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TITANUS Two Women BERTRAND BONELLO NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL MARTÍN REJTMAN TITANUS OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL PROGRAMS NEW RELEASES EMBASSY / THE KOBAL COLLECTION / THE KOBAL EMBASSY MAY/JUN 2015SM FILM LIVES HERE Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 W 65th St | Walter Reade Theater 165 W 65th St | filmlinc.com | @filmlinc HERE STARTS PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT TABLE OF CONTENTS I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: THE FILMS OF BERTRAND BONELLO Festivals & Series 2 I Put a Spell on You: The Films of Bertrand Bonello (Through May 4) 2 PROVOKES PROVOKES Each new Bertrand Bonello film is an event in and of itself.Part of what makes Bonello’s work so thrilling is that, with some exceptions, world cinema has yet to catch up with his New York African Film Festival (May 6 – 12) 4 unique combination of artistic rigor and ability to distill emotion from the often extravagantly Sounds Like Music: The Films of Martín Rejtman (May 13 – 19) 7 stylish, almost baroque figures, places, and events that he portrays. He already occupies Titanus (May 22 – 31) 8 HERE FILM a singular place in French cinema, and we’re excited that our audiences now have the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema (June 4 – 11) 12 opportunity to discover a body of work that is unlike any other. –Dennis Lim, Director of Programming Human Rights Watch Film Festval (June 12 – 20) 16 New York Asian Film Festival (June 26 – July 8) 17 HERE FILM Special Programs 18 INSPIRES TITANUS Sound + Vision Live (May 28, June 25) 18 We have selected 23 cinematic gems from the Locarno Film Festival’s tribute to Titanus. Columbia University Film Festival (May 1 – 3) 18 The 110-year-old Italian production company nurtured the young auteur talents of Valeria Convergence (May 19, June 23) 19 Zurlini, Alberto Lattuada, Vittorio De Sica, and Federico Fellini, and explored genre films— BELONGS The Films of Lav Diaz (May 31) 19 Evil’s Commandment (I Vampiri), Italy’s first horror movie; Steno’s comic Totò Diabolicus; and Raffaello Matarazzo’s melodrama The White Angel. We are very excited that all the films in 54: The Director’s Cut (June 23) 19 the series will be projected on 35mm—a not-to-be-missed opportunity to experience the Print Screen (May 9 & 18) 20 golden age of Italian cinema. New Releases 21 HERE FILM –Isa Cucinotta, Programmer May – Saint Laurent, Two Shots Fired, Love at First Fight 22 June – The Wolfpack, The Princess of France 23 May Schedule 24 HERE FILM PRINT SCREEN June Schedule 26 Rather than focusing on adaptations, the idea is to take a less direct approach to MATTERS Exhibits 28 combining cinema and literature. Print Screen spotlights the range of films that influence Venue and Ticket Information 29 writers, and the fascinating ways that those cinematic influences take shape in their writing. The series also gives authors the opportunity to discuss their own work in a different context, GO GREEN! The bimonthly calendar is always available at filmlinc.com. Members and Patrons, please or through a different lens. consider joining us in our effort by opting out of the printed calendar.Visit filmlinc.com/GoGreen. –Rachael Rakes, Programmer at Large SURPRISES Stay connected with the Film Society app HERE FILM AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON iOS AND ANDROID DEVICES PROGRAMMERS Director of Programming Dennis Lim • Director, NYFF Kent Jones THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER RECEIVES MAJOR SUPPORT FROM: HERE FILM Senior Programmer Florence Almozini • Programmer Isa Cucinotta OFFICIAL PREMIUM Print Traffic ManagerRufus de Rham • Programming Coordinator Dan Sullivan CONNECTS Programming Operations Assistant Tony Trius Senior Programming Advisor Marian Masone MEDIA HOSPITALITY SUPPORTERS Programmer at Large Jake Perlin • Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes FILM Programmer, Convergence Matt Bolish • Programmer, Sound + Vision Live Ben Seretan ® ENTERTAINS FILM Saint Laurent On War The Pornographer House of Pleasures / L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la kaleidoscopic torrent of lavish excess—and a deliri- maison close ous twist on the modern biopic’s rules and limitations. Bertrand Bonello, France, 2011, 35mm, 122m An NYFF52 selection. Opens theatrically at the Film This gorgeous, opium-soaked fever dream of life in a Society on May 8 (see page 22). Parisian brothel at the turn of the century, filmed with a Wednesday, April 29, 7:00pm (Q&A with Bertrand mixture of casual detachment and needlepoint precision, Bonello Gaspard Ulliel, and actress Aymeline Valade) might be Bonello’s greatest work to date. Thursday, April 30, 6:45pm (Q&A with Bertrand Shorts Program Bonello) These shorts, most of them very seldom screened in Monday, May 4, 7:00pm the U.S., range from autobiographical reverie (Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?) to emotionally charged Bertrand Bonello in person! Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice chamber drama (Cindy: The Doll Is Mine and Where the Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, digital projection, 95m Boys Are). Bonello’s engrossing portrait of Ingrid Caven is a show- Cindy: The Doll Is Mine Bertrand Bonello, France, case for the work of a truly sui generis musician—a sort 2005, digital projection, 15m of cabaret singer for the 21st century—and a respectful Where the Boys Are Bertrand Bonello, France, 2010, tribute to one artist from another. 35mm, 21m Saturday, May 2, 4:30pm & 9:30pm Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello? / Où en êtes-vous, I PUT A SPELL ON YOU Bertrand Bonello? Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, On War / De la guerre digital projection, 17m Bertrand Bonello, France, 2008, 35mm, 130m Sunday, May 3, 2:45pm & 6:45pm In Bonello’s nutty, exhilarating symphony about an artis- tic community in revolt, Mathieu Amalric plays a harried Something Organic / Quelque chose d’organique THE FILMS OF filmmaker who, after an on-set brush with death, retreats Bertrand Bonello, France, 1998, 35mm, 90m to a rural hedonist commune. Bonello’s rarely screened first feature, about a young Friday, May 1, 6:30pm (Q&A with Bertrand Bonello) married couple living in frigid Montreal, starts with the Saturday, May 2, 6:45pm basic materials of the domestic drama and rearranges them in invigorating, startling new configurations. The Pornographer / Le Pornographe Screening with The Adventures of James and David Bertrand Bonello, France/Canada, 2001, 35mm, 108m France, 2002, digital projection, 11m Bonello emerged as a major filmmaker with this ambi- Friday, May 1, 4:15pm & 9:30pm (Introduction by tious, tragic meditation on what would become two of his Bertrand Bonello at the 9:30pm screening) recurring obsessions: the use of sex as economic capital, and the post-’68 state of political radicalism in France. Tiresia Thursday, April 30, 4:30pm & 9:30pm (Introduction Bertrand Bonello, France, 2003, 35mm, 115m by Bertrand Bonello at the 9:30pm screening) This lyrical and disturbing modern update of the myth of Saturday, May 2, 2:15pm Tiresias, in which a Brazilian transsexual develops the gift APRIL 29 – MAY 4 of prophecy after surviving an act of violence, is perhaps Portrait of the Artist / Le dos rouge Bonello’s richest and most elusive film. Antoine Barraud, France, 2014, DCP, 127m Sunday, May 3, 4:15pm & 8:15pm One of the most daring, intelligent, and virtuosic figures in contemporary French cinema, Bertrand Bertrand Bonello stars as “Bertrand,” a filmmaker obsessed with monstrosity as the central theme of his Bonello approaches his movies like pieces of music, allowing competing tonal elements to collide and new work in this disquieting yet fascinating (and funny!) rearrange themselves in bracing configurations. The result is a body of work that consistently pushes mixture of body horror and character study. EXHIBIT: BERTRAND BONELLO, RÉSONANCES viewers into new and surprising territory. Monday, May 4, 4:15pm & 9:30pm APRIL 28 – MAY 30 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Saint Laurent — SNEAK PREVIEW! Featuring selections of works from Bonello’s recent SPECIAL THANKS Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, DCP, 150m exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. See the Bertrand Bonello; Benjamin Crotty; Judith Lou Lévy; The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, NY; Zeroing in on a dark, hedonistic, wildly creative decade “Exhibits” section on page 28 for more information. Sony Pictures Classics; EuropaCorp; Jeff Hill in the life of its subject, Bonello’s latest feature is a SERIESFESTIVALS & SERIES 2 3 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: THE FILMS OF BERTRAND BONELLO The Prophecy MAY 6 – 12 The New York African Film Festival returns to the Film Society for its 22nd edition, offering a selection of over 25 titles from more than 15 countries that reflects on the ways African men and women have broken through borders with films and narratives that form part of the global imagination. Tickets on sale April 23. Early access for Film Society members (Film Lover and higher) begins April 21. PHOTO: FABRICE MONTEIRO Opening Night creative fight against all economic and political burdens border city whose people both bridge and personify Kurdistan, and beyond. Cold Harbour in Senegal’s buzzing capital city. U.S. Premiere the immense gaps between Europe and Africa. U.S. Monday, May 11, 6:30pm (Q&A with Tala Hadid Carey McKenzie, South Africa, 2014, DCP, 73m Screening with The Prophecy Premiere and Danny Glover) While investigating a smugglers’ turf war in Cape Town, Marcia Juzga, Senegal, 2015, digital projection, 20m Screening with Ziara. Beyond the Threshold / Ziara. township cop Sizwe discovers police corruption linked Saturday, May 9, 4:15pm (Q&A with Sandra Más allá del umbral National Diploma to the illegal abalone trade, and integrity demands that Krampelhuber) Sonia Gámez, Spain, 2013, digital projection, 54m Dieudo Hamadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo/ he take the law into his own hands.