#603 - Luc Moullet and Antonietta Pizzorno on Anatomy of a Relationship
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with legendary French New Wave filmmaker and critic Luc Moullet and his creative and life partner Antonietta Pizzorno as they discuss the 1976 feature, Anatomy of a Relationship, with FLC programmer Dan Sullivan. This event took place as part of our recently concluded retrospective Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps.
Luc Moullet’s follow-up to the far-out excursions of The Smugglers and A Girl Is a Gun grounds itself in the shared everyday life of a couple. Moullet himself plays a filmmaker who struggles to earn a living practicing his vocation; his professional frustrations are matched by his apparent inability to please his intellectual wife (Christine Hébert), sexually or otherwise. Moullet and Pizzorno (Moullet’s real-life wife and creative partner) set the proceedings in spare, claustrophobic spaces, chronicling quarrels, cringe-inducing episodes, and fleeting moments of tenderness on the way to a comic meditation on filmmaking’s capacity to complicate relationships.
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#602 - Programmer's Preview of Scary Movies XIII
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with FLC Programmer Madeline Whittle about the 13th edition of Scary Movies. Taking place at Film at Lincoln Center from August 15-21, Scary Movies is New York City’s premier showcase for the best in new genre (and genre-bending) cinema from around the globe alongside spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries conjured from the dark recesses of midnight-movie lore.
To view the full screening schedule and to purchase tickets to this year’s edition of Scary Movies, please visit filmlinc.org/scary
Scary Movies XIII is sponsored by MUBI, the global streaming service, production company, and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema.
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#601 - Fred Murphy on Hoosiers
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with cinematographer Fred Murphy as he discusses Hoosiers. Hoosiers screened as part of our recently concluded retrospective celebrating the career of the late, great Gene Hackman.
This conversation was moderated by FLC Senior Programmer Tyler WIlson.
Few sports films land with the clarity, grit, and emotional lift of Hoosiers. Gene Hackman brings flinty, lived-in authority to Norman Dale, a disgraced coach seeking a second act in 1950s Indiana, where basketball is practically a religion. Directed with unflashy conviction by David Anspaugh and shot in real Hoosier gyms, this underdog story favors restraint over bombast, with Jerry Goldsmith’s elegiac score and a quietly shattering turn by Dennis Hopper as a washed-up assistant adding unexpected weight. At its core is one of Hackman’s most cherished performances—contained, weathered, and quietly magnetic—in a film that’s less about victory than the long, uncertain work of earning it.
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#600 - Alexandra Simpson on No Sleep Till
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 2025 edition of New Directors/New Films with No Sleep Till director Alexandra Simpson. No Sleep Till is now in select theaters, courtesy of Factory 25.
This conversation was moderated by New Directors/New Films selection committee member Madeline Whittle.
The slice-of-life indie is alive and well in Alexandra Simpson’s feature debut, recipient of a Special Mention from the jury at the 2024 Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week. While a looming hurricane spells doom for a sleepy Florida town, citizens carry on: two friends pull pranks and ponder life; another pair captures terrifying footage of the storm; a young woman harbors a deep crush. Through this fleet exploration Simpson keeps audiences on their feet, no two stories told at the exact same tempo and no composition easily anticipated. And backgrounding it all is a sun-soaked, palm tree-lined Florida that has seldom looked as beautiful as it does in No Sleep Till.
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#599 - Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Cloud
This week we’re excited to present a conversation with legendary Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa as he discusses his new feature Cloud, currently playing daily at Film at Lincoln Center. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/cloud
This conversation was moderated by New York magazine and Vulture film critic Alison Willmore.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) delivers one of his most chillingly prescient films with this riveting fusion of social satire, techno-thriller, and survival-action. Yoshii (Masaki Suda), a T-shirt factory worker, supplements his income by flipping merchandise online—dubious medical devices, counterfeit designer handbags, collectible figurines—until disgruntled customers begin organizing against him on an anonymous message board. As his profits grow and he quits his day job (even hiring an assistant), he becomes the target of a coordinated vendetta that ratchets into something increasingly brutal, absurd, yet eerily plausible. At once a pulse-pounding provocation and a cautionary tale for our atomized, hustle-economy era, Cloud—Japan’s official submission for the 97th Oscars—is a genre-bending vision of virtual grievances mutating into real-world terror, orchestrated with Kurosawa’s signature precision and nerve. A Sideshow/Janus Films release.
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