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KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (Kostis Charamountanis 2024)
A young Greek provocateur, takes us to a father and his two adult children spending summer on a sailing yacht by the island of Sporus where they squabble and play. But dad has a surprise in store. Provicative, and with experimental sequences.
ND/NF Showtimes:
Sunday, April 6
8:45pm at FLC, Walter Reade Theater
Monday, April 7
5:45pm at MoMA, Titus Theater 2
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 03-15-2025 at 05:58 PM.
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SAD JOKES (Fabian Stumm 2024
A gay German director makes a film about a gay German director in which he plays the lead, experimenting with a mix of the serious and the absurd. Parts are very touching, but others may not engage.
ND/NF Showtimes:
Friday, April 11
8:30pm at FLC, Walter Reade Theater – Q&A with Fabian Stumm
Saturday, April 12
4:30pm at MoMA, Titus Theater 2 – Q&A with Fabian Stumm
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 03-15-2025 at 05:53 PM.
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STRANGER (Zhengfan Yang 2024) Chinese
The Chinese filmmaker Zhengfan Yang presents a sequence of seven vignettes, motly confined to hotel rooms, some but not all with fixed camera. It's a tough watch that may evoke for you the anonymity or the confinement of "modern life." Anyway, it's intense, even though not very eventful.
Showtimes:
Sunday, April 6
2:45pm at FLC, Walter Reade Theater – Q&A with Zhengfan Yang
Tuesday, April 8
8:45pm at MoMA, Titus Theater 2 – Q&A with Zhengfan Yang
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TWO TIMES JOĂO LIBERADA (Paula Marques 2025)
Paula Tomás Marques uses a fictional history to critique modern filmmaking conventions and show trans people enacting their own history.
Showtimes:
Monday, April 7
8:30pm at MoMA, Titus Theater 2
Tuesday, April 8
6:15pm at FLC, Walter Reade Theater
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 03-19-2025 at 04:59 PM.
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DROWNING DRY/SESES (Laurynas Bareiša 2024)
Well shot and well acted as an ensemble, this depicts, in scenes out of chronological order, the lives of two couples, each with a kid, the wives being sisters, in events eliptically presented. Going to a family summer house by a lake to celebrate a mixed martial arts victory, they encounter tragedy, whose sprawling effects over time we witness before we know what happened. A challenging watch, it won a Locarno directing and ensemble acting award and was Lithouania's Oscar entry. "Engaging," wrote Alissa Simon in Variety, "yet tantalizingly withholding."
Showtimes:
Thursday, April 3
8:45pm at MoMA, Titus Theater 2
Sunday, April 6
12:30pm at FLC, Walter Reade Theater
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 03-30-2025 at 04:52 PM.
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THE NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS series at Lincoln Center April 2-13, 2025:
LINKS TO REVIEWS
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 03-22-2025 at 10:24 PM.
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Maybe my favorites of what I got to see of the series are LESSON LEARNED, the Hungarian school docu-drama, and NO SLEEP TILL, Alexandra Simpson's poetic meditation/diary/weather study set in a coastal Florida town threatened by an impending hurricane.
Others have something to offer. DROWNING DRY is sophisticated elliptical realism. CYCLEMAHESH is a cute Indian diary of a bike exploit. GRAND ME is a revealing study of a precocious young girl. LISTEN TO THE VOICES had warmth. HOLY ELECTRICITY was full of action. And so on. But LESSON LEARNED and NO SLEEP TILL are the standouts - of what I saw, which was oly half the films.
Remember, you may discover tomorrow's important directors in this series. It has highlighted new and emerging filmmakers at over 54 iterations since it launched in 1974. Directors showcased in past festivals have included Ryűsuke Hamaguchi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Souleymane Cissé, Jia Zhang-ke, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Michael Haneke, Wong Kar-wai, Agnieszka Holland, Denis Villeneuve and Luca Guadagnino.
If I find out more about this year's ND/NF, I'll let you know.
See DEADLINE for further information, or Filmlinc, the Film at Lincoln Center website.
NO SLEEP TILL
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 04-09-2025 at 10:02 PM.
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