Film at Lincoln Center Podcast

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 64th New York Film Festival between Bitter Christmas director Pedro Almodóvar and Making Marie Antoinette producer & editor Sofia Coppola, moderated by NYFF Talks programmer Madeline Whittle.

Bitter Christmas is currently playing at Film at Lincoln Center. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/christmas

Two films in the NYFF64 lineup examine the process of artistic creation up close, if from different vantage points. With Main Slate selection Bitter Christmas, his 24th feature film, Pedro Almodóvar reflects on the methods and relationships that have underpinned his filmography with ruthless candor and sparkling humor; the metacinematic movie involves two nested stories, each featuring a filmmaker who mines personal lives for art to dazzling and prickly ends. Meanwhile, Spotlight selection Making Marie Antoinette, shot by Eleanor Coppola and finished after her death by her daughter, Sofia Coppola, looks back at the making of the 2006 film that cemented the latter’s status as a bona fide auteur. In the following conversation, Almodóvar and Coppola—both singular creators who have successfully elevated style to the level of substance—explore their kindred thematic preoccupations around gender, memory, intimate relationships, and the slippery interplay of fact and fiction.

This conversation was sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter.

The 64th New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 64th New York Film Festival with Everytime director Sandra Wollner and actress Carla Hüttermann, moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim.

An NYFF64 Main Slate selection, Everytime is currently playing at Film at Lincoln Center through Thursday, November 12, courtesy of 1-2 Special. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/everytime

Germany’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards, EVERYTIME will return to FLC next year, opening in our theaters in February 2027.

After a shocking accident befalls a teenage girl in Berlin, her mother, younger sister, and boyfriend drift into a state of suspended grief in Sandra Wollner’s atmospheric, constantly surprising new film, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize.

The 64th New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 64th New York Film Festival with Fatherland director Paweł Pawlikowski, moderated by NYFF programmer Florence Almozini.

An NYFF64 selection, Fatherland is now playing daily at FLC, courtesy of MUBI. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/fatherland

Academy Award–nominated director Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War, NYFF56) specializes in narratively economical yet emotionally and philosophically expansive historical drama, and his latest film, which earned him a Best Director prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, might be his most potent and provocative yet. Set in the aftermath of World War II, Fatherland follows the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller) on a fictionalized 1949 road trip across a torn Germany that’s at once reeling from the destruction of battle and in profound denial about its evils and culpability. As they move from the West to the East, Pawlikowski uses Thomas and Erika’s fraught interpersonal dynamics and own familial tragedies to reflect upon a country facing an ever-evolving moral urgency. Cinematographer Łukasz Żal’s beautifully stark black-and-white frames and Hüller and Zischler’s expertly restrained performances combine to evoke a Europe gradually awakening to a new historical reckoning.

The 64th New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 64th New York Film Festival with Possible Love director Lee Chang-dong, moderated by NYFF programmer Justin Chang. An NYFF64 selection, Possible Love is now playing daily at FLC! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/love

Eight years after his widely acclaimed thriller Burning (a selection of NYFF56), the great Lee Chang-dong makes his long-awaited return with Possible Love, an intricately layered drama about two women: a documentary filmmaker who is married to a wealthy businessman, and a working-class woman whose husband was laid off from his last job and brutally beaten by the police during a labor strike. When the documentary filmmaker decides to turn her camera on the working class woman’s family, the chasms of class—and the inevitable power imbalances of nonfiction filmmaking—emerge in a brilliant narrative of simmering resentments, shifting allegiances, and sexual tensions. NYFF was thrilled to welcome director Lee for an in-depth conversation about the new film and his long career of making movies that pierce the heart of contemporary South Korea, laying bare the scars of personal trauma and socioeconomic grievance.

The 64th New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 64th New York Film Festival with You Can See Everything directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim.

An NYFF64 Spotlight selection, You Can See Everything is now in theaters, courtesy of A24.

In this astounding new high-wire act of self-reflexivity from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, created in secret, convicted Silicon Valley fraudster Elizabeth Holmes becomes an entirely different kind of camera subject.

The 64th New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.