The New York Film Festival doesn't lay out what you should love in the form of obsequious awards like most fawning festivals do. That's okay, awards are for suckers and the NYFF is more about pummeling the locals with a lot of good foreign cinema. Good for them. Considering I live in podunk America, I'll probably never get the chance to see any of these on the big screen, so this is basically just going to my Netflix pile. *Sigh* I used to love going to the movies. I still do, I just wish I got see movies while I did it.
But here are two articles, one a preview from the Village Voice's J. Hoberman, the other a recap from Filmcritic.com's Chris Cabin. Hoberman was one of the organizers of the event (and the author of a marvelous rumination on American cinema between Eisenhower and Reagan called The Dream Life--big big thumbs up!), so we should assume he saw all of the films. Cabin is, I believe, writing about every film he saw--only 1 negative review in there indicates a strong crop at this year's fest. The overlapping faves are probably the ones to watch. I look forward to catching all of these films…eventually.
J. Hoberman's Picks: I'm Gonna Explode, Afterschool, Chouga, Bullet in the Head Tony Manero, The Class, Gomorrah, Che, Hunger, Tulpan, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Wrestler, 24 City, Four Nights With Anna, The Headless Woman
Chris Cabin's Picks: Waltz with Bashir, Tony Manero, Hunger, The Wrestler , The Headless Woman, Happy Go Lucky, Ashes of Time Redux, Gomorrah, Four Nights with Anna, Changeling, Afterschool, Tulpan, Let It Rain, A Christmas Tale, Hunger The Class, Summer Hours, Night and Day, 24 City, Tokyo Sonata, Wendy and Lucy
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