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Film at Lincoln Center December 2019 New Releases & Revival Run DIRECT FROM NYFF! Parasite Varda by Agnès Sátántangó Cunningham – in 3D! Series & Retrospectives Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996-2003 Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers Varda Career Retrospective 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 NEW RELEASES & REVIVAL RUN: STRAIGHT FROM SOLD-OUT SCREENINGS AT NYFF! Playing This Month Members save $5 on all tickets! Booked by Florence Almozini, Dennis Lim, and Tyler Wilson. Showtimes at filmlinc.org. NEON Courtesy of Courtesy of Janus Films Courtesy of Arbelos HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND! HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND! RETURNS DECEMBER 25–30 BY POPULAR DEMAND! “The best movie of the year.” “Two hours of magic.” –Slate –The Guardian Parasite Varda by Agnès “One of the best films ever made.” –IndieWire Bong Joon Ho, South Korea, 132m Agnès Varda, France, 120m Sátántangó In Bong Joon Ho’s exhilarating new film, a When Agnès Varda died earlier this year at age Béla Tarr, Hungary/Germany/Switzerland, threadbare family of four struggling to make ends 90, the world lost one of its most inspirational 1994, 432m meet gradually hatches a scheme to work for, cinematic radicals. From her neorealist-tinged After a week of sold-out shows this past and as a result infiltrate, the wealthy household 1954 feature debut La Pointe Courte to her October, Béla Tarr’s masterpiece returns of an entrepreneur, his seemingly frivolous wife, New Wave treasures Cléo from 5 to 7 and Le exclusively to Film at Lincoln Center! and their troubled kids. How they go about doing Bonheur to her inquiries into those on society’s Among the world’s most respected and this—and how their best-laid plans spiral out to outskirts like Vagabond (NYFF23), The transformative filmmakers, Béla Tarr—whose destruction and madness—constitutes one of Gleaners and I (NYFF38), and the 2017 Oscar final film, The Turin Horse, played at NYFF49— the wildest, scariest, and most unexpectedly nominee Faces Places (NYFF55), she made made his international breakthrough with affecting movies in years, a portrayal of enduring films that were both forthrightly this astonishing, singular adaptation of the contemporary class resentment that deservedly political and gratifyingly mercurial, and which novel by László Krasznahorkai about the won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. As toggled between fiction and documentary arrival of a false prophet in a small farming with all of this South Korean filmmaker’s best decades before it was more commonplace in collective during the waning days of works, Parasite is both rollicking and ruminative art cinema. In what would be her final film, Communism. Divided into 12 distinct episodes, in its depiction of the extremes to which human partially constructed of onstage interviews this seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece beings push themselves in a world of unending, and lectures, interspersed with a wealth of weaves in and out of the lives of the locals as unbridgeable economic inequality. A NEON clips and archival footage, Varda guides us the silver-tongued Irimiás (played by Tarr’s release. through her career, from her movies to her longtime musical composer Mihály Vig) remarkable still photography to her delightful promises a bright future in a new promised and creative installation work. It’s a fitting land. This bleak yet mordantly funny study of farewell to a filmmaker, told in her own words. domestic and social decay was ranked 36th on A Janus Films release. the most recent Sight & Sound critics’ poll of the greatest films ever made. Sátántangó In conjunction with the release of Varda’s final has been restored in 4K from the original 35mm film, join us December 20–January 6 forVarda , camera negative by Arbelos in collaboration a comprehensive survey of the late filmmaker’s with the Hungarian Filmlab. An Arbelos release. trailblazing body of work. See page 6. Wednesday, December 25, 12:00pm Friday, December 27, 3:00pm Monday, December 30, 12:00pm TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG SERIES Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996-2003 THROUGH DECEMBER 4 The South Korean film industry has been in the midst of a remarkable, decades-long creative explosion. This survey celebrates a vital movement as audaciously innovative as it is entertaining. Co-presented with Subway Cinema and Korean Cultural Center New York. Organized by Goran Topalovic, Dennis Lim, and Tyler Wilson. Memories of Murder Bong Joon Ho, South Korea, 2003, 132m Bong’s masterful take on the police procedural eschews crime thriller conventions in favor of a haunting Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures exploration of failure and existential futility. Tuesday, December 3, 1:15pm OPENS DECEMBER 13 My Sassy Girl “Euphoric… Sensational in every sense Kwak Jae-yong, South Korea, 2001, 123m of the word.” A box office