Film at Lincoln Center Announces REVIVALS for 62nd NYFF

World premieres of restorations include: Ardak Amirkulov’s The Fall of Otrar, Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, Raymond Depardon’s Reporters, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights,and Robina Rose’s Nightshift

Additional restorations include works by Chantal Akerman, Clive Barker, Robert Bresson, Lino Brocka, Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban, Marva Nabili, Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow, and Frederick Wiseman

[New York, NY — August 22, 2024] — Film at Lincoln Center announces Revivals for the 62nd New York Film Festival (September 27-October 14). The Revivals section showcases significant works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners. This selection includes recently restored classics, rarities, and discoveries that were groundbreaking in their time and regarded for their artistic innovation, cultural impact, or bold storytelling. Each retains a resonance and relevance that is still impactful today.

Like many films in the festival this year, a number of Revivals titles look at political unrest and conflict, including Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow’s Camp de Thiaroye, which depicts the tragedy of the Thiaroye Massacre after the Battle of France during World War II; Ardak Amirkulov’s The Fall of Otrar, a historical epic about the upheaval that unfolded before Genghis Khan’s calculated destruction of the lost civilization of Otrar; and Northern Lights, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s work of political cinema from the 1970s, a transfixing dramatization about the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in North Dakota during the mid-1910s.

Women’s resistance against oppression plays a crucial role in two Revivals titles: Lino Brocka’s Bona, the spirited and fierce tale of a woman who falls for a philandering B-movie actor that becomes a parable for the plight of Filipino women under Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship; and Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil, the earliest surviving Iranian film directed by a woman, depicting the everyday struggles of women in a patriarchal society in Southwestern Iran.

Photography is the focus of two selections: Frederick Wiseman’s Model, which closely observes the world of fashion photography on both sides of the camera; and documentary filmmaker Raymond Depardon’s Reporters, an examination of the press agency he founded, and the dynamic between photographer and subject.

Other highlights include Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban’s devastating La Musica, which tracks three people whose paths cross in a small Northern French town, and is preceded by Chantal Akerman’s short film J’ai faim, j’ai froid; Zeinabu irene Davis’s world premiere 4K restoration of Compensation, which uses American Sign Language and title cards to tell parallel stories of two couples across two different time periods in Chicago; and Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer, a poignant reflection on human connection over four nights during the aftermath of the May ’68 student protests in France.

In a special treat for festival audiences, Revivals presents Clive Barker’s directorial debut Hellraiser, based on his novel The Hellbound Heart, an unrelenting, terror-filled journey into a portal to hell, inhabited by the gruesome Cenobites who are subsequently unleashed upon the world.

For more information on tickets, showtimes, and the full program, visit the festival website.

Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on August 22, 2024.