FSLC Announces Film Comment Selects for This February

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces THE LINEUP for the 18th edition of Film Comment magazine's annual series, Film Comment Selects, February 23-27. The cinematic showcase returns with a selection of titles curated by the magazine's editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment.

"It's a rare chance to see the lively mix of films that our critics have raved about but that haven't hit New York theaters yet," said Nicolas Rapold, Editor-in-Chief of Film Comment. "This year's edition is made especially exciting by a rare retrospective of the inimitable Nico Papatakis, whose work will be exciting for many to discover."

The festival opens with the New York premiere of Antonio Mendez Esparza's Life and Nothing More, an intimate chronicle of an African American family living on the margins in Florida, starring an astonishing non-professional cast. Other new works in THE LINEUP are Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear-winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Bi?ek's The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender-bending Wild Boys.

In addition to these anticipated new works, the 2018 slate features a retrospective of radical filmmaker Nico Papatakis, who had a "body of work that blends anarchic fury with visceral and transcendent poetry" (Yonca Talu, Film Comment). All five features directed by Papatakis, who subversively and provocatively explored themes of race, class, gender, and politics and produced films by Cassavetes and Genet, will be screened, including the meta terrorist drama Gloria Mundi, Cannes selection Les Abysses, and Walking a Tightrope, which stars Michel Piccoli as writer Jean Genet (a personal friend of the filmmaker). Film Comment Selects will also present a 25th anniversary screening of Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman's extraordinarily powerful documentary Silverlake Life: The View from Here, which follows Joslin and his partner Mark Massi as they struggle to live with AIDS.

Organized by Madeline Whittle and Film Comment magazine staff.

Tickets go on sale Friday, February 9. A pre-sale for Film Society members and Film Comment subscribers begins Friday, February 2. Single screening tickets are $15; $12 for students and seniors (62+); and $10 for Film Society members and Film Comment subscribers. See more and save with the 3+ film discount package or All-Access Pass. Learn more at filmlinc.org.

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