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2 5 2 4 Special pricing! Plus, Save with a 5+ Film Package through Jan 11 bohemian districts of late-19th-century and the titu- The Unforgiven lar cabaret as habituated by diminutive artist Henri de USA, 1960, 35mm, 125m Huston hoped to make a frank -Lautrec. statement on racial prejudice in America with this saga Jan 4, 3:30pm | Jan 6, 3:00pm of a frontier family and their adopted Indian daugh- ter; though it fell short of his expectations, it remains Prizzi’s Honor a sober and intelligent film with fine performances. USA, 1985, 35mm, 130m won an Oscar Jan 1, 1:30pm for her sly, scene-stealing work in her father’s penultimate film, about the romantic entanglements of a New York hit Victory man, which has the irreverent spunk of a debut and the USA, 1981, 35mm, 116m In Huston’s must-be-seen-to-be- reflective, generous voice of a swan song. believed mash-up of the sports movie and the POW es- Jan 11, 7:00pm cape thriller, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow share the screen with a star-studded lineup of international soccer Reflections in a Golden Eye stars, headlined by the legendary Pelé. Series continues from December! collection /the kobal ALLIED ARTISTS USA, 1967, 35mm, 108m In Huston’s hands, Carson Jan 4, 6:00pm A renaissance man unbound to genre and a painterly stylist attuned to the look of each scene, Huston McCuller’s melodrama, set at a Southern army base, be- was one of the greatest filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age: an artist of great toughness, conviction, came a tender, languid, and deeply sad portrait of men A Walk with Love and Death and eloquence; a master storyteller; a stellar director of actors; and a brilliant actor himself. and women pushing up against the social conventions that USA, 1969, 35mm, 90m Two lovers act out a brief, doomed constrain them. Starring , Elizabeth Taylor, romance while their world comes apart around them in and Robert Forster. Huston’s oblique 14th-century take on the “make love not Jan 3, 1:20pm | Jan 9, 6:15pm war” generation. Let There Be Light: The Films of Jan 3, 8:30pm | Jan 6, 1:00pm Report from the Aleutians USA, 1943, digital projection, 47m The first color film by Huston (narrated by the director) juxtaposes combat foot- USA, 1949, 35mm, 109m Among the grittiest, most off- age of the Aleutian campaign with scenes depicting the beat films of Huston’s studio period, We Were Strangers tedium of army life. depicts in documentary-like fashion a band of Cuban revo- Screening with lutionaries, led by an American expat (John Garfield) and a John Huston USA, 1945, 35mm, 32m revenge-seeking girl (). SPECIAL THANKS Jan 7, 1:00pm & 8:45pm Jan 1, 8:30pm Museum of Modern Art; Academy Film Archive; Fox; Harvard Film Archive; Library of Congress; National Archives and Records Administration; National Park Service; Swedish Film Institute; The Roots of Heaven White Hunter, Black Heart Disney; and George Eastman House USA, 1958, 35mm, 121m Never one to choose easy , USA, 1990, 35mm, 112m On both sides of projects, Huston took on Romain Gary’s treatise on the the camera, Clint Eastwood limns one of his most complex sanctity of wild animals, blending action and philosophy in creations: John Wilson, a dauntless filmmaker (based on USA, 1942, 16mm, 97m Huston’s third feature reteams USA, 1970, 35mm, 120m Jean-Pierre Melville raved over this chronicle of an environmentalist’s crusade to preserve Huston) who ventures into Africa as much to test his mas- much of the Maltese Falcon cast and crew, but it never ac- Huston’s grim, fiercely sharp-witted –era spy the lives of elephants in French Equatorial Africa. culinity as to get a great film in the can. tually crosses the Pacific—the locale changed from Pearl thriller, in which a group of American intelligence agents Jan 2, 1:15pm | Jan 4, 1:00pm Jan 2, 6:15pm | Jan 5, 1:00pm Harbor to when the plot’s scenario became a real- travel undercover to under the leadership of a ity before it could be filmed. deposed officer. White Hunter, Jan 8, 1:45pm & 6:15pm Jan 2, 3:45pm USA, 1969, 35mm, 95m Taking a turn for the picaresque, Black Heart Huston made this fleet-footed, sharply observed, and The Barbarian and the Geisha Let There Be Light consistently underrated adventure story adapted from USA, 1958, DCP, 105m This 19th-century costumer about USA, 1946, DCP, 58m Huston’s landmark study of psycho- the fanciful death-row autobiography of Scottish rogue the U.S. Ambassador to Japan offers the twin pleasures logically scarred veterans was banned for decades by the David Haggart. of Huston’s still compositions, inspired by the setting, and Army, but now stands as a trenchant early depiction of Post Jan 9, 4:00pm | Jan 10, 6:45pm John Wayne’s say-what? casting in the lead. Traumatic Stress Disorder. Jan 8, 4:00pm & 8:30pm Screening with Independence USA, 1976, 16mm, 30m Tentacles and (Note: 6:00pm screening only) Ovidio G. Assonitis, Italy/USA, 1977, 35mm, 102m Fat City USA, 1942, 16mm, 18m One of Huston’s oddest screen appearances found USA, 1972, 35mm, 100m Huston drew on his own boxing Jan 7, 3:30pm & 6:00pm him starring—alongside (!) and Henry experience from his youth for this New Jersey–set film Fonda (!!)—in this gloriously goofy creature feature, pro- about a handsome, mildly promising fighter and his older, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean duced one year after Jaws by veteran horror director alcoholic has-been mentor—one of the indisputable master- USA, 1972, 35mm, 120m Huston’s final is an Ovidio G. Assonitis. pieces of its director’s late career. ambling, charming shaggy-dog story peppered with out- Jan 2, 8:35pm ./the kobal collection ARNER BROS ./the kobal

Jan 1, 4:00pm | Jan 4, 8:30pm | Jan 5, 3:30pm bursts of violence, anchored by a performance by Paul W Newman at the height of his powers, and buttressed by Under the Volcano Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison a stellar supporting cast including Ava Gardner, Stacy USA, 1984, 35mm, 112m This shattering adaptation of Mal- Wise Blood USA, 1957, 35mm, 108m Star chemistry ignites Huston’s Keach, and John Huston himself. colm Lowry’s dense modernist novel is one of the most USA, 1979, 35mm, 106m Brad Dourif gives the perfor- World War II drama of a rough-hewn marine (Robert Mit- Jan 3, 6:00pm | Jan 9, 8:30pm sensitive and well-observed depictions of alcoholism in mance of his career as a proselytizing atheist in Huston’s chum) and a novice nun (Deborah Kerr) marooned on a film history, anchored by Albert Finney’s towering lead indelible, hilarious, and deeply challenging adaptation of Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific. Moulin Rouge performance. Flannery O’Connor’s debut novel. Jan 3, 3:45pm USA, 1952, 35mm, 119m A vibrant foray into the Jan 9, 1:30pm | Jan 10, 8:45pm Jan 1, 6:15pm

All films directed by Huston unless otherwise noted. seriesfestivals & series 2 3 let there be light: the films of john huston The Guitar Mongoloid Sophie's Choice Sweden, 2004, DCP, 89m Östlund’s mostly nonprofes- In Case of sional cast brings a documentary quality to this compas- sionate, humorous portrait of outsiders and noncon- formists, focusing in particular on the titular musician, No Emergency: a young man facing dire obstacles in life. Screening with Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 Sweden, 2005, DCP, 9m The Films And Incident by a Bank Sweden, 2009, DCP, 12m Jan 15, 6:45pm | Jan 16, 9:15pm (Introduction by Ruben Östlund) | Jan 17, 4:30pm | Jan 18, 6:45pm | Jan 19, of Ruben 2:00pm | Jan 20, 4:30pm | Jan 21, 2:00pm Involuntary (One-Week Exclusive Run!) Sweden, 2008, DCP, 98m Described by Östlund as “a Östlund tragic comedy or a comic tragedy,” the director’s sec- ond feature draws uneasy laughter through five exami- Jan 14 – 22 nations of bourgeois group dynamics. Jan 14, 4:15pm | Jan 15, 4:30pm | Jan 16, 6:30pm A sly, trenchant observer of human behavior un- (Q&A with Ruben Östlund and producer Erik der duress, the Swedish director Ruben ­Östlund Hemmendorff) | Jan 17, 7:00pm | Jan 18, 4:30pm Jan 19, 6:45pm | Jan 20, 9:15pm | Jan 21, 6:45pm is quickly emerging as one of world cinema’s Jan 22, 4:30pm & 9:15pm most distinctive voices, equal parts satirist and sociologist. Join us for the first major touring Play (One-Week Exclusive Run!) Sweden//, 2011, DCP, 118m retrospective of the award-winning director’s re- Unabashedly impolite, Östlund’s record of racially markable body of work! The touring retrospective charged harassment and societal paralysis offers food for is produced by Comeback Company, in partner- thought and fuel for fury. NYFF49 Official Selection Jan 14, 6:15pm (Q&A with Ruben Östlund and ship with the Swedish Film Institute and Plattform producer Erik Hemmendorff) | Jan 15, 9:15pm Produktion. Jan 16, 4:00pm | Jan 17, 9:15pm | Jan 18, 9:00pm Jan 19, 9:00pm | Jan 20, 6:45pm | Jan 21, 9:00pm SPECIAL THANKS Additional support comes from the Jan 22, 2:00pm & 6:45pm Jan 14 – 29 Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Embassy of ­Sweden in the U.S., and the Consulate General of ­Sweden in New York. screening for free in Our Amphitheater The 24th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, co-presented by the Jewish Museum, features world, Throughout the Series! U.S., and New York premieres of films from around the globe, plus special “beyond the screen” pro- Force Majeure Free Radicals grams, including a poster exhibition and panel discussions. Visit NYJFF.org for more information. Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway, 2014, DCP, 118m Ruben Östlund, Sweden, 1997, 30m Stunning An avalanche in the French Alps sends a father scurry- compositions and an energetic soundtrack make ing for his life, leaving behind his panicked wife and chil- Östlund’s early ski films a sensory delight, even The New York Jewish Film Festival is made possible by the Martin and Doris Payson Fund for Film and Media. dren, in Östlund’s examination of the conflict between for those who aren’t skiing enthusiasts. social role and survival instinct. Golden Globe Nominee, Generous support is also provided by Mimi and Barry Alperin, The Liman Foundation, and through public funds 2014 Cannes Jury Prize winner Free Radicals 2 from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional If Force Majeure Jan 14, 9:15pm (Introduction by Ruben Östlund and Ruben Östlund, Sweden, 1998, 30m support is provided by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York. is, as Östlund describes it, “a ski trip to hell,” the producer Erik Hemmendorff) | Jan 16, 1:30pm natural beauty on display in his follow-up to Free SPECIAL THANKS Jan 17, 2:00pm | Jan 18, 2:00pm | Jan 19, 4:15pm Radicals conjures a celestial vision of heaven on Academy Film Archive; George Eastman House; Library of Congress; Jan 20, 2:00pm | Jan 21, 4:15pm the slopes. UCLA Film and Television Archive; National Center for Jewish Film; Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

