It seems to me many of the films you've described thus far, particularly the non-Hispanic/Spanish ones, illustrate my feeling that random or even educated samplings of big festivals can bring up a lot of only moderately interesting stuff, and underlines why I love the New York Film Festival--as well as Film Comment Selects and, though I am not there to sample it, the upcoming New Directors, New Films series, all at Lincoln Center, for which there was a full-page program ad in Friday's NY Times.
The Rendez-Vous with French Cinema is just finishing up its run, by the way; tomorrow is the last day.
I was just looking over the 44 or so films I reviewed from last year's SFIFF and it seemed to me most of my favorites from the roster I had already seen elsewhere. I may have chosen badly.
When do you see Silent Light?
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