Menahem Golan's own THE APPLE is part of Cannon Films festival at Lincoln Center
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St. at Amsterdam Ave.
November 19-24, $12, three-film pass $27
212-875-5601
www.filmlinc.com
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus gained a reputation as schlockmeisters as their Cannon Films company released such turkeys as EXTERMINATOR 2, THE DELTA FORCE, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, ROBOTECH: THE MOVIE, numerous DEATH WISH sequels, and the Golan-directed sic-fi disco mosh-up THE APPLE. However, it is less well known that Golan and Globus also produced some of the most interesting works of the 1980s, by such auteurs as John Cassavetes, Nicolas Roeg, and Jean-Luc Godard. The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be honoring Golan and Globus with a thirteen-film salute November 19-24, featuring such films as Andrei Konchalovsky’s RUNAWAY TRAIN and SHY PEOPLE, Raul Ruiz’s TREASURE ISLAND, Jerry Schatzberg’s STREET SMART (with Schatzberg in person), Norman Mailer’s TOUGH GUYS DON’T DANCE, John Frankenheimer’s 52 PICK-UP, Cassavetes’s LOVE STREAMS, Godard’s KING LEAR, and Roeg’s CASTAWAY. The eighty-one-year-old Golan, winner of the 1999 Israel Prize, and the sixty-nine-year-old Globus will join director Barbet Schroeder for a Q&A following the November 19 screening of BARFLY, while G&G will also participate in a conversation after the November 20 screening of RUNAWAY TRAIN. The series also includes THE APPLE (complete with prescreening disco reception, raffles, and a special surprise guest) as well as Golan’s OPERATION THUNDERBOLT, with Golan on hand for both.