"Hugo" (Paramount) - 11

"The Artist" (Weinstein Co.) - 10

"Moneyball" (Sony) - 6

"War Horse" (Disney) - 6

"The Descendants" (Fox Searchlight) - 5

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Sony) - 5

"The Help" (Disney) - 4

"Midnight in Paris" (Sony Pictures Classics) - 4

"Albert Nobbs" (Roadside Attractions) - 3

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Warner Bros.) - 3

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Focus Features) - 3

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Paramount) - 3

"The Tree of Life" (Fox Searchlight) - 3

"Bridesmaids" (Universal) - 2

"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" (Warner Bros.) - 2

"The Iron Lady" (Weinstein Co.) - 2

"My Week with Marilyn" (Weinstein Co.) - 2

"A Separation" (Sony Pictures Classics) - 2

The full list of Oscar nominees:

Best Picture:

    "The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
    "The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
    "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
    "The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
    "Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
    "Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
    "Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
    "The Tree of Life" Nominees to be determined
    "War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers"The Artist"

Actor in a Leading Role:

    Demián Bichir in "A Better Life"
    George Clooney in "The Descendants"
    Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
    Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
    Brad Pitt in "Moneyball"

Actor in a Supporting Role:

    Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
    Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
    Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
    Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
    Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

Actress in a Leading Role:

    Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs"
    Viola Davis in "The Help"
    Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
    Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"
    Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn"

Actress in a Supporting Role:

    Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
    Jessica Chastain in "The Help"
    Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids"
    Janet McTeer in "Albert Nobbs"
    Octavia Spencer in "The Help"

Animated Feature Film:

    "A Cat in Paris" Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
    "Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
    "Kung Fu Panda 2" Jennifer Yuh Nelson
    "Puss in Boots" Chris Miller
    "Rango" Gore Verbinski

Art Direction:

    "The Artist" Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
    "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
    "Hugo" Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
    "Midnight in Paris" Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
    "War Horse" Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography:

    "The Artist" Guillaume Schiffman
    "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff Cronenweth
    "Hugo" Robert Richardson
    "The Tree of Life" Emmanuel Lubezki
    "War Horse" Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design:

    "Anonymous" Lisy Christl
    "The Artist" Mark Bridges
    "Hugo" Sandy Powell
    "Jane Eyre" Michael O'Connor
    "W.E." Arianne Phillips

Directing:

    "The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
    "The Descendants" Alexander Payne
    "Hugo" Martin Scorsese
    "Midnight in Paris" Woody Allen
    "The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick

Documentary (Feature):

    "Hell and Back Again" Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
    "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
    "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
    "Pina" Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
    "Undefeated" TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject):

    "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
    "God Is the Bigger Elvis" Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
    "Incident in New Baghdad"James Spione
    "Saving Face" Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
    "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing:

    "The Artist" Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
    "The Descendants" Kevin Tent
    "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
    "Hugo" Thelma Schoonmaker
    "Moneyball" Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film:

    "Bullhead" Belgium
    "Footnote" Israel
    "In Darkness" Poland
    "Monsieur Lazhar" Canada
    "A Separation" Iran

Makeup:

    "Albert Nobbs" Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
    "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
    "The Iron Lady" Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score):

    "The Adventures of Tintin" John Williams
    "The Artist" Ludovic Bource
    "Hugo" Howard Shore
    "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Alberto Iglesias
    "War Horse" John Williams

Music (Original Song):

    "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
    "Real in Rio" from "Rio" Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Short Film (Animated):

    "Dimanche/Sunday" Patrick Doyon
    "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
    "La Luna" Enrico Casarosa
    "A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
    "Wild Life" Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action):

    "Pentecost" Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
    "Raju" Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
    "The Shore" Terry George and Oorlagh George
    "Time Freak" Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
    "Tuba Atlantic" Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing:

    "Drive" Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
    "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Ren Klyce
    "Hugo" Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
    "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
    "War Horse" Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing:

    "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
    "Hugo" Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
    "Moneyball" Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
    "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
    "War Horse" Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects:

    "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
    "Hugo" Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
    "Real Steel" Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
    "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
    "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

Writing (Adapted Screenplay):

    "The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
    "Hugo" Screenplay by John Logan
    "The Ides of March" Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
    "Moneyball" Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
    "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay):

    "The Artist" Written by Michel Hazanavicius
    "Bridesmaids" Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
    "Margin Call" Written by J.C. Chandor
    "Midnight in Paris" Written by Woody Allen
    "A Separation" Written by Asghar Farhadi

Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti to head the jury for the 65th International Festival du Cannes.