opening night Closing Night The Muses of Felix and Meira Asaf Galay & Shaul Betser, Israel, 2014, 72m This sur- Maxime Giroux, , 2014, 105m When Meira, an prising and unflinching documentary explores, through Orthodox wife and mother with an undercurrent of || poignant interviews and exclusive archival footage, the rebelliousness, meets Felix, a middle-aged atheist adrift unknown history of one of Nobel Prize winner Isaac Ba- without family ties, a slow-booming affair takes shape shevis Singer’s most vital sources of creative inspiration: in this Montreal-set drama that unfolds like a classic his translators. U.S. Premiere forbidden-love novel. Jan 14, 4:00pm & 8:45pm (Q&A with Asaf Galay Jan 29, 3:30pm & 9:00pm (Q&A with Maxime Giroux) and Shaul Betser) Force Majeure festivals & series 4 5 NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Let’s Go! Let’s Go! The Outrageous Sophie Tucker Michael Verhoeven, Germany, 2014, 90m The “nasty William Gazecki, USA, 2014, 96m This documentary boy” of German cinema artfully presents a biting com- winds through the many personalities of the “Queen mentary on postwar German society in this adapta- of Vaudeville,” icon Sophie Tucker, capturing all her tion of the autobiographical novel by Laura Waco, a brassy nonchalance with the help of newly discovered subtly probing investigation of the complex notion scrapbooks that belonged to the Queen herself. of German-Jewish identity. U.S. Premiere Jan 20, 1:00pm | Jan 25, 6:00pm Jan 24, 9:30pm | Jan 27, 1:00pm (Q&A with William Gazecki and producers Susan (Q&A with Michael Verhoeven) and Lloyd Ecker)

