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aox wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 1:44 am 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.

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.”

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 5:42 am 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 wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 1:59 pm

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 5:42 am 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.

HinkyDinkyTruesmith wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 2:45 am 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…