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  1. Thread: Nyff 2016

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    i didn't like that Morris doc about Elsa Dorfman...

    i didn't like that Morris doc about Elsa Dorfman that much. (I think I misspoke in my New York movie journal where I wrote about it: I've corrected that.) I wrote in my review that it "is too...
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    More about Quad (https://quadcinema.com/) Cinema....

    More about Quad Cinema.

    I have mentioned Glenn Raucher has come back to work in the city after a year at Hudson Valley Writers' Center, as Vice President and General Manager of the restored Quad...
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    THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green 2016)...

    THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green 2016)

    I finally get to review this 2016 NYFF Main Slate film (only two left uncovered): it's now available via Netflix streaming. Still in Green's signature...
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    Glenn Raucher coming back to Manhattan to manage...

    Glenn Raucher coming back to Manhattan to manage Quad Cinema

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    Glenn Raucher [CK photo]

    After eighteen months through Gavin Smith, who moved to Cohen...
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    STAYING VERTICAL/RESTER VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie...

    STAYING VERTICAL/RESTER VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie 2016)

    Release on DVD in the US (Strand) 20 May 2017.
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    THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray 2016)...

    THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray 2016)

    Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Holland in a movie about the life and death (or disappearance) Percy Fawcett, the soldier and explorer...
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    A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies 2016)...

    A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies 2016)

    As roundups have noted passions are extreme on this movie about Emily Dickinson starring Cynthia Nixon. Loyal Davies fans say it's a masterpiece. Others...
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    http://www.chrisknipp.com/links/pyed.jpg...

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    Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook/The New Yorker

    Gray's Lost City of Z is beginning theatrical release in NY and LA today, but I won't see it till next...
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    Worth the time in my opinion.

    Worth the time in my opinion.
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    His first films focus on a gangsterish mood in...

    His first films focus on a gangsterish mood in the Russian Jewish section of Queens. Little Odessa, The Yards, We Own the Night- the latter two featured Joaquin Phoenix. Two Lovers is a beautiful...
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    http://www.chrisknipp.com/links/ppl;.jpg This...

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    This is one from the NYFF that I missed so far - coming out soon. The Metrograph, down in Chinatown in NYC, is becoming quite the destination, a...
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    Both your statements are true, I guess. . . But...

    Both your statements are true, I guess. . . But Paterson is meant to be mysterious; all Jarmusch's protagonists are - so assume a logic we don't understand. You did say the film was sublime.
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    I don't see the serial killerish part - Peterson...

    I don't see the serial killerish part - Peterson seems so calm and gentle (but I guess killers fool people that way!). He seems like a spiritual, enlightened person, at peace with the world and...
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    Yes. Nothing can compare to the delight of...

    Yes. Nothing can compare to the delight of discovery of watching Jim Jarmusch's first four films (excluding his actual first, which I saw later). I can remember sitting in the theater seeing...
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    Did you see how Anthony Lane describes Adam...

    Did you see how Anthony Lane describes Adam Driver? He is the actor of the moment. The NYFF had two "evenings with" and the featured ones were him and Kristen Stewart (also in with cool directors). ...
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    You're a good writer. All you need is to want to...

    You're a good writer. All you need is to want to and you could review movies as well as anybody. Jarmusch exercises complete control in his movies. Anthony Lane said Marvin was a mistake name: ...
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    I agree with your review (you wrote a review!)...

    I agree with your review (you wrote a review!) and love this film. It's a pity that because it's so low key, people seem to have largely dismissed it. Several people I know at NY press screenings...
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    PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas 2016)...

    PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas 2016)

    Kristen Stewart directed by Assayas again this time without Juliette Binoche, who was busy overacting in Bruno Dumont's Slack Bay (Rendez-Vous 2017) She...
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    JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar 2016)...

    JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar 2016)

    An adaptation of three linked short stories by the Nobel Prizewinning Canadian writer Alice Munro. An odd combination, I'd say - and I didn't get it.
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    20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills 2016) ...

    20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills 2016)


    The Centerpiece Film of the 2016 NYFF, and the film's world premiere. It is the second half of Mills' autobiographical coming-of-age story, apparently,...
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    THE REHEARSAL (Alison Maclean 2016)...

    THE REHEARSAL (Alison Maclean 2016)

    New Zealand writer-director Maclean co-writing with Emily Perkins has adapted Eleanor Cattan's playful, inventive debut novel about teens and scandal in...
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    PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch 2016)...

    PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch 2016)

    I didn't get to see this during the NYFF, but I've included my review of it in NYFF Filmleaf coverage, after seeing it 6 Jan. 2017 on its opening day at Landmark...
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    TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade 2016)...

    TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade 2016)

    Can't wait to see Toni Erdmann again! But I'm not in New York this Christmas, and that's where it is, at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza, ant Los Angeles at Nuart...
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    TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade 2016)...

    TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade 2016)

    US theatrical release begins at Film Forum NYC 25 Dec. 2016.

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    NERUDA (Pablo Larraín)...

    NERUDA (Pablo Larraín)

    This NYFF Main Slate film begins US theatrical release Friday, Dec. 16tn, 2016 in NYC (at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center). His current overreaching in...
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