sensation, this irresistible romantic –Variety Memories of Murder Cunningham – in 3D! comedy traces the wild-ride relationship between a mild-mannered guy and a brash, Alla Kovgan, Germany/France/USA, 93m troublemaking girl. drama plunges headlong into the mind of a One of the most visionary choreographers of Sunday, December 1, 3:30pm possibly deranged man who believes he must the 20th century, Merce Cunningham could Wednesday, December 4, 1:30pm save the world from aliens. New 4K restoration! also be counted among its great modern Tuesday, December 3, 6:30pm artists, part of a coterie of important exper- No. 3 imenters across media that included Robert Song Neung-han, South Korea, 1997, 108m Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Rauschenberg, Brian Eno, Jasper Johns, A career gangster climbs the ranks of organized Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2002, 35mm, and his long-term romantic partner John crime in this wildly inventive blend of dark 129m Revenge is a vicious, nihilistic circle in Cage. This painstakingly constructed new comedy, over-the-top violence, and millennial this blood-spattered moral tale, the jolting first documentary both charts his artistic evolution anxiety. New 4K restoration! film in Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy. over the course of three decades and immerses Sunday, December 1, 8:30pm Sunday, December 1, 6:00pm the viewer in the precise rhythms and dynamic Wednesday, December 4, 6:30pm Wednesday, December 4, 4:00pm movements of his choreography through a 3D process that allows us to step inside the Oldboy Take Care of My Cat dance. Director Alla Kovgan has created a Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2003, 35mm, Jeong Jae-eun, South Korea, 2001, 35mm, 112m visceral experience that both reimagines and 120m This international sensation is an Bae Doona stars in this naturalistic portrait of five pays tribute to Cunningham’s groundbreaking operatically violent and morbidly funny tale of young women navigating early adulthood at the technique. A Magnolia Pictures release. Kafkaesque revenge. dawn of the 21st century. Wednesday, December 4, 9:00pm Sunday, December 1, 1:00pm Resurrection of the Untold Scandal Little Match Girl E J-yong, South Korea, 2003, 35mm, 124m Jang Sun-woo, South Korea, 2002, 35mm, 123m This luxuriant saga of boudoir intrigue This mind-warp blurs the lines between cinema, transposes the French classic Les Liaisons virtual reality, and choose-your-own-adventure dangereuses to 18th-century Korea. thrill ride. Tuesday, December 3, 9:00pm Tuesday, December 3, 4:00pm Acknowledgments: Barunson Film, Bom Film Save the Green Planet! Productions, Cinema Service, CJ Entertainment, Eric Choi, Kim Jung-ho, Korean Film Archive, Kyungmi Jang Joon-hwan, South Korea, 2003, 118m Kim, Lee Myung-se, Myung Film, Park Jong-won, This mash-up of sci-fi, horror, and psychological ShinCine, Sidus FnH, Yoo In-taek, Yunsun Chae. #FILMLINC SERIES Free Events Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers DECEMBER 6-11 Brazilian cinema has had few parallels in recent years. This series showcases work from the influential generation of radical Brazilian filmmakers who are pushing boundaries and leaving their marks on the local and international film circuit. Organized by Mary Jane Marcasiano and Fabio Andrade. Co-presented with Cinema Tropical. All films in Portuguese with English subtitles Art by Dave Calver / Morgan Gaynin Inc. Divine Love A Night of Holiday Fun for the Family! As part of the annual Winter’s Eve neigh- borhood block party and tree-lighting extravaganza, we’re pleased to again present a family-friendly holiday classic on the big screen—plus free popcorn for all attendees! More information: filmlinc.org. Monday, December 2, 6:30pm U.S. PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE Bedouin Clenched Fists Júlio Bressane, Brazil, 2016, 75m Life and art, Luiz Pretti, Ricardo Pretti, Pedro Diogenes, light and dark, despair and desire, poetry and and Guto Parente, Brazil, 2014, 74m In this pathos freely intermingle in cinema marginal singular take on counterculture in the north- master JÚlio Bressane’s elegant and surrealist east of Brazil, three outcasts use clandestine mosaic about a man and a woman who surren- radio transmissions to communicate their der themselves to a strange role-playing game. hunger for freedom and revolution. Screening with Kbela (Yasmin Thayná, Brazil, Saturday, December 7, 3:30pm 2015, 22m), an audiovisual experience about a black woman’s being and becoming. NEW YORK PREMIERE Wednesday, December 11, 6:30pm Divine Love Film at Lincoln Center Free Talk: Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, 2019, 101m The third Film Comment U.S. PREMIERE feature from Gabriel Mascaro, Divine Love is The Blue Rose of Novalis a fluorescent work of sci-fi that meditates on Best of 2019 Countdown Gustavo Vinagre & Rodrigo Carneiro, Brazil, jealousy, faith, and the fear of divine power. An Presented by HBO 2019, 70m A documentary-style portrait of Outsider Pictures release.