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  Latinbeat 2004 -- Film Society of Lincoln Center
This excellent film began with the surreal image of a man falling from a roof and the body of a bleeding woman being dragged downstairs, and then worked backwards and around the mental and actual experiences of three brothers, sons of the deceased judge, all of whom claimed to have murdered the woman.
This documentary-style film by Mercedes García Guevara is about the traditional and new-wave, tango scene in Buenos Aires and the dancers, musicians, and tango aficionados who participate and keep tango alive in the city that is so well-known for its signature music and late-night clubs.
Kudos to Film Society of Lincoln Center for Latinbeat 2004.
www.robertaonthearts.com /id212.html   (1554 words)

  
 Arts4All: ArtsPass News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A filmmaker or film critic introduces the screening, which is followed by a lively reception in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery to encourage socializing and audience discussion of the film.
The films are ultimately intended to be seen in Greece in a place that is in harmony with this work, an ideal archive and presentation area in a specifically constructed film theater and library.
Filmed in the Church of St. John on the island of Hydra, Bliss is the first film made by Markopoulos after moving to Europe.
www.arts4all.com /newsletter/breakingnews/breakingnews.asp?bb=2318&aid   (2212 words)

  
 views from the avant-garde 2001 - the new york film festival at the film society of lincoln center
Eventually these became storyboards for the films and led to the hieroglyphic montage style of the completed trilogy - an approach that I had intuited when first attracted to the potential of cutouts two decades ago, but had never been able to capture on film.
Hallowed is a 16mm film that portrays a mystical voyage made back to the beginnings of time by an unconscious woman in the throes of a cataleptic state.
A fractured educational film which introduces the complexity of the poetry of and the problems created by pastoral dreams of synthetic futures.
www.hi-beam.net /views   (3018 words)

  
 Jazz at Lincoln Center - Newsflash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jazz at Lincoln Center is the world's largest not-for-profit arts organization committed to promoting the appreciation and understanding of jazz through performance, education, and preservation.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to promote cinema culture, to recognize new filmmakers, and to encourage the growth of a discerning filmgoing audience.
The Film Society accomplishes these goals by presenting acclaimed annual events such as the New York Film Festival, the New Directors/New Films series (co-sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art), and a fundraising Gala Tribute, which honors preeminent actors and directors.
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org /jalc/news/archive/000814news.html   (1800 words)

  
 Yousssef Chahine Retrospective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo's main railroad station is the setting for Egyptian society in small, a community comprised of luggage carriers and soft-drink sellers who live in abandoned traincars.
By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.
Eight years in the making, this epic film about feudalism in rural regions was named the best Egyptian film ever made in a recent poll of Egyptian film critics.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/chahine.htm   (1340 words)

  
 Method   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Every year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center puts on the New York Video festival.
Method worked with the Film Society to design a self-mailing poster that contained the Festival program information and images from the featured videos.
The poster's concept is driven by the organization of festival videos into 'events', in which some are a single long video, while others are made up of a string of videos under 3 minutes long.
www.method.com:16080 /site_v2/method/case/lincoln_case   (182 words)

  
 NYU - Press Release
On Friday, October 26, 10 a.m., at Lincoln Center, W. 65th Street, Plaza level, Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Tom Bishop, chair of the NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, and Richard Peña, program director, Film Society of Lincoln Center, offer opening remarks.
Nowhere has this journal’s resonance been more felt than in the development of the discipline of cinema studies over the last three decades in the U.S. NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, the first of its kind in the nation, is an appropriate co-host of this event.
The NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, co-host of this conference, is the most comprehensive American academic complex devoted to the culture of France, past and present.
www.nyu.edu /publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_NEW_Y3.shtml   (553 words)

  
 The Film Society of Lincoln Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For what turned out to be his final film, John Frankenheimer went back to his TV roots with this brilliantly cast and staged drama about the inner workings of the Johnson administration, and the ego-driven self-deceptions that led to the Vietnam nightmare.
But in this Rudolph film more than any other, suffering is the name of the game and hard reality is the bottom line: like his couple, who make their living as dentists, he touches unexpectedly raw nerves, exposing a deep reservoir of regret, denial, and authentic emotional pain.
Gilles Guillain's performance as 16-year-old Thomas, caught between showy precociousness and open-hearted innocence, carries a film that is as awkwardly tender as it is brutal.
filmlinc.com /wrt/programs/2-2003/fcselects.htm   (2495 words)

