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Lyon Opera Ballet
Yorgos Loukos, Director

Grosse Fugue (NY Premiere)
Dancers: Dorothée Delabie, Peggy Grelat Dupont, Sora Lee, Julie Tardy Dupeyron

Choreography by Maguy Marin
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
Costumes by Chantal Cloupet
Lighting by François Renard

Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue must have sounded like this to his first audiences. Classical lyricism rising out of inelegant immediate physicality. This must be seen.

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Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Ridley Scott, director
USA, 1982/2007

Such a bleak and beautiful movie. Ridley Scott says he worked hard on this film, and it shows. Every frame glows with the urban fire of Teotihuacán, NYC, LA, Hong Kong…

Blade Runner (the title is from William S. Burroughs’s treatment of a novel by Alan E. Nourse) is Scott’s creation, inspired by Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and sad Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (read it!).

In this final cut, Blade Runner enters the pantheon. But it must be seen in a theater. (Home theater doesn’t count.) A perfect movie. Even the score by Vangelis is revealed as a masterpiece - Blade Runner scored as the last great silent film.

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Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon (The Romance of Astreé and Céladon)
Eric Rohmer, director
France, 2007

A pitifully attended (only 90% filled) New York screening of this late film by one of the founders of the French New Wave. But for the aged filmgoers who filled the majority of the seats, a 17th century parable of lost and found love (and our own critically endangered relationship with nature) lit up the screen. This film would complete a fine ancien trilogy with Die Marquise von O… and Perceval le Gallois.

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Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, Russia
Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director

Middle Duet
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

Dancers: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Islom Baimuradov

Music by Yuri Khanon
Costumes by Tatiana Kotegova
Lighting by Vladimir Lukasevich
Production Manager: Michael Vool

Spare, beautifully repetitious, with angular calligraphic movements - this work captures the sadness of coupling while honoring the persistence of individuality. The choreography focuses on the ballerina, and Ekaterina Kondaurova is such a phenomenon that it is too easy to overlook the fine work of Islom Baimuradov. A perfect union of music and motion.

The Kirov Ballet will be in residence at New York City Center, 1-20 April 2008.

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Allison Moorer - Dying Breed
Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema; Aquas de Marco
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man; Respect
Asha Bhosle - Jaane Kya Haal Ho Kai
Asobi Seksu - New Years
Beatles - Eight Days a Week
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Tom the Model
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Blind Faith - Can’t Find My Way Home
Bugge Wesseltoft - Lone
The Byrds - Deportee; Willin’
Camille - Assise
Cat Stevens - Oh Very Young
Cobra Killer - Helicopter 666
Daniel Johnston - For the Love of Pete
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - M0rgen; Act III, Marie Theres
Faure & Durufle - Pie Jesu
Feist - Let It Die
Fiona Apple - Across the Universe
Georg Frideric Handel - Semele, Track 51
Glenn Gould - Aria de Capo
The Grateful Dead - Operator; He’s Gone
Howlin’ Wolf - Down in the Bottom; Smokestack Lightning
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - The Charging Sky
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man; Man in Black
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Jorge Bolet - Prelude E Minor; Prelude D-Flat Major
Juana Molina - Hay Que Ver Si Voy
LCD Soundsystem - New York I love you but…
Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Lhasa - Con Toda Palabra
The Libertines - Death on the Stairs
Lila Downs - La Cumbia del Mole
Liz Phair - Help Me Mary
Malouma - Nabine
Marisa Monte - Infinito Particular
Marnie Stern - Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket
MIA - Bamboo Banga
The Misfits - Runaway
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Song of Joy
Original Soundtrack - Gluck das Mir Verlieb; Taking Tiger Mountain; Wait for Me; Dead Disco; Didn’t Leave Nobody…
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me; Rub til it Bleeds; Highway 61 Revisited; The Whores Hustle…; Down by the Water
Peaches - Fuck or Kill
Placebo - Johnny and Mary
Queens of the Stone Age - I’m Designer
Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up
Rob Crow - Up
Shakira - En Tus Pupilas
Sophie Zelmani - People
Souad Massi - Why Is My Heart Sad
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Titty - Down By the Water
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream
Sara Tavares - Bom Feeling
Various Artists - John the Revelator; Je Cherche un Homme; Wait for Me; Mountain Place; We Shall Overcome; Bole 2 Harlem; Jonkoloni
The Who - My Generation

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First, the program (tickets go on sale 9 September):

FEATURE FILMS

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu, Romania, 2007; 113m

Actresses
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, France, 2007; 107m

Alexandra
Alexander Sokurov, Russia, 92m

The Axe in the Attic
Ed Pincus & Lucia Small, US, 2007; 110m

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Sidney Lumet, US, 2007, 117m

Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Retrospective
Ridley Scott, US, 1982/2007; 118m

