THE Lincoln Plaza usually devotes its six screens to new (mostly subtitled) fare.

But Dan Talbot, who runs the theater and New Yorker Films, is temporarily trying something new: He’s turning over one screen to hits from the past, all released by Sony Pictures Classics.

Says Talbot: “[Sony bosses] Michael Barker and Tom Bernard have been carrying the torch of luminous cinema for a long time. Hats off!”

It has been nearly a decade since I have seen Erick Zonca’s “The Dreamlife of Angels” (1998), so I’m thrilled that the Lincoln Plaza fest includes it.

I have to admit that back then I had a crush on Elodie Bouchez, the drama’s pouting, waifish star.

You can imagine how my heart skipped a beat when she came to New York to promote the film – and agreed to chat with me.

She revealed that her co-star, Natacha Regnier – they play working-class women living in Lille, an inhospitable industrial city in northern France – had trouble getting along with Zonca.

“They had fights,” Bouchez said it her charmingly accented English. “In a way, it brought Natacha and me closer. There was solidarity because it really was tough for her.”

In any event, their performances earned them a shared best actress laurel at Cannes 1998.

Other personal favorites in the series, running though July 2, include Tom Tykwer’s “Run Lola Run” (1999), featuring Franka Potente and her cranberry-colored hair; Wong Kar-wai’s breathtaking “2046” (2005), with an all-star Asian cast.

Plus Kim Ki-duk’s meditative “Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter . . . and Spring” (2003); and Pedro Almodovar’s back-from-the-dead comedy “Volver” (2005).

The only movie in the series that doesn’t belong there is the mushy American indie “Junebug” (2005).

The Lincoln Plaza is on Broadway at 63rd Street; (212) 757-0359.

* The International Documentary Film Festival of Florence (Italy) is coming to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island.

Wednesday through Saturday, 10 docs will unreel, and admission will be free. Yes, free.

Details: (718) 425-3500.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com