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Terence Dixon’s Meeting The Man: James Baldwin In Paris screens tonight at the Queens Drive-In, weather permitting.

Film at Lincoln Center has announced that the New York Film Festival postponed Brooklyn Drive-In screening on Sunday, October 11 of William Klein’s exceptional Muhammad Ali, The Greatest (1974), preceded by Terence Dixon’s confrontational Meeting The Man: James Baldwin In Paris (1971), shot by Jack Hazan has been rescheduled for tonight, October 13 starting at 8:00pm, now at the Queens Drive-In, weather permitting.

The newly restored Muhammad Ali, The Greatest (1974), Klein’s incomparable documentary (Revivals programme selection), is much more than a boxing film chronicling the fights of Sonny Liston vs Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston, and George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali. What Klein captures on camera in regards to race relations is powerful, exposing shameless bigotry and frightfully timely attitudes.

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With the Main Slate of the 58th New York Film Festival offering so many great choices to view, it is easy to overlook the gems featured in other strands.

Screening with Terence Dixon’s Meeting The Man: James Baldwin In Paris (1971) in the Revivals programme, is the newly restored Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1974). William Klein’s incomparable documentary is much more than a boxing film chronicling the fights of Sonny Liston vs Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston, and George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali.

Klein, famous for his depiction of the fashion world in his satire Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, a milieu he knew well as a photographer for Vogue, here portrays the famous and...

Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung is a Revival selection Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Film at Lincoln Center has announced the Revivals of the 58th New York Film Festival will include Terence Dixon’s Meeting The Man: James Baldwin In Paris, shot by Jack Hazan and Steve McQueen Selects: Jean Vigo’s Zero For Conduct (Zéro De Conduite) available for free 'limited rentals'. Other highlights in the program are Joyce Chopra’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams; William Klein’s Muhammad Ali, The Greatest; Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flowers Of Shanghai with Tony Leung, Michiko Hada and Vicky Wei; Béla Tarr’s collaboration with László Krasznahorkai on Damnation, and Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love, starring Maggie Cheung and Leung. Wong Kar Wai was the Artistic Director for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute...

Yesterday, the New York Film Festival made another 2020 announcement, this one looking back on the past a bit. Yes, longtime festival goers know that NYFF each year has a robust Revivals lineup, and this year will be no exception. The 58th incarnation of the fest will include a ton of diverse selections, celebrating the history of cinema. At a time when the present and future of the industry is somewhat up in the air, screenings of this sort can be even more powerful, as a reminder of what has been, and what eventually can be again. Read on for more about what NYFF is cooking up here, which includes a recent classic like In the Mood for Love, among many other movies… This is the New York Film Festival press release: Film at Lincoln Center announces Revivals for the 58th New York Film Festival (September 17 – October 11). “We are thrilled with our selections for Revivals,...

The New York Film Festival is rolling out a “reshaped” version of its Revivals section for this year’s edition of the festival, with a rich assortment of repertory cinema that runs the gamut from beloved classics to rarities seeking new life. The lineup includes a Tony Leung double bill, thanks to Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “Flowers of Shanghai” and Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love,” while Joyce Chopra’s 1986 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, “Smooth Talk,” shows off a breakout performance by a young Laura Dern.

Other highlights include Jia Zhangke’s rarely screened “Xiao Wu,” Mohammad Reza Aslani’s rediscovered “The Chess Game of the Wind,” and Béla Tarr’s black-and-white noir, “Damnation.” Opening night filmmaker Steve McQueen also had a hand in the selection: he’s opted to screen Jean Vigo’s “Zero for Conduct,” which he says inspired his latest project, a five-film anthology series,...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThis year the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des réalisateurs) in Cannes is celebrating its 50th anniversery. The poster for this year's festival uses a photo by William Klein, whose film The Pan-African Festival of Algiers was in the 1971 edition.Recommended VIEWINGThe trailer for Paul Schrader's fabulous new film First Reformed. Our critics raved about it (here and here) last year from the Toronto International Film Festival.Recommended READINGThe last interview Hollywood filmmaker Nicolas Ray (Johnny Guitar) recorded was in 1979 with Sarah Fatima Parsons and Kathryn Bigelow. The Italian film magazine La Furia Umana has the full text in English.With last week's release of Ready Player One getting all fans of Steven Spielberg in a tizzy, the A.V. Club has run a compendium of the best set pieces of the director's career.The Courtisane...

Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2018 The French Directors’ Guild, organisers of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, today has unveiled the poster image for this year’s 50th edition of the sidebar selection.

