Nyff 2007

[Chris Knipp]

Here is a preview of the lineup. Reviews will appear in the Festival Coverage section in late September and early October. The festival runs from September 28-October 14. More detail can be found on the website of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, www.filmlinc.com.

AGAIN, 28 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS, AND 7 OTHER SCREENING EVENTS

OPENING NIGHT
The Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson, US, 2007; 91m
Fox Searchlight
Three brothers travel and bicker on a train on a spiritual journey through India. Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody.

Screening with:
Hotel Chevalier
Wes Anderson, US, 2007; 12m
Fox Searchlight

CLOSING NIGHT
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France, 2007; 95m
Sony Pictures Classics
Animated film version of Satrapi's graphic novels about growing up in revolutionary Iran.

CENTERPIECE
No Country for Old Men
Joel and Ethan Coen, US, 2007; 122m
Miramax
Adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel about a Texas drug deal gone bad. Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones.

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Christian Mungiu, Romania, 2007; 113m
IFC First Take
A desperate search for an illegal abortion in pre-perestroika Romania.

Actresses
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, France, 2007; 110m
A middle-aged actress desperate to marry and have children. Starring Bruni-Tedeschi.

Alexandra
Alexander Sokurov, Russia, 92m
Rezo Films
An old lady visits her son's unit in Chechnya

The Axe in the Attic
Ed Pincus & Lucia Small, US, 2007; 110m
Documentary of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast diaspora.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sidney Lumet, USA, 117m
ThinkFilm
A perfect crime plotted by two brothers that goes wrong . Philip-Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke.

RETROSPECTIVE:
Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut
Ridley Scott, US, 1982/2007; 118m
Warner Brothers

Calle Santa Fe
Carmen Castillo, France, 2007; 163m
Autobiographical remembrance of life as a revolutionary in Chile.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel, France/U.S., 2007; 112m
Miramax
Adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiographical story about coping with paralysis.

SPECIAL EVENT
Fados
Carlos Saura, Spain/Portugal, 2007; 92m
Documentary of the song form. Another panel in Saura's musical series.

The Flight of the Red Balloon
Hou Hsiao-hsien, France, 2007; 113m
IFC First Take
A homage to the French children's classic with Juliette Binoche as the mother of a lonely boy who spends his days with a Chinese au pair.

A Girl Cut In Two
Claude Chabrol, France, 2007; 115m
Two men (Benoit Maginel, Francois Berleand) compete for the affections of a TV weather girl (Ludivine Sagnier)

Go Go Tales
Abel Ferrara, Italy/US, 2007; 96m
Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Sylvia Miles and Asia Argento struggle to keep a New York strip joint going before Times Square was sanitized.

RETROSPECTIVE
Hamlet
Sven Gade & Heinz Schall, Germany, 1920-21; 110m
Print Courtesy of the German Film Institute (Deutsche Filminstitut)
Piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
Danish classic in which a woman plays Hamlet.

I Just Didn't Do It
Masayuki Suo, Japan, 2007; 143m
False indictment of a man for groping a girl on a train.

I'm Not There
Todd Haynes, US, 2007; 136m
The Weinstein Company
Impressionistic Bob Dylan biography with Dylan played alternately by Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw.

In the City of Sylvia
Jose Luis Guerin, Spain/France, 2007; 90m
A young man sketching in a cafe pursues a lost love.

RETROSPECTIVE
The Iron Horse
John Ford, US, 1924; 132m
20th Century Fox
About the building of the transcontinental railway.

The Last Mistress
Catherine Breillat, France, 2007; 114m
IFC First Take
Amorous scandal surrounding a marriage in the reign of Louis Philippe.

RETROSPECTIVE
Leave Her to Heaven
John M. Stahl, US, 1945; 110m
Noir classic of a manipulative woman (Gene Tierney), a favorite of Pedro Almodovar.

The Man From London
Bela Tarr, Hungary/France/Germany, 2007; 132m
A man discovers a suitcase full of banknotes. Based on a Georges Simenon novel.

Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach, US, 2007; 93m
Paramount Vantage
Sibling rivalry at a family gathering in Connecticut, with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh as sisters.

Married Life
Ira Sachs, USA, 2007; 90m
A "four-hand roundelay" set in the Pacific Northwest in the Forties, based on a British crime novelist's book. With Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan.

Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project
John Landis, US, 2007; 90m
A documentary abut the abusive comic.

The Orphanage
Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, 100m
Picturehouse
A supernatural thriller that turns darker.

SPECIAL EVENT
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965
Murray Lerner, US, 2007; 80m
Portraits of Bob Dylan going through a transitional period from chipper to darker using Lerner's footage from the time.

Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant, US, 2007; 85m
IFC First Take
Memories and experiences of a skateboarder involved in an accidental murder.

Redacted
Brian DePalma, US, 2007; 90m
Magnolia
Fictionalized story of an American solider involved in an atrocity in Iraq.

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Eric Rohmer, France, 2007; 109m
Rezo Films
Rohmer, now 87, adapts Honore d'Urfe's 17th century pastoral romance.

Secret Sunshine
Lee Chang-dong, Korea, 2007; 142m
Complex story of a widow and her young son who relocate to the country.

Silent Light
Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, 2007; 142m
In Plautdietsch, about the Mennonite community in Norther Mexico, a tale of love and betrayal based on Carl Dreyer's Ordet.

SPECIAL EVENT
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Peter Bogdanovich, US, 2007; 238m
A thoroughgoing history of the band.

RETROSPECTIVE
Underworld
Josef von Sternberg, US, 1927; 80m
Accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra
Pioneering effort of the gangster genre.

Useless
Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong, 2007; 80m
A far-reaching documentary about clothing that examines in a free-form way what we wear and what we are.