The Idiots
Lars von Trier
['Navodaya Appachan', 'Nicolas Winding Refn', 'Vince Gilligan', 'Seth Gordon', 'Erik Balling', 'Theodoros Angelopoulos', 'Manish Gupta', 'Nicolas Gessner', 'Kevin Brownlow', 'Umberto Lenzi', 'Robert Lynn', 'Archie Mayo', 'Teruo Ishii', 'Bam', 'Hossein Shahabi', 'Anil Ganguly', 'Chris Columbus', 'Giannis Dalianidis', 'Chanakya', 'Gopichand Malineni', 'Parthiban', 'Michael Lembeck', 'Sidney Meyers', 'Juan Carlos Fresnadillo', 'Edwin Thanhouser', 'Alexander Hammid', 'Beeban Kidron', 'Peter Ustinov', 'Steve James', 'Paul Wendkos', 'Pupi Avati', 'Conrad Vernon', 'Jerusha Hess', 'Tony Wharmby', 'Karthik Subbaraj', 'Marc Evans', 'Vittorio De Sica', 'Louis Malle', 'Jim Mickle', 'Cary Joji Fukunaga', 'Eliseo Subiela', 'Paul Wegener', 'Ayan Mukerji', 'Aparna Sen', 'Roy Del Ruth', 'Herbert Brenon', 'Terence Young', 'Mysskin', 'Albert Band', 'Andrew Birkin', 'Barbara Peeters', 'Steven Soderbergh', 'Mario Caserini', 'Karl Grune', 'Matti Kassila', 'Claude Lelouch', 'Nigel Cole', 'Anthony Waller', 'Katherine Helmond', 'Cyril Frankel', 'Arthur Hopkins', 'Buzz Kulik', 'Peter Stebbings', 'Zahir Raihan', 'Marc Levin', 'Benjamin Christensen', 'Rajat Kapoor', 'Yasmin Ahmad', 'Alexander Sokurov', 'David Von Ancken', 'Clara Law', 'Sidney Salkow', 'Walter Forde', 'Priyanandanan', 'Edward Bernds', 'Sebastian Doggart', 'Bruce Campbell', 'Radley Metzger', 'Glenn Gordon Caron', 'Herzog', 'James Huth', 'Jeffrey Lau', 'Helmut Weiss', 'Michael Winner', 'Tod Browning', 'Jack Layton', 'Alejandro Jodorowsky', 'David Hare', 'Marc Daniels', 'Rob Bowman', 'Damien Chazelle', 'Cecil Hepworth', 'Leslie Norman', 'Albert Dupontel', 'Yakov Protazanov', 'Ludwig Berger', 'Kathir', 'Shaad Ali', 'Michael Apted']
Film Comment Selects
Film Comment Selects is an annual program hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and curated by the editors and writers of Film Comment magazine. It aims to provide a cutting-edge lineup of eclectic and international films, many of which have appeared on the international film festival circuit and been championed in the magazine but have yet to gain distribution. The program first appeared as a one-off event in March 2000, organized by editor Richard T. Jameson and showcasing the most significant films and filmmakers of the past decade. Gavin Smith and Kent Jones added three New York premieres to the roster (Lars von Trier’s The Idiots, Manoel de Oliveira’s Inquiétude, Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us), and based on its success, it was revived in 2002, remaining an annual event at the Film Society of Lincoln Center ever since. In recent years, the program has extended its focus on little-seen international discoveries to also include avant-garde selections, retrospectives of overlooked or underrated artists, previews of films that are soon to be released, and conversations with directors and actors.