Like Brothers The Polgár Variant Hugo Gelin, France, 2012, 104m A successful entre- Yossi Aviram, Israel, 2014, 68m Lázló Polgár spent his preneur in his forties, a cynical in his thir- meager earnings in 1970s communist Budapest groom- ties, and a young man on the cusp of adulthood still ing his three daughters to become chess champions. living with his parents are brought together by the un- This documentary catches up with the three sisters in timely death of the woman they all love. Hungary, the U.S., and Canada, where their story con- Jan 14, 1:00pm & 6:00pm tinues to shock in the press. U.S. Premiere Screening with Salomea’s Nose The Mystery of Happiness Susan Korda, USA/Germany, 2014, 22m Daniel Burman, Argentina/, 2014, 92m When Jan 15, 8:30pm (Q&A with Yossi Aviram) Eugenio vanishes without a clue, his business Jan 22, 1:00pm (Q&A with Susan Korda) partner Santiago and his wife Laura join forces to solve the mystery of his disappearance in this wistful Tsili comedy—part buddy movie, part detective story, Amos Gitai, Israel/Russia/Italy/France, 2014, 88m Above and Beyond Forbidden Films and part romance. Gitai’s adaptation of survivor Aharon Appelfeld’s Roberta Grossman, USA, 2014, 86m Combining Felix Moeller, German, 2013, 94m Felix Moeller brings Jan 17, 7:00pm | Jan 28, 1:00pm powerful book gives fresh intimacy and urgency to the inteviews with the men who smuggled U.S. planes us into the vaulted, explosive-resistant compound where story of a young Jewish woman hiding in the Ukraini- behind the Iron Curtain to train and fight in the Israeli the 40 banned films produced under the Nazi regime are Natan an forests and search for meaning following the war. War of Independence with stunning footage from the kept and interviews renowned film historians and filmmak- David Cairns & Paul Duane, Ireland, 2013, 67m David U.S. Premiere planes, this documentary poetically traces the journey ers who debate the question: are they worth keeping? Cairns and Paul Duane investigate the life of Bernard Screening with Back to the Soil from hometown to homeland. Jan 22, 3:15pm | Jan 25, 3:30pm Natan, a Romanian Jew who fought for France in World Bill Morrison, USA, 2014, 18m Jan 22, 6:00pm (Q&A with producer Nancy (Q&A with Felix Moeller) War I and went on to become the head of the innovative Jan 19, 3:30pm | Jan 20, 3:30pm (Q&A with Amos Spielberg) and influential Pathé Studios, and the tale they reveal is Gitai and actress Sarah Adler) Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem as unbelievable as it is tragic. Angels of Revolution Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, Israel/France/Germany, 2014, Screening with How to Break into Yiddish Vaudeville The Tugendhat House Alexey Fedorchenko, Russia, 2014, 113m This colorful 115m In this dramatic adaptation of a harrowing true story Jack Feldstein, USA, 2014, 19m Dieter Reifarth, Germany, 2013, 112m This documen- film tells the story of five cosmopolitan friends, led by set in a Mizrahi Orthodox enclave in Israel, a woman (co- Jan 28, 3:15pm & 8:45pm (Q&A with David Cairns) tary zooms in on the many rises and falls of a magnifi- the famous “Polina the Revolutionary,” searching for director Ronit Elkabetz, in an unforgettable performance) cent concrete building in Brno, Czech Republic, one answers about Russian avant-gardists who trekked spends five years in an increasingly surreal stalemate of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s earliest earliest proto- up to the banks of the Amnya River to take part in the fighting for a divorce. types of modernist architecture in Europe. Great Samoyedic War. U.S. Premiere Jan 21, 3:15pm & 9:00pm (Q&A with Ronit and Shlomi U.S. Premiere Jan 27, 3:30pm & 9:00pm Elkabetz) Jan 28, 6:00pm (Q&A with producer Filipp Goldscheider) Deli Man The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films Erik Greenberg Anjou, USA, 2014, 91m Hilla Medalia, Israel/France, 2014, 86m Pioneering The Zionist Idea A portrait of the effusive and charming Ziggy Gruber, Israeli film producers Menachem Golan and Yoram Joseph Dorman & Oren Rudavsky, USA, 2015, 160m a Texan, Yiddish-speaking, third-generation delicates- Globus are paid tribute in this documentary featuring A feature-length exploration of one of the most influen- sen man who currently operates one of the country’s a range of interviews with , Jean-Claude tial, controversial, and urgently relevant political ide- most acclaimed delis, Kenny and Ziggy’s in Houston. Van Damme, and other B-movie talent, as well as Golan ologies of the modern era, promoting understanding Jan 15, 1:00pm & 6:00pm (Q&A with Erik and Globus themselves. of the meaning, history, and future of the movement. Greenberg Anjou and Ziggy Gruber) Jan 29, 1:00pm & 6:15pm World Premiere Jan 22, 8:30pm | Jan 26, 8:15pm The Dune The King of Nerac (Q&A with Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky) Yossi Aviram, France/Israel, 2013, 90m This elegant Guy Natanel & Annie Sulzberger, UK/Denmark, 2013, 76m Artist Focus: Keren Cytter and understated piece of fiction, equal parts mystery This meditative film offers a thoughtful portrait of its 90m and family drama, meditates on the consequences fascinating, reclusive subject: David Breuer-Weil, who Israeli artist Keren Cytter’s films, video installations, of choosing a particular path at life’s crossroads as a gave up a career as one of the world’s leading art deal- and drawings represent social realities through ex- 65-year-old Parisian cop meets a spiritually motivated ers to embark on a life of creativity and contemplation. perimental modes of storytelling, yielding poetic mon- younger man. World Premiere tages that are self-referential, thought-provoking, and Jan 15, 3:30pm | Jan 18, 3:30pm (Q&A with Yossi Jan 20, 9:00pm | Jan 21, 1:00pm (Q&A with Guy engrossing. Aviram) Natanel, Annie Sulzberger, and David Breuer-Weil) Jan 27, 6:15pm (Keren Cytter in attendance) Deli Man festivals & series 6 7 NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL tk free shorts program 44m happiness with her Holocaust-obsessed boyfriend is blacklisted director magnificently capturing Screening in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center endangered by her ghosts and his compulsions. the city’s street life. Amphitheater. Jan 18, 6:00pm (Introduction by Jennie Livingston) Screening with A Child of the Ghetto Using animation, German Shepherd (Nils Bergendal, D.W. Griffith, USA, 1910, 15m, silent with live banjo Sweden, 10m) probes our capacity to forgive unimagina- midnight movie accompaniment ble acts of evil. In Longing (Nadav Mishali, Israel, 20m), a Breakin’ Jan 24, 7:00pm wife must come to terms with her husband’s true identity. Joel Silberg, USA, 1984, 35mm, 90m This devastatingly revival Everything goes wrong when a dad takes his family along entertaining cult classic tells the tale of a struggling jazz on a business road trip in Some Vacation (Anne S. Lewis, dancer who, with the help of street-dancing friends, be- U.S., 6m), while in The Visit (Lawrence Horwitz, U.S., 8m), comes the new sensation of the crowds. A Cannon Films , USA, 1996, 35mm, 117m This 1996 ad- disagreements about how two friends spend their time production; screening in conjunction with The Go-Go aptation of iconic French farce La Cage aux Folles, together soon escalate into a much larger conflict. Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films. directed by the dearly departed Mike Nichols with an Jan 17, 8:00pm | Jan 24, 8:00pm Jan 17, 11:30pm outstanding cast including Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Gene Hackman, is just as outrageous, and with a from the vaults new york noir (1945—1948)­­ Jewish twist. Jan 25, 8:45pm Three Women – With Live Piano Accompaniment! In classical Hollywood cinema, New York was fre- war against war Ernst Lubitsch, USA, 1924, 35mm, 84m This saucy melo- quently the setting for films that came to be defined as drama stars May McAvoy (The Jazz Singer, Ben-Hur) as . Starting with The House on 92nd Street, direc- With wars raging in many parts of the world, we an 18-year-old in a dizzying, whirlwind triangle between tors interwove documentary techniques into their sto- seem to live in a time of constant war. Antiwar films her estranged socialite mother and a weasel-like suitor. rytelling, wanting to “film where it actually happened.” have in various ways been able to capture the horrors The Outrageous Sophie Tucker Jan 18, 1:00pm These films portrayed the city as a postwar Gotham of war and the physical and mental devastation with endless crime and intrigues. wrought by war upon both soldiers and civilians. Guest Selects: Jennie Livingston This selection depicts the horrors of war through Les Carabiniers Jean-Luc Godard, France/Italy, 1963, 35mm, 80m Paris Is Burning – 25th Anniversary Screening! Cry of the City inner turmoil, surreal plots, and the soul-searching of their characters. Perhaps one of the most surreal, grotesque, and disturbing Jennie Livingston, USA, 1990, 35mm, 71m Robert Siodmak, USA, 1948, DCP, 95m Full-fledged antiwar movies ever made, Godard’s fifth feature follows Livingston’s iconic documentary offers an at-once noirist Robert Siodmak directed this gritty crime drama, The Battle of Algiers Ulysses and Michelangelo, two simpleminded peasants dazzling, dynamic, and intimate portrait of the Har- shot mostly on location in New York City, about two who treat joining the army as a license to embark on a lem balls of the 1980s, celebrating how African- childhood best friends who take divergent paths: one , Italy, 1966, 35mm, 121m Once banned in France and unquestionably one of the most disturbing crime spree. American, Latino, gay, and New Yorkers becomes a cop; the other, a cop killer. Jan 19, 6:15pm created a world of survival and joy. Jan 25, 1:00pm and impactful antiwar films of the 1960s, Pontecorvo’s Jan 17, 9:15pm (Introduction by Jennie Livingston) film is today considered one of the great political films. Beyond the Screen Jan 21, 6:15pm Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and The House on 92nd Street Coming Attractions: Art of the Film Noir Trailer Love the Bomb , USA, 1945, 35mm, 88m A twisted “A picture of tremendous excitement… A rarity of the Stanley Kubrick, USA/UK, 1964, DCP, 95m Kubrick’s bril- tale of espionage in the Big Apple, this first of the so- Fear and Desire Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1953, 35mm, 62m Stanley screen… A raw slice of life…” Such was the language liant satire is a provocative black comedy that remains un- called “” to be shot entirely on location, employed in many trailers for films noirs during the 1940s matched as a doomsday fantasy of Cold War politics, an The House on 92nd Street would influence a number of Kubrick’s feature debut and his least-seen work follows a group of soldiers who have survived a plane crash and ’50s, whose rapid cuts, provocative narration, and unhinged response to the apocalyptic fears of the 1960s. contemporary productions. dramatic scenarios made them films in and of themselves. Jan 18, 9:15pm (Introduction by Jennie Livingston) Jan 26, 6:00pm behind enemy lines, lost in a forest while fighting in an unidentified war. In homage to the genre and its many talents, we have com- Screening with The War Game piled noir and neo-noir trailers for 14 films from 1944-1970 Sophie’s Choice into a unique 30-minute video presentation that will run on Alan J. Pakula, UK/USA, 1982, DCP, 151m Sophie’s Jules Dassin, USA, 1948, 35mm, 96m Shot entirely on lo- Peter Watkins, UK, 1965, 35mm, 48m One of the ear- liest examples of the so-called , The War a continuous loop in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Choice won five Academy Awards in 1982, including Best cation, The Naked City exposes a raw and menacing New Amphitheater during the festival. Actress for Meryl Streep as Sophie, a survivor whose York, from its darkest alleys to its tallest skyscrapers, with Game presents a fictional nuclear attack on the UK by Soviet missiles. Jan 20, 6:15pm War Against War Posters The Polgár Variant A small exhibition of film posters of historically impor- Fires on the Plain tant antiwar films will be on display in the the Frieda Kon Ichikawa, Japan, 1959, 35mm, 108m Kon Ichikawa’s and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater compelling antiwar film tells the story of a Japanese throughout the festival. soldier who deserts his unit and wanders around a Philip- pine island as the American troops arrive to liberate the free talks Philippines, depicting war as a highly irrational and dehu- manizing experience. All talks will take place in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Jan 19, 1:00pm Center Amphitheater. Master Class: Susan Korda Jan 18, 2:00 I Was Nineteen Join us for an in-depth conversation on filmmaking with Konrad Wolf, East Germany, 1968, 35mm, 115m One of Susan Korda, whose new film Salomea’s Nose is featured in the best-known DEFA productions, this autobiographi- the festival. The Master Class begins with a screening of her cal film follows young Gregor Hecker as he becomes a short film followed by a conversation with Aviva Weintraub, commander of a small town and later plays a key role in the Director, New York Jewish Film Festival. final run on Berlin. Panel: War Against War Jan 19, 3:00 Jan 19, 8:30pm Panel: The Zionist Idea Jan 25, 2:00 festivals & series 8 9 NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL save with an all-access pass for just $99 coaches, redefine what it means to be an American cheer- Screening with Stella & Tom leader today in this engrossing documentary. John Resner, USA, 2014, HDCAM, 7m Jan 31, 1:00pm (Q&A with James Pellerito and David Barba) Feb 1, 8:45pm (Q&A with Jayce Bartok and cast)

