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Director/actor/writer/producer Tim Robbins is proud to introduce Bobbo Supreme - originally conceived as a film and adapted for a new realm of aural entertainment in pandemic times. Bobbo Supreme is a hard-hitting, bitingly funny, no holds barred look at the hypocrisy, deception, and danger in the current American political landscape. A satirical fever dream in five parts. New York Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez was delighted to welcome Tim Robbins and his all-star cast–including Jack Black, Haley Joel Osment, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Rita Brent, Ray Wise, and Ted Levine, along with composer David Robbins–for a special panel discussion, followed by the premiere of the first episode. The immersive aural entertainment experience debuts today on Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/TimRobbinsPresents

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi joins NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss Notturno, Rosi’s latest immersive work of nonfiction. Shot over the course of three years along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon, Notturno is a nighttime ramble through a region rocked and shattered by catastrophe and violence.  All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/notturno/

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw to discuss their revelatory, earthy documentary The Truffle Hunters. This engaging and beautifully shot film immerses the viewer in the forests of Northern Italy where dogs, accompanied by their elderly and often irascible human owners of modest means, seek the precious white Alba truffle. All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/the-truffle-hunters/

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by director Spike Lee and musician David Byrne to discuss American Utopia, Lee’s concert film recording of Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show. American Utopia is an exhilarating record of a seismic theater event as well as a momentous work of cinema in its own right. Both joyous and politically engaged, it’s a reckoning of these dark times through music and togetherness, with a galvanizing rendition of Janelle Monáe’s “Hell You Talmbout” that’s destined to be one of the year’s most talked-about screen moments. All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO. Get tickets for screenings of David Byrne’s American Utopia at the Brooklyn and Bronx drive-ins or nationwide virtual tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/david-byrnes-american-utopia/

In this special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim connects with director Steve McQueen to discuss Red, White, and Blue, one of the three entries in McQueen’s Small Axe anthology playing at this year’s NYFF. Red, White, and Blue is a vivid adaptation of a true story set in the early ’80s and features an impassioned yet nuanced performance from John Boyega as Leroy Logan, a member of the London Metropolitan Police force who both witnessed and experienced first-hand the organization’s fundamental racism. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Brooklyn drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets. Through Monday, we will also present virtual encore screenings of McQueen’s Lovers Rock and Mangrove. Learn more: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/small-axe-at-nyff-58/ Small Axe at the 58th NYFF is presented by Campari.

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Heidi Ewing, along with subjects Ivan Garcia & Gerardo Zabaleta, and actor Armando Espitia to discuss their film I Carry You With Me. Among the most emotionally resonant and innovatively conceived cinematic love stories in years, I Carry You With Me unexpectedly and brilliantly incorporates documentary elements into the tale of a burgeoning romance between two men who cross the border from Mexico to the U.S. Get nationwide virtual tickets, screening tonight only in a four-hour window beginning at 8pm ET: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/i-carry-you-with-me/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins is joined by director Jia Zhangke to discuss the filmmaker’s evocative new documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue. Jia Zhangke gathers three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—in Shanxi province, where he grew up, to create a tapestry of testimonies about the drastic changes in Chinese life and culture that began with the social revolution of the 1950s. Interpretation by Vincent Cheng. All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO. Get tickets for tonight’s premiere at the Brooklyn drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/swimming-out-till-the-sea-turns-blue/ All documentaries at the 58th New York Film Festival are presented by HBO.

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Philippe Lacôte to discuss the Ivory Coast filmmaker’s breakout feature The Night of Kings. Paying homage to the tradition of the griot in West African culture, this original vision tells the story of a pickpocket (Koné Bakary), newly arrived at a correctional facility in the Ivorian capital of Abidjan, who, in order to stay alive, must keep his fellow inmates entertained with wild tales over the course of a night. Interpretation by Isabelle Dupuis. Get tickets for tonight’s screening at the Bronx drive-in here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/night-of-the-kings/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer Florence Almozini is joined by director Chaitanya Tamhane to discuss The Disciple, the Indian filmmaker’s much-anticipated follow-up to Court. The Disciple is a finely crafted labor of love set in the world of Hindustani classical music, starring singer—and remarkable first-time actor—Aditya Modak as a man living in Mumbai who tries to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a maestro in the Khayal raag music tradition. Get tickets for Thursday's premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets available through Sunday at 8pm ET here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/the-disciple/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Pedro Almodóvar and actor Tilda Swinton to discuss their new short film The Human Voice. In the film, Swinton swallows up the screen as a woman traumatized by the end of a relationship. An impeccably designed yet combustible adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play The Human Voice, it marks the Spanish director’s English-language debut. They discussed the power and perseverance of cinema during tumultuous times, how their collaboration came about, the classic film influences they were inspired by, why the pandemic didn't influence Almodóvar's original design for the film, and more. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 58th New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema from September 17-October 11. This year’s festival features drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and virtual screenings available nationwide. See the comple

