New York Film Festival 2019 (forum)

[Chris Knipp]

New on Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema


THREE SHORT FILMS (Sergei Parajanov 1966-1986)

FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt 2019)

Set in 1820 on the Oregon frontier, this is a dreamy, cramped, primitive, sad scene of hostile people scrambling... slowly... to survive. It focuses on a cook and an educated Chinese man who start living together and sell cakes, which turns out to be dangerous. One of Reichardt's tough, minimalist films that held me, even if sometimes it bored me. The hushed, smothering intensity of this situation haunts and lingers.

This film is newly available on Lincoln Center Films Virtual Cinema. That was my NYFF thumbnail review(the title links to the Festival Coverage review0 The thumbnail may sound lukewarm, but I remember this film fondly; it's a keeper, like most of Reichardt's other features.

Also new on Lincoln Center's Virtual Cinema now:

*BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Toby Ross 2019) - a much talked about staged bar doc
*FOUR SHORTS by Miguel Gomes
**JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020 Dawn Porter) - Much recommended at reviewed here
*HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD (Bora Kim 2018) - also reviewed recently on Filmleaf
*THREE SHORT FILMS (Sergei Parajanov 1966-1986)

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/film...-cinema/#films

[Chris Knipp]

WASP NETWORK (Olivier Assayas s2019)

Now included in the NYFF Festival Coverage section thread; click above. And it can now be watched on Netflix. But this is not Assayas at his best (Metascore in the 50's). Unless you're an Assayas or NYFF completist, skip this and instead watch his humane classic SUMMER HOURS (2008), or his brilliant 2010 miniseries, CARLOS.