{"id":10938,"date":"2018-08-23T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2021-12-26T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:36:25","slug":"fyff56-documentaries-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/fyff56-documentaries-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"The 56th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Fourteen films include three World Premieres and four U.S. Premieres:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">New works from Errol Morris, Alexis Bloom, Charles Ferguson, and Manfred Kirchheimer;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">New William Wyler restoration;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Documentaries featuring Maria Callas and Bill Cunningham; plus incisive stories about social justice, political upheaval, musical history<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">And more &#8230;\n<div><b>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10662\" src=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_logo.svg_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_logo.svg_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_logo.svg_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_logo.svg_-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_logo.svg_-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_logo.svg_.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">This year\u2019s series of dispatches from the front lines of nonfiction cinema features intimate portraits of artists, depictions of the quest for political and social justice, and much more. <span lang=\"EN\">Selections include three documentaries spotlighting controversial political figures, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"> former FOX News chairman Roger Ailes in <i>Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, <\/i>directed by Alexis Bloom (<i>Bright Lights, <\/i>NYFF54);<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><i>The Waldheim Waltz,<\/i> in which director Ruth Beckermann employs archival footage to examine the media\u2019s role in the political ascension of former UN Secretary-General and Austrian president Kurt Waldheim;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">and returning NYFF filmmaker Errol Morris\u2019s <i>American Dharma<\/i>, an unflinching, unnerving interrogation of former Trump strategist Steve Bannon. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">Other notable documentary subjects include Maria Callas, the legendary soprano whose rise to stardom, tumultuous public life, and vocal decline are vividly portrayed in Tom Volf\u2019s <i>Maria by Callas<\/i>, and iconic New York street photographer Bill Cunningham, whose ruminations on his life and career are depicted in new archival footage in Mark Bozek\u2019s lovely and invigorating <i>The Times of Bill Cunningham<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">In a double feature presentation, Ron Mann\u2019s <i>Carmine Street Guitars <\/i>and returning NYFF director Manfred Kirchheimer\u2019s <i> Dream of a City <\/i>portray uniquely New York stories: Mann\u2019s film is centered on Rick Kelly, luthier of the eponymous music shop, as he builds new guitars with re-purposed timber from storied New York spots like the Hotel Chelsea and McSorley\u2019s, while the astonishing <i>Dream of a City <\/i>captures old New York firsthand, featuring stunning black and white 16mm images of city life shot by Kirchheimer and Walter Hess from 1958 to 1960.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">The documentary lineup also features stories of war past and present, showcasing perspectives from both the front lines and the home front. In a new restoration, William Wyler\u2019s essential 1944 WWII combat documentary <i>The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress <\/i>will screen as a companion piece to Erik Nelson\u2019s <i>The Cold Blue, <\/i>which combines the remaining unused 16mm footage from Wyler\u2019s film with the spoken recollections of nine of the last surviving World War II veterans to craft an experience of a different kind. Capturing the devastating effects of the ongoing war in the Middle East, James Longley\u2019s <i>Angels Are Made of Light<\/i> follows schoolchildren as they come of age alongside the adults preparing them for an unstable future in the shattered, wartorn city of Kabul, Afghanistan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10711\" src=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4-300x67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4-768x172.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4-560x125.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4-260x58.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4-160x36.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/filmsocietylincolncenterHEADER-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Other highlights of the Spotlight on Documentary section include the World Premiere of Tom Surgal\u2019s <i>Fire Music, <\/i>a fittingly wild and freeform tribute to the sights and sounds of the free jazz movement; John Bruce &amp; NYFF alum Pawe\u0142 Wojtasik\u2019s <i>End of Life<\/i>, a supremely composed meditation on the act of dying; <i>What You Gonna Do When the World\u2019s on Fire?