Nyff 2012

Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air/Après mai

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Its US theatrical opening day in NYC and LA Friday is May 3, 2013. Landmark Theaters will show it. When it opened in Paris in November 2012 reviews were very positive: Allociné press rating is 3.8 based on 24 reviews. Les Inrockuptibles said it is "simply a superb film." Others noted that it is composed of vignettes and lacks forward thrust or a single impulsive theme to make it cohere and this is its great flaw. Nonetheless it's sweeping, romantic and cinematic; one remembers the tall, thin, mop-head boy who survives everything in the way of coming-of-age epics and becomes a filmmaker -- and a spectacular fire at a country estate where young people are wildly partying.

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Alain Resnais's YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET (2012) is in theatrical release now (June 11, 2013) in New York.

Filmleaf NYFF 2012 review here.

First Cousin Once Removed

Alan Berliner's detailed study of his famous, gifted cousin Edwin HOnig and his gradual disintegration from Alzheimer's disease, which premiered at the 2012 NYFF is scheduled to debut on HBO September 23, 2013. The film has shown at many festivals and received the Grand Prize for Best Feature Documentary at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) in 2012.

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MONDAY, SEPT. 23 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, two days after World Alzheimer’s Day.

Other HBO playdates: Sept. 23 (4:50 a.m.), 26 (9:30 a.m.) and 28 (12:45 p.m.), and Oct. 1 (12:30 p.m.), 6 (11:30 a.m.) and 10 (5:00 p.m.)

HBO2 playdate: Sept. 25 (8:00 p.m.)

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Javier Rebollo: The Dead Man and Being Happy (2012)

This Spanish-Argeintine film about a dying hit man traveling across the Argentine outback had a theatrical opening of sorts at MoMA in NYC Tues., Oct. 1, 2013. The NY Times reviewer, Nicolas Rapold, liked it better than I did.

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Stories of humanized hit men make for a small but well-trod patch of screenwriting terrain, but “The Dead Man and Being Happy” quickly transcends that territory to become a beguiling road movie

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But he acknowledges that at the end "Still, something about the movie falls through the cracks. . ."

The fact is it's a bit of a slog.

P.s.: Alan Berliner's First Cousin Once Removed has the highest critical ratings of any current film presently, Metacritic 96. Oct. 1, 2013.