New Directors/New Films and Film Comment Selects 2011

[Chris Knipp]

For the Fillmleaf Forum discussion thread linked with this series, please go HERE.

INDEX OF LINKS TO REVIEWS IN THIS SECTION:

At Ellen's Age (Pia Marais 2010)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari 2010)
Belle Épine (Rebecca Zlotowski 2010)
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975, The (Göran Hugo Olsson: 2011)
Cairo 678 (Mohamed Diab 2010)
Curling (Denis Côté 2010)
Destiny of Lower Animals, The (Deron Albright 2010)
Gromozeka (Vladimir Kott 2011)
Happy, Happy (Anne Sewitsky 2010)
Hit So Hard (P. David Ebersole 2011)
Hospitalité (Koji Fukada 2010)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve 2010)
Majority (Seren Yüche 2010)
Man Without a Cell Phone (Sameh Zoabi 2010)
Margin Call (J.C. Chandor 2010)
Memory Lane (Mikaël Hers 2010)
Microphone (Ahmad Abdalla 2010)
Octubre (Daniel, Diego Vega 2010)
Outbound (Bogdan George Apetri 2010)
Pariah (Dee Rees 2010)
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine 2010)
Winter Vacation (Hongqi Li 2010)

The press screenings schedule for the 2011 New Directors/New Films is as follows. I will be watching as many of these as I can and reviewing all that I see.

Monday, March 7
10:00am MARGIN CALL (109 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
12:15pm ONE and WINTER VACATION (10 min + 91 min) – MoMA, Titus 1

Tuesday, March 8
10:00am MEMORY LANE (98 min) – MoMA, Titus 2
12:00pm OUTBOUND (87 min) – MoMA, Titus 2

Wednesday, March 9
10:00am INCENDIES (130 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
12:30pm MAJORITY (111 min) – MoMA, Titus 1

Thursday, March 10
10:00am HAPPY HAPPY (85 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
11:45am AT ELLEN’S AGE (95 min) – MoMA, Titus 1

Friday, March 11
10:00am 6,7,8 (100 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
12:00pm THE BLACK POWER MIX TAPE 1967-1975 (100 min) – MoMA, Titus 1

Monday, March 14
10:00am CURLING (96 min) WRT
12:00pm PARIAH (86 min) - WRT
2:00pm CIRCUMSTANCE (107 min) – WRT

Tuesday, March 15
10:00am BUKOWSKI and COPACABANA (10min + 107 min) - WRT
12:15pm HIT SO HARD (101 min) - WRT
2:15pm BELLE EPINE (80 min) - WRT

Wednesday, March 16
10:00am MICROPHONE (120 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
1:00pm SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS (93 min) - WRT
3:00pm TYRANNOSAUR (91 min) - WRT

Thursday, March 17
10:00am NIGHT HUNTER and SUMMER OF GOLIATH (16min + 76 min) - WRT
12:30pm MAN WITHOUT A CELL PHONE (83 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
2:10pm MIYUKI and HOSPITALITÈ (9min + 96 min) – MoMA, Titus 1

Friday, March 18
10:00am GROMOZEKA (104 min) – MoMA-Titus 1
12:00pm MILA CAOS and EL VELADOR (18min + 72 min) – MoMA, Titus 1
2:00pm OCTUBRE (93 min) – MoMA-Titus 1

Monday, March 21
10:00am THE DESTINY OF LESSER ANIMALS (87 min) – MoMA, Titus 2
12:00pm MATCH and ATTENBERG (11min + 95 min) – MoMA, Titus 2
2:00pm FWD: UPDATE ON MY LIFE and SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! (28min + 85min) – MoMA,Titus 2