<\/i>, Roberto Minervini\u2019s urgent, lyrical portrait of African-Americans in New Orleans struggling to find social justice while maintaining their cultural identity; and <i>Watergate, <\/i>in which director Charles Ferguson (<i>Inside Job<\/i>, NYFF48) reopens the infamous investigation to create a real-life political suspense story built from archival footage, drawing disquieting parallels with the current presidency and criminal investigation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by Kent Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming, and Florence Almozini, FSLC Associate Director of Programming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">As previously announced, the NYFF56 Opening Night is Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s <i>The Favourite<\/i>, <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s <i>ROMA<\/i> is Centerpiece, and Julian Schnabel\u2019s <i>At Eternity\u2019s Gate <\/i>will close the festival. The complete lineup for the Main Slate can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.hunter.cuny.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=VZFfUgKH2DOKfGAFbkFucBOZH3vhA9-BwYB-3g_zoYAi4DInCQnWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2femail.wordfly.com%2fclick%3fsid%3dNTU1XzEwMDY4XzQ2MzcyXzcwOTQ%26l%3d697ed643-1ba6-e811-a31f-e61f134a8c87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>, for Projections <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.hunter.cuny.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=p7ArYx5rpDD_Dwzw740LO18vxVptYkxUf5oniHtzfZ0i4DInCQnWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2femail.wordfly.com%2fclick%3fsid%3dNTU1XzEwMDY4XzQ2MzcyXzcwOTQ%26l%3d6a7ed643-1ba6-e811-a31f-e61f134a8c87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>, for Convergence <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.hunter.cuny.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=RZeCr-1-y5-PCfMpAGG9ydEz_v0slPiv5kbmBTJTn5ki4DInCQnWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2femail.wordfly.com%2fclick%3fsid%3dNTU1XzEwMDY4XzQ2MzcyXzcwOTQ%26l%3d6b7ed643-1ba6-e811-a31f-e61f134a8c87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>, and for Retrospectives and Revivals <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.hunter.cuny.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=DPTu6dZxKxU0R4P9NnZwgWl-KLAKk7V7T0Phd4J-LXQi4DInCQnWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2femail.wordfly.com%2fclick%3fsid%3dNTU1XzEwMDY4XzQ2MzcyXzcwOTQ%26l%3d6c7ed643-1ba6-e811-a31f-e61f134a8c87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">NYFF Special Events and Shorts sections, as well as filmmaker conversations and panels, will be announced soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\">Tickets for the 56th New York Film Festival will go on sale to the general public on September 9. Festival and VIP passes are on sale now and offer one of the earliest opportunities to purchase tickets and secure seats at some of the festival\u2019s biggest events, including Opening and Closing Night. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.hunter.cuny.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=iQDB2CY0E2gLL36CcbofeJ08HtATQBsJRCHdTsUZhQ0i4DInCQnWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2femail.wordfly.com%2fclick%3fsid%3dNTU1XzEwMDY4XzQ2MzcyXzcwOTQ%26l%3d6d7ed643-1ba6-e811-a31f-e61f134a8c87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> filmlinc.org\/NYFF56Passes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>FILMS &amp; DESCRIPTIONS<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN\">American Dharma, U.S. Premiere<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>Dir. Errol Morris, USA\/UK, 2018, 100m<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Errol Morris\u2019s productively unnerving new film is an encounter with none other than Steve Bannon\u2014former Goldman Sachs partner and movie executive, self-proclaimed \u201cpopulist\u201d warrior, and long-time cinephile. Morris faces off with his subject in a Quonset hut set modeled on a Bannon favorite, <i>Twelve O\u2019Clock High,<\/i> and questions him about the most disturbing and divisive milestones in his career as a media-savvy libertarian\/anarchist\/activist, from Breitbart News\u2019 takedown of Anthony Weiner to Bannon\u2019s incendiary alliance with our current president to the tragic milestone of Charlottesville. <i>American Dharma<\/i> is an unflinching film, and a deeply disturbing experience. To quote William Carlos Williams, \u201cThe pure products of America go crazy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN\">Angels Are Made of Light<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\"><br \/>\nDir. James Longley, USA\/Denmark\/Norway, 2018, 117m<br \/>\nIn the new film from James Longley (<i>Iraq in Fragments<\/i>), made over a period of several years, school children grow up before our eyes into young adults in the shattered city of Kabul in the country of Afghanistan. Longley meticulously constructs a framework\u2014at once humanist, historical and poetic\u2014for the trajectories of his young subjects and the adults doing their best to nurture them <i>and<\/i> prepare them for an unstable and unpredictable future. <i>Angels Are Made of Light<\/i> is a film of wonders great and small, some terrifying and some deeply moving, made by a truly ethical and attentive artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN\">Carmine Street Guitars, U.S. Premiere<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">Dir. Ron Mann, Canada, 2018, 80m<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>The vibe is always deep and the groove is always sweet in Ron Mann\u2019s lovely portrait of a week in the life of luthier Rick Kelly\u2019s eponymous ground floor shop. Here, with help from his 93-year-old mother (and bookkeeper) and young apprentice Cindy Hulej, Kelly builds new guitars out of \u201cthe bones of old New York,\u201d i.e. timber discarded from storied spots like the Hotel Chelsea and McSorley\u2019s. A few regular customers\u2014including Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Charlie Sexton, Marc Ribot, and the film\u2019s \u201cinstigator,\u201d