Film at Lincoln Center Announces Revival Slate for 61st NYFF
16 restorations include works from Bahram Beyzaie, Abel Gance, Lee Grant, Manoel de Oliveira, Horace Ové, Man Ray, Jean Renoir, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tewfik Saleh, Nancy Savoca, and Paul Vecchiali
[New York, NY — August 21, 2023] Film at Lincoln Center announces Revivals for the 61st New York Film Festival (September 29-October 15). The Revivals section showcases significant works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners.
“This year’s edition of Revivals is a thrilling showcase of cinema history, packed with groundbreaking discoveries and long unseen classics alike, all in outstanding restorations,” said Florence Almozini, Senior Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center and NYFF Revivals Programmer. “We never cease to be amazed at the lasting influence of these cinematic gems on our collective sense of cinema, with the way they have tackled cultural, societal, or political issues with such modernity and artistry. The section is a constant inspiration to all cinephiles!”
The Revivals section connects cinema’s historical significance and present-day cultural influence through a selection of world premieres of restorations, rarities, and more. Highlights from this year’s slate include restorations of Nancy Savoca’s Household Saints, a comic chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family featuring Vincent D’Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, Michael Imperioli, and others, preceded by Savoca’s first student film, Renata; Horace Ové’s Pressure, one of the most important British films of the 1970s and an enduringly potent document on the social conditions known by first-generation West Indian immigrants; a selection of Man Ray’s short films, featuring Return to Reason restored on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, along with three other newly restored early films by Ray set to haunting and hypnotic new music by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch, who is also the NYFF61 poster artist, and Carter Logan); The Woman on the Beach, Jean Renoir’s beguiling, almost ghostly last film in Hollywood, showing on a brand-new 35mm print; and Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes, an excruciatingly suspenseful and eminently modern work of political cinema.
Additional highlights include Manoel de Oliveira’s Abraham’s Valley; Bahram Beyzaie’s The Stranger and the Fog; Abel Gance’s La Roue; Paul Vecchiali’s The Strangler; Lee Grant’s Tell Me a Riddle, preceded by her debut short The Stronger; and Niki de Saint Phalle’s Un rêve plus long que la nuit.
For more information, visit the festival website.
Originally published at https://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on August 21, 2023.
