Film at Lincoln Center Podcast

To kick off the 64th New York Film Festival, James Gray, Adam Driver, and Miles Teller joined NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen at a press conference to discuss this year’s Opening Night selection, Paper Tiger. They discussed the inspiration behind the drama, their approach to acting, recreating a 1980s New York City, and more.

Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in James Gray’s brilliant New York thriller, charting the tragic fallout after a family man is pulled into a shady scheme with Russian criminals by his former cop brother.

Opening Night is presented in partnership with Rolex.

This week we’re excited to present a special preview of the 64th New York Film Festival, beginning next Friday, September 25 and running through October 12.

NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim is joined by Jordan Raup, Associate Director of Marketing at Film at Lincoln Center, to break down the films and events you can’t miss throughout this year’s 18-day festival. Lim takes your questions from Discord and Reddit, including what a year in programming looks like, navigating the late additions this year, reflecting on the legacy of the festival, and much more.

Don’t forget to subscribe for more daily filmmaker conversations throughout the festival.

Tickets to this year’s festival are still available but going fast. Get yours here: https://filmlinc.org/tix

The 64th New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 51st New York Film Festival in 2013 with The Immigrant director James Gray and lead actor Joaquin Phoenix, moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim.

In James Gray’s richly detailed period tragedy The Immigrant, set in a dusty, sepia-toned 1920s Manhattan, a young Polish immigrant (Marion Cotillard) is caught in a dangerous battle of wills with a shady burlesque manager (Joaquin Phoenix).

James Gray returns to the New York Film Festival with this year’s Opening Night selection Paper Tiger.
NYFF64 tickets will go on sale this Tuesday, Sept. 15 at noon, with pre-sale access for FLC members and Pass holders. Learn more at filmlinc.org/nyff

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from 2022 with the great British filmmaker Mike Leigh as he discusses his 1993 film: the NYFF31 selection Naked. Mike Leigh returns to the New York Film Festival with his final film, Tender Loving Care, at the 64th New York Film Festival this September and October. Secure your seats with an NYFF64 Pass at filmlinc.org/passes

The acclaimed winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Mike Leigh’s mid-’90s masterpiece cemented his status as the poet laureate of modern family life. The story concerns Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, awarded Best Actress at Cannes), a working-class white woman whose personal and interpersonal lives are transformed when she learns that a Black optometrist is the child she gave up for adoption 27 years prior. Created, like Leigh’s other films, after long months of intensely collaborative improvisation, Secrets & Lies is remarkable for its lived-in warmth and humor, and above all for its unflinching honesty in capturing the everyday evasions and deceptions that can define our lives.

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from this year’s edition of New Directors/New Films with the directors and lead actress of Chronovisor, moderated by New Directors/New Films selection committee member Tyler Wilson. Chronovisor will be opening at Film at Lincoln Center next Friday, September 4 with in-person Q&As at select screenings opening weekend! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/chronovisor

Ahead of the film’s release, don’t miss Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor (taking place August 28–September 3), a curated anthology of features and shorts that brilliantly wring suspense, humor, and terror from seemingly undramatizable subjects. The series serves as a great preface to Chronovisor. View the full screening schedule and secure tickets at filmlinc.org/bibliomania

Inspired by the true story of a “fake” invention, Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s Chronovisor follows a Columbia professor deep into a Borgesian labyrinth of textual clues pointing to a time-travel device rumored to have been suppressed by the Vatican.