Film at Lincoln Center Podcast

NYFF58 Revivals highlight Smooth Talk (1985) features the work of three powerhouse women: director Joyce Chopra; actress Laura Dern, in one of her first starring roles; and author Joyce Carol Oates, whose 1966 short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” provided the inspiration for the film. To celebrate the festival premiere of the film’s new restoration, Chopra, Dern, and Oates joine...

As part of their nationwide virtual retrospective, directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman joined FLC programmer Dan Sullivan for a career-spanning conversation. Watch their essential work, featuring new restorations, through November 5 in our Virtual Cinema at filmlinc.org/tellingpics For more than 30 years, Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne powerful witness to...

For the 58th New York Film Festival’s final week, a group of critics gathered together for a spirited discussion with Devika Girish, Assistant Editor of Film Comment and Talks programmer for the NYFF, about the movies they saw in this year's lineup and their tales from the trenches of the pandemic-era festival. Participants included Molly Haskell (author, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of W...

Welcome to a new episode of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we're featuring a conversation with Pietro Marcello, whose NYFF favorite Martin Eden opens in our Virtual Cinema today along with a weeklong four-film retrospective. This Q&A is from the 57th New York Film Festival, featuring Marcello in conversation with programmer Florence Almozini and interpretation by Michael Moore. Get tic...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Programmer Florence Almozini is joined by director Azazel Jacobs and actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges to discuss French Exit. In the Closing Night selection, Pfeiffer is entirely bewitching as an imperious, widowed New York socialite who, facing financial insolvency, relocates to a friend’s emp...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim connects with director Christian Petzold to discuss Undine, the latest from the filmmaker behind Phoenix and Transit, among others. In his new film, the German director injects a mythological element into a lush melodrama about a pair of star-crossed lovers—Undine (Pau...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Tyler Wilson is joined by co-directors Paul Felten & Joe DeNardo and star Stephanie Hayes of the funny and alluring Slow Machine. Featuring an intriguingly eclectic cast—including experimental theater performers Hayes and Scott Shepherd, the musician Eleanor Friedberger, and Chloë Sevigny—Slo...

Director/actor/writer/producer Tim Robbins is proud to introduce Bobbo Supreme - originally conceived as a film and adapted for a new realm of aural entertainment in pandemic times. Bobbo Supreme is a hard-hitting, bitingly funny, no holds barred look at the hypocrisy, deception, and danger in the current American political landscape. A satirical fever dream in five parts. New York Film Festival D...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi joins NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss Notturno, Rosi’s latest immersive work of nonfiction. Shot over the course of three years along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon, Notturno is a nighttime ramble through a region ro...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw to discuss their revelatory, earthy documentary The Truffle Hunters. This engaging and beautifully shot film immerses the viewer in the forests of Northern Italy where dogs, accompanied by their elderly and often irascible...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by director Spike Lee and musician David Byrne to discuss American Utopia, Lee’s concert film recording of Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show. American Utopia is an exhilarating record of a seismic theater event as well as a momentous work of cinema in its own r...

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim connects with director Steve McQueen to discuss Red, White, and Blue, one of the three entries in McQueen’s Small Axe anthology playing at this year’s NYFF. Red, White, and Blue is a vivid adaptation of a true story set in the early ’80s and features an impassioned yet...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Heidi Ewing, along with subjects Ivan Garcia & Gerardo Zabaleta, and actor Armando Espitia to discuss their film I Carry You With Me. Among the most emotionally resonant and innovatively conceived cinematic love stories in years, I Carry You Wi...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins is joined by director Jia Zhangke to discuss the filmmaker’s evocative new documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue. Jia Zhangke gathers three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—in Shanxi province, where he grew up, to create a tapestry...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Philippe Lacôte to discuss the Ivory Coast filmmaker’s breakout feature The Night of Kings. Paying homage to the tradition of the griot in West African culture, this original vision tells the story of a pickpocket (Koné Bakary), newly arrived at...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer Florence Almozini is joined by director Chaitanya Tamhane to discuss The Disciple, the Indian filmmaker’s much-anticipated follow-up to Court. The Disciple is a finely crafted labor of love set in the world of Hindustani classical music, starring singer—and remarkable first-time a...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Pedro Almodóvar and actor Tilda Swinton to discuss their new short film The Human Voice. In the film, Swinton swallows up the screen as a woman traumatized by the end of a relationship. An impeccably designed yet combustible adaptation of Jean...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by filmmaker Chloé Zhao to discuss Nomadland, the director’s richly textured follow-up to her acclaimed The Rider. The NYFF58 Centerpiece selection recounts a year in the life of Fern (Frances McDormand), a stoic, stubbornly independent widow who, having s...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by director Steve McQueen to discuss Mangrove, making its world premiere at the festival. An epic piece of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Mangrove tells the true story of Frank Crichlow, the Trinidad-born owner of a café in Notting Hill who was ar...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins sits down with director Matías Piñeiro to discuss the Argentinian filmmaker’s latest feature, Isabella. Never has Piñeiro’s art been more graceful or structurally complex than in his latest, in which he again uses a Shakespeare text to anchor a loose yet intellec...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans to discuss On the Rocks. A Spotlight selection at NYFF, Coppola’s latest work is a lighthearted but poignantly personal comedy about aging, marriage, and the tenuous bond between parents and g...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer K. Austin Collins is joined by director Sam Pollard to discuss his new documentary MLK/FBI. Throughout his history-altering political career, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary,...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Garrett Bradley to discuss her extraordinary new documentary Time. Bradley detailed the process of capturing Fox Rich’s tireless 20-year campaign to secure her husband’s release after he received a 60-year prison sentence for robbery. Delicate...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Victor Kossakovsky to discuss his remarkable, heartbreaking documentary Gunda, which uses natural sound design and crisp, pastoral black-and-white cinematography to immerse the viewer in the compassionate tale of a sow who lives on a farm in Norway. T...

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we’re featuring two conversations from new films screening at the festival. First up, producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski joined programmer Rachel Rosen to discuss Hopper/Welles, a Spotlight selection at this year’s festival. In November 1970, two movie mavericks, one already a lege...