Film Comments Selects And New Directors, New Films 2010

[Chris Knipp]

LINK INDEX FOR CK REVIEWS OF THESE TWO SERIES:

Amer (Hélène Cattani and Bruno Forzani 2009)--ND/NF
Be Wise (Juliette Garcias 2010)--FCS
Beautiful Darling (James Raisin 2010)--ND/NF
Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press 2010)
Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley (2009)--ND/NF
Father of My Children, The (Mia Hansen-Løve 2009)-ND/NF
Green Zone (Paul Greengrass 2010)--FCS
How I Ended This Summer (Alexei Popogrebsky 2010)--ND/NF
Hunting & Sons (Sander Burger 2009)--ND/NF
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan 2009)--ND.NF
Last Train Home (Lixin Fan 2009--ND/NF
Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-Soo 2009)--FCS
Man Next Door, The (Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat 2010)--ND/NF
Night Catches Us (Tanya Hamilton 2101)--ND/NF
Oath, The (Laura Poitras 2010)--ND/NF
Persecution (Patrice Chéreau 2009)--FCS
Red Chapel (Mads Brügger 2009)--ND.NF
Tehroun (Nader T. Homayroun 2009--ND/NF

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has three important film series at this time of year:
Film Comment Selects: February 19 – March 4, 2010
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: March 11-21, 2010
New Directors/New Films: March 24–April 4, 2010
In this thread again this year I will be reporting on some selections from FCS and ND/NF.
I have reviewed all selections of the Rendez-Vous in another thread.

To go to the Forum comments thread for FCS and ND/NF 2010 go here.



I've seen six of the Film Comment Selects series and will report on them briefly. The FSLC page for this series is here.

The FCS films I have watched are:
Persecution (Patrice Chéreau 2009)
Be Good/Sois sage (Juliette Garcias 2009)
Kinatay (Brillante Mendoza 2009)
Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-so 2009)
Happy End/Les derniers jours du monde (Armand and Jean-Marie Larrieu 2009)
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman 2009)
Green Zone (Paul Greengrass 2010)



I will attend some of the press screenings of New Directors/New Films and will report on them. They begin March 8, 2010. The list of films in the series and schedule of public screenings will be found here.