New Directors/New Films and Film Comment Selects 2012

[Chris Knipp]

The selections of New Directors/New Films (Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with MoMA) have not been announced yet, but the dates have: New Directors/New Films 41 runs from March 21-April 1, 2012. ND/NF tends to be the hottest, most surprising series of my movie year these days. FCS runs February 17-March 1 and I may catch some of those public screenings. The schedule has been announced of FCS and I'll let you know what I'm going to try to see. One wouild be Sokorov's FAUST. Marston's FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, HABEMUS PAPEM and MARGARET I've already seen. Yorgos Lanthimos has been moved to FCS from ND/NF, where he was last time out. Other FCS items: Koreda's I WISH, the Norwegian thriller HEADHUNTERS, a Jim Hoberman stunt projection omnibus, an arty French psychodrama called MORTEM, a reedit of MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO by Van Sant and James Franco, a Mathieu Kassovitz counter terrorism thriller called REBELLION; and more. Anyway I expect to attend the press screenings of all the New Directors/New Films series as I did last year, and will report on and review the series.

Festival coverage thread for both ND/NF and FCS is here.



Links to the reviews:

5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burat, Guy Davidi 2011)--ND/NF
Ambassador, The (Mads Brügger 2011)--ND/NF
Breathing (Karl Markovics 2011)--ND/NF
Crulic: The Path to Beyond (Anka Damian 2011)--ND/NF
Donoma (Djinn Carrénard 2011)--ND/NF
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov 2011)--FCS
Found Memories (Júlia Murat 2011)--ND/NF
Generation P (Vincent Ginzburg 2011)--ND/NF
Gimme the Loot (Adam Leon 2012)--ND/NF
Goodbye (Mohammad Rasoulof 2011)--ND/NF
Hemel (Sacha Polak 2012)--ND/NF
How to Survive a Plague (David France 2012)--ND/NF
Huan Huan (Song Chuan 2011)--ND/NF
I Wish (Hirakazu Koreeda 2011)--FCS
It Looks Pretty from a Distance (Anka, Wilhelm Sasnal 2011)--ND/NF
Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli 2011)--ND/NF
Minister, The (Pierre Schöller 2011)--ND/NF
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier 2011)--ND/NF
My Own Private River (James Franco 2012)--FCS
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendoça Filho 2011)--ND/NF
Now, Forager (Jason Cortland, Julia Halperin 2012)--ND/NF
Omar Killed Me (Roschdy Zem 2011)--ND/NF
Oversimplification of Her Beauty, An (Terence Nance 2012)--ND/NF
Porfirio (Alejandro Landes 2011)--ND/NF
Rabbi's Cat, The (Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvauz 2011)--ND/NF
Raid, The: Redemption (Gareth Evans 2012)--ND/NF
Rebellion (Mathieu Kassovitz 2011)--FCS
Romance Joe (Lee Kwang-kui 2011)--ND/NF
Teddy Bear (Mads Metthieson 2011)--ND/NF
Twilight Portrait (Angelina Nikonova 2011)--ND/NF
Where Do We Go Now (Nadine Labaki 2011)--ND/NF