For the next week, M. Night Shyamalan is participating in a retrospective of his career at Film at Lincoln Center. It is there that most of Shyamalan’s work is being screened (in 35mm when possible) and paired with some of the idiosyncratic filmmaker’s favorite touchstones. For example Old , a movie about folks unable to physically leave a beach where they age years in a matter of hours, is being double-billed with Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel , a Spanish classic also about a group of people mysteriously unable to leave a living room days and weeks after their dinner party ended.
Shyamalan is only appearing for a few of the nights at the event to answer questions from audiences, as well as Lincoln Center senior programmer Tyler Wilson. And many of the films he’s on hand f