Ballet Boys Ghost Line and Other Celluloid Antics Kenneth Elvebakk, Norway, 2013, HDCAM, 75m This unique program features the world premiere of In this heartwarming documentary, three pals train at the Shona Masarin and Cori Olinghouse’s new experimental Norwegian Ballet School, encountering a variety of new dance short Ghost Line (USA, 2013, DCP, 15m) alongside challenges and opportunities as they navigate the com- films that illustrate Ghost Line’s affinity with cinema’s past: petitive world of dance and their last years of high school. two early Buster Keaton shorts, The Playhouse and Back Screening with Det Skal Danses Vaek Stage, Hans Richter’s Ghosts Before Breakfast, and James Maia Elisabeth Sørensen, Denmark, 2014, DCP, 5m Broughton’s Four in the Afternoon. Jan 30, 1:00pm Feb 2, 6:00pm (Q&A with Shona Masarin and Cori Olinghouse. Moderated by Jon Gartenberg, film archivist Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity and experimental-film distributor) Catherine Gund, USA, 2014, DCP, 82m The “Evel Knievel of dance,” Elizabeth Streb pushes the Here Now with Sally Gross dancers in her daredevil company to trade fear for Douglas Rosenberg, USA, 2014, DCP, 46m “extreme action” in Catherine Gund’s astonishing yet This captivating documentary chronicles the achieve- intimate documentary. ments of dynamic New York choreographer Sally Gross Screening with Angsters as she creates a site-specific work for an exhibition by the Benjamin Epps, USA, 2014, HDCAM, 7m renowned digital artist Leo Villareal. Feb 1, 3:20pm (Q&A with Catherine Gund and Screening with Ze’eva Cohen: Creating a Life in Dance Elizabeth Streb) Sharon Kaufman, USA, 2014, HDCAM, 32m Feb 3, 3:00pm (Q&A with Sally Gross, Douglas Rosenberg, Capturing Grace Ze’eva Cohen, and Sharon Kaufman) David Iverson, USA, 2014, DCP, 60m When the Mark Mor- Primitive ris Dance Group joins forces with Parkinson’s patients, Jiri Kylian: Forgotten Memories Jan 30 – Feb 3 magic happens. Under the guidance of former Morris com- Don Kent & Christian Dumais-Lvowski, France, 2011, Now in its 43rd year, Dance on Camera honors ballet and personalities through pany dancers Daniel Leventhal and John Heginbotham, HDCAM, 52m World-renowned Czech choreographer Jiri this film’s engaging subjects forge a close-knit community, Kylian, always a reluctant subject, finally agreed to partici- documentaries and narrative films, while also demonstrating dance’s capacity to change lives and demonstrating art’s power to transform and to heal pate in this film, a record of a singular artist whose vision contribute to well-being. More than ever, Dance on Camera moves beyond familiar expectations to Screening with Renewal has inspired dancers and choreographers around the explore new genres, such as cheerleading and girls’ hand-clapping games that have an empowering Stacey Menchel Kussell, USA/Israel, DCP, 40m globe. U.S. Premiere Feb 1, 1:00pm (Q&A with David Iverson and cast) Screening with Memory House effect on young women. In addition to putting the spotlight on youth, this year’s edition pays homage Ryan Fielding & Loughlan Prior, New Zealand, 2013, DCP, to crossover artists who bring a unique perspective to their art. The Dance of the Sun 17m Co-presented with Dance Films Association. Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt & Folke Johansson, Japan/ Jan 30, 6:00pm Sweden, 2013, DCP, 58m Swedish choreographer Ami SPECIAL THANKS Skånberg Dahlstedt explores her fascination with The Sun Let’s Get the Rhythm: The Life and Times of Miss Mary Cultural Services of the French Embassy in NY; Relativity Media; La Termita Films; Televisió de Catalunya TV3; Goddess, the haunting legend that serves as the basis for Mack Irene Chagall, USA, 2014, DCP, 55m The wondrous Arts Santa Monica; Institut Ramon Llull; Mercat de les Flors; Bel Air Media; Consulate General of Japan in NY much of Japan’s dance and theater. hand-clapping games of inner-city playgrounds in New Screening with The Realm of Nothingness York City and the remote corners of the world alike Kathy Rose, USA, 2013, DCP, 7m become a music genre and a fertile subject for exploration Opening Night embrace their passion for dance and for each other. This Feb 2, 3:30pm (Q&A wit Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt) in this delightful homage to the beauty of the beat. Girlchild Diary special advance screening is courtesy of Relativity Media. Screening with Bookin’ Meredith Monk/The House Foundation for the Arts, USA, Feb 3, 8:15pm (Q&A with Richard Raymond) Dancing Is Living: Benjamin Millepied John Kirkscey, USA, 2013, HDCAM, 17m 2014, HDCAM, 86m Meredith Monk revisits her iconic Louis Wallecan, France, 2014, digital projection, 57m Jan 30, 3:15pm (Q&A with Irene Chagall) piece Education of a Girlchild in this evocative documen- All That Jazz This engaging documentary chronicles Benjamin Millepied tary, illuminating a crossover artist still radical after all , USA, 1979, DCP, 123m (choreographer of ’s Black Swan), the Mia, a Dancer’s Journey these years. U.S. Premiere “It’s , folks!” Roy Scheider is never less than newly appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet and Maria Ramas & Kate Johnson, USA, 2013, DCP, 55m Screening with Letting Go captivating in Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical musical founder of L.A. Dance Project. A daughter’s promise to tell her mother’s story becomes Lori Petchers & Susan Jacobson, USA, 2014, HDCAM, 4m extravaganza, back on the big screen after a 15-year 4K Screening with Little Opera Jan 30, 8:00pm (Q&A with Meredith Monk and digital restoration by The Film Foundation. Louis Wallecan, France, 2012, HDCAM, 53m cast member Lanny Harrison) Feb 1, 5:45pm (Panel discussion with the film's assistant Jan 31, 8:00pm (Q&A with Louis Wallecan) choreographer Gene Foote, Fosse’s daughter Nicole, and Closing Night several dancers from the film) Fall to Rise Desert Dancer Jayce Bartok, USA, 2014, DCP, 91m A multilayered Richard Raymond, UK, 2014, DCP, 104m American Cheerleader drama following a famous dancer as an injury forces her Friends Afshin and Elaheh risk their lives to form an under- James Pellerito & David Barba, USA, 2014, DCP, 89m out of her company, starring former prin- ground dance company during the volatile climate of the Two high-school teams—one from New Jersey and cipal dancer Katherine Crockett and Daphne Rubin-Vega 2009 Iranian presidential election, and in the process one from Kentucky—empowered by families and devoted (the original Mimi in the Broadway musical hit Rent). Desert Dancer festivals & series 10 11 dance on camera Representing highlights of New York–based independents during a time when minority film production more than the unfolding of the life of the celebrated free events was not supported and frequently suppressed, these are major works by some of the great filmmakers Croatian ballerina Mia Slavenska in this moving documen- All talks will take place in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film tary that reflects on historical memory, national identity, Center Amphitheater. of this (or any) era in American film history. and the power of dance. Black Ballerina Screening with Hamadryad Black Ballerina is a documentary-in-progress that Nancy Allison & Paul Allman, USA, 2014, DCP, 8m uses the overwhelmingly white world of classical bal- Feb 6 – 19 Jan 31, 3:30pm (Q&A with directors) let to take a fresh look at race, diversity, and inclusion. Narrated by black women of different generations but Perpetual Motion: The in Catalonia united in their passion for ballet, the film asks if any- Isaki Lacuesta, Catalonia, 2013, DCP, 57m thing has changed and why diversity in dance matters. A living history of dance in Catalonia, as archival images, Feb 3, 4:30pm (Panel discussion with producer/ interviews, and reconstructions of works bring this rich director Frances McElroy, Dance Theater of Harlem heritage into the present. U.S. Premiere artistic director Virginia Johnson, and former Screening with Pas Russes ballerina Raven Wilkinson) Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard, Canada, 2014, DCP, 15m

FILMS of MILESTONE COURTESY Feb 3, 6:00pm (Q&A with Perpetual Motion subject/ Capturing Motion NYC choreographer Cesc Gelabert) For a fourth year, Dance Films Association invites high-school students throughout the five boroughs Robot to submit dance films between one to five minutes in Blanca Li, France, 2015, DCP, 61m This radical vision from length for Capturing Motion NYC, a student film com- Blanca Li, featuring mechanized instruments created by petition. This program will feature the top juried films Japanese artists Maywa Denki and a highly developed hu- and a panel discussion about the students’ processes. manoid robot, will surprise and amuse anyone interested The winning work will be screened on closing night of in how the future of dance might look. U.S. Premiere Dance on Camera. Screening with Primitive Jan 30, 4:00pm Tom Rowland, UK, 2013, DCP, 29m

Feb 2, 8:30pm (Q&A with Robot director Blanca Li Filmmaker Services Panel and producer Claire Marquet and Primitive director Tom Invited organizations dedicated to providing filmmaker Rowland and dancer/choreographer Dane Hurst) services, including Fractured Atlas, AbelCine, DCTV, and VHX, will join Dance on Camera to engage in a Washed lively discussion focused on getting a film made— sharing tactics from pre-production to distribution, and all the important steps in between. Jan 30, 5:00pm

Meet the Artist: Third Rail Projects Losing Ground Critically acclaimed immersive theater company Third Rail Projects, creators of the award-winning production Then She Fell, will join Dance on Camera to offer audiences the opportunity to learn about the influence shorts program of dance film on their large body of work. This year’s crop of short films is particularly diverse and Feb 2, 5:00pm demonstrates that there is no shortage of imagination among the filmmakers who seek to explore dance’s Young Dancemakers relationship to film. Greg Vander Veer, USA, 2014, 28m Young Dancemakers A Juice Box Afternoon Lily Baldwin, USA, 2014, DCP, 8m follows three members of Alice Teirstein’s unique tell it like it is A on the Pier Geoffrey Goldberg, USA, 2014, summer dance ensemble of NYC teens as they deal DCP, 2m with their personal struggles and ultimately learn to Washed Daphna Mero, Israel, 2012, DCP, 13m express themselves through dance. Black Independents Dancing Sondheim (selections “Children and Art” Jan 31, 5:00pm (Panel discussion with Greg Vander & “Every Day a Little Death”) Richard Daniels, USA, Veer, Alice Teirstein, and subjects from the film) 2014, DCP, 7m in New York, 1968-1986 Well Contested Sites Amie Dowling, USA, 2012, DCP, 13m art exhibit Knock Thomas Pollard & Nathan Smith, Australia, 2013, On display in the the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery Programmed by Michelle Materre and Film Society of Lincoln Center's Programmer at Large Jake Perlin, DCP, 6m during the festival co-presented by Creatively Speaking Vanishing Points Marites Carino, Canada, 2014, DCP, 9m First Breath by Travis Magee Tagged Danielle Kipnis, USA, 2014, DCP, 6m New York City–based photographer Travis Magee special- SPECIAL THANKS Escualo Martin & Facundo Lombard, USA, 2014, DCP, 4m izes in dance, fashion, and fine-art imagery. His dynamic For their support and expertise, the programmers gratefully thank Pearl Bowser, Louise Greaves, Jane Fuentes, ButterflyJoey De Guzman, New Zealand, 2014, DCP, 6m and explosive photography of ballet and modern dancers, Marsha Schwam, Elena Rossi-Snook, Amy Heller, Dennis Doros, and , and the filmmakers Jessie Maple, Embrace Shantala Pèpe, Belgium/UK, 2014, DCP, 7m like all his work, is based on the concept of capturing real- Charles ­Hobson, Madeline Anderson, Pat Hartley, Kent Garrett, Woodie King Jr., and Al Santana. Jan 31, 6:00pm life kinetic movement in order to elicit complex emotions. For additional credits and print sources, see filmlinc.com.

