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Nyff 2014
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 09-29-2015 at 08:27 AM.
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Some 2014 NYFF revivals have been announced:
NYFF52 REVIVALS « Main Series Listings
Burroughs: The Movie
HOWARD BROOKNER | 1983 | 86 MINS
An evocative and one-of-a-kind portrait of William Burroughs, built around a series of encounters with the great American writer himself and interviews with many friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, John Giorno. and Brion Gysin. A true New York movie.
The Color of Pomegranates
SERGEI PARAJANOV | 1968 | 88 MINS
A cine-poem of the life of the 18th-century Armenian/Georgian poet and singer Sayat-Nova by Sergei Parajanov, which Michelangelo Antonioni once called a film of “stunningly perfect beauty,” now impeccably restored.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
ALAIN RESNAIS | 1959 | 90 MINS
This debut feature from Alain Resnais, written by Marguerite Duras, a story told in two tenses about the aftereffect of the atomic bomb as experienced by two lovers in Hiroshima, is one of the great masterworks of modernist cinema, now fully restored.
Once Upon a Time in America
SERGIO LEONE | 1984 | 251 MINS
Sergio Leone’s final and perhaps greatest film, a New York gangster saga housed within an intricate construction that shuttles through time, with Robert De Niro, James Woods leading a remarkable cast. This restoration, including material previously unseen in the U.S., preserves the director’s original structure.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-01-2014 at 03:11 PM.
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All of the 2014 NYFF Main Slate list has now been announced. See below.
The 52nd New York Film Festival (2014) Main Slate
Opening Night Gala Selection
GONE GIRL
Director: David Fincher
Centerpiece Gala Selection
INHERENT VICE
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Closing Night Gala Selection
BIRDMAN OR THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE
Director: Alejandro G. Iñarritu
BELOVED SISTERS (Die geliebten Schwestern)
Director: Dominik Graf
THE BLUE ROOM (La chambre bleue)
Director: Mathieu Amalric
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Director: Olivier Assayas
EDEN
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
FOXCATCHER
Director: Bennett Miller
GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Adieu au langage)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT
Directors: Josh & Benny Safdie
HILL OF FREEDOM (Jayuui Eondeok)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
HORSE MONEY(Cavalo Dinheiro)
Director: Pedro Costa
JUAJA
Director: Lisandro Alonso
LIFE OF RILEY (Aimer, boire et chanter)
Director: Alain Resnais
LISTEN UP PHILIP
Director: Alex Ross Perry
MAPS TO THE STARS
Director: David Cronenberg
MISUNDERSTOOD (Incompresa)
Director: Asia Argento
MR. TURNER
Director: Mike Leigh
PASOLINI
Director: Abel Ferrara
THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (La Princesa de Francia)
Director: Matas Pieiro
SAINT LAURENT
Director: Bertrand Bonello
LA SAPIENZA
Director: Eugne Green
'71
Director: Yann Demange
TALES OF THE GRIM REAPER
Director: Nick Broomfield
TIMBUKTU
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
TIME OUT OF MIND
Director: Oren Moverman
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Deux jours, une nuit)
Directors: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
TWO SHOTS FIRED (Dos Disparos)
Director: Martn Rejtman
WHIPLASH
Director: Damien Chazelle
THE WONDERS (Le meraviglie)
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
GONE GIRL: ROSAMUND PIKE, BEN AFFLECK
The selection committee: Kent Jones, chair, plus Dennis Lim (FSLC Director of Programming), Marian Masone (FSLC Senior Programming Advisor), Gavin Smith (Film Comment Editor), and Amy Taubin ( Film Comment and Sight & Sound Contributing Editor).
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-06-2014 at 03:18 PM.
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Main Slate. Comments on the selections.
To a significant extent, as usual, a third of the total this time, the Slate constitutes a Best Of (and Other Interesting Items From) Cannes (Two Days, One Night; The Wonders; Foxcatcher; Mr. Turner, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Goodbye To Language, Saint Laurent, Maps to the Stars, Juaja, The Blue Room, Timbuktu), plus a few very top as yet unreleased titles from Sundance (Whiplash, Listen Up Philip).
The rest of the 2014 Main Slate predictably includes new films from longtime NYFF faves (Abel Ferrara, Hong Sang-soo, Pedro Costa, Alain Resnais, Abderrahmane Sissako, Asia Argento). Eden and Pasolini will come out first at Toronto and Venice. I am a fan of Mia Hansen-Løve, and the FSLC has featured every one of her previous films in one series or another.
It's always worth seeing the best of Cannes, a category that includes many of the year's finest films. The Dardennes and Mike Leigh have never disappointed me and Assayas rarely has. I liked Rorhwacher's first feature more than most did. Whiplash sounded like the must-see of the festival when I was following Sundance.
The featured American film premieres, David Fincher for the opening night film and Paul Thomas Anderson for the centerpiece, look very interesting, and PTA's offering will draw cinephiles hot to see a December release (Gone Girl comes out October 3rd). Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance in the closing night slot sounds more doubtful -- though Venice response has been positive. I'm pleased they're including Bonello's Saint Laurent. The French at Cannes appreciated it more than English-language writers; and I like Bonello and Ulliel and want to compare this with the earlier-released tamer Bergé-approved YSL biopic with Pierre Niney. Bonello's will come out in France around this time so we can see how it does critically there.
Nick Bloomfield's Battle for Haditha (2007) was the best film about the Iraq war. His new one, a documentary, returns to a topic he has filmed before, a serial killer. Oren Moverman has been good and I'm interested in new German film: Dominik Graf did one of the Dreileben films of several years ago, a bit disappointing then but we'll see. Amalric hasn't seemed as good a director as actor and at Cannes the Variety wasn't impressed. Alonso's Juaja is an atmospheric headscratcher and period Viggo Mortensen vehicle enthusiastically received at Un Certain Regard.
Every year they edge up the number of selections. It was 28, then 29, then 30. This time though last year's raft of somewhat dubious English comedies is happily missing, and the selection is more international.
There doesn't look to be much torturous or long-slog material here, and what may be hidden between the lines will be from distinguished sources (Costa, Godard). Goodbye to Language, by the way, is in 3D.
GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-01-2014 at 03:11 PM.
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NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 12, 2014: The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the opening, closing, and centerpiece films for the fall festival.
In addition to the previously announced Opening Night selection, David Fincher's Gone Girl, the lineup will include Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, and Benicio Del Toro, as Centerpiece and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts, as Closing Night.
PTA directing Daniel Day Lewis in THERE WILL BE BLOOD [from THE DISSOLVE]
Paul Thomas Anderson's INHERENT VICE, from the Thomas Pynchon novel, the NYFF 2014 Centerpiece film, will debut in some cities December 12. THE DISSOLVE presents a brief preview of it currently with a photo showing a different looking Joaquim Phoenix, whose favoring by important directors (Anderson, James Gray) now makes him more than rival his beloved brother the late River. INHERENT VICE also features Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, and Benicio del Toro. You will get to read about this much anticipated new film in detail first right here in the Filmleaf Festival Coverage section's NYFF 2014 thread.
BEN AFFLECK IN DAVID FINCHER'S GONE GIRL
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-02-2014 at 11:17 PM.
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Josh Brolin and Joaquin Phoenix [from Indiewire], Inherent Vice.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 08-28-2014 at 08:29 PM.
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