Calle Santa Fe
Carmen Castillo, Chile/France/Belgium, 2007; 163m

The Darjeeling Limited
Opening Night
Wes Anderson, US, 2007; 91m

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel, France/US, 2007; 112m

Flight of the Red Balloon
Hou Hsiao-hsien, France, 2007; 113m

A Girl Cut In Two
Claude Chabrol, France, 2007; 115m

Go Go Tales
Abel Ferrara, US, 2007; 96m

I Just Didn’t Do It
Masayuki Suo, Japan, 2007; 143m

I’m Not There
Todd Haynes, US, 2007; 136m

In the City of Sylvia
Jose Luis Guerin, Spain/France, 2007; 90m

The Last Mistress
Catherine Breillat, France, 2007; 114m

The Man From London
Béla Tarr, Hungary/France/Germany, 2007; 135m

Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach, US, 2007; 93m

Married Life
Ira Sachs, USA, 2007; 90m

Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project
John Landis, US, 2007; 89m

No Country for Old Men
Centerpiece
Joel and Ethan Coen, US, 2007; 122m

The Orphanage
Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, 100m

Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant, US, 2007; 85m

Persepolis
Closing Night
Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France, 2007; 95m

Redacted
Brian De Palma, US, 2007; 90m

The Romance of Astreé and Céladon
Eric Rohmer, France, 2007; 109m

Secret Sunshine
Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 2007; 142m

Stellet Licht (Silent Light)
Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/The Netherlands, 2007; 130m

Useless
Jia Zhangke, Hong Kong, 2007; 80m

SPECIAL EVENTS

Fados
Music Documentary
Carlos Saura, Spain/Portugal, 2007; 90m

The Future is Now: Blade Runner at 25
Panel Discussion

Hamlet
Retrospective
Sven Gade & Heinz Schall, Germany, 1920-21; 110m

In Glorious Technicolor: Martin Scorsese Presents
Retrospective
American Express & The Film Foundation present Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, US, 1939; 103m) and Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, US, 1945; 110m) as part of the Preservation Screening Program.

The Iron Horse
Retrospective
John Ford, US, 1924; 134m

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965
Music Documentary
Murray Lerner, US, 2007; 80m

Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Music Documentary
Peter Bogdanovich, US, 2007; 253m, 10m intermission

Underworld
Retrospective
Josef von Sternberg, US, 1927; 80m

HBO FILMS DIRECTORS DIALOGUES

Close encounters with Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Sidney Lumet and Julian Schnabel ~ focusing on their entire body of work & delving into the filmmaking process.

SHOWCASES

Chinese Modern: A Tribute to Cathay Studios

Tropical Analysis: The Films of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Views From the Avant-Garde

Again, tickets go on sale 9 Sep. The Film Society of Lincoln Center notes that ticketing for the film festival will be very limited this year because of the change of venue from Alice Tully Hall (currently under construction) to the smaller Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center.

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Sad alcoholic frog

National Gallery

U.S. Department of Education

No entry?

Capitol with maize in foreground

Busy bee

Lucky ducky

National Archives

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No entry?

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Fri, 7 Sep (8 pm)
Tibetan Book of the Dead LIVE
Asia Society

Fri, 7 Sep (11:30 pm)
I Dig Doug
The Bleecker St. Theater

Wed, 26 Sep (8 pm)
Paul Taylor, Kirov Ballet, Shantala Shivalingappa, Julliard Dance
Fall for Dance Festival
City Center

Sat, 29 Sep (10 am)
The Romance of Astreé and Céladon (Eric Rohmer)
New York Film Festival

Sat, 29 Sep (9 pm)
Blade Runner
New York Film Festival

Sun, 30 Sep (3 pm)
Lyon Opera Ballet, Kobborg Mats Ek, Tango Connection, Buckets and Taps
Fall for Dance Festival
City Center

Wed, 3 Oct (8 pm)
Royal Ballet of Flanders, Keigwin + Co, New York City Ballet, Urban Bush Women
Fall for Dance Festival
City Center

Sat, 6 Oct (7:30 pm)
Wild Cursive
THE FINAL CHAPTER OF CURSIVE: A TRILOGY
CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN
CHOREOGRAPHY BY LIN HWAI-MIN
BAM Next Wave Festival

Sun, 7 Oct (4:15 pm)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
New York Film Festival

Tue, 9 Oct (6 pm)
I Just Didn’t Do It (Masayuki Suo)
New York Film Festival

Thu, 11 Oct (8 pm)
Festival Chamber Music
Weill Hall

Thu, 11 Oct (8 pm)
Roméo et Juliette
Metropolitan Opera

Mon, 15 Oct (8 pm)
Cober
Trash Bar

Sat, 3 Nov (8 pm)
Sufjan Stevens/The BQE
BAM Next Wave

Sun, 11 Nov (7 pm)
The Misanthrope
New York Theatre Workshop

Sat, 17 Nov (7:30 pm)
Batsheva Dance Company
BAM Next Wave

Fri, 30 Nov (7:30 pm)
Michael Thalheimer/Lulu
BAM Next Wave

Sat, 1 Dec (8:30 pm)
Festival Chamber Music
Weill Hall

Thu, 13 Dec (7:30 pm)
War & Peace
Metropolitan Opera

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