Film Society of Lincoln Center
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
West 65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
June 10-12, free (some events require advance tickets)
212-875-5610
www.filmlinc.com
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating the opening of its deluxe new multiscreen theater space, the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center across the street from the Walter Reade Theater on West 65th St., with a series of free events next weekend. Among the many special programs are a screening of Oliver Stone’s revised final cut of Alexander Revisited, followed by a Q&A with the controversial director; rare screenings of Jacques Feyder’s 1926 silent film Gribiche and Victor Von Plessen, Friedrich Dalsheim, and Walter Spies’s 1933 Island of Demons; a live performance by Fall on Your Sword; Duke professor Fredric Jameson discussing “The Future of Film”; USC neuroscientist Antonio Damasio delivering the lecture “I Am a Studio: Notes on Brain, Self, and Cinema”; and the panel discussion “New Faces of NY Independent Film,” with Antonio Campos, Mike Cahill, Ben and Josh Safdie, and others, moderated by Ted Hope. Paul Schrader will give a Film Class on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist, Jason Reitman and Mike Nichols will examine the latter’s Carnal Knowledge, Jez Butterworth will talk about his 1997 film, Mojo, Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser will show works in 3D, Maurice Marable will host Ghetto Film School screenings of The Story and Live, Joseph!, film scholar Sam Ho will introduce Fei Mu’s restored 1940 biopic Confucius, and Kevin Smith will begin his SMoviola series with Martha Coolidge’s charming 1983 comedy Valley Girl, in addition to screenings of George Cukor’s My Fair Lady, Michael Curtiz’s British Agent, Adam Curtis’s It Felt Like a Kiss, and a sneak preview of an upcoming film that was a hit at Sundance. Finally, “NYFF Opening Night Classics Movie Marathon” features such New York Film Festival opening-night selections as Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law, François Truffaut’s Day for Night, the Coen brothers’ Miller’s Crossing, and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran. Although everything is free, some of the events require advance online ticketing beginning today, June 3, so keep your eye on the above website if you want to be able to catch some of these very special programs.