasies and Pearson, USA, 2013, digital projection, 20m The Second Game reality. North American Premiere Apr 19, 23 With a light touch, Farocki arranges scenes of awkward office meetings, illustrated with Change of Life Paulo Rocha, Portugal, 1966, perplexing diagrams and powered by digital projection, 90m A soldier returns neoliberal buzzwords, into a revelatory black home to a Portuguese fishing village that has satire of contemporary managerial process. changed during his absence in Paulo Rocha’s Apr 24 masterpiece of “sculpted reality,” a direct re- sponse to his mentor Manoel de Oliveira’s Rite Plot Point Trilogy Nicolas Provost, of Spring. Apr 24, 25 Belgium/USA, 2007-2012, digital projection, 60m Screening with Pittsburgh 1968/69 Ted Dust Breeding Sarah Vanagt, Belgium, 2013, Kennedy, USA, 2013-2014, digital projec- Blu-ray, 47m Screening with The Garden on tion, 6m In three short videos created over six Both River Banks Amel El Kamel, France, years, Provost films iconic public spaces with 2013, DCP, 20m The shifting nature of a hidden camera, weaving the footage into memory, media, testimony, and translation— dramatic arcs using narrative editing devices and how they work to obscure accountability— and drawing the cinematic out of the everyday. is explored through the trial of Bosnian Serb Apr 23 politician Radovan Karadžić at the International Criminal Tribunal. North American Premiere Red Hollywood Thom Andersen & Apr 20 Noël Burch, USA, 1996, digital projection, 120m This revelatory, extensively researched Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer documentary offers a unique perspective on Thom Andersen, USA, 1975, 35mm, 56m Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s, when Andersen breathes life into the proto-cinema “Red” filmmakers worked within the studio experiments of Eadweard Muybridge, re- system to challenge issues of class, war, race, photographing and animating more than 3,000 and gender. Apr 12, 13 of his sequential images, in this thoroughgoing investigation into film’s primordial years.Apr San Clemente Raymond Depardon, France, 13, 15 1982, 35mm, 113m Reminiscent of Wiseman’s OPENING NIGHT La última película Raya it’s never clear whether this film may simply be ghostly black-and-white video, this astonishing Titicut Follies (1967), Depardon’s gripping ac- Martin & Mark Peranson, Mexico/Canada/ the next role. Apr 26 documentary centers on a pregnant, homeless La Libertad Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, count of the last days of a psychiatric hospital Denmark/Philippines, 2013, 35mm, 88m In teenager and the filmmakers’ struggle with 2001, 35mm, 73m Screening with Ah, Lib- on the brink of shutting down allows viewers this tribute to and critique of Dennis Hopper’s The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shig- their obligation toward her as a subject and a erty! Ben Rivers, UK, 2008, 16mm, 20m access to a world otherwise hidden from the The Last Movie, a grandiose filmmaker (Alex enobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without fellow human. Intro by author Rachel Kush- Alonso’s landmark feature debut, named public. Apr 25 Ross Perry) scouts locations for a produc- Images Eric Baudelaire, France, 2011, ner (The Flamethrowers). Apr 22 one of the top 10 films of the past decade in tion that will involve exposing the last extant DCP, 66m Screening with The Makes Eric Cinema Scope magazine, follows a day