Presented by DOC NYC and the International Documentary Association (IDA), the first Documentary Preservation Summit comes to IFC Center March 31 and April 1. Gathering filmmakers, preservation experts and others, the summit will address the risks of important documentary films being lost and strategies for ensuring their future. Featuring in person appearances by Academy Award […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/event/documentary-preservation-summit/Q&A with director Frédéric Tellier & star Nathalie Baye! U.S. Premiere The multi-year hunt, arrest, and trial of serial killer Guy Georges is the subject of director Frédéric Tellier’s suspenseful feature debut, based on Patricia Tourancheau’s harrowing work of nonfiction, Guy Georges: La Traque. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for the murder of seven […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/sk1-laffaire-sk1/A kindred spirit to nerds everywhere, writer-comedian Dan Harmon has achieved celebrity via the hit series ‘Community’, but cut his teeth writing for shows such as The Sarah Silverman Program and the Jack Black/Ben Stiller pilot ‘Heat Vision And Jack’. After being fired from his signature creation, Harmon hits the road with his popular podcast […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/harmontown/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’ – […]
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