Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have landed world rights to seven Yvonne Rainer films, newly restored in 4K by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. A press release announced that the collection will screen during a theatrical retrospective at the Metrograph February 17. The “Privilege” director will also make an in-person appearance on opening night.
The feature restorations from Rainer’s experimental film oeuvre span three decades. Titles from the 1970s include her 1972 debut feature “Lives of Performers,” a portrait of a man who can’t choose between two women, which features original choreography by the director, her 1974 “Film About a Woman