With the exception of a few repeat screenings in July, the most successful film series in Lincoln Center history—VISCONTI: A RETROSPECTIVE—will conclude this week with LUDWIG (1973), starring director Luchino Visconti’s lover Helmut Berger in the title role.
Wednesday and Thursday, June 27 and 28,
at 2 pm and 6:45 pm.
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street, New York City.
Above: Romy Schneider in Ludwig.
Below: Helmut Berger and his director Luchino Visconti.
The Luchino Visconti retrospective at Lincoln Center continues with three screenings of his black-and-white, widescreen masterpiece ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, from 1960.
The film has been beautifully restored by Cineteca di Bologna in association with Titanus, with funding by Gucci and the Film Foundation.
Friday, June 8, at 1:30 pm, Saturday, June 9, at 8 pm, and Wednesday, July 18, at 7 pm.
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street, New York City.
Renato Salvatori as Simone and Alain Delon in the title role in Rocco and His Brothers.
This week, the Film Society of Lincoln Center—as part of the program Rendez-vous with French Cinema—presents the North American premiere of MES PROVINCIALES / A PARIS EDUCATION, Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s epic of young film students discovering the capital.
Starring Andranic Manet and Diane Rouxel, the director will participate in a post-screening Q & A this weekend.
MES PROVINCIALES / A PARIS EDUCATION, Saturday, March 17, at 6 pm.
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RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA, through March 18.
WALTER READE THEATER, 165 West 65th Street, New York City.
filmlinc.org/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema
See: hollywoodreporter.com/a-paris-education-mes-provinciales
Andranic Manet, above, and seated third from right, below, in Mes provinciales / A Paris Education.
Image credit: Kino Lorber.
Douglas Sirk’s ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) and MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954), part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center series Emotion Pictures—International Melodramas, will screen on New Year’s Day.
A potent influence on Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai, Todd Haynes and many others, these masterpieces (along with Sirk’s Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life) are the high-water mark of overwrought Hollywood melodrama.
“Setting arch-American characters and tales in lurid tableaux of riotous colors and tangled shadows, catching the frozen moments of contemplative self-horror of furiously dynamic characters and the stifled energies of reflective ones, Sirk plays ironic variations on American themes.” — Richard Brody*
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, Monday, January 1, at 7 pm.
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MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, Monday, January 1, at 9:15 pm.
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WALTER READE THEATER, 165 West 65th Street, New York City.
Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in Magnificent Obsession (1954). Image credit: Universal Pictures.
In conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center program TALKING PICTURES: THE CINEMA OF YVONNE RAINER, the dancer–choreographer will join novelist and critic Lynne Tillman for a wide-ranging discussion of Rainer’s work as a filmmaker.
A CONVERSATION WITH YVONNE RAINER AND LYNNE TILLMAN, Monday, July 24, at 7 pm.
AMPHITHEATER, ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER, 144 West 65th Street, New York City.
TALKING PICTURES: THE CINEMA OF YVONNE RAINER, through July 27.
FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER, ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER, 144 West 65th Street, New York City.
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Stills from Film About a Woman Who… (1974), directed by Yvonne Rainer. Image credit: Zeitgeist Films.