festivals & series 12 13 tell it like it is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986 of episodes, presented by producer Charles Hobson, of what is considered the first African American–produced television series, originally conceived to counter images of black neighborhoods in the mainstream news. Feb 8, 3:00pm (Q&A with Charles Hobson)

Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads , 1983, 16mm, 60m Spike Lee’s NYU Masters program thesis (and the first student feature film ever selected for New Directors/New Films) is a precocious work from a major artist, irrefutable evidence that its maker would go on to become one of the greats. Screening with: A Place in Time Charles Lane, 1977, 16mm, 34m Feb 19, 7:15pm

Let the Church Say Amen! St. Clair Bourne, 1973, 16mm, 67m Voices of the Gods

ISHMAEL REED The cast and crew of Personal Problems Al Santana, 1985, 16mm, 60m A program on religion Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and ritual, these modern classics represent two Opening Night Ganja and Hess examples of the influential function and position that Bill Gunn, 1973, 35mm, 113m Recut for its U.S. release, lives of exiled women workers attempting to free their Losing Ground (One-Week Exclusive Run!) religious observation occupies as an essential part of country from illegal exploitation. , 1982, DCP, 86m Finally receiving a long Ganja and Hess was first made available years later in its African-American culture. intended version by independent distributor Pearl Bows- Feb 17, 5:00pm (Q&A with Pearl Bowser, Christine Choy, overdue theatrical run, Losing Ground is one of the first Feb 15, 7:00pm (Q&A with Al Santana) Al Santana, and JT Takagi) feature films written and directed by a black woman and er, and, now restored, is considered a classic. Conceived Feb 17, 2:00pm a groundbreaking romance exploring women’s sexuality as a vampire tale, Gunn’s film is a formally radical and deeply philosophical inquiry into passion and history. One Last Look and modern marriage. A Milestone Films release. The Long Night Charles Hobson, 1969, digital projection, 60m This rare Feb 6, 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 8:30pm (Q&A with Nina Collins, Feb 7, 5:00pm (Q&A with Pearl Bowser and Sam Woodie King, Jr., 1976, 35mm, 85m One night in the life Waymon) | Feb 8, 8:00pm film of Steve Carter’s play, featuring many of the leading Seret Scott, and Ronald K. Gray at 8:30pm show) of a young boy on the street, encountering the deni- actors of the era before they went on to achieve interna- Feb 7, 3:15pm | Feb 8, 1:00pm | Feb 10, 3:30pm zens of mid-1970s Harlem and commenting on the life I Heard It Through the Grapevine tional fame, is an emotionally charged drama of family, Feb 11, 1:00pm | Feb 12, 2:00pm of an American family. friends, and former lovers confronting the ghost of the Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley, 1982, 16mm, 95m Feb 12, 6:30pm (Q&A with Woodie King, Jr.) James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the family patriarch at his funeral. Opening Night Feb 17, 7:00pm (Q&A with Charles Hobson) The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy , reflecting with his trademark Namibia: Independence Now! brilliance and insight on the passage of 20 years. Kathleen Collins, 1980, DCP, 50m Rockland County serves Pearl Bowser & Christine Choy, 1985, 16mm, 55m Personal Problems as the setting for Kathleen Collins’s first film, about three Feb 12, 4:00pm, 9:00pm (Q&A with Pat Hartley and ­Depicting the significant role of women in the Namib- Rich Blint at 4:00pm show) Bill Gunn, 1980, digital projection, approx. 110m young Puerto Rican men whose lives are watched over ian struggle for independence, this film explores the “What happens when a group of unbankable individuals by their father’s ghost and Miss Malloy, an elderly widow tell their stories? Actors who have final say over their whose house needs some tender loving care. I Remember Harlem William Miles, 1981, 16mm, 240m “What really made Har- speaking parts?” These questions by writer Ishmael Reed Feb 6, 6:30pm (Introduction by Nina Collins) lead to the conception of this “meta soap opera,” the Feb 11, 3:00pm lem ‘Harlem’” is what renowned visual historian William Miles set out to explore when he made this epic work, story of a Harlem couple, and their friends, made without lovingly illustrating his personal and commit- “the middleman.” Black Journal Program Feb 7, 8:00pm (Q&A with Ishmael Reed, Dr. Vertamae 1968, digital projection, approx. 70m The first nation- ment to this epicenter of African-American cultural life. Feb 14, 4:00pm Smart-Grosvenor, Sam Waymon, and special guests) ally broadcast black newsmagazine, produced by Wil- Feb 10, 1:00pm liam Greaves and hosted by Wali Saddiq and Greaves, was home to a who’s-who of producers, directors, edi- In Motion: Amiri Baraka St. Clair Bourne, 1983, digital projection, 60m This vid- She’s Gotta Have It tors, and working in a diversity of Spike Lee, 1986, 35mm, 84m The one that changed styles with unrivaled creativity and experimentation. eo portrait shows the sage revolutionary at readings, on his radio show, at home, and appealing a punitive the entire landscape of and Feb 11, 6:00pm (Q&A with Charles Hobson, Louise announced a genuine director-as-superstar, possessing Greaves, Kent Garrett, and Madeline Anderson) court ruling. Screening with The New-Ark an undeniable confidence, vision, and grandeur of style. Feb 19, 9:30pm A Dream Is What You Wake Up From Amiri Baraka, 1968, digital projection, 25m And A performance by Leroi Jones’s Young Larry Bullard & Carolyn Johnson, 1978, 16mm, 50m Three Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, Spirit House Movers, broadcast on Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant , 1968, 35mm, 75m Process, form, and values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, as personality collide in Greaves’s classic docufiction/film well as their different approaches to the struggle for sur- 1968, digital projection, 10m Feb 17, 9:00pm about making a film/narrative experiment/New York time vival in contemporary society. capsule, about which no superlatives can be overused and Screening with Black Faces Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant Program whose influence cannot be overstated. Young Filmmakers Foundation, 1970, 16mm, 1m Feb 7, 1:00pm (Q&A with Louise Greaves and Feb 19, 5:30pm (Q&A with JT Takagi and Elena Rossi-Snook) 1968-1971, digital projection, approx. 70m A selection The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy special guests) festivals & series 14 15 tell it like it is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986 .

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Will iggins Untold Story Jessie Maple, 1981, 16mm, 70m A trailblazer and pio- H of Cannon neer, Jessie Maple was the first African-American Films woman to gain entry in New York’s camera operators C hester

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Twice as Nice Feb 20 –mar 5 Jessie Maple, 1989, 16mm, 70m Maple’s second narra- tive feature uses an intimate story—the relationship of St. Clair Bourne twin college basketball players—to examine the nature of sisterhood, competition, and friendship. Feb 16, 8:45pm (Introduction by Jessie Maple) free video program Screening in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center an evening with kent garrett Amphitheater. The Black GI Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison The 15th edition of Film Comment Kent Garrett, 1971, 16mm, 54m People’s Communications Network, 1973, digital The Black Cop projection, 17m magazine’s essential, eclectic Kent Garrett, 1969, 16mm, 15m Two docs made for About Media festival brings you a lineup of the Black Journal examining the perennial outsider Anthony Ramos, 1977, digital projection, 25m coming soon and the never- status accorded to those ostensibly on the inside— A program of video-based works that used television tech- policemen in Central Harlem and and nology to bring public attention to Black American identity, coming-back, the rare and the African-American soldiers in Vietnam. through intervention, documentation, and parody. rediscovered, the unclassifiable Feb 13, 8:30pm (Q&A with Kent Garrett and Kazembe Feb 15, 4:30pm (Post-screening discussion with and the underrated. Balagun) Rebecca Cleman and Chris Hill)

