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Nov 22, 2024 | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Erik Luers
Back to selection John David Washington and Skylar Smith in The Piano Lesson by Erik Luers in Directors, Interviews on Nov 22, 2024 Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson—the fourth chronological entry in playwright August Wilson’s ten-play Century Cycle—is both a family drama and a ghost story. The titular musical instrument sits in the living room of Doaker Charles (Samuel L.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, co-directors of No Other Land, a Main Slate selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
Director Jia Zhangke returned to the New York Film Festival this year to present Main Slate selection Caught by the Tides and to give the Amos Vogel Lecture,The Amos Vogel Lecture is delivered annually by an artist or thinker who embodies the subversive spirit of NYFF co-founder Amos Vogel’s cinephilia and brings it into conversation with the present and future of cinema.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with director Mati Diop on Dahomey, a Main Slate selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival. Dahomey opens at FLC on October 25, with Q&As opening weekend. Get tickets! The African kingdom of Dahomey, which ruled over its region at the west of the continent until the turn of the 20th century, saw hundreds of its splendid royal artifacts plundered by French colonial troops in its waning days.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Erik Luers
Back to selectionMichael Rooker in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer by Erik Luers in Director Interviews, Directors, Filmmaking, Interviewson Oct 2, 2024 John McNaughton Currently underway at the the Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park, “Portraits of Wild Things: The Films of John McNaughton” is a long overdue retrospective of the Chicago-based filmmaker of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986).
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
To kick off the 62nd New York Film Festival, Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola was joined by New Yorkers Spike Lee and Robert De Niro on Monday evening for the star-studded New York premiere of Coppola’s much anticipated new film, presented in an immersive IMAX presentation. Scroll through our photo gallery of the conversation above that took place between the three gentlemen prior to the screening at the AMC Lincoln Square 13, moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with His Three Daughters director Azazel Jacobs and cast members Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon from a special advance screening at FLC. His Three Daughters is now streaming on Netflix. From writer-director Azazel Jacobs comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
With only 10 days remaining until Opening Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival, we’re thrilled to unveil this year’s official trailer! Featuring selections from the Main Slate, Spotlight, Currents, and Revivals sections, the trailer, edited by Jump Cut, offers a memorable snapshot of this year’s offerings, with some exclusive first looks at the season’s most-anticipated films. Music for the trailer was composed by NYFF62 poster artist David Byrne.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
This week we’re excited to present an archival conversation from 2012 at the 50th New York Film Festival with No director Pablo Larraín and lead actress Antonia Zegers. Larraín returns to the New York Film Festival this fall with the NYFF62 Spotlight selection Maria. Don’t miss the NYFF premiere of Maria and many more great films at this year’s festival. Single tickets will go on sale Tuesday, September 17 at noon! Learn more here.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
filmlinc.org | Erik Luers
This week we’re excited to present an archival conversation from 2011 at the 49th New York Film Festival with The Loneliest Planet director Julia Loktev and lead actress Hani Furstenberg. Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Loktev returns to the New York Film Festival this fall with the NYFF62 Main Slate selection My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow. Don’t miss the world premiere of My Undesirable Friends and many more great films by securing your Pass to NYFF62 today.
