ACFNY RECOMMENDS | New York Jewish Film Festival
In January 2016, the New York Jewish Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary! The NYJFF is co-presented annually by the Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The 25th NYJFF will feature two Austrian films as part of the 25th Anniversary Retrospective: The Castle directed by Michael Haneke and Mahler on the Couch directed by Percy Adlon and Flex Adlon.
The Castle, JAN 18th at 9 PM
MICHAEL HANEKE, AUSTRIA/GERMANY, 1997, 123MIN, GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
The Castle is the unfinished, final novel by Franz Kafka, arguably the 20th century’s most influential Jewish writer. With extraordinary fidelity to Kafka’s original language and tone, Austrian director Michael Haneke has adapted the work for the big screen, complete with a star-studded cast made up of Haneke regulars. A land surveyor known only as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government. Upon arrival, he is denied entrance and faces an increasingly obstructive provincial bureaucracy. Haneke masterfully evokes Kafka’s vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled dry by conformism and convolution.
Introduction by critic and author J. Hoberman.
Mahler on the Couch, JAN 18th at 1:30 PM
PERCY ADLON & FELIX O. ADLON, AUSTRIA/GERMANY, 2010, 98MIN, GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Percy Adlon, the acclaimed director of Bagdad Cafe, teamed up with his son Felix for this portrait of the great composer Gustav Mahler and his tempestuous relationship with his wife, Alma. Chafing under an agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma begins an affair with the young architect Walter Gropius, as Mahler consults with Sigmund Freud on matters of creativity and passion. Moving, funny, and filled with Mahler’s sublime music (conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen), Mahler on the Couch is a sensory feast based on actual encounters between Mahler and Freud.
Co-director Percy Adlon in person for Q&A.
VENUE
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 W. 65th Street
New York