Film at Lincoln Center ( FLC ), previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center ( FSLC ) until 2019, is a nonprofit organization based in New York City , United States . Founded in 1969 by three Lincoln Center executives— William F. May , Martin E. Segal and Schuyler G. Chapin —the organization presents film festivals, retrospectives, new releases, restorations, and talks. Film at Lincoln Center is one of the eleven resident organizations at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts .
6-459: Film Comment is the official publication of Film at Lincoln Center . It features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house , and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment began publishing on a bi-monthly basis with the Nov/Dec issue of 1972. The magazine's editorial team also hosts the annual Film Comment Selects at
12-554: A mission statement, founder-publisher Joseph Blanco wrote in the inaugural issue: "With the increasing interest in the motion picture as an art form, and with the rise of the New American cinema, [ Film Comment ] takes its place as a publication for the independent film maker and those who share a sincere interest in the unlimited scope of the motion picture." The magazine's earliest publishers were Clara Hoover and Austin Lamont. By
18-727: The Film at Lincoln Center. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , publication of the magazine was suspended in May 2020, and its website was updated on March 10, 2021, with news of the relaunch of the Film Comment podcast and a weekly newsletter. Film Comment was founded during the boom years of the international art-house circuit and the so-called New American Cinema , an umbrella term for the era's independently produced documentaries, narrative features, and experimental and underground works. By way of
24-600: The annual New York Film Festival and is a co-presenter (with the Museum of Modern Art ) of the New Directors/New Films Festival . The organization also publishes the film journal Film Comment . In 2020, Film at Lincoln Center took its festival virtual with a video-on-demand platform provided by Shift72 and suspended all physical events for 400 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic , reopening its theaters on April 16, 2021, and continuing with
30-567: The last four decades, Film at Lincoln Center has introduced to American audiences the works of many of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers, including François Truffaut , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Jean-Luc Godard , Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese . Each year the organization presents its annual Chaplin Award Gala , honoring legendary stars and industry leaders at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Film at Lincoln Center also hosts
36-633: The third issue, the publishers transferred ownership to Lorien Productions, a corporation that Hoover "formed to cover investments in artistic enterprises" (35, Feb 1984). This period in the magazine's history was marked by a predisposition towards low-budget narrative features and cinéma vérité -style documentaries. Hitchens was inclined towards a dual rejection of Hollywood and of the avant-garde (despite being acquainted with Jonas Mekas and Gregory Markopoulos and being involved in New York's avant-garde scene). Source: Film at Lincoln Center Over
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