The image is based on a photograph by William Klein who was a regular attendee of the section in its early days.

Klein who was born in New York in 1928 but has lived in Paris for more than six decades, garnered his reputation first as a photographer before branching in to film-making.

It was in 1958, Klein began to explore the moving image, creating his first Pop film, Broadway By Light, in 1958. He went on to produce feature films and documentaries including a satire about the fashion world, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966); Far From Vietnam (1967); Muhammad Ali, The Greatest (1969); and The Little Richard Story (1980). Messiah (1999), revealed on an epic scale a summary of the...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGWe're very much in love with Zama, Lucrecia Martel's long-anticipated return to filmmaking. The new trailer calls us back to our encounter of the film at Toronto last year and our conversation with the director.We all know that Rainer Werner Fassbinder made a lot—a whole lot—of films in his all too brief 15 years of activity, but it's truly remarkable how new (old) work of his keeps appearing. First there was the revelation of World on a Wire (1973) and now another made-for-tv epic has been restored and is being re-released, Eight Hours Are Not a Day (1972-1973). We wonder what other future delights and provocations Rwf has in store for us!Recommended READINGDoll & EmAt The Guardian, Lili Loofbourow takes a look at how stories about women are perceived and received differently than those about men.

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.

Metrograph

Films by Jacques Rivette, Arnaud Desplechin, David Lynch, and Pakula are playing, while a restored Jackie Chan classic are screening.

Quad Cinema

Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, restored in 2K, continues its run, as does King of Hearts.

A retrospective of director William Klein is underway.

Bam

A Clockwork Orange screens on Saturday.

Above: French poster for Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, France, 1961). Design by Raymond Gid.There is an essential and vital film series opening today at Film Forum in New York: a survey of 1960s Cinema Verité productions which brings vividly to life a decade of instability and protest as well as a new era of introspection. While this survey of posters doesn’t give a complete look at the series—“more than 50 modern classics which not only changed the recording of social history, but revolutionized filmmaking itself”—since many of the films are not feature-length (some of the shows pair an hour long film with a 30 minute short) and thus were not theatrically released. But those that I’ve gathered do convey the urgency of the movement as well as its seat-of-the-pants guerrilla style of film marketing as much as film making.I’ve not included the...

America's favorite "Little Couple," Jen and Bill Klein, continue their struggle to start a family during the fifth season of their TLC reality show, which premieres tonight.

After realizing they wouldn't be able to conceive on their own, the couple turned to a surrogate in season four, and though the embryo transfer was successful, their surrogate, Cindy, had a miscarriage that left the Kleins devastated. "Pretty much by the next day, I woke up thinking, 'I gotta try again,'" Jen said.

In the upcoming season, Jen and Bill prepare to start from square one, but they aren't sure if Cindy is as dedicated as she once was. So instead of counting on only one method, they decide to pursue adoption as well. The episode documents their first home study -- the couple must give a tour of the house and worries they haven’t baby-proofed it yet.

Little Couple stars Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have a lot on their plate. Sure, the new season of their TLC reality show kicks off tonight, but that's the least of their worries. Not only are they trying to have a baby via a surrogate, but also they're finally moving into their new home in Houston (it's been under construction for a year and a half). And on top of that, Arnold's parents are relocating from Florida to Houston to live with the couple and start a pet supply business with Klein. So how are Klein and Arnold coping? Read on to find out... The surrogacy is still up in the air, but doctors have been able to retrieve two of Arnold's eggs for the procedure. "At this...

Tlc mines the extremes of human physique tonight in two season premieres. The big people are back. The morbidly obese family The Coles are back to use their "sass" to bolster each other during their filmed weight loss journey. The children are still tedious and the parents border on buffoonery. Audiences love them. From Tlc: "Follow the fun-loving family on their journey of self-improvement as they attempt to lose weight." "This larger than life series follows the fun-loving family on their journey of self-improvement as they attempt to lose weight! Premieres Tues Jun 1st at 9/8c." Tlc then pulls the spotlight on the smaller folks. Married couple Bill Klein, a businessman, and doctor Jennifer Arnold, both happen...

Summer fun in the city? More likely just a short business trip. Kate Gosselin and her eight children, plus two baby sitters and security, arrived at a midtown Manhattan hotel Saturday morning and stayed for a few hours before departing again, apparently headed to a Tlc marketing event. Also on hand at the hotel were the Duggar family, stars of their own TV reality show, and Jen Arnold and Bill Klein of Little People: Just Married. As the family walked through the marble lobby - with Jon Gosselin notably missing - Kate impatiently told one of her sextuplets, evidently in response to a question,...