New York City Repertory Cinema

[Matt]

20 films! My goodness. Even if someone were to release these on disc, I can't imagine a comprehensive set. They might make their way to The Criterion Channel, which might be the only way those of us can see them.

[hearthesilence]

That's what I'm guessing. If we're already talking about the prospect of only a handful of the new 4K restorations for Frederick Wiseman's films making it to physical disc (i.e. if volume 1 of the BFI set doesn't sell, that's it), it doesn't bode well for the new Luc Moullet or Ousmane Sembène restorations that ran last year at Lincoln Center and Film Forum, respectively, and I imagine Depardon would be in the same boat.

[Lowry_Sam]

Damn! It's things like this that makes me contemplate moving to NYC.

[Never Cursed]

Does anyone have any recommendations among these?

[hearthesilence]

Brody's picks are possibly his most acclaimed films and likely a good place to start.

One of them, Captive of the Desert, was already recommended by colinr0380 in the past on this forum - it's a rare staged film from Depardon based on a real-life hostage experience.

The autobiographical The Declic Years played tonight (I wasn't there) but will get another screening.

The trilogy of Emergencies, Caught in the Acts and The 10th District may be the peaks of his filmography - I recall the latter two getting lavished by praise albeit by the few critics who actually bothered to review it. IIRC all three were mostly shot with a locked-down camera from the same exact position, which is understandable given the setting and the sensitivity of the real-life situations captured.

[cantinflas]

That's an incredible retrospective for Depardon. I've only seen Urgences after Harmony Korine curated it at CPH:DOX one year. Quite an astonishing piece of work and I would love to see them all.

Next can someone program the films of Nicolas Philibert? Nénette has haunted me for 15 years.

[hearthesilence]

Due to the snowstorm, Lincoln Center is closing early tomorrow/Sunday at 5 p.m., but since the Depardon films aren't very long, they're still able to screen two of them tomorrow, both on similar subject matter and both among his most celebrated films. (Brody didn't mention San Clemente, but I know Fred Camper thought it was one of Depardon's best.) The Declic Years actually starts with the opening of this film and returns to it as well - it would be the black & white footage where everyone's speaking Italian.

Other films will be screening at Lincoln Center too before 5pm and I imagine all other repertory theaters will follow suit. Stay safe out there!

[Drucker]

Film Forum will be playing The Bell-Boy and Money From Home on March 16, Jerry Lewis' bday. Bob Furmanek is thanked on the program but there's no indication he'll appear in person as he has the last 3 years at Roxy. Additionally, Bell-Boy is credited to Library of Congress, not the Lewis Archive that Furmanek had previously sourced prints from.

[Lowry_Sam]

FYI: The Bellboy is also leaving the Criterion Channel this month.

[aox]

Film Forum is showing a newly restored print of Satyajit Ray’s, Days and Nights in the Forest. Beginning tomorrow until March 12. It looks gorgeous. I haven't seen this Ray.

[Marwood]

Film Forum is showing a newly restored print of Satyajit Ray’s, Days and Nights in the Forest. Beginning tomorrow until March 12. It looks gorgeous. I haven't seen this Ray.

Days and Nights in the Forest was restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films, and The Criterion Collection last year.

I saw it at the Cinema ritrovata film festival in Bologna, and it immediately jumped quite high on my list of all time best Rays. You're in for a treat.

[Drucker]

aaaaaaaand Anthology is playing a ton of Jerry Lewis films in 35 alongside Godard and Tashlin as well. This looks incredible.

METAPHYSICS OF THE PRATFALL: JERRY LEWIS AND JEAN-LUC GODARD
March 19 – March 31

March 19-31, 2026

In his 1957 review of Frank Tashlin’s HOLLYWOOD OR BUST, Jean-Luc Godard described Jerry Lewis’s face as one in which “the height of artifice blends at times with the nobility of true documentary.” Godard was, in a sense, prophesying the films he would later make, where the same dialectic can be found: an oft-overlooked strain of improvisation, bald-faced artifice, and pure antics coexisting with unvarnished reality. To pay tribute to these two contemporaries and their deep entanglements, we present a series that places films by Lewis and Godard in dialogue with each other. Both turned comedy into a form of modernist experimentation: Lewis through his elastic body, elaborate gags, and self-reflexive use of technology; Godard through his deconstruction of genre and his playful, anarchic sense of form. Each viewed cinema as a laboratory for testing the boundaries between art and entertainment, sincerity and absurdity, self and persona. Seen together, their films reveal a shared commitment to invention and a profound suspicion of the very illusions they so brilliantly created. We hope the encounter activates their respective work in new and explosive ways – and perhaps, as Lewis once dreamed, offers the chance to “say something on emulsion that will stop a soldier from firing into nine children somewhere, sometime. Now; next year; five years from now.”

