Breathless Animals, premiering in the US as part of the Art of the Real festival, captures the cadence of nonlinear memory.
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s Surreal Films Are Terribly Awkward, Tender, and Triumphant
Five films that inspired Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated The Favourite portray humans who seem to be putting on their bodies and native tongues for the very first time.
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From Julian Schnabel’s van Gogh Film to a New Godard at the 56th New York Film Festival
Standouts at this year’s New York Film Festival range from a Vincent van Gogh biopic by Julian Schnabel to a documentary on free jazz, with a range of great, art-inflected offerings in between.
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Political Corruption Haunts an Afrofuturist Film Set in Brasília
The 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff looms over Adirley Quierós’s new movie Once There Was Brasília.
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Yvonne Rainer on How Filmmaking Gave Her Language
The dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker looks back on her career in light of her film retrospective starting at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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A Korean Punk Band’s Struggles with Censorship
Jung Yoon-Suk’s documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno tells the story of the college punk duo Bamseom Pirates and the arrest of the band’s producer after posting controversial tweets.
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A German Filmmaker Who Captured the Poetics of Labor and the Legacy of Fascism
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting A Vision of Resistance: Peter Nestler , the first large retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker in the US.
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A Long-Censored Chilean Filmmaker Revisits a Documentary 30 Years Later
Playing at Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real series, This Is the Way I Like It II is a playful, entangled follow-up to Ignacio Agüero’s 1985 film.
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A Sibling’s Documentary About His Brother’s Mysterious Murder
In Strong Island, Yance Ford lays out the peculiar circumstances that surrounded his brother’s murder in 1992, and the void left in its wake.
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The Opulent World of Qatari Falconry
Yuri Ancarani’s documentary The Challenge immerses viewers in the dazzling subculture of ultra-wealthy sheiks who practice falconry.
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A Thriller About Parisian Terrorists Refuses to Pass Judgment
Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama follows a group of Parisians as they plan and carry out coordinated terrorist attacks and then hole up in a luxury department store.
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Pensive Short Films About Peculiar and Forgotten Places
The texture and peculiarity of history, place, and the everyday color a ruminative set of short films in this year’s Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
