Q&A with Chris Hegedus & DA Pennebaker! “When we rolled across the country with the band—Martin, David, Andy and Alan—in their shiny green jet, with bus-loads of friends and accomplices and two 40-foot semis full of equipment, they were like a shipload of pirates looking for spoils. They’d pick out a city where their records […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/depeche-mode-101/Panel discussion on Willis’s life and legacy with Douglas C. Hart (Willis’s assistant cameraman on PURPLE ROSE, ZELIG, and others), Tibor Sands (Willis’s assistant cameraman on THE LANDLORD, THE GODFATHER, and others), and Craig DiBona (Willis’s camera operator on THE GODFATHER III, PRESUMED INNOCENT, and others)! 35mm print With his passing last May, the film […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-purple-rose-of-cairo/James Franco in person Thu Mar 6 at 9:30! (SOLD OUT) “The setting of SPRING BREAKERS is the Florida coast, where several centuries of explorers—from Ponce de Léon to 2 Live Crew—have come seeking the fount of eternal youth, and where huddled masses of frostbitten coeds migrate at the end of each winter in pursuit […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/spring-breakers/Director Robin Campillo in person! Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel (Olivier Rabourdin) approaches […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/eastern-boys/“Claire Denis’s jagged, daringly fragmented and very darkest film — visually, psychologically, and politically — is that rarest of cinematic narratives, a genuinely contemporary film noir. Inspired by recent French sex ring scandals involving men of wealth and power, Denis positions the superb Vincent Lindon (the lover in her 2002 Friday Night) as the movie’s […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/bastards/Raymond Depardon’s brilliant self-portrait (co-directed by his longtime collaborator and sound engineer Claudine Nougaret) takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life—not only as a filmmaker responsible for such works as 10th District Court and Caught in the Act , but as a photographer of expressive precision, capturing the entirety of French society […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/journal-de-france/Alan Cumming in person for a post-film discussion! “First in a trio of fond satires on small-time strivers (Best in Show and A Mighty Wind being the others), Guest’s spoof documentary tracks the earnest enthusiasm and goofy dedication of a ragtag troupe of amateur thesps putting on a musical – ‘Red, White and Blaine’ – […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/waiting-for-guffman/35mm print “A brisk, snappy comedy with Robinson in a double role: as the timid, dependable clerk Jones, and the notorious gangster, Killer Mannion. An accountant with a cat he calls Abelard and a canary named Heloise, Jones dreams of exotic places and his spunky colleague Miss Clark (Arthur). It is only after he has […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-whole-towns-talking/Q&A with actor John Turturro and director Roman Paska In REHEARSAL FOR A SICILIAN TRAGEDY, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island’s vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater’s few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/rehearsal-for-a-sicilian-tragedy/Last October 2010, the documentary world was devastated to lose fellow documentarian Gail Dolgin. Activist, mother, “sister”, beloved friend, mentor, collaborator and comrade to many, and a deep believer in the power of non-fiction to be as riveting as it is strange. She courageously and artfully battled breast cancer for over a decade, all the […]
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