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December 12, 2013 —
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) offers two retrospectives; “The Discreet Charm of George Cukor” and “Liv &Ingmar: The Films” along with “For Your Consideration: Oscar Hopefuls.”
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“The Discreet Charm of George Cukor” (December 13 – January 7, 2014).
How can we forget My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison or Let’s Make Love with Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand or Adam’s Rib with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy or The Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and Cary Grant. These are only some of the movies that George Cukor directed.
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Marilyn Monroe in “Let’s Make Love”
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“The Discreet Charm of George Cukor” series is organized in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival, and runs 26 days.
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And offers a comprehensive overview (50 films) of the Academy Award®- winning director’s work.
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Highlights include Cukor’s many collaborations with Katharine Hepburn —including ADAM’S RIB (1949), A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT (1932), THE CORN IS GREEN (1979), LITTLE WOMEN (1933), HOLIDAY (1938), KEEPER OF THE FLAME (1942), LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1975), PAT AND MIKE (1952),
and more…
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For more information visit their site;
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/the-discreet-charm-of-george-cukor
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“Liv &Ingmar: The Films” (December 13 – 19)
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Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman
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Liv Ullmann, actress and director, is known as director Ingmar Bergman’s muse, lover and collaborator. She was only 25 when she met 46-year-old Bergman (1918 – 2007) during the making of Persona (1966), they became lowers for 5 years. Ingmar Bergman directed Liv Ullmann in more than 12 films.
In this series, including Persona, Scenes From a Marriage there are 9 movies with Liv Ullmann, directed by Ingmar Bergman and a documentary called Liv and Ingmar (Liv og Ingmar), directed by Dheeraj Akolkar.
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For more information:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/liv-ingmar-the-films
“For Your Consideration: Oscar Hopefuls”(December 20- January 2, 2014)
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This two-week series gives audiences a chance to see some of the foreign film selections and all 15 documentarycontenders which are shortlisted for this year’s Academy Awards®.
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According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 147 films had originally qualified in the Documentary Feature category. The Academy’s Documentary Branch members determined the shortlist in a preliminary round of voting, and will select the five nominees from among the 15 titles.
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Tim Jenison in “Tim’s Vermeer”
.Documentary Oscar Hopefuls will run from December 20 to December 26 and For Your Consideration: Foreign Oscar Hopefulsfrom December 27—January 2, 2014.
.The 15 contenders in the Documentary Feature category, listed below in alphabetical order by title are:
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THE ACT OF KILLING, Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Country: Denmark/Norway/UK
THE ARMSTRONG LIE, Director: Alex Gibney, Country: USA
BLACKFISH,Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Country: USA
THE CRASH REEL, Director: Lucy Walker, Country: USA
CUTIE AND THE BOXER, Director: Zachary Heinzerling, Country: USA
DIRTY WARS, Director: Rick Rowley, Country: USA
FIRST COUSIN, ONCE REMOVED, Director: Alan Berliner, Country: USA
GOD LOVES UGANDA, Director: Roger Ross Williams, Country: USA
LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM, Directors: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine, Country: USA
PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER, Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin, Country: Russia/UK
THE SQUARE, Director: Jehane Noujaim, Country: Egypt/USA
STORIES WE TELL, Director: Sarah Polley,Country: Canada
TIM’S VERMEER, Director: Teller, Country: USA
20 FEET FROM STARDOM, Director: Morgan Neville, Country: USA
WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, Director: Sebastian Junger, Country: USA.
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For Your Consideration: Foreign Oscar Hopefuls
In this series FSLC will show 9 Foreign Language films:
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AN AFGHAN LOVE STORY(Wajma) Director: Barmak Akram. Country: Afghanistan
AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER, Director; Danis Tanovic, Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
THE GRANDMASTER (Yi dai zong shi) Director: Wong Kar Wai, Country: Hong Kong
HELI, Director: Amat Escalante, Country: Mexico
THE HUNT, Director: Thomas Vinterberg, Country: Denmark
IN BLOOM(Grzeli nateli dgeebi), Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Groß, Country: Georgia
LINES OF WELLINGTON(Linhas de Wellington), Director: Valeria Sarmiento, Country: Portugal
NEIGHBORING SOUNDS(O som ao redor), Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Country: Brazil
RENOIR, Director: Gilles Bourdos, Country: France
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This year, 76 films have been submitted for the 2014 Foreign– Language Film Oscar (Turkey’s entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film is The Butterfly’s Dream (Kelebeğin Rüyası), directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan).
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for the 86th Oscars® on January 16, 2014.
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For more information;
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/for-your-consideration-documentary-oscar-hopefuls/2013/12/20
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