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You may like to watch this virtual Q&A for David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) between Dennis Lim of FLC, Spike Lee and David Byrne. Lee's film based on Byrne's Broadway show growing out of his album was included in the NYFF's Spotlight series.
THE Q&A
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-05-2020 at 10:10 AM.
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THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw 2020)
It's the white truffles of Italy, and the cranky old men of Piedmont who hunt for them with their very specially trained and beloved dogs, an activity impinged upon by greedy capitalists, for these are rare tubers of great price, a very special delicacy. An artful, meandering documentary that will appeal to devotees of sophistication and oddity. And with its opera arias, very Italian, though from the American makers of 2018's The Last Race.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-06-2020 at 08:46 PM.
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ATARRABI & MIKELATS (Eugène Green 2020)
A Basque fable of good and evil brothers, and recreated in modern dress by eccentric expatriate Eugène Green in teh Basque language. So, strange. But beautiful. From the maker of previous NYFF film Le Fils de Joseph.
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NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi 2020)
Turning from the refugee issue of his FIRE AT SEA (NYFF 2016) Rosi, one of the world's great documentary filmmakers, take long, haunting looks at life during and after wartime as seen in a three-year period on the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. A masterpiece.
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TRAGIC JUNGLE/SELVA TRAGICA (Yulene Olaizola 2020)
Set in the 1920's on the border between Mexico and British Honduras, men cheating each other over rubber and and updating of the myth of the seductress Xtabay. But the wandering ardond and around in the jungle turns into a mess.
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UNDINE (Christian Petzold 2020)
Turning from the wartime intensity of his great trilogy completed with the 2018 Transit to an intense romance hung on the water nymph myth. Swift storytelling and high romance.
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FRENCH EXIT (Aazel Jacobs 2020)
An eccentric bauble for the NYFF's Closing Night Film. A once very rich widow now out of money cashes out all her baubles in euros and goes to a friend's apartment with her son, taking the money and a black cat possessed by the spirit of her late husband.
Maybe Oscar material for Michelle Pfeiffer as Frances Price, ably backed up by Lucas Hedges as her son, Malcolm.
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