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by filmmaker Chloé Zhao to discuss Nomadland, the director’s richly textured follow-up to her acclaimed The Rider. The NYFF58 Centerpiece selection recounts a year in the life of Fern (Frances McDormand), a stoic, stubbornly independent widow who, having spent her adult life in a now-defunct company town, repurposes an old van and sets off in search of seasonal work. Mixing professionals and non-actors, Nomadland is a road movie for our precarious times. Nomadland is sponsored by Campari. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 58th New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema from September 17-October 11. This year’s festival features drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and virtual screenings available nationwide. Get tickets and see more information: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by director Steve McQueen to discuss Mangrove, making its world premiere at the festival. An epic piece of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Mangrove tells the true story of Frank Crichlow, the Trinidad-born owner of a café in Notting Hill who was arrested for protesting the police’s intimidation and brutality. This is a vivid and gripping dramatization of these events and the resulting landmark 1970 court case of Crichlow and the other defendants, who came to be known as the Mangrove Nine. Small Axe at the 58th NYFF is presented by Campari. Then, Lim is joined by Tsai Ming-liang to discuss one of the Taiwanese director’s best and sparest works, Days. In the film, Lee Kang-sheng plays a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment for a chronic illness; at the same time, a young Laotian immigrant working in Bangkok goes

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF programmer K. Austin Collins sits down with director Matías Piñeiro to discuss the Argentinian filmmaker’s latest feature, Isabella. Never has Piñeiro’s art been more graceful or structurally complex than in his latest, in which he again uses a Shakespeare text to anchor a loose yet intellectually rigorous examination of life’s loves, labors, and futile pursuits. Get nationwide virtual tickets through Sept. 29: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/isabella/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans to discuss On the Rocks. A Spotlight selection at NYFF, Coppola’s latest work is a lighthearted but poignantly personal comedy about aging, marriage, and the tenuous bond between parents and grown children. The story follows a New York author and married mother-of-two who has become suspicious that her career-driven husband may be having an affair with a coworker—a speculation encouraged by her caddish, bon vivant father. On the Rocks is sponsored by Campari. Learn more about NYC drive-in and nationwide virtual tickets for NYFF: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer K. Austin Collins is joined by director Sam Pollard to discuss his new documentary MLK/FBI. Throughout his history-altering political career, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, veteran editor and director Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the 1950s and ’60s. Get tickets for tonight’s premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/mlk-fbi/

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez is joined by director Garrett Bradley to discuss her extraordinary new documentary Time. Bradley detailed the process of capturing Fox Rich’s tireless 20-year campaign to secure her husband’s release after he received a 60-year prison sentence for robbery. Delicate yet forceful, the Main Slate selection is an exquisitely stitched-together narrative of the strength and resilience of one mother of six that also functions as a personal perspective on the crisis of Black mass incarceration in America. Bradley also discussed assembling years worth of footage, doing justice to the family's story, how festering systemic issues in the country have now been magnified, and much more. Get tickets for tonight’s nationwide virtual premiere: https://virtual.filmlinc.org

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, programmer Rachel Rosen is joined by director Victor Kossakovsky to discuss his remarkable, heartbreaking documentary Gunda, which uses natural sound design and crisp, pastoral black-and-white cinematography to immerse the viewer in the compassionate tale of a sow who lives on a farm in Norway. The director discusses respecting nature, ethical considerations, how filmmaking is a powerful tool, the toll humanity has taken on the world, his unique approach to cinematography, and much more. Get tickets for tonight’s premiere at the Queens drive-in or nationwide virtual tickets at https://www.filmlinc.org

Welcome to a special 58th New York Film Festival edition of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. Today, we’re featuring two conversations from new films screening at the festival. First up, producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski joined programmer Rachel Rosen to discuss Hopper/Welles, a Spotlight selection at this year’s festival. In November 1970, two movie mavericks, one already a legend (Orson Welles) and the other on his way to mythic status (Dennis Hopper), met for an epochal conversation, sharing their candid thoughts and feelings about cinema, art, and life. This entertaining and revealing footage, never before seen in full, has been resurrected in the form of this new feature, which premieres tonight at 8pm at the Queens drive-in followed by virtual nationwide screenings beginning September 28. This conversation is followed by a Q&A from the Opening Night selection of our new Currents section, which complements the Main Slate, tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an

Welcome to the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. On a special NYFF58 Opening Night edition, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by Steve McQueen to discuss Lovers Rock, which makes its world premiere tonight at the festival. A movie of tactile sensuality and levitating joy, Lovers Rock is part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology of decades-spanning films that alight on various lives in London’s West Indian community. Here, McQueen, in an ecstatic yet no less formally bold mode, charts the growing attraction between Martha (newcomer Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) and a brooding stranger (played by Micheal Ward) over the course of one night at a house party. Tickets for Brooklyn and Queens drive-in screenings and nationwide virtual tickets for Lovers Rock are available, along with two more films in the anthology, Mangrove and Red, White, and Blue. Get yours: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/guide Enjoy this conversation with director Steve McQueen on his remarkable, ambitious new project and how his Op

Welcome to the return of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast! This Thursday, the New York Film Festival returns for a reimagined 58th edition that continues through October 11. This year’s festival offers the chance for moviegoers all around the country to experience the best in world cinema at drive-in screenings in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens as well as virtual screenings available nationwide. The New York Film Festival has always been about bringing the community together to celebrate cinema and, whether you are joining us in our Virtual Cinema or at one of our drive-in venues, on behalf of everyone at Film at Lincoln Center we want to thank you for being a part of this historic edition. Learn more about the festival and purchase tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff To celebrate the launch of this year’s festival, we are kicking off our series of free talks with a special preview from the 58th New York Film Festival programming team. Programmers Devika Girish and Maddie Whittle led a discussion