an evening with madeline anderson william greaves program I Am Somebody From These Roots SPECIAL THANKS Madeline Anderson, 1970, 16mm, 30m William Greaves, 1974, 16mm, 28m Academy Film Archive; Danish Film Institute Integration Report #1 Emergency Ward Madeline Anderson, 1960, digital projection, 20m William Greaves, 1959, 16mm, 30m A Tribute to Malcolm X Wealth of a Nation Opening Night Belluscone: A Sicilian Story Madeline Anderson, 1967, digital projection, 14m William Greaves, 1964, digital projection, 25m Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Franco Maresco, Italy, 2014, DCP, 95m A riotous anti- This program features Madeline Anderson’s classic I A tribute to the Harlem-born teacher, mentor, and film- of Cannon Films epic by gonzo satirist Franco Maresco about Silvio Am Somebody, which depicts the strength of a striking maker who passed away in August 2014, comprised of one Mark Hartley, Australia, 2014, DCP, 106m This off- Berlusconi’s Mafia connections and the way in which group of African-American women in Charleston, South of his greatest films (From These Roots) and two early, rare the-charts hilarious piece of film history is an instant his politics of spiritual debasement via tabloid TV have Carolina, as well as her first documentary and work from docs showcasing the incredible range of his work. classic thrill ride that recounts the taste-challenged transformed Italy for the worse. Or rather, a film about Black Journal. Feb 14, 8:30pm (Q&A with Louise Greaves) exploits of Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram the impossibility of making such a film… Feb 11, 8:30pm (Q&A with Madeline Anderson) Globus, who stormed Hollywood in the early ’80s, to Feb 24, 8:30pm women’s work program produce epic amounts of schlock. St. Clair bourne program Teach Our Children Feb 20, 8:30pm Bypass The Black and the Green Christine Choy & Susan Robeson, 1972, digital projection, 35m Duane Hopkins, UK, 2014, DCP, 105m Duane Hopkins’s St. Clair Bourne, 1983, digital projection, 45m Hairpiece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People Anarchy follow-up to his 2008 Better Things continues his Something to Build On Ayoka Chenzira, 1985, 16mm, 10m Michael Almereyda, USA, 2014, DCP, 97m In this brood- tough, gritty exploration of the pressurized lives of St. Clair Bourne, 1971, 16mm, 29m Syvilla ing, super-inventive update of Shakepeare's Cymbeline, socially marginal youth, here centering on a teenager Statues Hardly Ever Smile Ayoka Chenzira, 1979, 16mm, 15m a story of star-crossed lovers and ruthless intrigue is who follows in the criminal footsteps of his fresh-out- Stan Lathan, 1971, digital projection, 21m Producing Suzanne Suzanne reimagined against the backdrop of a turf war between a of-prison older brother. or directing more than 40 films in a 36-year career, St. Camille Billops & James Hatch, 1982, 16mm, 30m drug-dealing biker gang and corrupt cops. With Ed Harris, Feb 26, 6:30pm Clair Bourne is inarguably the most prolific black docu- A program from exemplary women filmmakers active dur- Penn Badgley, Ethan Hawke, and Milla ­Jovovich. mentarian of his time, authentically documenting critical ing the period covered by this survey, effectively bringing Mar 3, 9:00pm (Q&A with Michael Almereyda) Faults aspects of the black community—its culture, resistance, to light the remarkable contributions of female storytellers Riley Stearns, USA, 2014, DCP, 89m A once prominent and activism. and their image-making prowess. Un ange passe authority on mind control (played by a dynamite Leland Feb 8, 5:15pm (Q&A with Pearl Bowser, Sam Pollard, Feb 13, 6:00pm (Q&A with Christine Choy, Susan Philippe Garrel, France, 1975, 35mm, 79m Philippe Orser) reluctantly takes on an assignment to help “save” and Crystal Emery) Robeson, Camille Billops, and Neema Barnette) Garrel’s rarely screened elegy casts as an ethe- a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) from a mys- real poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean- terious religious cult, but as the deprogramming mis- Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s sion is carried out, events become increasingly messy For sale at the Film Society in conjunction with this series: Bill Gunn’s Rhinestone Sharecropping (a novel) and Black Picture Show (a play), father, Maurice, discussing the director’s staple topics: and bizarre. Riley Stearns’s debut feature is as funny published by I Reed Press, and How to Become a Union Camerawoman by Jessie Maple, published by LJ Film Productions. love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May ’68. and dark as it is surprising. Feb 24, 6:30pm Feb 23, 8:30pm festivals & series 16 17 film comment selects Fires on the Plain postwar Berlin in search of the husband she still loves, sexual free-for-all while shy director Frederik gets lost in Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan, 2014, DCP, 87m A disturbing who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. the erotic reveries he’s trying to capture on film. and often nightmarish remake of Kon Ichikawa’s 1959 Feb 28, 8:30pm Mar 1, 3:30pm antiwar classic by one of Japanese cinema’s most singu- lar mavericks, who also stars as a private wandering the Shock Value: The Movie—How Dan O’Bannon and Boys battlefield alone, sinking deeper into the obscenity of war. Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror Nils Malmros, Denmark, 1977, digital projection, 86m A film Feb 21, 5:15pm , Dan O’Bannon, Terence Winkless, Alec in three movements about boys growing into men—but not Lorimore & Charles Adair, USA, 2014, DCP, 80m A unique necessarily maturing—Boys looks for the essence of male The Fortune feature-length compilation of the student-film work of Dan development and, as to be expected from Malmros, things Mike Nichols, USA, 1975, 35mm, 88m Mike Nichols’s O’Bannon, John Carpenter, and others who helped rede- get complicated. ­underrated, rarely screened jazz-era farce features fine the horror genre in the ’70s. Mar 1, 1:00pm Stockard Channing as a young heiress who elopes with a Feb 21, 7:30pm (Presented by USC archivist Dino Anarchy fortune- hunter () whose halfwit sidekick Everett & author Jason Zinoman) Facing the Truth () comes along for the ride. Nils Malmros, Denmark, 2002, digital projection, 98m Mar 5, 6:30pm The Smell of Us Cannon Films Tribute Facing the Truth is an exploration of the moral dilemma Larry Clark, France, 2014, DCP, 92m Set in the streets and 10 to Midnight Malmros’s father Richard, a famous neurosurgeon, faced The Golden Era rave clubs of Paris and updated to a world of iPhones and J. Lee Thompson, USA, 1983, 35mm, 101m In the second when a scandal revealed that during the German occupa- Ann Hui, China/Hong Kong, 2014, DCP, 177m Ann Hui forg- digital cameras, Larry Clark’s The Smell of Us revisits the of six films would make with Cannon, he tion he had used a carcinogenic substance in his opera- es a fractured, modernist epic on the life of Manchurian es- world of Kids for an impressionistic, immersive study of the plays an LAPD detective fired for planting evidence on tions, risking hundreds of lives. sayist and novelist Xiao Hong, belatedly regarded as one lives of teen skateboarders and rent boys. a serial killer (late-night cable star Andrew Stevens) who Feb 28, 1:00pm of 20th-century Chinese literature’s most important figures. Feb 26, 8:45pm (Q&A with Larry Clark) murders in the nude. When his daughter becomes the next Mar 1, 6:30pm target in the ensuing grudge match, it’s a case of “Forget Pain of Love Spring what’s legal, do what’s right!” as the film’s tagline went. Nils Malmros, Denmark, 1992, digital projection, 120m Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead, USA, 2014, DCP, 109m Feb 21, 3:00pm A kind of prequel or counterpart to Sorrow and Joy, Pain Escaping his life in an idyllic Italian coastal village, Evan of Love covers scenes from the life of Kirsten (who's falls for the charming and elusive Louise, who’s hiding a loosely based on Malmros's wife), from her childhood terrifying secret. What comes next defies standard genre Boaz Davidson, USA, 1982, 35mm, 92m An early Can- and teenage years to early adulthood—how she discov- categories and, in the name of love, brings Evan face to non hit, this leering but ultimately surprisingly serious- ers sex and men; how one guy after the other turns out face with monstrous primordial forces. minded teen sex comedy is a mash-up of Porky’s and Fast to be a disappointment; how her life slowly becomes a Feb 21, 10:30pm | Feb 22, 5:45pm Times at Ridgemont High about the rivalry of a trio of girl- hell of depression and despair. chasing suburban L.A. youths. Feb 27, 6:30pm Tales Feb 21, 1:00pm Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran, 2014, DCP, 88m Iran’s lead- Sorrow and Joy ing female filmmaker withdrew from features 10 years ago, Ninja III: The Domination Nils Malmros, Denmark, 2013, DCP, 107m Malmros’s lat- The World of Kanako but she’s back with a panoramic portrait of Tehran’s lower Sam Firstenberg, USA, 1984, 35mm, 95m This action- est work stems from a personal catastrophe he longed depths, cunningly shot as a series of shorts to evade cen- packed cult classic features one of the Go-Go Boys’ to tell: the killing of his baby daughter by his wife during sorship red tape. most ludicrous plots—an aerobics instructor is pos- a psychotic episode in 1983. But the subject of the film Gremlins (Preview Cut) Feb 20, 6:30pm | Feb 22, 8:15pm sessed by the spirit of a dead evil Ninja who uses her to isn’t infanticide—it’s about one man trying to save the Joe Dante, USA, 1984, 35mm, 112m A rare screening of the exact revenge on the cops who killed him. The ne plus woman he loves, and how society helps him. test preview cut of Joe Dante’s scary-funny Christmas from Voice Over ultra of Cannon’s Ninja obsession. Feb 27, 9:15pm Hell creature-feature classic with five additional minutes. Cristián Jiménez, 2014, Chile, DCP, 99m Sofia is an out- Feb 20, 10:45pm Feb 22, 1:00pm of-work actress and mother of two seeking to sever Tree of Knowledge toxic technological dependencies, little realizing the Nils Malmros, Denmark, 1981, DCP, 110m This absolutely High Society / Le beau monde repercussions her plan will have on those around her. Nils Malmros In Focus wondrous autobiographical film travels back to 1950 to Julie Lopes Curval, France, 2014, DCP, 95m A delicately Co-presented with the Miami International Film Festival. Q&As with Nils Malmros at all screenings! depict the elite high school Malmros attended. A series observed but incisive Bildungsroman exploring the rela- Mar 3, 6:30pm Århus by Night of episodes describe with dead-on accuracy the dynam- tionship between social class, love, and creativity through Nils Malmros, Denmark, 1981, DCP, 101m Malmros’s only ics at play in the relationships and behavior of boys and the affair of a fashion-design student and her mentor’s son, The World of Kanako all-out comedy is a whimsical fantasy about the mak- girls on the cusp of adolescence. who seeks to escape his privileged upbringing. Tetsuya Nakashima, Japan, 2014, DCP, 118m A super- ing of his 1977 film Boys, in which the shoot becomes a Feb 28, 3:15pm Feb 28, 6:00pm (Q&A with actress Ana Girardot) intense revenge thriller about an ex-cop whose 17-year- old daughter goes missing. In his search for her, he blud- How to Live geons his way through a lurid world of drug-using high- Marcel Lozinski, Poland, 1977, 35mm, 83m Somebody is school kids, grudge-holding cops, and ruthless yakuzas. always watching in this unnerving hybrid documentary Mar 5, 8:30pm about a summer camp run by the Union of Young Polish So- cialists, where families are observed and graded on their The Yakuza political commitment and their participation in activities. Sydney Pollack, USA, 1975, 35mm, 112m East meets published by the film society of lincoln center Feb 23, 6:30pm West in the form of two iconic stars in this special trib- ute to the late Japanese star Ken Takakura, “There’s no other cinema magazine remotely like it.” —­ Phoenix here teamed with Robert Mitchum in a riveting thriller set Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014, DCP, 98m Nina Hoss in the treacherous waters of Tokyo’s underworld. Available for purchase in both theaters and selected newsstands. plays a concentration camp survivor who returns to Feb 22, 3:15pm Also check out our website, FilmComment.com festivals & series 18 19 film comment selects Dan Friel time regained: the films of The Film Society is proud to present the most complete American retrospective to date of this major,

photo by joe perez criminally underseen Filipino master, continuing with one screening a month through April 2015.

