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NIGHT OF THE KINGS/LA NUIT DES ROIS (Philippe Lacôte 2020)
A Prophet meets Sheherezade by way of City of God. An exuberant French language amalgam of elements focused on a young storyteller talking to save his life in the most crowded prison in Ivory Coast while the prison leader is losing his grip and both may not be around when the night of the red moon is over. Already many good English language reviews: Metascore 82%. Africa!
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CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman 2020)
The city is Boston, one of the country's biggest and oldest. "City Hall" includes all the city government's wide reach, and it encompasses the far-ranging sympathies of its liberal Irish-American Mayor, Marty Walsh, son of immigrants, in his second term, and an impressive illustration of everything the man in Washington is not. This is partly a love letter to Marty Walsh. It shows what it's like to be called upon to speak at every kind of meeting and never get bored, never fail to rise to the occasion. An impressive man. Four and a half hours.
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MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard 2020)
How the FBI hounded MLK (1963-1968) and let him die.
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DAYS 日子 (Tsai Ming-liang 2020)
Long slow looks at a lonely, ailing rich man in Taiwan and a youth in Bangkok. Then they briefly come together for a massage in a hotel room. It's much more moving than you would expect. Tsai's aging muse Lee Kang-sheng is joined by Thai newcomer Anong Houngheuangsy for this film.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-01-2020 at 07:04 PM.
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NOMADLAND(Chloé Zhao 2020) Centerpiece
Big role for Frances McDormand as a widow forced off the grid who chooses to stay there, with a lot of real characters met on the road. Have to say I still much prefer Zhao's debut feature THE RIDER. This is already a festival darling and spoken of as Oscar material.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-03-2020 at 12:29 AM.
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ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro 2020)
Another graceful, many-layered and pretty opaque riff off Shakespeare (this time Measure for Measure) by the long-haired young Argentinian wunderkind, who now lives in New York but went back to Buenos Aires and Argentina's Córdoba Province for this one. The second time he has been included in the NYFF Main Slate.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-01-2020 at 07:03 PM.
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HOPPER/WELLES (Orson Welles 2020)
Footage shot for Welles' last unfinished film OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND but never used, in which he questions and provokes Hopper, unseen. It's raw, jerky footage and hard to watch, but I admire Hopper for how well he keeps his cool.
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