in the Suitcase of Love and Shame Jane Gillooly, celluloid film stock on the eve of the Mayan Baudelaire, France, 2009, 26m Conceptual- Bloody Beans Narimane Mari, / solitary and repetitive life of a young woodcut- USA, 2013, DCP, 70m Screening with O Ar- Apocalypse. Apr 11 ized while researching the Japanese Red Army France, 2013, DCP, 77m A group of Algerian ter in the Argentinean pampas. Apr 21 quipélago Gustavo , Brazil, 2013, DCP, during a residency in Japan, Eric Baudelaire’s children frolic on the beach, but their rough- 28m Constructed from 60 hours of audio-tape OPENING NIGHT The Second Game first feature is a probing and often mesmerizing housing soon turns into a kind of reenactment Libera Me , France, 1993, discovered in a suitcase purchased on eBay, Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2014, DCP, weave of Super-8 footage, television clips, film of the Algerian War of Independence that plays 35mm, 80m A series of situational tableaux this film reveals the intimate details of an affair 97m Porumboiu and his referee father revisit a excerpts, and archival miscellany. Apr 19 out as equal parts Lord of the Flies and Les set in a totalitarian dictatorship creates a fable between a midwestern woman and her lover, snowy soccer match from 1988, one year be- Carabiniers. Apr 12, 13 of political occupation and resistance in this who used a reel-to-reel tape recorder to docu- fore the fall of Ceaușescu, their real-time com- Amie Siegel: Recent Works USA, 2010- undersung film by Cavalier, best known for his ment their romance. Apr 15, 16 mentary exploring the slippery middle ground 2013, digital projection, 60m Moving be- Blue Derek Jarman, UK, 1993, 35mm, 79m French New Wave–era political thrillers. Apr 21 where the personal meets the historical. North tween the gallery space and the cinema, Amie Derek Jarman’s swan song comprises just A Thousand Suns Mati Diop, France, 2013, American Premiere Apr 11, 14 Siegel’s work often places genre fiction within one shot, a single frame of blue that mirrors Lukas the Strange John Torres, Philip- HDCam, 45m Screening with Atlantiques documentary methods. Two films will be his deteriorating sight as a side effect of HIV pines, 2013, DCP, 85m John Torres’s latest Mati Diop, France/Senegal, 2009, HDCam, CLOSING NIGHT Actress Robert Greene, screened in full: Black Moon (2010) and Winter medication, presented alongside a dense aural documentary-fiction hybrid starts with the 15m Diop’s portrait of Magaye Niang, the USA, 2014, DCP, 86m Screening with (2013). Clip selections from other new works tapestry exploring life, death, and the color disruptive arrival of a film crew in the titular nonprofessional actor who played the lead in Rehearsal Tom Rosenberg, USA, 2013, 11m and a discussion will follow. Apr 20 blue. Intro by artist Carolee Schneemann. character’s tiny, usually quiet village and leads the African film classicTouki Bouki, is paired Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s Apr 25 to a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery. with her award-winning short about a tragic The Wire when she gave it up to start a family. Anna Alberto Grifi & Massimo Sarchi- U.S. Premiere Apr 18, 20 migratory voyage over the Moroccan border. Actress follows her bumpy return to work, but elli, Italy, 1972-1975, DCP, 225m Shot on Castanha Davi Pretto, Brazil, 2014, DCP, Apr 18, 20 CONTINUED › APRIL 11 — 26 ART OF THE REAL (CONTINUED)