Thierry Fremaux, the Cannes delegate general, said about Nanni Moretti, "High-spirited and marked by his modernity and intelligence, Nanni Moretti's films are the incarnation of all the best in cinema over the past 30 years."

"The festival wanted to celebrate its 65th season with a European jury president."

This year's festival takes place May 16-27.

Tuesday, January 24 @ 7PM
ROUGH CUT (2008)
Kim Ki-Duk wrote this high concept knuckle-buster about a spoiled actor, famous for playing gangsters, who hires a real-life gangster to appear in his new flick. It sounds like nothing but a pile of cliches, but Jang Hun ignores the traditional approach and instead focuses on the volcanic, boiling testosterone that drives the conflict between a man used to getting his way because he's famous, and a man used to getting his way because he's violent. The seduction of filmmaking, the appeal of acting and the temptation of a street brawl all exert their siren song on the two studs in suits at the heart of this film: superstar So Ji-Sub, surprisingly, playing the gangster and Kang Ji-Hwan as the actor.

Tuesday, February 15 @ 7PM
SECRET REUNION (2010)
Two of Korea's best actors face off in this blockbuster action flick that manages to be sly, subversive and really funny while delivering white knuckle thrills. Song Kang-Ho (The Host) is a South Korean secret agent who fumbles a sting operation on a North Korean spy. Pop star Gang Dong-Won (Haunters) is the North Korean assassin who has been embedded in the South. After the botched operation, both men are cut loose by their respective agencies and Song becomes a private eye, while Gang sinks into deep cover, trying to survive long enough to go home. Years later, they cross paths and what audiences are treated to is a buddy movie to end all buddy movies.

Tuesday, February 28 @ 7PM
WHITE NIGHT (North American Premiere, 2009)
White Night is a sprawling, evil epic about an unsolved crime that happened 14 years previously that has spilled its poison out over the subsequent years. Based on a best-selling Japanese novel, and featuring a riveting performance by Ko Soo, star of The Frontline, director Park Shin-Woo turns this movie into a slick, beautifully realized film about true evil, as a detective refuses to let go of this single case, instead insisting on following its threads for years no matter where they lead. And where they lead is dark and truly shocking. This hit film has been called the best Korean film of 2009 by several critics and once you've seen it, it's hard to forget.

ACTOR, DRAMA - George Clooney - "The Descendants"

MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL - "The Artist"

ACTRESS, DRAMA - Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady"

ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL, MOTION PICTURE - Jean Dujardin - "The Artist"

BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL, TELEVISION - "Modern Family" (ABC)

BEST DIRECTOR, MOTION PICTURE - Martin Scorsese - "Hugo"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MOTION PICTURE - Octavia Spencer - "The Help"

ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL, TELEVISION - Matt LeBlanc - "Episodes"

ACTRESS, DRAMA, TELEVISION - Claire Danes - "Homeland"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - "A Separation" ("Jodaeiye Nader az Simin") - Iran

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE - Jessica Lange - "American Horror Story"

BEST SCREENPLAY, MOTION PICTURE - "Midnight in Paris" - Woody Allen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn"

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE - Peter Dinklage - "Game of Thrones"

ACTRESS , COMEDY OR MUSICAL, MOTION PICTURE - Michelle Williams - "My Week with Marilyn"

ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE - Idris Elba - "Luther"

BEST ORIGINAL SONG, MOTION PICTURE - "Masterpiece" - "W.E." - Music & Lyrics by: Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, MOTION PICTURE - "The Artist" - Ludovic Bource

BEST DRAMA, TELEVISION - "Homeland" (Showtime)

ACTOR, DRAMA, TELEVISION - Kelsey Grammer - "Boss"

ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE - Kate Winslet - "Mildred Pierce"

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE - "Downton Abbey" (PBS)

ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL, TELEVISION - Laura Dern - "Enlightened"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MOTION PICTURE - Christopher Plummer - "Beginners"

THE CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARD - Morgan Freeman

Catherine Deneuve will receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 39th Chaplin Award on Monday, April 2, 2012 in New York City. The annual gala is the Film Society's largest annual fundraiser, benefiting the ongoing programs of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

At an Alice Tully Hall ceremony, an array of notable guests and celebrities will salute Catherine Deneuve. The evening will include films clips and a party to celebrate Deneuve's career in cinema.