Jim Jarmusch\u2014drop in along the way for repairs or test runs of Rick\u2019s newest models. Or just to hang out and be with the music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><em><span lang=\"EN\">Preceded by:<\/span><\/em><i><span lang=\"EN\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\">Dream of a City<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">, <b>World Premiere<\/b><br \/>\nDir. Manfred Kirchheimer, USA, 2018, 39m<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>The 87-year old Manny Kirchheimer, a filmmaker\u2019s filmmaker, has spent decades quietly documenting the life of our city, where he has resided since fleeing Nazi Germany with his family in 1936. Kirchheimer\u2019s films can be placed in the proud tradition of New York\u2013based \u201cimpressionistic\u201d nonfiction films like Jay Leyda\u2019s <i>A Bronx Morning<\/i> and D.A. Pennebaker\u2019s <i>Daybreak Express<\/i>, but they have a meditative power, tending to the surreal, that is absolutely unique. This astonishing new film, comprised of stunning black and white 16mm images of construction sites and street life and harbor traffic shot by Kirchheimer and his old friend Walter Hess from 1958 to 1960, and set to Shostakovich and Debussy, is like a precious, wayward signal received 60 years after transmission. A Grasshopper Film \/ Cinema Conservancy Release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>The Cold Blue<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Erik Nelson, USA, 2018, 73m<br \/>\nErik Nelson\u2019s new film is built primarily from color 16mm images shot in the spring of 1943 by director William Wyler and his crew on 8th Air Force bombing raids over Germany and strategic locations in occupied France. Wyler shot over 15 hours of footage on a series of raids with the 91st bomber group, from which he crafted his 1943 film <i>The<\/i> <i>Memphis Belle<\/i>. From the remaining raw footage, Nelson has crafted an experience of a different kind, filtered through the spoken recollections of nine veterans, among the last survivors of the War in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN\">Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">Dir. Alexis Bloom, USA, 2018, 107m<br \/>\n<\/span>This is the epic tale of Roger Ailes, the hemophiliac boy from Warren, Ohio, who worked his way up from television production, to the Nixon White House, to George H.W. Bush\u2019s successful 1988 presidential campaign, to the stewardship of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Fox News, which he built into a full-fledged right-wing propaganda machine disguised as a news organization that played a starring role in the 2016 presidential election. In the bargain, Ailes and his cohorts created a host environment for an exceptionally pure strain of power-wielding misogyny that proved to be his undoing. Director Alexis Bloom goes about her task methodically, establishes her facts scrupulously, and finishes things off with an appropriately ironic edge. An A&amp;E IndieFilms release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN\">End of Life, U.S. Premiere<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>Dir. John Bruce &amp; Pawe\u0142 Wojtasik, USA\/Greece, 2017, 91m<b><br \/>\n<\/b>John Bruce and Pawe\u0142 Wojtasik\u2019s radiant film takes a respectful and serenely composed look at the very activity, the actual <i>work<\/i>, of dying for five individuals: Sarah Grossman, the spiritual teacher Ram Dass, Carol Verostek, Doris Johnson, and the artist, writer, and performer Matt Freedman. This is not a film of rhetoric but of concentrated and sustained attention to an area of experience at which we all arrive but from which the living flinch. Bruce and Wojtasik are tuned to a very special and extraordinarily delicate wavelength as artists, and they create a rare form from the silences, the incantatory repetitions, the mysterious repeated gestures, and the communions with the mystery of being enacted by the dying. A Grasshopper Film release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>Fire Music, World Premiere<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Tom Surgal, USA, 2018, 90m<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Tom Surgal\u2019s film looks at the astonishing sounds (and sights) of that combustible and wildly diverse moment in music known as free jazz, which more or less began with Ornette Coleman, whose tone clusters and abandonment of strict rhythms opened the floor from under modern jazz. Surgal pays close attention to the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra &amp; His Arkestra, and, of course, the recently deceased piano genius Cecil Taylor. Filled with priceless archival footage and photographs, <i>Fire Music <\/i>is a fittingly wild and freeform tribute to music that makes your hair stand on end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>Maria by Callas<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Tom Volf, USA, 2018, 113m<br \/>\nThe legendary soprano Maria Callas\u2014American-born, ethnically Greek, and a true citizen of the world\u2014was one of the supreme artists and cultural stars of the mid-20th century, and she became almost synonymous with the art form to which she devoted her life\u2014Leonard Bernstein once called Callas \u201cthe Bible of opera.