Actress Time Goes by Like a Roaring Lion Philipp Screening with Untitled Stephanie Spray, testaments to the endurance of Hartmann, Germany, 2013, DCP, 79m In his USA, 2014, digital projection, 14m Stephanie communities. Apr 14 affecting yet surprisingly light essay film about Spray’s third video work documenting the lives temporality, mortality, and cinema’s capacity of a Nepali family named the Gayeks focuses Manakamana Stephanie Spray & Pacho to represent both, Hartmann takes captivating on their daily rituals and conversations in the Velez, USA, 2013, DCP, 118m Stephanie detours to consider Alzheimer’s, an atomic wake of their son’s departure. Apr 16 Spray and Pacho Velez’s (literally) transporting clock, and the world’s largest salt desert. U.S. film—shot inside a cable car that carries Premiere Apr 18, 19 Foreign Parts Véréna Paravel & J.P. pilgrims and tourists to and from a mountain- Sniadecki, USA, 2010, DCP, 80m Targeted top temple in Nepal—is simple in conception To Singapore, with Love Tan Pin Pin, by the city for development, a ramshackle yet endlessly suggestive. Apr 12 Singapore, 2013, DCP, 70m Scattered about collection of auto-body repair shops and the globe, the subjects of this expertly crafted, other small businesses in Queens staffed Mother Dao the Turtlelike Vincent Mon- moving documentary are Singaporean political by an multicultural cast of characters may nikendam, /Indonesia, 1995, exiles who fled their country decades ago to soon be a memory. Apr 14 35mm, 90m This compilation of footage shot escape detention or worse for their beliefs and by Dutch cameramen between 1912 and activism. North American Premiere Apr 23, 24 Forest of Bliss Robert Gardner, USA/India, 1932 in their former colony of Indonesia con- 1986, 35mm, 90m Appearing to occupy the trasts the lives of wealthy colonial rulers with The Ugly One Eric Baudelaire, France/ time between two sunrises, the film revolves the hopeless situation of the exploited native Lebanon, 2013, DCP, 101m Voiceover medita- around three inhabitants of an Indian crema- people. Apr 15 tions on memory and militancy by Japanese tion ground: a healer, a priest, and the heredi- filmmaker Masao Adachi counterpoint a story tary “king” of the cremation ground who sells Sweetgrass Ilisa Barbash & Lucien of two people whose interactions reveal a sacred fire to mourners.Apr 12 Castaing-Taylor, USA, 2009, 35mm, 105m traumatic shared past marked by an act of This breathtaking chronicle follows an terrorism and the loss of a loved one. North Jaguar Jean Rouch, France, 1954/1967, ever-surprising group of modern-day American Premiere Apr 19 16mm, 89m Perhaps the prime example of cowboys as they lead an enormous herd of Rouch’s “ethno-fiction,” a blend of narrative sheep up and then down the slopes of the US 41 + HF + signs James Benning, USA, practices and documentary techniques, fol- Beartooth Mountains in Montana on their 2014, digital projection, 85m These three lows three young men from Niger as they set way to market. Apr 17 new short works by Benning—a tribute to out on a journey to the Gold Coast in search of Hollis Frampton, a continuation of his interest adventure and work. Apr 13 Swiss Mountain Transport Systems, in text as image, and a comedy of automotive Radio Version (5.1 mix) Ernst Karel, USA, and meteorological errors—are characteristi- Jakub Jana Ševčíková, Czech Republic, 2011, audio only, 55m A kind of music cally provocative in their political intonations, 1992, 35mm, 63m Screening with Old emerges from the mechanical drones, conceptual rigor and reflexive beauty.World Believers Jana Ševčíková, Czech Republic, intermittent percussiveness, and transient Premiere Apr 26 2001, 35mm, 46m Ševčíková’s portraits of two acoustic glimpses of a vast surrounding small Romanian villages—one on the border landscape captured by location record- As Long as There’s Breath Stephanie of Western Bohemia, the other made up of ings of a variety of alpine people movers. Spray, USA, 2009, digital projection, 57m Russian emigrants of a minority faith—are Screening with other sound work. Apr 16

