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BREAKING GROUND

OR THE PAST HALF-CENTURY, the Film Society of Lincoln Center—now named Film at Lincoln Center—has been a hub of cinema culture. The institution has built on the legacy of the 1963 debut of the New York Film Festival with a variety of annual events and screening series, including New Directors/New Films, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, New York African Film Festival, Film Comment Selects, and Art of the Real; and the formation of two year-round movie theaters, the Walter Reade Theater in 1991 and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center in 2011. Fifty years on, it’s fair to say that no other organization in the United States has fostered and maintained

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