The daughter of French actors, Deneuve's career spans five decades, from the film Les Portes Claquent(The Door Slams) to her latest, Christophe Honoré's Les Biens-aimés (The Beloved), from last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Denueve gained wide acclaim for her role in Jacques Demy's 1964 film, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg(The Umbrella's of Cherbourg). In the 1960s and '70s she became an unforgettable presence in films such as Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965), Demy’s and Agnes Vardas’ Les Demoiselles de Rochefort  (The Young Girls of Rochefort) (1967), Terence Young’s Mayerling (1968), François Truffaut’s La Siréne du Mississippi (Mississippi Mermaid) (1969), Stuart Rosenberg’s The April Fools (1969), and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour (1967) and Tristana (1970). Other notable films leading into the 80’s were Demy's Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) (1970), Jean-Pierre Melville's Un Flic (Dirty Money) (1971), Robert Aldrich’s Hustle (1975), Claude Berri's Je vous aime (I Love You All) (1980), Truffaut’s Le Dernier Métro(The Last Metro) (1980) – for which she won the César Award for Best Actress, and Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983).

Catherine Deneuve received an Academy Award nomination for best actress (and won her second César Award) for her role in the 1992 film, Indochine. 1995’s O convento (The Convent) for acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira followed. Lars von Trier’s Dancer In the Dark (2000) was another high point among her recent films, as well as her work in François Ozon's 8 Femmes (8 Women) (2002), de Oliveira's Je rentre la maison (I'm Going Home) (2001), Um Filme falado (A Talking Picture) (2003), Vincent paronnaud’s and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2008) and Arnaud Despléchin’sA Christmas Tale (2008). Most recently, she reteamed with Ozon to star in the comedy Potiche (2010).

"It will be an honor to have Catherine Deneuve join our list of past honorees. It will be a joy to create an evening of style and grace befitting such an iconic screen presence," said FSLC Executive Director Rose Kuo.

For information on tables and tickets for the annual Chaplin Award Gala, please call 212.875.5685 or email galarsvp@filmlinc.com.

The Film Society’s Annual Gala began in 1972 and honored Charles Chaplin – who returned to the US from exile to accept the commendation. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin, and has honored many of the film industry’s most notable talents, including Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Federico Fellini, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas and most recently, Sidney Poitier.

THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER 
announces January and February 2012 lineup for 
50 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 
 
Appearances by director Jonathan Demme and 
actor Paul Le Mat announced
 
Discount prices to include “buy 4 tickets for the price of 3” deal,
special Jonathan Demme double feature deal
and $6 kids pricing for THE BLACK STALLION

50 Years of the New York Film Festival
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s year-long countdown to the New York Film Festival’s historic 50th edition continues through January and February, offering the rare opportunity to view several undisputed classics of the big screen, many of which were introduced to the world at NYFF. These include breakthrough films of Jonathan Demme and Errol Morris, and Oscar-nominated classics from François Truffaut and Andrzej Wajda.
 
Special appearances by Jonathan Demme and Paul Le Mat at the HANDLE WITH CARE screening on Wednesday, February 1 have been announced.
 
The serious cinephile should mark their calendars for a regular standing date at the Walter Reade Theater for the best in world cinema. Starting with the January and February lineup, there is a special package discount - 4 tickets for the price of 3.  The Jonathan Demme Double Feature, which includes screenings of HANDLE WITH CARE (aka CITIZEN’S BAND) and MELVIN AND HOWARD as well as a discussion with the director and actor Paul Le Mat  is only $13 for general public, $8 for members $9 for students and $9 for seniors.  Special $6 kids price (ages 4 to 12, accompanied by an adult) for the screening of the beloved classic THE BLACK STALLION. Visit www.filmlinc.com for details.
 
The schedule of screenings set for the rest of the series in 2012 will be announced at a later date.
 
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Angst essen Seele auf) (1974) 93m
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Country: Germany
Representing NYFF 1974
In the 1970s, the New York Film Festival became a major port of call for the filmmakers of the burgeoning New German Cinema, introducing American audiences to the work of Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Alexander Kluge and, of course, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the staggeringly prolific enfant terrible who presented new films at all but three editions of the festival from 1971 to 1982 (the year of his untimely death). Shot quickly and on a low budget at the peak of Fassbinder’s creative powers, ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL uses the basic framework of Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (later the inspiration for Todd Haynes’s FAR FROM HEAVEN) to tell the unlikely love story of Ali, a thirty-something Moroccan immigrant working as a garage mechanic, and Emmi, a German widow old enough to be his mother. When they marry, their relationship is put to the test by prejudice and discrimination from friends and family on both sides (including Fassbinder himself as Emmi’s son-in-law). Beautifully acted by Fassbinder muses Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem, this wry and tender romance-cum-social-commentary stands as one of the director’s most accomplished and enduringly popular films.
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL screens at Walter Reade Theater on Friday, January 13 at 6:00PM.
 
THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) (1974) 110m
Director: Werner Herzog
Country: Germany
Representing NYFF 1975
The inimitable Werner Herzog made the fourth of his eight NYFF appearances with this strange and haunting drama inspired by the case of Kaspar Hauser, a real-life “wild child” who appeared as a teenager in the streets of Nuremberg claiming to have been raised since infancy in a small dark cell, divorced from all contact with the outside world. Sparking the curiosity of a compassionate schoolmaster, who attempts to civilize this strange creature, Kaspar soon becomes a cause célèbre of the local clergy, academy and high-society elites, before meeting an end as abrupt and mysterious as his beginnings. Built around a hypnotic central performance by the late Bruno S., a street performer who had spent much of his life in a mental institution, THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER is no ordinary bio-pic, but an unforgettable, dreamlike meditation on the nature of civilization and the fine line between sanity and madness.
THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER screens at Walter Reade Theater on Friday, January 13 at 8:00PM.
 
KINGS OF THE ROAD (Im Lauf der Zeit) (1976) 176m
Director: Wim Wenders
Country: Germany
Representing NYFF 1976
Four decades before PINA, Wim Wenders made his international breakthrough with a loosely structured “road movie trilogy,” consisting of ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974), WRONG MOVE (1975) and the magisterial concluding chapter, KINGS OF THE ROAD. The travelers here are movie projector repairman Bruno (frequent Wenders alter-ego Rüdiger Vogler) and hitchhiker Robert (Hanns Zischler), who has sunk into a suicidal depression following the breakup of his marriage. Together, they travel the ghostly border region between the two Germanys, tending to worn-down cinemas and their own wounded souls, longing for a woman’s gentle touch. Brilliantly photographed in black-and-white by the legendary Robby Müller and carrying its three hours of screen time with lightness and grace, this one-of-a-kind masterwork is Wenders’s own LAST PICTURE SHOW —a melancholic valentine to the cinema, the irretrievable past, and the long cultural shadow cast by America.
KINGS OF THE ROAD screens at Walter Reade Theateron Saturday, January 14 at 1:00PM.

HANDLE WITH CARE (aka CITIZEN’S BAND) (1977) 98m
Director: Jonathan Demme
Country: United States
Representing NYFF 1977
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) made his first NYFF appearance with this high-spirited comic panorama focused on a collection of eccentric characters who broadcast their alter-egos over that primitive social network known as citizen’s band radio. AMERICAN GRAFFITI alumni Paul Le Mat and Candy Clark respectively star as good samaratin “Spider” (all the characters are known by their CB “handles”) and his ex-fiancee, a cheerleading coach who moonlights as CB seductress “Electra.” Also figuring into the mix are a bigamist trucker known as “Chrome Angel,” a white supremacist who calls himself “The Red Baron,” and Spider’s own father, “Papa Thermodyne.” Scripted by future RISKY BUSINESS auteur Paul Brickman, HANDLE WITH CARE finds Demme already in full possession of the humanist screwball touch he would later bring to SOMETHING WILD and MARRIED TO THE MOB. Little wonder that the studio (Paramount) didn’t know what to make of the film and, despite strong reviews, promptly buried it.
 
Also screening with:
MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980) 95m
Director: Jonathan Demme
Country: United States
Demme and Le Mat reunited for this double 1980 Oscar-winner (Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress, Mary Steenburgen) based on the stranger-than-fiction tale of one Melvin Dummar (Le Mat), a Utah gas-station owner who became the subject of a national media feeding frenzy when he was named as a beneficiary in the much-contested “Mormon will” of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. In vintage Demme fashion, however, the movie is much less interested in Hughes (an Oscar-nominated Jason Robards) and his estate than in Dummar, an enduring small-town rube who, no matter how badly he stumbles, never stops reaching for the big, shiny American dream. Opening night of the 1980 New York Film Festival.
HANDLE WITH CARE (aka CITIZEN’S BAND) and MELVIN AND HOWARD screens at Walter Reade Theater on Wednesday, February 1 at 6:00PM.
Discussion with director Jonathan Demme and actor Paul Le Mat in between screenings.
Special pricing for both films and discussion: $13 for general public, $8 for members, $9 for students and seniors.
 
