The Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen one of the year's most talked about films, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's The Interview, at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street), Friday, December 26 through Sunday, December 28, and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th Street) Monday, December 29 through Thursday, January 1. With daily show times at 10:45AM and 11:30PM, New York City audiences will be able to see the comedy that has been the subject of countless news stories and debate the past few weeks.
The Interview
In the action-comedy The Interview,
Dave Skylark (Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Rogen) run a popular celebrity tabloid TV show. When they discover that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is
a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare for travel, their plans change when the CIA recruits them to 'take out' Kim Jong-un.
Directors:
Evan Goldberg,
Seth Rogen; Producers:
Evan Goldberg,
Seth Rogen,
James Weaver
112 minutes / DCP / Rated R / 2014
Tickets are on sale now. Ticketing information can be found here: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-interview.
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
Founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the moving image. The Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year's most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, NewFest, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, the Film Society recognizes an artist's unique achievement in film with the prestigious Chaplin Award, whose 2015 recipient is
Robert Redford. The Film Society's state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at Lincoln Center, provide a home for year-round programs and the New York City film community.
The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Royal Bank of Canada, Jaeger-LeCoultre, American Airlines, The New York Times, HBO, Stella Artois, The Kobal Collection, Variety, Trump International Hotel and Tower, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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