\u201d Tom Volf\u2019s film, comprised of archival photographs, newsreels, interviews, precious performance footage, and selections from her diary, takes us through Callas\u2019s life: from her childhood, early training, and rise to stardom, through her tumultuous public life and vocal decline, and to her death from a heart attack at the age of 53. This is a cinematic love note to a great artist, and a vivid audiovisual document of mid-century western culture. A Sony Pictures Classics release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. William Wyler, USA, 1944, 45m<br \/>\nIn February of 1943, Major William Wyler went up in a B-17, 16mm camera in hand, on his first combat mission over Bremen with the Ninety-First Bomber Group. On this and the missions that followed, the Hollywood master, then at the height of his career, braved freezing and perilous conditions to get the images he needed, saw his sound man perish on a return trip from a raid over Brest, and refused an order to stop flying combat missions issued by his superiors, worried that he would be taken prisoner in Germany and identified as the Jewish director of <i>Mrs. Miniver<\/i>. The final result was <i>Memphis Belle<\/i>, one of the greatest of the WWII combat documentaries, and it has now been meticulously and painstakingly restored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>The Times of Bill Cunningham, World Premiere<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Mark Bozek, USA, 2018, 71m<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Mark Bozek began work on this lovely and invigorating film about the now legendary street photographer on the day of Cunningham\u2019s death in 2016 at the age of 87. Bozek is working with precious material, including a lengthy 1994 filmed interview with Cunningham (shot when he received a Media Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America) and his subject\u2019s earliest pre-<i>New York Times<\/i> photographs, long unseen. In his customarily cheerful and plainspoken manner, Cunningham takes us through his Irish Catholic upbringing in Boston, his army stint, his move to New York in 1948 (which was controversial for his straitlaced family), his days as a milliner, his close friendships with Nona Park and Sophie Shonnard of Chez Ninon, his beginnings as a photographer, and his liberated and wholly democratic view of fashion. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>The Waldheim Waltz \/ Waldheims Walzer<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Ruth Beckermann, Austria, 2018, 93m<br \/>\nKurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982. In 1986, his nation elected him as president despite a controversy over his previously undisclosed role in the Nazi regime during World War II. Using archival footage, Ruth Beckermann (<i>The Dreamed Ones<\/i>, Art of the Real 2016) studies how various media reported Waldheim\u2019s accession and, more broadly, the influence of false na\u00efvet\u00e9 and political pressure by those in positions of power. <i>The Waldheim Waltz<\/i> is an intelligent, timely work of activist filmmaking\u2014one whose questions about collective complicity, memory, and historical responsibility are as important to ask today as they were more than 30 years ago. A Menemsha Films release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>Watergate<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Charles Ferguson, USA, 2018, 240m<br \/>\nCharles Ferguson reopens the case of Watergate, from the 1972 break-in to Nixon\u2019s 1974 resignation and beyond, and gives it a new and bracing life. The filmmaker creates a real-life political suspense story, one remarkable detail at a time, built from archival footage; interviews with surviving members of the Nixon White House (including Pat Buchanan and John Dean), reporters (Lesley Stahl, Dan Rather and, of course, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein), special prosecutors (Richard Ben-Veniste, Jill Wine-Banks); the Senate Watergate Committee (Lowell Weicker), members of the House Judiciary Committee who debated Nixon\u2019s impeachment (Elizabeth Holtzman), modern commentators, and historians; and carefully executed recreations based on the Oval Office recordings. Ferguson also accomplishes the difficult and immediately relevant task of drawing extremely disquieting fact-based parallels with another presidency and criminal investigation, still underway. An A&amp;E release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><b>What You Gonna Do When the World\u2019s on Fire? U.S. Premiere<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Dir. Roberto Minervini, Italy\/USA\/France, 2018, 123m<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Italian-born, American South\u2013based filmmaker Roberto Minervini\u2019s follow-up to his Texas Trilogy is a portrait of African-Americans in New Orleans struggling to maintain their unique cultural identity and to find social justice. Shot in very sharp black and white, the film is focused on Judy, trying to keep her family afloat and save her bar before it\u2019s snapped up by speculators; Ronoldo and Titus, two brothers growing up surrounded by violence and with a father in jail; Kevin, trying to keep the glorious local traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians alive; and the local Black Panthers, trying to stand up against a new, deadly wave of racism. This is a passionately urgent and strangely lyrical film experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Film Society of Lincoln Center<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including <i>Film Comment<\/i>, the U.S.\u2019s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Shutterstock, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. American Airlines is the Official Airline of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Support for the New York Film Festival is generously provided by Official Partners HBO\u00ae and <i>The New York Times<\/i>, Benefactor Partners Dolby and illy caff\u00e8, Supporting Partners Warby Parker, MUBI, and Manhattan Portage, and Hospitality Partner Hudson Hotel. 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