GATES OF HEAVEN (1978) 85m
Director: Errol Morris
Country: United States
Representing NYFF 1978
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’s uncanny debut feature—hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the 10 greatest films ever made—follows the shifting fortunes of two Bay Area pet cemeteries. One, San Francisco’s Foothill Memorial Gardens, stems from the lifelong dream of owner Floyd McClure to give Fido the dignity of a human-style burial. But when McClure goes bankrupt, some 450 sets of remains are shipped north to the Napa Valley’s Bubbling Well Memorial Park, and Morris goes with them. In between, Morris casts his deadpan gaze on pet owners, a professional animal byproducts recycler, and other richly bizarre exponents of the old, weird America. A world premiere at the 1978 NYFF, GATES OF HEAVEN famously won Morris a bet with his erstwhile mentor, Werner Herzog, who said he would eat one of his own shoes if Morris ever managed to complete the film and get it publicly shown—a promise Herzog later made good on before a live audience in Berkeley.
GATES OF HEAVEN screens at Walter Reade Theater on Tuesday, February 7 at 6:15PM.
 
THE BLACK STALLION (1979) 118m
Director: Carroll Ballard
Country: United States
Representing NYFF 1979
Initially the object of indifference from its distributor, United Artists, first-time director Carroll Ballard’s intensely lyrical film of Walter Farley’s classic children’s novel was buoyed by its inclusion in NYFF (and the good reviews that followed) to become a major hit and one of the most beloved family films of all time. The superb child actor Kelly Reno (in his film debut) stars as the survivor of a fiery shipwreck off the North African coast, now stranded on a deserted island save for the company of a wild stallion (also a refugee from the sinking ship). Slowly, the boy and horse come to earn each other’s trust, before they are rescued and returned to America, where the boy sets about training “The Black” with some help from a kindly ex-jockey (Mickey Rooney, in an Oscar-nominated performance). Breathtakingly photographed by Caleb Deschanel, with soaring music by Carmine Coppola (father of Francis, whose Zoetrope Studios produced), THE BLACK STALLION instantly affirmed the prodigious Ballard (NEVER CRY WOLF, FLY AWAY HOME) as one of the cinema’s most poetic observers of man, beast and nature. Print courtesy of Academy Film Archive.
THE BLACK STALLION screens at Walter Reade Theater on Saturday, February 18 at 11:00AM. 
Special $6 ticket for children ages 4 to 12, accompanied by an adult for THE BLACK STALLION
 
THE LAST METRO (Le dernier metro) (1980) 131m
Director: François Truffaut
Country: France
Representing NYFF 1980
Catherine Deneuve, gives one of her greatest performances as the wife of a Jewish theater director in Nazi-occupied Paris in François Truffaut’s classic wartime melodrama. While her husband takes refuge in the theater’s basement, Deneuve’s Marion takes the reigns of their latest production, in which she also stars opposite a womanizing actor, Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), who is also a member of the resistance. As the two performers grow closer, their relationship tests Marion’s ambivalent feelings about the Nazis, and the stability of her marriage. A taut, deeply romantic portrait of ordinary people caught up in the tide of extraordinary events, THE LAST METRO would become one of Truffaut’s biggest popular hits, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film and 10 French César awards, including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress.
THE LAST METRO screens at Walter Reade Theater on Tuesday, February 21 at 6:00PM.
 
MAN OF IRON (Czlowiek z zelaza) (1981) 153m
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Country: Poland
Representing NYFF 1981
Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda made his fourth NYFF appearance with this epic chronicle of the birth of the Solidarity labor movement. In a demanding dual role, the great Jerzy Radziwilowicz stars as Maciej, a union organizer at the Gdansk shipyards (modeled on real-life Solidarity leader Lech Walesa) and, in flashback, Maciej’s father Mateusz, the “model worker” hero of Wajda’s 1977 Man of Marble. Sent to dig up dirt on Maciej and the other movement leaders, Winkel (Marian Opania), a former radical journalist now working for state-sponsored media, infiltrates the yards by posing as a sympathizer. But the more Winkel learns about his subjects, the more he feels his old idealism returning to the fore. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, MAN OF IRON is as much about the end of an era as the dawn of a new one: within months of the movie’s completion, martial law was declared and Solidarity repressed
MAN OF IRON screens at Walter Reade Theater on Tuesday, February 28 at 6:00 PM.
 
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Under the leadership of Rose Kuo, Executive Director, and Richard Peña, Program Director, theFilm Society of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic and cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film festivals that attract global attention: the New York Film Festival, currently planning its 50th edition, and New Directors/New Films which, since its founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given an annual award—now named “The Chaplin Award”—to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks. The Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming, panels, lectures, educational programs and specialty film releases at its Walter Reade Theater and the new state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
 
The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Royal Bank of Canada, 42BELOW, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, the National Endowment for the Arts, WNET New York Public Media, the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.For more information, visitwww.filmlinc.com