Robert Longfellow (Martin Donovan, THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, “Boss”, Weeds”) is a famous playwright who can’t seem to catch a break. His recent Broadway play was met with horrible reviews and an early cancellation, and his marriage is being tested as an old flame (Olivia Williams, THE GHOST WRITER, RUSHMORE) has reentered his life during […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/collaborator/In advance of the May 9 opening of his new film, CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, IFC Center pays tribute to the trailblazing filmmaker Jia Zhangke with a comprehensive retrospective spanning nine days and almost three decades of work. Jia’s latest film is an epic portrait of a radically transforming China, his subject from the beginning, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/time-and-tide-the-films-of-jia-zhang-ke/Friday, May 30 at 7:15 p.m.: Q&A with Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew & dir. Stephen Chung, moderated by Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber Intimate behind-the-scenes footage reveals the creation of Canada’s indie-darlings of the early aughts, Broken Social Scene, with cameos from friends and collaborators like Feist and others. From beer-soaked bars in Toronto, to stadium […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/its-all-gonna-break/NYC PREMIERE The role of the artist in times of great upheaval is once again on our minds. When we think of Jean Cocteau, we think of his lasting masterpieces in cinema, theater, art, poetry and more. What we might not remember are the flows and ebbs of his popular appeal in his own lifetime […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/jean-cocteau/One night only: Don’t miss this special screening of the newest film from the visionary filmmaker of Holy Motors and Annette, plus Carax’s segment from the omnibus 2008 film Tokyo! “French cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent 40 years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from Boy […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/leos-caraxs-its-not-me/Guy Maddin in person at screenings of BRAND UPON THE BRAIN on Oct 15, MY WINNIPEG and short film program Oct 16, and RUMOURS and THE GREEN FOG on Oct 17! In advance of the opening of his latest, RUMOURS (co-directed with his collaborators on 2017’s THE GREEN FOG and 2015’s THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson), IFC Center presents a weeklong retrospective […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/forbidden-rooms-the-films-of-guy-maddin/Thursday, October 17 at 9:45 p.m.: Introduction by director Guy Maddin Guy Maddin and cadre of collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson made this ode to VERTIGO and the city of San Francisco for the closing night world premiere gala of the 2017 San Francisco International Film Festival. The iconoclastic Winnipeg-based filmmakers, working together since 2015’s THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-green-fog/Please note that there are additional showtimes of LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here. “Luther: Never Too Much,” the documentary film, chronicles the story of a vocal virtuoso. Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/luther-never-too-much-open-captioning/Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 p.m.: Sneak Preview + Q&A with director Dawn Porter moderated by journalist Jared Alexander Friday, November 1 at 7:15 p.m.: Q&A with producer Leah Smith moderated by Traci A. Curry Please note that there are additional showtimes of LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/luther-never-too-much/35th Anniversary! Every night, mobster Michael Gambon drags long-suffering wife Helen Mirren and a retinue of henchmen (including Tim Roth) to the high-end Le Hollandais for a sumptuous meal. But when he discovers her affair with a customer, Gambon commits an act of gruesome violence, and she stages an elaborate, full-course revenge. With costumes by […]
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