Posts Tagged ‘NYFF’

Black Venus (2010)

Black Venus (2010)
True dilatory history of an epically abused woman Tunisian-born, French-resident filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche has focused on French-born Arabs in his acclaimed earlier films (two of them swept the French Oscars and he has won top prizes at Venice and elsewhere). This time he has turned to an historical...
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Another Year (2010)

Another Year (2010)
The kindly ones… In a New York Film Festival 2010 “critic’s notebook” survey, Manohla Dargis of the NY Times says of Mike Leigh’s Another Year that it “schematically and too tidily follows, across the seasons, a late-middle-aged couple (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen)...
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Post Mortem (2010)

Post Mortem (2010)
An eerie horror show that evokes real political events by indirection Alfredo Castro plays the kind of sleazy creep you’d like to scrape off your shoe. The Chilean director Pablo Larraín, who is interested in how politics seeps through to the unpolitical, has twice now made him his protagonist....
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Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Romantic labyrinths, from a book of serials Raúl Ruiz’s beautiful and dauntingly complex new film, Mysteries of Lisbon (Misterios de Lisboa), which has been made up (in the manner of Olivier Assayas’ current Carlos) into two versions, a four-and-a-half-hour theatrical one and a longer one...
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The Strange Case Of Angelica (2010)

The Strange Case Of Angelica (2010)
Love and death and the transmigration of souls Oliveira’s reputation may be more widespread than knowledge of his eclectic output. Now 102, he began sporadically after being an athlete, film actor and farmer, and has only been making features almost every year more recently. Last year he completed Eccentricities...
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Oki’s Movie (2010)

Oki’s Movie (2010)
Shuffled film school triangle Hong Sang-soo means philandering drinkers, egocentric filmmakers, pretty women, winter weather, and endless self-reflectiveness. This can lead him to good character studies, ironic laughs, keenly observed almost-real-time flirtations — and to a light intellectualism...
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Of Gods And Men (2010)

Of Gods And Men (2010)
A triumph of acting and atmosphere… Xavier Beauvois’ last film was a little cop story, a “policier,” but it hit hard. This one, based on true events in Algiers in the 1990′s, hits harder, though its impact is a mixture of intellectual and emotional. It poses a life and death...
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A Letter to Elia (2010)

A Letter to Elia (2010)
Scorsese’s very personal tribute to a film master This 60-minute documentary is a love-letter, really, from Martin Scorsese, perhaps the most celebrated major American filmmaker of today, to his controversial hero, artistic model, and emotional influence, once the greatest American filmmaker (they...
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We Are What We Are (2010)

We Are What We Are (2010)
Guess who’s coming for dinner Mexican first-time director Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are/Somos lo que hay is another movie that pumps fresh energy and rich implication into a tired genre, this time the horror film, cannibal division. The Swedish Let the Right One In comes to mind...
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Dying as a gathering of spirits The 40-year-old Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who studied filmmaking in Chicago, is more and more celebrated in the festival circuit. His latest film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, received the Golden Palm, the top honor, at the Cannes Festival...
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