Hiatus 2015 Special Events at BAMcinématek The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor for BAMcinématek and BAM Rose Cinemas. JAN 12 at 7pm William Friedkin presents Costa-Gavras’ Z (1969) Friedkin in person! With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas. William Friedkin appears at BAMcinématek to discuss Costa-Gavras’ electrifying conspiracy thriller, which has had a marked influence on his similarly visceral films, including his Oscar-winning The French Connection. Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a magistrate whose inquiry into the murder of a prominent left-wing politician (Montand) exposes a widespread government cover-up and thrusts him into a political minefield. With its live-wire energy and gritty vision of institutional corruption, Z crackles with staccato, Oscar-winning editing and Mikis Theodorakis’ bristling bouzouki score. JAN 16 at 8pm Jean-Luc Godard’s GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D (2014) Presented on the Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater “A teasing and exhilarating film, one that flirts with despair but somehow, I think, comes out on the side of joy.” —Stephanie Zacharek, The Village Voice With Héloise Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier. The only film to receive a round of applause mid-screening at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Jury Prize), Jean-Luc Godard’s brilliant, mind-bending experiment in 3D follows a stray dog that wanders from town to country and, over the course of some seasons, observes what seems to be a couple falling in love, then falling apart. Impossible both to summarize and to forget, this groundbreaking work by one of the greatest living auteurs “offers up generous, easy pleasures with jolts of visual beauty, bursts of humor, and swells of song” (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times). BAMcinématek presents this special screening of Goodbye to Language 3D on the Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater, the largest New York screen to showcase Godard’s latest masterpiece. FEB 3 Two by Jody Lee Lipes BALLET 422 (2014) and NY EXPORT: OPUS JAZZ (2010) Lipes in person! BAMcinemaFest alum Jody Lee Lipes (Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same), who won acclaim for his work as the cinematographer on Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture and Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible, comes to BAM to present his two award-winning collaborations with New York City Ballet: a sneak preview of Ballet 422, a vérité portrait illuminating the process behind up-and-coming choreographer Justin Peck’s creation of a new work at NYCB featuring music by Sufjan Stevens, and NY Export: Opus Jazz, a filmed adaptation of Jerome Robbins’ smash hit ballet-in-sneakers about disaffected urban youth. Sneak preview of Ballet 422 courtesy Magnolia Pictures. For press information, please contact Lisa Thomas at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Hannah Thomas at 718.724.8002 / [email protected] .