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Film at Lincoln Center Weekly Newsletter - March 27, 2025
Arts and Entertainment
March 29, 2025
From: Film at Lincoln CenterThe Latest: Experience a juxtaposition of Black cinema from the past and present with L.A. Rebellion: Then and Now, on sale now • Miguel Gomes’s NYT Critic’s Pick Grand Tour opens Friday w. limited edition mini posters while supplies last • Chaplin Award Gala presenters announced with new tickets added • Discover emerging voices in cinema at the 54th edition of New Directors/New Films, opening Wednesday • Alain Guiraudie’s sinister and sly thriller Misericordia, Philippe Lesage’s coming-of-age drama Who by Fire, Carson Lund’s feel-good baseball movie Eephus, and Oscar winner Anora continue. Submit your short film for NYFF63!
OPENING FRIDAY, March 28
Opens Friday | New York Times Critic’s Pick
Grand Tour
“An expansive, sweeping work that bends time, space, genre, and form.” –TheWrap
In this fanciful and high-spirited cinematic expedition, Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes (Tabu, Arabian Nights)—winner of last year’s Best Director prize at Cannes—takes a journey across East Asia, skipping through time and countries with delirious abandon as the world both expands and closes in around an unsettled couple from colonial England.
Grand Tour mini posters available at opening weekend screenings while supplies last!
50TH CHAPLIN AWARD GALA
April 28 at 7:00pm
50th Chaplin Award Gala
The Chaplin Award Gala, presented in partnership with Rolex, is the largest fundraiser of the year for the nonprofit Film at Lincoln Center. This year’s gala honors Pedro Almodóvar, one of Spain’s most celebrated filmmakers.
The Gala Tribute will feature renowned performer and artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov; actress and longtime Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown); global pop powerhouse Dua Lipa; Emmy Award–winning actor, director, and writer John Turturro (The Room Next Door); and acclaimed filmmaker, writer, and artist John Waters.
Limited tickets remain to the Tribute and start at just $80. Available online or at the Alice Tully Hall box office.
JUST ANNOUNCED
April 25–May 4
L.A. Rebellion: Then and Now
The L.A. Rebellion was a movement of African and African American filmmakers who emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, primarily based at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. They aimed to create independent films that challenged mainstream narratives, focusing on the experiences and perspectives of Black communities.
Film at Lincoln Center is proud to present L.A. Rebellion: Then and Now, a retrospective program showcasing the vast, vital influence that the L.A. Rebellion and its spiritual descendants have had on the cinema of the African diaspora in the decades since the movement’s founding.
Series sponsored by MUBI
COMING NEXT WEEK
April 2–13 | See more and save with 3+ Film Package!
New Directors/New Films
Discover emerging voices in cinema with the 54th edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), a showcase of risk-taking works highlighting the vitality and potential of film, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.
Programmer Highlights:
- Invention, Courtney Stephens’s noirish investigation narrative, winner of a Best Performance prize for the captivating Callie Hernandez at the Locarno Film Festival. Q&A with Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez on April 5 & 6
- Maxime Jean-Baptiste’s Locarno award-winning feature debut, Listen to the Voices, which creates a vision of trauma and recovery through ecstatic musical performances and journeys through the streets of French Guiana. Q&A with Maxime Jean-Baptiste on April 5 & 6
- Paula Tomás Marques’s feature debut, Two Times João Liberada, a dazzlingly intricate look at filmmaking, performance, trans history, and art as the means to make sense of ourselves. Q&A with Paula Tomás Marques on April 7 & 8
- And many more filmmakers in person!
Just added: On April 8, Join IndieWire’s Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson and Deputy Film Editor Ryan Lattanzio for a free special live edition of Screen Talk Live on New Directors/New Films, new releases, and industry news!
PLAYING DAILY
New York Times Critic’s Pick
Misericordia
The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns at the top of his game with a sharp, sinister, slyly funny thriller about a young man who returns to his small hometown in rural France and insinuates himself into the lives of a series of acquaintances.
New York Times Critic’s Pick
Eephus
Carson Lund’s poignant and gracefully accomplished debut feature lovingly nestles in with a pair of amateur recreation league baseball teams as they play one last game at their beloved Soldiers Field before it’s torn down.
Berlin Film Festival award winner
Who by Fire
A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions in this disquieting coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage.
DISCOVER FLC PROGRAMMING
Opens April 18
The Shrouds
In David Cronenberg’s sly and thought-provoking latest, techno-entrepreneur Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger), Karsh uncovers a potentially vast conspiracy.
Spring Lineup
Mark your calendars for a new season of programming, including: Kira Muratova: A Retrospective, which takes a look at the work of one of the most influential women directors in cinematic history; The Other America: A Cosmology of Jordan Peele’s Us, an interpretation of the many references in Peele’s rich sophomore feature; and so much more!
- April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) – Opens April 25 w. Q&As
- New York African Film Festival – May 7–13
- Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) – Opens May 9
- Kira Muratova: A Retrospective – May 16–25
- Northern Lights – Opens May 23
- Open Roads: New Italian Cinema – May 29–June 5
- Ghost Trail – Opens May 30
- Monica Vitti: La Modernista – June 6–19
COMMUNITY CORNER: SCREENINGS FROM OUR FRIENDS
Japan Society
Early Spring on 35mm
An acute examination of a white-collar existence, Yasujiro Ozu’s 1956 follow-up to Tokyo Story follows a bored salaryman whose fleeting affair unravels the quiet disappointments of adulthood in postwar Tokyo. Catch a 35mm screening of Early Spring at Japan Society this Friday—FLC members can enjoy discounted $8 tickets with code FLCSPRING.
Anthology Film Archives
Henry Fonda for President
The feature debut by Austrian film scholar and curator Alexander Horwath, Henry Fonda for President is anything but a conventional Hollywood portrait. The film uses Fonda as a prism through which it explores and meditates upon the changing politics, society, and culture of the United States, articulating a genuinely new and profoundly insightful take on 1900s–80s American culture. Use code FLCFONDA for a special discount.