Edit: I forgot I already saw The Errand Boy and Hollywood or Bust. I found the former exceptional.

[FrauBlucher]

Film Forum April to June Calendar

Highlights...
Jerry Schatzberg's Reunion, 4k restoration of Visconti's Bellissima, Max and Richard Fleischer retrospective, a Marilyn Monroe 100 year retrospective and more

[Drucker]

Les Maison des bois and a few other restored Pialat restorations playing in April at Lincoln Center.

[Lowry_Sam]

It's with Janus, so bodes well for coming to the channel as the next international tv series!

[hearthesilence]

I imagine it'll be box set release, one I'm definitely buying. This is really one of the major reissue events of the year (at least in the U.S.)

[Lowry_Sam]

Hopefully they don't treat it like Christ Stopped At Eboli when they put out a physical release.

[Lowry_Sam]

Visiting family & contemplating going in to the city. Anything interesting going on end of May beginning of June. Where is the best place to get advance info on what's happening in NYC these days? I think the last time I was there I used The Voice & Time Out (as in actual physical copies).

[Tom Amolad]

Most reliable will be the various repertory houses’ own websites, but most screenings won’t be announced until a bit closer to June.

Screenslate is the best digest of the various screenings.

[hearthesilence]

The demand for Lincoln Center's Tony Leung retrospective is so great that all four of his scheduled appearances (including an hour-long talk that was priced at $40) sold out pretty much immediately as soon as the members' pre-sale opened. More than a few people said they bought memberships specifically for this series only to get stuck in the queue as all the tickets for Leung's appearances were bought up.

I realize he's a huge star overseas (if not in the U.S. going by box-office metrics), but I can still remember when I had an easy time picking up tickets to see Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve's appearances at BAM Rose Cinema. So pretty surprising!

[Drucker]

The demand for Lincoln Center's Tony Leung retrospective is so great that all four of his scheduled appearances (including an hour-long talk that was priced at $40) sold out pretty much immediately as soon as the members' pre-sale opened. More than a few people said they bought memberships specifically for this series only to get stuck in the queue as all the tickets for Leung's appearances were bought up.

I realize he's a huge star overseas (if not in the U.S. going by box-office metrics), but I can still remember when I had an easy time picking up tickets to see Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve's appearances at BAM Rose Cinema. So pretty surprising!

Between the high profile John Woo restorations and the in-vogueishness of WKW's films (especially with how frequently they play at Metrograph), this doesn't surprise me! More than half of these films in fact have received high profile restorations and re-releases in recent years. Good for him.

[beamish14]

The demand for Lincoln Center's Tony Leung retrospective is so great that all four of his scheduled appearances (including an hour-long talk that was priced at $40) sold out pretty much immediately as soon as the members' pre-sale opened. More than a few people said they bought memberships specifically for this series only to get stuck in the queue as all the tickets for Leung's appearances were bought up.

I realize he's a huge star overseas (if not in the U.S. going by box-office metrics), but I can still remember when I had an easy time picking up tickets to see Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve's appearances at BAM Rose Cinema. So pretty surprising!

Between the high profile John Woo restorations and the in-vogueishness of WKW's films (especially with how frequently they play at Metrograph), this doesn't surprise me! More than half of these films in fact have received high profile restorations and re-releases in recent years. Good for him.

I can’t remember the complete Red Cliff ever screening in Los Angeles, AND you’re getting it in 35. Wow

[Drucker]

Baba booey

[HinkyDinkyTruesmith]

East Asian rep cinema also just generally performs extremely well in NYC. Film Lincoln’s Yang retro was their best performing series, Japan Society frequently sells out their screenings, and Metrograph also frequently sells out their East Asian film screenings — Naruse was a huge hit, A New Love in Tokyo, the Zhang Yimou, all the Hou films…

[beamish14]

East Asian rep cinema also just generally performs extremely well in NYC. Film Lincoln’s Yang retro was their best performing series, Japan Society frequently sells out their screenings, and Metrograph also frequently sells out their East Asian film screenings — Naruse was a huge hit, A New Love in Tokyo, the Zhang Yimou, all the Hou films…

Naruse is doing well in Los Angeles and I hope the Vancouver Cinematheque screenings went over well, too.

The Japan Society is just the best. Amazing print quality every single time I see one.