A Conversation with Yorgos Lanthimos

In anticipation of his upcoming retrospective (February 1-5), Yorgos Lanthimos joined us at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a special onstage conversation spanning his influences and The Favourite, followed by a screening of the director’s latest film. Get tickets for his retrospective: www.filmlinc.org/yorgoslanthimos
In Lanthimos’s wildly intricate and very darkly funny new film, Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession. This trio of truly brilliant performances is the dynamo that powers Lanthimos’s top-to-bottom reimagining of the costume epic, in which the visual pageantry of court life in 18th-century England becomes not just a lushly appointed backdrop but an ironically heightened counterpoint to the primal conflict unreeling behind closed doors. An NYFF56 selection. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release.
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[@laquikmover]

One of the greatest filmmakers of his generation.

[@sosin]

Yorgos just got nominated for an Academy Award, i hope he wins!

[@Lichachron]

Thank you for sharing it.
For me, Giorgos should have won the oscar with the Lobster.

[@woodyfentress]

Loved the conversation and insights! Lots of knowledge to pick apart and absorb here.

[@gordygibson4558]

Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite' is a brilliant commentary on OUR (with a yoU ) contemporary world of social media /selfie superficiality and vacuous leaders where nobodies rise to influence deranged leaders and the mindless masses skate over the populist ice

[@PrehistoricBeasts]

Exquisite choice of words.

[@gordygibson4558]

Yorgos gently scatters pearls to the grunting swine.

[@dunkthebiscuitt]

King Yorgos!

[@ChannelZero1031]

I love his tendency and inclination to avoid making films the "Regular" way.

[@JimiJames]

who is the film maker he mentions at 11:24

[@nikolabogicevic72]

Andre Zurawski. Camera and electrics guy. 😀

[@JimiJames]

@@nikolabogicevic72are you sure that’s the mention?

[@PictureBoxPuppy]

Andrzej Żuławski

[@dorobo81]

I wonder how he'd do DUNE.

[@hrln26]

would be a genius work, but not for the masses, no zendaya, no chalamet, strange actin, dense footage, his stuff

[@matthewpiergies2333]

He looks like Tom Segura