SPECIAL THANKS: Lav Diaz and Austrian Film Museum Evolution of a Filipino Family Philippines, 2004, digital projection, 593m Shot over a 10-year period and set during the Marcos re- gime’s years of martial law, Lav Diaz’s longest and most ambitious film is an emotionally wrenching expression of his thematic axiom that history is something to be weath- ered, survived, or endured. Jan 10, 1:00pm (Part 1) | Jan 11, 1:00pm (Part 2)

From What Is Before Philippines, 2014, DCP, 338m Lav Diaz’s magisterial TK photo needed new film (winner of the at the 2014 Lo- carno Film Festival) is a thrilling and utterly harrowing special picture of what was lost—and what was killed—in the years leading up to the Ferdinand Marcos’s 1972 decla- ration of martial law. Feb 15, 1:00pm programs Evolution of a Filipino Family selects The Duke of Burgundy one-night-only events Peter Strickland, UK, 2014, DCP, 104m Berberian Sound Studio director Peter Strickland returns with a touching An Evening With Tom McCarthy Sound + Vision presents yet twisted May-September lesbian romance nested in a Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Music from around the globe takes center stage in this ’70s sexploitation aesthetic. Johan Grimonprez, Belgium, 1997, digital projection, 68m exciting high-energy doc series. Screening with Mano Destra Towers Open Fire Cleo Übelmann, Switzerland, 1986, 53m Antony Balch, UK, 1963, 35mm, 10m The Big Beat Jan 16, 7:00pm (Q&A with Peter Strickland) On the occasion of the publication of his latest novel, Will Cowan, 1958, 35mm, 81m The Diamonds and Fats Satin Island, acclaimed writer and artist Tom McCarthy Domino mingle with Harry James and The Mills Brothers introduces a double bill of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Gri- in this exuberant jukebox time capsule. Experience the thrill of the Metropolitan Opera’s monprez’s essay film on the history of airplane hijackings, Jan 24, 1:00pm 2014–2015 season live on the big screen! and Antony Balch and William S. Burroughs’s seminal col- THE MET: LIVE in hd lage film, Towers Open Fire. The Big Beat: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll The Merry Widow Feb 25, 7:00pm Joe Lauro, USA, 2014, digital projection, 90m The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme Spotlighting dynamic, uncut performances and candid fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting oper- interviews with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, The etta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso Susan Big Beat is a joyful celebration of two icons who helped Stroman. pop music find its thrill. Jan 17, 12:55pm | Jan 23, 12:55pm (Encore) Jan 24, 3:00pm (Q&A with Joe Lauro) The Tales of Hoffmann Staring at Sound: Dan Friel (Live Musical Performances) The magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured Dan Friel uses junkyard electronics to play atom-smashing poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s cyborg party anthems and will be joined by video synth operatic masterpiece, in the Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic builder Todd Bailey. production. Jan 23, 8:00pm Feb 9, 12:55pm & 5:55pm (Encores)

Staring at Sound: The Epoch (Live Musical Performances) Iolanta + Bluebeard’s Castle Sound + Vision: The hardest working and most dedicated young music Anna Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experi- The Big Beat: collective in curates a dazzlingly varied evening ences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael Fats Domino of performance and video. is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard. and the Birth of Feb 19, 8:00pm Feb 14, 12:25pm | Feb 16, 12:55pm (Encore) Rock ’n’ Roll The Merry Widow special programs 2020 21 special programs Gangs of Wasseypur Girlhood Opens January 16 Gangs of Wasseypur (One-Week Exclusive) Anurag Kashyap, India, 2012, DCP, 320m Dubbed “the godfather of modern Indian independent cinema,” Anurag Kashyap offers his own Godfather of sorts, a riveting crime saga spanning seven decades of warfare between rival mob families in the titular coal town. Director in person!

Opens January 23 Mommy Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2014, DCP, 139m Quebecois au- teur Xavier Dolan’s most fully realized and idiosyncratic work to date stylishly revisits maternal angst and teen alienation when circumstances force brassy widow Diana to homeschool her violently hyperactive son Steve. Li’l Quinquin Salvation Army (One-Week Exclusive) Abdellah Taïa, France/Morocco/Switzerland, 2013, DCP, 81m Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa’s directorial debut is a bracing, deeply personal account of a young gay man’s awakening that avoids both cliché and the trap- pings of autobiography, worthy of Bresson in its con- creteness and lucidity.

Opens January 30 Girlhood Céline Sciamma, France, 2014, DCP, 112m Céline Sciamma’s third feature is one of the best coming-of- age films of recent years, capturing the lives of a gang of tough girls living in the Parisian banlieue with a rare empathy and a close, attentive eye. Director in person!

Opens february 6 Mommy Ballet 422 Jody Lee Lipes, USA, 2014, DCP, 72m Balletomanes and new behind-the-scenes aficionados will revel in director Jody Lee Lipes’s visual diary of the New York City Ballet’s 422nd original production and its inexperienced but im- passioned first-time choreographer. Director in person!

