
Youth Knows No Pain is Back By Popular Demand this Wednesday! Check out this interview the filmlinc blog conducted with the filmmaker in the Spring.The daughter of a plastic surgeon, award-winning filmmaker Mitch McCabe has a particularly personal connection to the multi-billion dollar industry s...
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Thanks to the FSLC's Back By Demand series, there are two more chances to catch Giuseppe de Santis's rarely screened Bitter Rice (Riso Amoro, 1949) originally appearing as a part of the FSLC's Life Lessons series back in November.Of all the incredible programming I attended at the Walter Reade th...
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Until then, enjoy some great filmmaker interviews from our friends over at the Jewish Museum, like this one with Mary and Max director Adam Eliot. Throughout the festival, in conjunction with the filmlinc blog, the Jewish Museum blog will be bringing you exclusives and news from the festival.Stay...
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With the end of the year comes a moment to look back, reflect and take stock. The Film Society shows almost a thousand films a year, and picking just a handful of favorites is bound to be challenging. But with our Back by Popular Demand series, we're threading up a few of the films that really ma...
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Every year Film Comment polls its many contributors and members of the critical community for their take on the twenty best films of the year, and publishes the results in January/February issue. We're pleased to bring you this sneak preview.20 BEST RELEASED FILMS OF 20091. The Hurt Locker Kathry...
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Friends, there's only a couple of days left to soak up the glamour, the comedy, the excitment that is Spanish Cinema Now.This popular series only happens once a year and if you haven't had a chance to stop by yet, this weekend be sure to check out:V.O.S.: which means “original version, subtitled”...
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"The life of a repo man is always intense." Truer words were never spoken. But Alex Cox's 1984 indelible, indescribable, inimitable indie classic is jam-packed with quotable quotes.Seeing it once is just not enough. And if you've never seen it? Well, your education in the kind of original, balls-...
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New contributor Handel Low offers this report from the Film Comment Selects screening of [REC] 2: I had just seen the first movie [REC] a few weeks before so its chilling conclusion was still fresh in my mind. The sequel begins immediately where the first leaves off but takes the story (and camer...
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Maybe you're like me, and you've only had the chance to see the pale American remake of the inventive Spanish original (it's called Quarantine). But horror fans, you're in luck! This year's Spanish Cinema Now comes with a double dose of creepiness through the stateside ...debut of [REC] 2, as well a...
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Just a few reasons to consider giving the gift of film this holiday season...No threat of being trampled by holiday bargain hunters, you can buy online!The lucky recipient can enjoy it all year -- invites to special events, discounts on movies, free popcorn, and so much more!Your Membership dolla...
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The flag of a cinematic empireMainstream film audiences in the U.S. have come to love Spanish greats like Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem (and Film Society audience were in on their talents way before the masses).But the question remains, how does one country develop such a weal...
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Film Society of Lincoln Center This is going to be scary. Very scary. The zombie terror of [REC] 2 hits the film society this weekend!
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The new teaser of REC 2, directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.

A country blessed with a number of heavyweight cinematic exports: Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem. And coming soon to the Film Society: the series that helped introduce them to New York audiences...Spanish Cinema Now.This year, we're pleased to announce that for the first time ever,...
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It's a day for giving thanks, for catching the first round of the studios' big Oscar-bait releases, and for thanking your lucky stars that your family, while crazy, is not possessed by demons, gripped with writer's block inspired rage, or capable of killing people with their minds.In honor of Tha...
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Not surprisingly, the single Italian neorealist film I was guaranteed to have seen before the series (and it really is as good as everyone says) is director Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948). However, I have been taking advantage of my All-Access Pass to attend the Fi...
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If you're scratching your head and wondering, what the heck is a Miditzer, have no fear, you are not alone. But the unusual instrument will make an appearance tonight at the Film Society for a very special presentation of THE HOODLUM, a Mary Pickford charmer with amusing contemporary relevance. I...
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Film Society of Lincoln Center Russia's submission for this years foreign language Academy Award is a bold, modern update of Chekhov's tale of a psych-ward doctor turned patient in his own asylum. It has its U.S. premiere at the Film Society on December 1st.

Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their long-list for Best Documentary Feature. Among them, a few that will be familiar to Film Society audiences:“The Beaches of Agnes,” Agnès Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)“Burma VJ,” Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)“T...
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From The Overcoat, part of the Italian Neorealism series at the Film Society One of the pleasures of attending an extensive series such as FSLC's Life Lessons: Italian Neo-Realism and the the Birth of Modern Cinema is the opportunity to discover unfamiliar filmmakers, and then immerse yourself in...
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You've encountered him before on the filmlinc blog, when contributing editor Nicholas Feitel sat down for a glass of sake with the famously controversial critic.Now, from our friends at The Film Talk, a special podcast interview with Armond White, who will be hosting a tribute to Michael Jackson ...
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Get a special preview of some of the scrumptious delights that will be a part of our special event: A Feast of Food and Film on Saturday, November 21st. And remember! You can still enter to win one of four passes to the series by sharing your thoughts on the series here.
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You've immersed yourself in Italian Neorealism. Maybe you've even bought an All Access pass. Well, here's news to be excited about: this week is all about rarities, the kind of stuff you'll never see in your local video joint. Go deeper into Italian Neorealism with some ... of the movement's most rar...
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For over a week I have been pushing my All-Access Pass to the Life Lessons: Italian Neo-Realism and the Birth of Modern Cinema to the limit, seeing incredibly interesting films, a few of them never before screened in the States. (Including Italian-only archival prints with hand-cued Powerpoint su...
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On Facebook, Jonny B. raves: "This is the greatest retrospective ever put together by filmlinc," and Angela B. says: "I have been waiting for a Italian Film Festival- can't wait! Big fan of DeSica & Fellini." On Twitter, our followers have expressed their ... excitement over the se...
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Italian Neorealism: A Feast of Food and FilmSaturday, November 21stJoin us for a rare chance to enjoy of some of the finest selections of Italian Neorealist film--including Bread, Love and Dreams, Voyage to Italy, Umberto D. and I vitelloni--as well as scrumptious Italian delicacies and authentic...
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Enjoy a mini-film school during our Italian Neorealism series by drinking in the work of these outstanding directors. PIER PAOLO PASOLINIAccattone“It was like being present at the birth of cinema.” ~Bernardo Bertolucci, on working on Accattone.Sun Nov 1: 8:00pmSat Nov 21: 9:30pmVITTORIO DE SICABi...
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See the lighter side of the influential film movement with these delightful selections.Miracle in Milan / Miracolo in MilanoA delightful fantasy for postwar Italy that is just as enchanting today, directed by Neorealist titan Vittorio De Sica.Sun Nov 1: 3:15pmSun Nov 15: 3:00pmBread, Love and Dre...
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Highlights include: Richard Kelly’s The Box White Ribbon director Michael Haneke interview Lee Daniels’s Precious Up in the Air director Jason Reitman Robert Bresson & Samuel Fuller separated at birth?
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Long before Francis Ford Coppola took us on a journey deep into the cultures and rituals of the Sicilian mafia, these films treated the Italian criminal underworld.The Bandit / Il banditoNeorealist style, filtered through the gangster genre: an ex-POW returns to his native Turin and assumes contr...
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From Open City, a selection of Italian Neorealism at the Film Society of Lincoln CenterI must confess I've never seen a film print of an Italian Neo-Realist movie. As much as I love classics like La Terra trema, Open City, and Bicycle Thieves on video, I have always known I was missing something ...
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