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CLOSE YOUR EYES/CERRAR LOS OJOS (Victor Erice 2023)
Worlds within worlds; a brilliant late interrogation of memory and cinema by great Spanish auteur Victor Erice, who has not made a feature film in thirty years.
Oct. 4, 2023 at the New York Film Festival; debuted at Cannes "Premieres" section.
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KIDNAPPED/RAPITO (March Bellocchio 2023)
The great Italian director makes an operatic, colorful, traditionally entertaining historical film about the true story of the Vatican seizing a Jewish boy in Bologna because his nurse had baptized him as Christian, and raised him in the papal school. Premiered in competition at Cannes.
Oct. 8, 2023 Alice Tully Hall.
Last edited by Chris Knipp; 10-01-2023 at 04:27 PM.
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THE SETTLERS/LOS COLONOS (Felipe Galvez 2023)
A harsh depiction of the brutality of early white settlers of Chile, FIPRESCI prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, first Chilean film to do so.
OCT. 2 & 4, Q&As with Galvez.
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MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes 2023)
Stars Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman (Oscar contenders ro their scene-chewing performances as a figure in a years-ago tabloid tale who went to prison for sex with a young teenage boy and later married him and a well known TV actress who is going to play her in a film, and comes to spend time with the family to understand her role. A layered, lurid, perhaps tongue-in-cheek film
North American premiere.
Opening Night Film at NYFF. Oct. 7, Oct. 14, 2023.
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POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos 2023)
His best - and most mainstream - provocation yet, from an English novel about a Frankenstein-like doctor (Willem Dafoe) in a partly fantastical 19th-century Europe who creates his own woman by injecting electricity and a baby brain into the cadaver of - Emma Stone, whose performance is incredible in this interesting story. There is some unnecessary crudity and brutality but the use of mise-en-scène and locations and fisheye lenses give the whole a wonderful and distinctively beautiful look.
NYFF Oct.. 1, 12, 15.
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LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher 2023)
If you know and love Rohrwacher this is another one. She is a quinessentially Itlian choreographer of cozy chaos in a semi-Felliniesque vein. Here, her focus is Tuscany in the 1980's and the illegal mining of artifacts from Etruscan tombs. The central figure is a young English archaeologist played by the estimable Josh O'Connor who has gone seedy and local. With Isabella Rossellini.
At the NYFF Oct. 7 and 8, 2023 with Q&A's with Alice Rohrwacher. It will be released in the US by Neon Nov. 23, 2023. Metacritic rating: 88%.
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HIT MAN (Richard Linklater 2023
One of Linklater's most enjoyable and successful movies in years, this will soon be available on Netflix. Based on a real-life story, it concerns a college teacher who moonlights doing backup for police sting operations and winds up impersonating a hit man, then gets involved with a lady and things get more complicated. Glen Powell is a revelation.
In the NYFF it shows Oct. 3 and 4. Coming on Netflix, to whom it reportedly sold at Toronto for $20 million. Metacritic rating: 82%.
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