American Independent Visions photo: a good baby

Buy tickets online for this program! or see information about our box office sales here. American Independent Visions: THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER and THE INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT present A GOOD BABY in association with TIME WARNER CABLE and SUNDANCE CHANNEL Screenings: December 1: 1pm; 3pm; 5pm; 9pm December 2: 5pm; *7:15pm; 9:30pm December 3: 5pm; *7:15pm; 9:30pm December 4: 1pm; 3:30pm; 6pm; 8:15pm December 5: 1pm; 3:30pm December 6: 1pm; 3:30pm; 6pm; 8:15pm December 7: 1pm; 3:30pm; 6pm; 8:15pm *filmmaker present

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American Independent Visions, a joint initiative by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Feature Project, in association with Time Warner Cable and Sundance Channel, provides New York audiences the opportunity to see new American independent work with diverse and unique points of view not yet in theatrical release. Launched February 2000, the series features a new selection quarterly. This year's programs have included Lodge Kerrigan's Claire Dolan, David Williams' Thirteen, and Ed Radtke’s The Dreamcatcher. A GOOD BABY Katherine Dieckmann, 1999; 90m This exquisite Southern fable woven by writer-director Katherine Dieckmann stars Henry Thomas as Raymond Toker in a stunningly nuanced performance. Out hunting one morning in the stark North Carolina woods, the reclusive young man discovers an abandoned newborn baby. As he tries to locate the baby’s mother in his small rural community, he crosses paths with a mysterious girl out looking for her missing sister; a hard-bitten beauty, Josephine Priddy (Cara Seymour); who just wants to find her way out of town; and a fast-talkingtraveling salesman, Truman Lester (David Strathairn), who cannot conceal his fascination with Toker’s radiant infant. Based on a novel by Leon Rooke, A GOOD BABY was shot by cinematographer Jim Denault (Boys Don't Cry) and produced by Lianne Halfon (Crumb) and Tom Carouso (Safe, Kiss Me Guido). David Mansfield (The Apostle, The Deer Hunter) composed the music for the film. Praised by The Hollywood Reporter for its "rich Flannery O’Connor-meets Kryzsztof Kieslowski feeling," and Variety as a "poetic, ambitious, and intelligently crafted film," Dieckmann’s first feature is as haunting and fateful as an old Appalachian murder ballad. Katherine Dieckmann began as a journalist before going on to direct music videos for R.E.M, Aimee Mann, Wilco, Everything but the Girl, Throwing Muses, and Vic Chestnutt. She also co-developed the groundbreaking children’s program "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" for Nickelodeon; one of her episodes was nominated for a Cable Ace award for Best Direction of a Comedy Special. In addition to teaching Advanced Screenwriting at Columbia University, she is currently writing and will be directing a fiction feature based on the real-life story of The Shaggs, a cult 1960s all-girl rock band, for Artisan Entertainment, as well as adapting Jenny Offill’s novel Last Things.

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