  
 Find New Films Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
new directors / new films - the film society of lincoln center
For 27 years the premiere distribution cooperative for independent social issue films, with a collection of over 100 educational videos and documentaries from more than 50 producers.
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York Film Festival, Film Comment Magazine, New Directors/New Films Festival, New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center...
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 Nasdaq MarketSite Event - The Film Society of Lincoln Center - 10/04/2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In recognition of the 40th New York Film Festival, which runs from September 27th to October 13th, The NASDAQ Stock Market welcomes The Film Society of Lincoln Center to the Market Open.
A minimum of three members of the Committee are critics and scholars, not members of the Film Society staff-a structure designed to assume maximum objectivity in its choices.
The New York Film Festival is presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, publisher of Film Comment Magazine and presenter of the Walter Reade Theater and its year-round programs, the annual Gala Tribute and Young Friends of Film Honors, New Directors/New Films, and the filmlinc.com web site.
www.nasdaq.com /reference/market_open_100402.stm   (816 words)

  
 new directors / new films - the film society of lincoln center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The title of this first fiction film by Ulrich Seidl refers to that time of the summer when a combination of heat, glare, humidity and listlessness robs people of their social defenses and leaves them emotionally raw and exposed.
The beautifully textured film is full of the happenstance of everyday life and the wonders of chance encounters.
A hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, Zaïda Ghorab-Volta's film enchants, mystifies and reveals in equal measures, as the intrepid travelers meet life head on and confront their own expectations and limitations.
filmlinc.com /ndnf/ndnf2002.htm   (3063 words)

  
 The Better Business Bureau National Information System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Film Society of Lincoln Center spent 45.46% of related contributions on fundraising.
Film Society of Lincoln Center is an organization that ensures the recognition, development and presentation of film and encourages the support and participation of the audiences and community.
In addition, Film Society of Lincoln Center publishes film comment magazine that presents the current events of film industry.
www.newyork.bbb.org /charityreports/details.aspx?id=425   (340 words)

  
 Film Society of Lincoln Center :: Voice Stars and Filmmakers Take the Stage at Lincoln Center for ANIMATION NOW: ...
This exciting one-of-a-kind event, presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, took audiences from sketch to screen, as the Academy Award(R)-winning DreamWorks Animation SKG unveiled a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of one of the film industry's most enduring and successful art forms.
One of the film's directors, Tim Johnson, was joined by head of story Jeff Snow for the part of the presentation featuring the new computer-animated comedy based on the popular comic strip by Michael Fry and T Lewis.
The film's story centers on the unlikely friendship between a mischievous raccoon and a timid turtle who, together with their other woodland friends, must learn to co-exist with -- and even exploit -- the strange new world called suburbia.
sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20050502/LASU00102052005-1.html   (694 words)

  
 Film Listings Archive:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The beneficent influence of neorealism is apparent in the film's admirable use of location shooting and non-professional actors; its engaging slice-of-life cross-section of Brazilian society and social class is set to a lively pop music score.
The film was excluded from Cannes on the grounds of "excessive nudity"; some have suggested that the real problem was "the naked lunch with a French entree" (Pacific Film Archive).
The film is loosely based on the life of popular samba composer Ze Keti, who appears in a cameo.
www.cinematheque.bc.ca /archives/santos.html   (2828 words)

  
 Business Wire: The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Grand Marnier Announce That the Grand Marnier Film Fellowships ...
The Grand Marnier Film Fellowship recipients for 1999 were Kimberley Hassett for her video, "27 Amabala Way"; Tim Sheehy for his film, "Turnstiles"; and Melissa Anderson for her essay, "The Vagaries of Verities: On Shirley Clarke's `Portrait of Jason.'" The winners represented The School of Visual Arts, Columbia University and CUNY Graduate School, respectively.
She organizes the Film Society's touring program and assists the Film Society's publicity office and the organization's partnership with the Rome Theater in Westchester.
She was on the advisory board of the Sundance Film Festival in 1994 for short films and from 1995-1998 for feature films and documentaries.
www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0EIN/2000_March_8/60004185/p1/article.jhtml   (944 words)

  
 Film Society of Lincoln Center - Passion & Defiance
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna are proud to present Passion & Defiance: Silent Divas of Italian Cinema, a Special Event of the 38th New York Film Festival.
Through this entertaining and enlightening film retrospective - with newly restored prints with their original tinting, and the addition of English intertitles - the Film Society issues an invitation to meet the divine women of silent Italian cinema.
In a substantial number of films these film divas draped themselves on curtains, made significant entrances, reclined on sofas, and were prone to fainting spells and fevers from overindulgence in love, jealousy, and revenge.
www.arts4all.com /newsletter/schedules/fslcdivas.html   (2828 words)

  
 Film Society's Fifth Latin American Film Showcase Set for Lincoln Center in NYC
LatinBeat 2004, an annual showcase of films from Latin American countries presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, kicks off Friday, September 17th with a private screening of Walter Salles' "The Motorcycle Diaries," starring Gael Garcia Bernal as the revolutionary "Che" Guevara.
Twenty films from 9 countries will be screened during the annual program's fifth edition, running until the 28th at the Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater.
The film centers on a family who escapes to the countryside during Argentina's 1976 war, and stars Ricardo Darin and Cecilia Roth as the parents.
www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_040824lat.html   (512 words)

  
 Film Festival Today - Features - Article
The 42nd New York Film Festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and sponsored by Diet Coke, HSBC Bank USA, N.A, and The New York Times, will run from October 1 through October 17, 2004, at Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
The story centers on the reunion of two school friends, one a film director, the other an aspiring screenwriter, who become intertwined in memories of a Catholic boyhood, multiple identities, sexual dualities, and above all, a passion for film.
Selections for the 42nd New York Film Festival are made by Richard Peña; Kent Jones, editor-at-large for Film Comment and Associate Programmer of the Film Society of Lincoln Center; author and critic Phillip Lopate; John Powers, author and critic-at-large for NPR, the Village Voice, and the L.A. Weekly; and Lisa Schwarzbaum, film critic, Entertainment Weekly.
www.filmfestivaltoday.com /article_item.asp?ID=503   (1138 words)