FOCUS ON SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LAB Presented in collaboration with the 2014 Whitney Biennial In a mere eight years, Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab has gone from an ambitious academic program to one of the most vital incubators of nonfiction and experimental cinema in the country. The films in this selection, including work produced at the SEL and work that inspired SEL makers, attest to the aspirations of sensory ethnography: to experience the world, and to transmit some of the magnitude and multiplicity of that experience. SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 28, 2014

41ST CHAPLIN AWARD GALA AT AVERY FISHER HALL AT LINCOLN CENTER HONORING ROB REINER Join us April 27 - 28 as we honor director, producer, actor, and political activist Rob Reiner with two days of some of his most memorable films, leading up to the annual Chaplin Award Gala the evening of Monday, April 28. For more information, please visit FilmLinc.com/Gala.

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Modesty Blaise MARCH 18 APRIL 29 TWO BY JOSEPH LOSEY SHERLOCK HOLMES DEBUNKED Modesty Blaise Joseph Losey, UK, 1966, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 35mm, 119m at her most delicious Billy Wilder, 1970, UK, 35mm, 125m is the titular British secret agent out to foil In Billy Wilder’s gloriously playful take, flaming criminal mastermind ’s the master detective contends with romantic diamond theft scheme, aided by cockney disappointment and the mystery of the Loch sidekick . Ness monster. Robert Stephens is Holmes, Preceded by The Romantic Englishwoman Colin Blakely is Watson, and Christopher Lee Joseph Losey, UK, 1975, 35mm, 116m Tom is Holmes’s brother Mycroft. Stoppard wrote this ambiguous melodrama in Preceded by The Seven-Per-Cent Solution which discontented has a Herbert Ross, 1976, USA, 35mm, 114m fling with on a trip to Germany Holmes (Nicol Williamson) and Watson (Robert while, back home, her novelist husband Michael Duvall) travel to Vienna where Holmes is Caine works on a screenplay that echoes what’s treated for cocaine addiction and paranoid going on behind his back. delusions by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin)—but TWO FILMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! the duo soon becomes involved in a kidnapping case with international implications. Also starring , Joel Grey, Samantha The Seven- Eggar, and Laurence Olivier as Moriarty. Per-Cent TWO FILMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! Solution

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Borodin’s Prince Igor Dmitri Tcherniakov, 270m Massenet’s Werther Richard Eyre, 195m Two of opera’s Puccini’s La Bohème Franco Zeffirelli, 205m Puccini’s Mozart’s Così fan tutte Lesley Koenig, 245m Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its greatest artists—Jonas Kaufmann and Elīna Garanča— moving story of young love is the most performed Music Director James Levine conducts Mozart’s Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first appear together for the first time at the Met in Mas- opera in Met history—and with good reason. beloved opera about testing the ties of love. time in nearly 100 years. Mar 1, 11, 13 senet’s sublime adaptation of Goethe’s revolutionary Anita Hartig stars as the frail Mimì in Franco Zeffirelli’s Apr 29, May 6 and tragic romance. Mar 15, 18, 25 classic production, with Vittorio Grigolo as her passionate lover, Rodolfo. Apr 5, 8, 15 NEW RELEASES

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OPENS MARCH 7 OPENS APRIL 4 HONEY (MIELE) NYMPHOMANIAC: Valeria Golino, Italy, VOLUME II 2013, DCP, 96m Valeria , Denmark, Golino directs this 2014, 130m Picking up prize-winner from Cannes where Volume 1 left off, about a woman who Joe recounts the story provides assisted suicides, of her adulthood, where and the bond she forms her journey of self- with one of her clients. discovery leads to darker Director in person at select complications. Starring screenings! Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, and .

OPENS MARCH 21 ANITA OPENS APRIL 4 Freida Mock, USA, 2013, ILO ILO DCP, 82m Using contempo- Anthony Chen, rary interviews and unsettling Singapore, 2013, 99m archival footage, this doc At the height of a recession revisits the political and in Singapore, a young boy’s media circus that erupted friendship with the new in 1991 when a young law maid ignites jealousy in his professor accused a nominee mother in this winner to the U.S. Supreme Court of of the Golden Camera sexual harassment. Human at the . Rights Watch Film Festival (Opening Night, 2013) Anita Hill in person at select screenings!

OPENS APRIL 11 OPENS MARCH 21 ONLY LOVERS NYMPHOMANIAC: LEFT ALIVE VOLUME I Jim Jarmusch, UK/ Lars von Trier, Denmark, Germany/USA,2013, 123m 2014, DCP, 100m and Tilda After she’s discovered Swinton make a dashing beaten in an alley, a self- and very literal first diagnosed nymphomaniac couple—centuries-old (Charlotte Gainsbourg) lovers Adam and Eve—in recounts the erotic story Jim Jarmusch’s wry, tender of her adolescence and take on the vampire genre. young adulthood. NYFF51 Official Selection. Director in person at select screenings! KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST AWARDS SEASON NEWS on our blog The Season (filmlinc.com/theseason)! Follow your NYFF and New Directors favorites as they rack up nominations and wins over the next few months...

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