
Looking for Ms. Keaton
February 13–19, 2026
This week-long showcase celebrates a paradigm-shifting performer whose contributions to the art and craft of screen acting cemented her legacy as an auteur in the truest sense of the word.
Woody Allen
1977|
U.S.|
93 minutes
Diane Keaton’s Oscar-winning performance as the idiosyncratic girlfriend of a neurotic New York comic helped pioneer a postmodern rom-com vernacular and cemented her status as the poster child for a new generation of women coming into their own.
Bruce Beresford
1986|
U.S.|
105 minutes
Bruce Beresford’s adaptation of Beth Henley’s Pulitzer-winning play unfolds across a few days in the ancestral home of the three Magrath sisters, after the youngest (Sissy Spacek) sends shockwaves through the town when she shoots her husband in broad daylight.
Francis Ford Coppola
1972|
U.S.|
175 minutes
Diane Keaton is quietly penetrating as the doe-eyed daughter-in-law of mafia boss Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s improbably rich, profoundly personal meditation on family, power, violence, and the nightmarish underbelly of the American dream.
Francis Ford Coppola
1974|
U.S.|
202 minutes|
English and Italian with English subtitles
In the second installment in Francis Ford Coppola’s epic family crime saga, Diane Keaton accentuates the tragic stakes of an elemental confrontation between patriarchal legacies of violence and a mother’s fierce drive to protect her children.
Francis Ford Coppola
1990/2020|
U.S.|
158 minutes
Just when he thought he was out of the family business, an aging, semi-retired Michael Corleone finds himself pulled back into a mafia turf war in Francis Ford Coppola’s elegiac epilogue.
Woody Allen
1978|
U.S.|
92 minutes
Woody Allen’s follow-up to Annie Hall—his first foray into full-fledged drama—concentrates on a time of crisis between three grown daughters (Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, and Mary Beth Hurt) after their parents’ long-struggling marriage ends abruptly in divorce.
George Roy Hill
1984|
U.S.|
130 minutes
An anti-Zionist American actress working in England (Diane Keaton) becomes entangled in an Israeli military plot to infiltrate a cell of Palestinian freedom fighters in George Roy Hill’s adaptation of the acclaimed John Le Carré novel.
Richard Brooks
1977|
U.S.|
136 minutes
A world away from the same year’s Annie Hall, Diane Keaton plays a bar-hopping schoolteacher whose story emerged as a polarizing pop-cultural touchstone in a climate of rapidly changing sexual mores.
Woody Allen
1975|
U.S.|
85 minutes
Building on the success of their earliest collaborations, Woody Allen cast Diane Keaton as his romantic opposite in Love and Death, an inexhaustibly daffy send-up of 19th-century Russian literature.
Jerry Zaks
1996|
U.S.|
98 minutes
For her third Oscar-nominated performance, Diane Keaton joins an intergenerational ensemble cast including Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, and a young Leonardo DiCaprio for a long-overdue family reckoning in this expansive, generous meditation on love and forgiveness.
Gillian Armstrong
1984|
U.S.|
110 minutes
Gillian Armstrong’s first Hollywood production stars Diane Keaton as a jail warden’s wife in 1902 Pittsburgh who flees north with a pair of brother inmates after helping them escape from death row.
Warren Beatty
1981|
U.S.|
195 minutes|
English, Russian, and German with English subtitles
Diane Keaton received her second Oscar nomination, and Warren Beatty won Best Director, for this rigorous account of Russia’s October Revolution, told through the lens of the real-life love story between two radical American journalists.
Alan Parker
1981|
U.S.|
124 minutes
Diane Keaton delivers one of the most nuanced and underrated performances of her career in this searing, brutally honest divorce drama from director Alan Parker and screenwriter Bo Goldman.
Nancy Meyers
2003|
U.S.|
128 minutes
Diane Keaton received the last of four Oscar nominations for her zeitgeist-defining performance as a celebrated playwright whose long-dormant love life is suddenly thrown into disarray when she finds herself torn between two men.
About the Series
A trailblazing style icon and countercultural sex symbol whose blithely self-deprecating femininity and disarmingly candid eroticism quickly set her apart from the illustrious cohort of actors with whom she rose to stardom in the New Hollywood heyday of the 1970s, Diane Keaton is rightly hailed as a comedic force of nature who commanded the screen with her winningly off-kilter physicality. Yet the L.A.-born, New York–trained actress proved equally adept at inhabiting dramatic roles with raw-nerve sensitivity and a knack for excavating deep wells of feeling with a fleeting glance, a slight quaver of the voice, or a quasi-unconscious gesture. Taken together, Keaton’s performances can be read as an ever-evolving embodiment of late-20th-century feminist thought and affect, grounding ideological abstractions in performances of breathtaking specificity and lived-in sincerity.
Her characters channeled the seemingly unresolvable ambivalence, confounding contradictions, and stubbornly human stakes of American sexual politics during a period of immense social and economic change, with expectations of demure wifely propriety giving way to the throes of euphoria and rage that animated the women’s lib movement—and ultimately transformed gendered conventions around sex, love, and family life—when the “baby boom” generation came of age. Preternaturally attuned to the emotional frequency of every line of dialogue, and utterly unpredictable in her creative choices, Keaton breathed life into characters who were by turns guileless and knowing, vulnerable and self-aware, indelibly awkward yet imbued with the actor’s signature coltish poise. Earning four Academy Award nominations across her five-decade career, Keaton left a vibrant, inimitable body of work that stands as a testament to her unflagging, uncompromising creative energy. Film at Lincoln Center is proud to present a week-long showcase celebrating this paradigm-shifting performer whose contributions to the art and craft of screen acting cemented her legacy as an auteur in the truest sense of the word.
Looking for Ms. Keaton is sponsored by Criterion, your trusted curator of great cinema. Criterion’s offering spans streaming on the Criterion Channel and definitive physical editions through the Criterion Collection, dedicated to presenting films as their filmmakers intended.
Make sure to check out Criterion’s Polaroid wall, located in the Walter Reade Theater’s lobby throughout the series. For attendees on Saturday, February 14 don’t miss your chance to have your own Polaroid taken and bring it home in a special Criterion-branded envelope.
Organized by Florence Almozini and Madeline Whittle.

Words can’t express the wonder and talent of Diane Keaton.”
—Francis Ford Coppola





















