Mystic River Opens NY Film Festival

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the lineup for this years New York Film Festival, Friday, October 3 - Sunday, October 19, 2003.

*Opening Night*:
MYSTIC RIVER, Clint Eastwood, USA, 2003, 137m. Warner Brothers.

*Centerpiece*:
THE FOG OF WAR, Errol Morris, USA, 2003, 95m. Sony Pictures Classics.

*Closing Night*:
21 GRAMS, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, USA, 2003,125m. Focus Features.

THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS, Arcand, Canada, 2003, 95m Miramax.
BRIGHT LEAVES, Ross McElwee, USA, 2003, 107m
CRIMSON GOLD, Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2003, 97m. Wellspring Media
DISTANT, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2003, 110m. New Yorker Films
DOGVILLE, Lars von Trier, Denmark, 2003, 177m. Lions Gate Films
ELEPHANT, Gus van Sant, USA, 2003, 81m. HBO Films/Fine Line Features
THE FLOWER OF EVIL, Claude Chabrol, France, 2003, 104m. Palm Pictures
FREE RADICALS, Barbara Albert, Austria, 2003, 120m
GOOD MORNING, NIGHT, Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 2003, 100m
GOODBYE DRAGON INN, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 2003, 80m
MANSION BY THE LAKE, Lester James Peries, Sri Lanka, 2003, 116m
MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP, George Hickenlooper, USA, 2003, 94m
First Look Media/Overseas Film Group
PORNOGRAPHY, Jan Jakub Kolski, Poland, 2003, 117m
PTU, Johnnie To, Hong Kong, 2003, 85m
RAJA, Jacques Doillon, France/Morocco, 2003, 112m
S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE, Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France, 2003, 101m. First Run Features
SINCE OTAR LEFT, Julie Bertuccelli, France, 2003, 102m
A THOUSAND M0NTHS, Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco/France, 2003, 124m
YOUNG ADAM, David Mackenzie, Scotland, 2003, 93m

*Special Events*:
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, Jeff Stein, UK, 1979, 109m. Pioneer Home Entertainment/New Concorde.

THE BEST OF YOUTH, Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy, 2003, 366m. Miramax Films.

PICCADILLY, Ewald Andre Dumont, UK, 1929, 109m, b&w with live musical accompaniment. Milestone Film/British Film Institute.

STALINGRAD, Sebastian Dehnhardt, Germany, 2003, 156 min.

YASUJIRO OZU: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION.

VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE. Experimental works by various filmmakers.

*Selection Committee*:
Selections for the 41st New York Film Festival were made by Richard Pena, committee chairman and program director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; John Anderson, chief film critic, Newsday; Kent Jones, associate programmer, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Dave Kehr, film columnist, The New York Times; and Geoffrey O'brien, editor-in-chief, The Library of America.

*Ticket Information*:
The Festival box office will open at Alice Tully Hall at noon on September 7. Tickets are $15 for regular screenings; $20 for the Centerpiece; and $30 for Opening and Closing Nights. Please contact the Festival Box Office at 212/875-5050 for information.