Above: French grande for Love in the Afternoon (aka Chloé in the Afternoon) which was the opening night film of the 10th New York Film Festival. Designer tbd.In the catalogue for the 10th New York Film Festival in 1972, festival director Richard Roud looked back on the first decade of the NYFF, musing on the changes in cinema of the previous 10 years: “a greater freedom of subject matter,” “an accompanying new freedom of form,” the obsolescence of “the tightly plotted film,” the rise of personal filmmaking and the inroads of political cinema and documentary techniques into narrative film. He also muses on international movements: the snuffing out of the Czech Renaissance (there were no Czech films in the 1972 festival), the rise of New Hollywood and American independent cinema, and the ebbing of the movement that had in many ways defined the festival to that point, the French New Wave:Some of...
- 9/29/2022
- MUBI
Joanne Koch, the executive director emeritus at Film at Lincoln Center who served as the organization’s leader for over 32 years, died on Aug. 16 in New York City. She was 92 years old.
Koch’s death was confirmed by Sarah Eaton, her colleague at Film at Lincoln Center.
Koch served as executive director of Film Society of Lincoln Center, as it was known at the time, from 1971 to 2003, serving as the key architect for the organization’s modern stature. She was an influential force, not only in New York film culture, but also internationally, helping to draw global cinematic talent to the city.
As executive director, Koch managed the Film Society’s programs, including the New York Film Festival, co-produced gala tributes and served on the selection committee for New Directors/New Films. She also served as the organization’s chief financial officer and was a key force in publishing Film...
Koch’s death was confirmed by Sarah Eaton, her colleague at Film at Lincoln Center.
Koch served as executive director of Film Society of Lincoln Center, as it was known at the time, from 1971 to 2003, serving as the key architect for the organization’s modern stature. She was an influential force, not only in New York film culture, but also internationally, helping to draw global cinematic talent to the city.
As executive director, Koch managed the Film Society’s programs, including the New York Film Festival, co-produced gala tributes and served on the selection committee for New Directors/New Films. She also served as the organization’s chief financial officer and was a key force in publishing Film...
- 8/22/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Joanne Koch, emeritus executive director and member of the Board of Trustees of Film At Lincoln Center, has died. She was 92. Koch was an influential figure in the culture of cinema in New York and ran Film at Lincoln Center, as it is known now, for 32 years from 1971 to 2003.
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Koch died on Tuesday, August 16, according to Film at Lincoln Center who retweeted a story published by THR and was first to report the story.
The cinema connoisseur stepped down from her position at Film at Lincoln Center back in 2003 after a long tenure where she helped launch New York Film Festival’s New Directors/New Films Festival in 1972. She was also the publisher of Film Comment magazine and co-produced 19 of the Chaplin Award galas that paid tribute to legendary film artists.
At the time she left her position at Film at Lincoln Center she said in a statement,...
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Koch died on Tuesday, August 16, according to Film at Lincoln Center who retweeted a story published by THR and was first to report the story.
The cinema connoisseur stepped down from her position at Film at Lincoln Center back in 2003 after a long tenure where she helped launch New York Film Festival’s New Directors/New Films Festival in 1972. She was also the publisher of Film Comment magazine and co-produced 19 of the Chaplin Award galas that paid tribute to legendary film artists.
At the time she left her position at Film at Lincoln Center she said in a statement,...
- 8/21/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
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Joanne Koch, the longtime executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center who helped shape the culture of cinema in New York and around the world, has died. She was 92.
Koch died Tuesday in New York, a spokesperson for Film at Lincoln Center, as the organization is now known, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Koch, who worked at the home of the prestigious New York Film Festival from 1971-2003, also served as publisher of the society’s Film Comment magazine and co-produced 19 Chaplin Award galas, which honor a major film artist each spring as a major fundraising event. Her stretch began with Fred Astaire in 1973 and ended with Audrey Hepburn in 1991.
An insatiable lover of movies, Koch was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 19, 1929. She graduated from Goddard College in Vermont with a degree in political science in 1950, then landed a job that year...
Joanne Koch, the longtime executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center who helped shape the culture of cinema in New York and around the world, has died. She was 92.
Koch died Tuesday in New York, a spokesperson for Film at Lincoln Center, as the organization is now known, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Koch, who worked at the home of the prestigious New York Film Festival from 1971-2003, also served as publisher of the society’s Film Comment magazine and co-produced 19 Chaplin Award galas, which honor a major film artist each spring as a major fundraising event. Her stretch began with Fred Astaire in 1973 and ended with Audrey Hepburn in 1991.
An insatiable lover of movies, Koch was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 19, 1929. She graduated from Goddard College in Vermont with a degree in political science in 1950, then landed a job that year...
- 8/21/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As with many veterans of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which is being renamed Film at Lincoln Center to mark its 50th Anniversary this week, longtime former executive director Joanne Koch has some stories to tell.
“We tried to get Katharine Hepburn at the Chaplin Gala, and she wrote me and said she’d rather go to the South Pole,” Koch laughs. “But when we honored George Cukor in 1978, she was very nervous, but she came — and the audience went crazy.”
So did the Lincoln Center board chairman George Weissman in 1989, but for another reason. “The New York Film Festival was showing ‘Roger and Me,’ which attacked General Motors, a substantial donor to Lincoln Center. I remember [George] saying, ‘Are you really going to show this film?’ I said yes, and we did.”
Longtime former program director and Nyff selection committee chairman Richard Peña has a slightly different memory of the screening.
“We tried to get Katharine Hepburn at the Chaplin Gala, and she wrote me and said she’d rather go to the South Pole,” Koch laughs. “But when we honored George Cukor in 1978, she was very nervous, but she came — and the audience went crazy.”
So did the Lincoln Center board chairman George Weissman in 1989, but for another reason. “The New York Film Festival was showing ‘Roger and Me,’ which attacked General Motors, a substantial donor to Lincoln Center. I remember [George] saying, ‘Are you really going to show this film?’ I said yes, and we did.”
Longtime former program director and Nyff selection committee chairman Richard Peña has a slightly different memory of the screening.
- 4/29/2019
- by Gregg Goldstein
- Variety Film + TV
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