The Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plz
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Jan 1, 2009 – Jan 4, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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$11
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Brad Pitt and David Fincher peer up at the De Niro/Scorsese crest for actor-director collaborations, ranking as one of recent cinema's bang-up duos. With Se7en (1995) and Fight Club (1999), Fincher gazed into life's abyss with a panache that transfixed alpha males and bumptious cinephiles; Pitt, meanwhile, swaggered between frames with his patented sangfroid. Their latest project, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, cinches the laurel of "most ambitious," adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald's vertiginous story of a chap who, born old, ages backwards. Lincoln Center's first retrospective of '09 features Button, Fincher's cut of Zodiac, and three classics that influenced the director: Chinatown (1974), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and, oddly, Mary Poppins (1964).
