The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 27 selections for the fall 2011 New York Film Festival. I'll be attending the press and industry screenings of the festival at Lincoln Center and plan to review all the selections. Blurbs on each of these films by the FSLC will be found
here. In addition 37 Japanese films ranging from the 1920's to the present will be presented in a Nikkatsu 100th Anniversary Retrospective. The FSLC webpage for the main slate is
here. A full list of the Nikkatsu Retrospective films will be found
here.
49th NYFF: Main Slate 4:44: Last Day On Earth - Abel Ferrara (USA)
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Corpo Celeste -Alice Rohrwacher (Italy/Switzerland/France)
Footnote - Joseph Cedar (Israel)
George Harrison: Living In The Material World - Martin Scorsese (USA)
Goodbye First Love - Mia Hansen-Løve (France/Germany)
Le Havre - Aki Kaurismäki (Finland/France/Germany)
Martha Marcy May Marlene, - Sean Durkin (USA)
Melancholia - Lars von Trier (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany/Italy)
Miss Bala - Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico)
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
Pina - Wim Wenders (Germany/France/UK)
Play - Ruben Östlund (Sweden/France/Denmark)
Policeman - Nadav Lapid (Israel/France)
Shame - Steve McQueen (UK)
Sleeping Sickness - Ulrich Köhler (Germany/France/Netherlands)
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius (France)
The Loneliest Planet - Julia Loktev (USA/Germany)
The Kid With A Bike - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France)
The Student - Santiago Mitre (Argentina)
The Turin Horse - Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky (Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA)
This Is Not A Film - Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (Iran)
OPENING NIGHT:Carnage - Roman Polanski (France/Germany/Poland)
CLOSING NIGHT:The Descendants - Alexander Payne (USA)
CENTERPIECE:My Week With Marilyn - Simon Curtis (UK)
GALA SCREENINGS:A Dangerous Method - David Cronenberg (UK/Canada/Germany)
The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
Still from Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (Turkey)