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Film at Lincoln Center Happenings Newsletter: January 3, 2025

Arts and Entertainment

January 6, 2025

From: Film at Lincoln Center

The Latest: Reminisce on an incredible year at FLC with our 2024 Year in Review • See Sean Baker’s Anora on 35mm January 3–9 • Catch up on NYT Critic’s Picks The Room Next DoorThe Seed of the Sacred Fig, and All We Imagine as Light w. Q&A on January 7 • Get tickets to the 34th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, on sale now • Mark your calendars for what’s coming to our theaters in 2025, including Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution, on sale soon • Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths returns January 10, with Leigh in person!

A LOOK BACK AT FLC IN 2024

As another year begins, we wanted to look back at some highlights from a busy 2024 with you. Thank you for supporting us and so many filmmakers by choosing our theaters to see bold and engaging stories from all over the world! See some exciting facts that paint a picture of our year at FLC and click the button below to see a video recap of this year, featuring our incredible guests, Members, audiences, and more!

Watch the Year in Review

NOW PLAYING

New York Times Critic’s Pick | 5x Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture

Anora on 35mm

Sean Baker’s rambunctious Palme d’Or winner continues in our theaters, starring Mikey Madison as an exotic dancer from Brighton Beach thrust into the lap of luxury when she’s whisked away on a whirlwind romance with a wealthy young customer.

See Anora on 35mm this week at the following screenings

Friday, Jan. 3 at 6pm

Saturday, Jan. 4 at 6pm

Sunday, Jan. 5 at 6pm

Monday, Jan. 6 at 6pm

Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 6pm

Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 6pm

Thursday, Jan. 9 at 6pm

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New York Times Critic’s Pick | Golden Globe Nominee!

The Room Next Door

Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. Pedro Almodóvar’s finely sculpted drama, his first English-language feature, is the unmistakable work of a master filmmaker.

Golden Globe nominee for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) – Tilda Swinton

Save the date to see Almodóvar honored with the 50th Chaplin Award at FLC on April 28—tickets on sale soon!

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New York Times Critic’s Pick | Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture (Non-English Language) and Best Director

All We Imagine as Light

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.

Q&A with Payal Kapadia on Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 6pm!

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New York Times Critic’s Pick | Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture (Non-English Language)

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Winner of a Special Prize from the jury at Cannes after its director escaped a prison sentence in Iran for criticizing the government, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama is an epic of anti-patriarchal political conviction about a judge’s investigator at odds with his progressive daughters.

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COMING SOON

January 15–29

34th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival

Film at Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum present the 34th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), spotlighting the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. This year, the lineup showcases nine narrative features, 11 documentaries, a miniseries, newly restored historic films, and more. 

See films with in-person apperances, including:

-- Torah Tropical, about Orthodox Jewish converts who desire to emigrate to Israel with their two young daughters while living precariously in a beautiful but dangerous city in Colombia. Post-screening discussion with director/producer/composer Ezra Axelrod, producer David Restrepo, and producer Heidi Paster.

-- Nina Is an Athlete, an intimate documentary portrait that brings us into the fast-paced world of Nina Gorodetsky, a champion wheelchair badminton player preparing to represent Israel in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Post-screening discussion with director Ravit Markus.

-- The Other, a documentary on peace activists that follows Israeli and Palestinian subjects working toward connection and hope rather than division and bloodshed. Post-screening discussion with director Joy Sela.

-- Lost City, a documentary that reveals that the Amsterdam Transit Authority, even in the years after World War II, was soliciting payments from Germany for the public city trams that deported 48,000 Jews. Preceded by Yoav Potash’s short, A Great Big Secret.Post-screening discussion with director Willy Lindwer and producer Emjay Rechsteiner.

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Winter/Spring 2025 

See What’s Playing in Our Theaters in 2025!

Highlights include Mike Leigh in person for Hard Truths, a retrospective of Frederick Wiseman’s films, including 33 newly restored in 4K, a collection of rarely seen works that inspired auteur Robert Eggers in making his spellbinding Nosferatu, and a deep dive into the world of Jordan Peele’s masterpiece of identity horror Us, pegged to the publication of Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay.

Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024) – Opens January 10 w. Mike Leigh in person January 11

Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution – January 31–March 5 (tickets on sale soon)

Conjuring Nosferatu: Robert Eggers Presents – February 5–9

Compensation (Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999) – Opens February 21 (New 4K restoration)

The Other America: A Cosmology of Jordan Peele’s Us – February 26–March 2

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema – March 6–16

Eephus (Carson Lund, 2024) – Opens March 7

Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage, 2024) – Opens March 14

Djibril Diop Mambéty Cine-concerts by the Oriki Collective and Woz Kaly – March 18–20

Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) – Opens March 21

Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, 2024) – Opens March 28

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FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS

Pedro Almodóvar on The Room Next Door

We’re excited to continue our FLC Luminaries video series with writer and director Pedro Almodóvar discussing his latest finely sculpted drama and very first feature in English, The Room Next Door. See the film in our theaters playing daily!

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