Losing Ground (One-Week Exclusive) Kathleen Collins, USA, 1982, DCP, 86m See description in Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968- releases 1986 (page 13). Opens January 2 When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism Opens february 27 Li’l Quinquin (One-Week Exclusive) (One-Week Exclusive) Corneliu Porumboiu, /France, 2013, DCP, 89m Eastern Boys (One-Week Exclusive) Bruno Dumont, France, 2014, DCP, 200m Bruno , France, 2013, digital projection, 128m Dumont’s absurdist metaphysical murder mystery, with A rigorously structured and fascinatingly oblique new film from Corneliu Porumboiu that examines the life of When a middle-aged, bourgeois Parisian approaches a echoes of Twin Peaks, spikes his moral and theological boyishly handsome Ukrainian at the Gare du Nord train Eastern Boys obsessions with tenderness and unforeseen humor. a during the moments on a shoot when the camera isn’t rolling. station in Paris, the sex-for-hire encounter begets a home Opens January 9 invasion and then an unexpectedly profound relationship. Opens January 14 La última película (One-Week Exclusive) Involuntary (One-Week Exclusive) My Life Directed by Raya Martin & Mark Peranson, Mexico/Canada/Denmark/ (One-Week Exclusive) Philippines, 2013, 35mm, 88m In this tribute to and Sweden, 2008, DCP, 98m See description in In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben Östlund (page 4). , 2014, USA, DCP, 58m Half home movie, critique of Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie, a grandi- half treatise on the anxieties that plague every artist, ose filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) scouts locations for a Play (One-Week Exclusive) this documentary by Liv Corfixen (aka Mrs. Refn) offers production that will involve exposing the last extant a warm, domestic perspective on the creative process celluloid film stock on the eve of the Mayan Apoca- Sweden/France/Denmark, 2011, DCP, 118m See descrip- tion in In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben and an all-access-granted portrait of one of world cin- lypse. Co-director Mark Peranson and actor Alex Ross ema’s most enigmatic figures. Director in person! Perry in person! Östlund (page 4). new releases 22 23 new releases January 2015 sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday 1:30 the Unforgiven jh 1:15 The Roots of Heaven jh 1:20 Reflections in a golden Eye jh Through Jan 11 4:00 Fat City jh 3:45 the Kremlin Letter jh Let There Be Light: The STAY CONNECTED WITH THE FILM SOCIETY! 6:15 Wise Blood jh 6:15 White Hunter, 3:45 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison jh Films of John Huston JH 8:30 We Were Strangers jh Black Heart jh filmlinc.com · @filmlinc · #filmlives · download the app 8:35 Tentacles jh 6:00 the Life and Times of Jan 14 – 22 Judge Roy Bean jh In Case of No Emergency: Li’l Quinquin OPENS 8:30 a Walk with Love and The Films of Ruben Sign up for the weekly newsletter at filmlinc.com/news Death jh Östlund RÖ Jan 14 – 29 1 2 3 New York Jewish 1:00 the Roots of Heaven jh 1:00 White Hunter, 1:00 A Walk with Love 1:00 Report from the 1:45 across the Pacificjh 1:30 under the Volcano jh 1:00 the Films of Lav Diaz: Film Festival NYJFF 3:30 moulin Rouge jh black Heart jh and Death jh Aleutians + The Battle 4:00 The Barbarian and the 4:00 sinful Davey jh Evolution of a Filipino 6:00 Victory jh 3:30 Fat City jh 3:00 Moulin Rouge jh of San Pietro jh Geisha jh 6:15 Reflections in a Family (Part 1) SP Jan 30 – Feb 3 3:30 let There Be Light + 6:45 Sinful Davey jh Dance on Camera DOC 8:30 Fat City jh 6:15 across the Pacificjh golden Eye jh Independence jh 8:30 The Barbarian and the 8:30 the Life and Times of 8:45 Under the Volcano jh 6:00  Let There Be Light + Geisha jh Judge Roy Bean jh SPECIAL programs SP Winning Your Wings + Independence jh La última película OPENS Jan 10, 11 8:45 report from the Time Regained: The Films Aleutians + The Battle When Evening Falls on of Lav Diaz: Evolution of a of San Pietro jh Bucharest or Metabolism Filipino Family 4 5 6 7 8 OPENs 9 10 Jan 16 1:00 The Films of Lav Diaz: Visit filmlinc.com for Visit filmlinc.com for 1:00 like Brothers NYJFF 1:00 Deli Man NYJFF 1:30 Force Majeure RÖ 12:55 Met Opera Live in HD: Film Comment Selects Evolution of a Filipino information information 4:00  The Muses of Isaac 3:30 The Dune NYJFF 4:00 Play RÖ The Merry Widow SP Jan 17. 23 Family (Part 2) SP Bashevis Singer NYJFF 4:30 involuntary RÖ 6:30 Involuntary RÖ 2:00 Force Majeure RÖ Met Opera Live in HD: 7:00 prizzi’s Honor jh 4:15 Involuntary RÖ 6:00 Deli Man NYJFF 7:00  Film Comment Selects: 4:30 the Guitar Mongoloid + The Merry Widow Shorts 6:00 like Brothers NYJFF 6:45 the Guitar Mongoloid + The Duke of Burgundy + RÖ Jan 23 6:15 Play RÖ Shorts RÖ Mano Destra SP 7:00 the Mystery of Happiness Sound + Vision presents 8:45  The Muses of 8:30  The Polgár Variant + 9:15  The Guitar Mongoloid + NYJFF Staring at Sound: Dan Friel Isaac Bashevis Singer Salomea’s Nose NYJFF Shorts RÖ 7:00 Involuntary RÖ NYJFF 9:15 Play RÖ 8:00 Free Shorts Program NYJFF Jan 24 Gangs of Wasseypur OPENS Sound + Vision presents 9:15 Force Majeure RÖ 9:15 Paris Is Burning NYJFF The Big Beat + The Big 9:15 Play RÖ Beat: Fats Domino and the Involuntary OPENS 11:30 Breakin’ NYJFF Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll 11 12 13 Play OPENS 14 15 16 17 1:00 Three Women NYJFF 1:00 Fires on the Plain NYJFF 1:00  The Outrageous 1:00  The King of Nerac 1:00  The Polgár Variant + 12:55 Met Opera Live in HD 1:00 sound + Vision: The Big New releases 2:00 Free Master Class: 2:00 the Guitar Mongoloid + Sophie Tucker NYJFF NYJFF Salomea’s Nose NYJFF Encore: The Merry Widow Beat SP Susan Korda NYJFF Shorts RÖ 2:00 Force Majeure RÖ Opens Jan 2 2:00 the Guitar Mongoloid + 2:00 Play RÖ 8:00 Staring at Sound: 3:00  Sound + Vision: The Big Shorts RÖ Dan Friel SP Beat: Fats Domino and the Li’l Quinquin 2:00 Force Majeure RÖ 3:00  Free Panel: War Against 3:30  Tsili + Back to the 3:15 Forbidden Films NYJFF 3:30 The Dune NYJFF War NYJFF Soil NYJFF 3:15  Gett: The Trial of 4:30 Involuntary RÖ Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll SP Opens Jan 9 4:30 the Guitar Mongoloid + 4:30 Involuntary RÖ 3:30  Tsili + Back to Viviane Amsalem 6:00  Above and Beyond Mommy OPENS 7:00 the Naked City + A Child La última película Shorts RÖ NYJFF of the Ghetto NYJFF 6:00 Sophie’s Choice NYJFF the Soil NYJFF NYJFF Salvation Army OPENS 6:15 Fear and Desire + When Evening Falls on 4:15 Force Majeure RÖ 4:15 Force Majeure RÖ 6:45 Play RÖ 8:00 Free Shorts Program 6:45 the Guitar Mongoloid + The War Game NYJFF NYJFF Bucharest or Metabolism Shorts RÖ 6:15 les Carabiniers NYJFF 6:15 the Battle of Algiers 8:30 The Zionist Idea 6:45 Play RÖ NYJFF 9:30 Let’s Go! NYJFF 9:00 Play RÖ 6:45 Involuntary RÖ 9:15 Involuntary RÖ Opens Jan 14 9:00  The King of Nerac 6:45 Involuntary RÖ Play 9:15  Dr. Strangelove or: 8:30 i Was Nineteen NYJFF NYJFF 9:00  Gett: The Trial of How I Learned to Stop 9:00 Play RÖ 9:15 Involuntary RÖ Involuntary Worrying and Love the Viviane Amsalem NYJFF Opens Jan 16 Bomb NYJFF 9:00 Play RÖ Gangs of Wasseypur 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Opens Jan 23 1:00 cry of the City NYJFF 6:00 the House on 92nd 1:00 Let’s Go! NYJFF 1:00 the Mystery of 1:00 the Go-Go Boys: The 1:00  Ballet Boys + Det Skal 1:00  American Mommy 2:00 Free Panel: The Zionist Street NYJFF 3:30 angels of Revolution Happiness NYJFF Inside Story of Cannon Danses Vaek DOC Cheerleader DOC Salvation Army Idea NYJFF 8:15 The Zionist Idea NYJFF NYJFF 3:15  Natan + How to Films NYJFF 3:15  Let’s Get the Rhythm: 3:30  Mia, a Dancer’s Journey 3:30 Forbidden Films NYJFF 6:15  Artist Focus: Break into Yiddish 3:30 Felix and Meira NYJFF The Life and Times of Miss + Hamadryad DOC Opens Jan 30 Mary Mack + Bookin’ DOC 6:00  The Outrageous Keren Cytter NYJFF Vaudeville NYJFF 6:15 the Go-Go Boys: The 5:00  Free Event: Young Girlhood 6:00  The Tugendhat Inside Story of Cannon 4:00 Free Event: Capturing Dancemakers + Panel DOC Sophie Tucker NYJFF 9:00  Angels of Motion NYC DOC 8:45 The Birdcage NYJFF Revolution NYJFF House NYJFF Films NYJFF 6:00 Shorts Program DOC 8:45  Natan + How to 9:00 Felix and Meira NYJFF 5:00 Free Panel: Filmmaker Services DOC 8:00  Dancing Is Living: Break into Yiddish Benjamin Millepied + Vaudeville NYJFF 6:00 Jiri Kylian: Forgotten Memories + Memory Little Opera DOC House DOC 8:00  Girlchild Diary + Letting Go DOC 25 26 27 28 29 Girlhood OPENS 30 31 february 2015 sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday 1:00  Capturing Grace + 3:30  The Dance of the Sun + 3:00  Here Now with Visit filmlinc.com for Visit filmlinc.com for 6:30  The Cruz Brothers and 1:00 S ymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Renewal DOC The Realm of Nothingness Sally Gross + Ze’eva information information Miss Malloy BINY Take One BINY Through Feb 3 3:20  Born to Fly: Elizabeth DOC Cohen: Creating a Life 5:00 G anja and Hess BINY in Dance DOC Dance on Camera DOC Streb vs. Gravity + 5:00  Free Meet the Artist Ballet 422 opens 8:00 P ersonal Problems + Angsters DOC Panel: Third Rail Projects 4:30  Free Panel: Black Panel Ballerina DOC Losing Ground opens BINY Feb 6 – 19 5:45  All That Jazz + DOC Tell It Like It Is: Black Panel DOC 6:00  Ghost Line and Other 6:00  Perpetual Motion: Independents in New York, Celluloid Antics DOC The History of Dance in 8:45  Fall to Rise + Stella & Catalonia + Pas DOC centerpiece 1968-1986 BINY Tom DOC 8:30 Robot + Primitive DOC 8:15  Desert Dancer DOC Feb 20 – Mar 5 Film Comment Selects FCS

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Feb 15 Time Regained: The Films of Lav Diaz: From What Is Before 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1:00 the Films of Lav Diaz: 12:55 Met Opera Live in 2:00 let the Church Say Visit filmlinc.com for 5:30 a Dream is What You 6:30 Tales FCS 1:00 the Last American Feb 19 From What Is Before SP HD Encore: Iolanta + Amen + Voices of the information Wake Up From + 8:30 E lectric Boogaloo: The Virgin FCS Sound + Vision presents Bluebeard’s Castle SP Gods BINY Black Faces BINY Staring at Sound: The 4:30 Free Video Program Wild, Untold Story of 3:00 10 to Midnight FCS BINY 6:30  An Evening with Jessie 5:00  Namibia: 7:15 Joe’s Bed-Stuy Cannon Films FCS Epoch 5:15 Fires on the Plain FCS 7:00  Let the Church Say Maple: Will BINY Independence Now! Barbershop: We Cut 10:45 Ninja III: The 7:30  Shock Value: The Amen! + Voices of the 8:45  An Evening with Jessie BINY Heads + A Place Domination FCS Movie—How Dan Feb 25 Gods BINY Maple: Twice as Nice BINY 7:00  One Last Look BINY in Time BINY An Evening With Tom O’Bannon and Some USC 9:00  In Motion: Amiri 8:00 staring at Sound: The Outsiders Helped Invent McCarthy Baraka BINY Epoch SP Modern Horror FCS 9:30 she’s Gotta Have It BINY 10:30 Spring FCS New releases

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