  
 The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Concerts, Poetry Readings, Films, Photography and Lectures that illuminate the artistic output of the Russian Underground in the second half of the 20th century.
From Jan 24 to 30 at the Walter Reade Theater, the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present Soviet Sounds: Russian and Soviet Composers in the Cinema, featuring films with scores by leading composers of the Russian Underground.
Complete schedule information is available in the Walter Reade calendar and on the Film Society website at www.filmlinc.com.
www.chambermusicsociety.org /events/underground   (201 words)

  
 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
One of the world's largest cultural hubs, Lincoln Center presents live music, theater, dance, and opera performances from its 16-acre complex in New York City.
The Center also offers educational programming and provides a home base for such organizations as the School of American Ballet, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The Lincoln Center was conceived by New York City movers and shakers including Robert Moses, Robert F. Wagner, Jr., and John D. Rockefeller III; construction of the complex took place between 1959 and 1972.
www.hoovers.com /lincoln-center/--ID__47134--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (231 words)

  
 Film Festivals . com - People
On January 10-11, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and New Line Cinema will present a weekend-long screening series of the Special Extended Editions of the first two films in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, followed by the third and final film, The Return of the King, at Lincoln Center.
On Sunday, January 11, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s program director, Richard Peña, will host an extended Conversation with Peter Jackson, revisiting the highlights of his career and exploring The Lord of The Rings Trilogy in depth.
The third film in the highly acclaimed trilogy is produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Jackson.
www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=25251   (454 words)

  
 Film Echoes the Present in Atrocities of the Past - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Now, the 95-minute film - which has circulated like 16-millimeter samizdat on college campuses for decades but has never been accessible to a wide audience - is about to get its first significant theatrical release in the United States, beginning on Friday at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
When the film was finished a year later, it was shown at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, at theaters in France and England, and on German television.
Kerry's friend, the filmmaker George Butler, used footage from "Winter Soldier" to lionize him in a biographical film underwritten by Democrats called "Going Upriver." His political enemies on the right, meanwhile, created a Web site called Wintersoldier.com and made a film of their own, "Stolen Honor," to assail him as a traitor and a fraud.
www.nytimes.com /2005/08/09/movies/09wint.html?ex=1124164800&en=edd1b6ca8efd0812&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS   (893 words)

  
 Critic's Notebook: A Festival of Odd Finds to Cheer Film Buffs
Fortunately the Film Society of Lincoln Center is doing its part to help New York audiences dispel their midwinter malaise.
The society's fourth annual Film Comment Selects program, which starts today and runs for two weeks at the Walter Reade Theater, is an eclectic and intriguing minifestival, a collection of overlooked, underappreciated and sometimes just plain odd movies that should satisfy a wide range of tastes.
Carey, who appeared in small, memorable roles in films like "Paths of Glory" and "The Wild One" (in which he sprayed beer in Marlon Brando's face) and who turned down the part of Luca Brasi in "The Godfather," belongs to the line of American cinema eccentrics that includes Ed Wood and John Waters.
www.nytimes.com /2004/02/12/movies/12FEST.html?ei=5007&en=499935853933bb24&ex=1392526800&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1111640923-ojTN5Ar/dWEwmoeZuvhmvg   (741 words)

  
 The GSU Signal - Film Students! HBO Competition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Students should create a 45 second film trailer that informs the audience that they are seeing a presentation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The film society oversees the New York Film Festival, the New Directors Film Festival, the Walter Reade Theater, live annual events such as the Gala Tribute, and Film Comment magazine.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was formed in 1969 to recognize and celebrate American and international film makers.
www.gsusignal.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/12/4193c48118224   (405 words)

  
 Film Society of Lincoln Center - American Independent Visions
The multi-strand plot centers on the hapless Maldo's discovery that his wife Toying is having an affair, but O'Hara's over-riding concern is to locate the central couple at the heart of a loose filmmaking community of victims and dreamers.
The film, shot in both a metaphorical and realistic mode, gathered the most number of nominations and swept the awards in the 1998 Urian (Filipino Press Critics Prize) ceremonies.
Complete information on the Film Society of Lincoln Center, including current and past programs at the Walter Reade Theater, is also available on the site.
www.arts4all.com /newsletter/schedules/fslcphillipine.html   (2284 words)

  
 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Two of the best films in the series, Carnage and C’est le bouquet, are ensemble pieces whose many characters are often linked in only the most tenuous fashion.
For an initial, brief moment, it threatens to be one of those French roundelays of illicit romances, but the film turns out to be quite the opposite – a transformation of banal everyday trifles into a charming delectable romp.
While the film pokes fun at French obsession with intellectualism, it is seemingly pure, delightful fluff until a touching ending that reveals the human need to reach out that started it all.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/Rendez-VouswithFrenchCinema2003.htm   (1074 words)

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