AGAIN, 28 SELECTED FILMS, AND 7 OTHER SCREENING EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT The Darjeeling Limited Wes Anderson, US, 2007; 91m Fox Searchlight Three brothers travel and bicker on a train on a spiritual journey through India. Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody.
Screening with: Hotel Chevalier Wes Anderson, US, 2007; 12m Fox Searchlight
CLOSING NIGHT Persepolis Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France, 2007; 95m Sony Pictures Classics Animated film version of Satrapi's graphic novels about growing up in revolutionary Iran.
CENTERPIECE No Country for Old Men Joel and Ethan Coen, US, 2007; 122m Miramax Adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel about a Texas drug deal gone bad. Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days Christian Mungiu, Romania, 2007; 113m IFC First Take A desperate search for an illegal abortion in pre-perestroika Romania.
Actresses Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, France, 2007; 110m A middle-aged actress desperate to marry and have children. Starring Bruni-Tedeschi.
Alexandra Alexander Sokurov, Russia, 92m Rezo Films An old lady visits her son's unit in Chechnya
The Axe in the Attic Ed Pincus & Lucia Small, US, 2007; 110m Documentary of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast diaspora.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Sidney Lumet, USA, 117m ThinkFilm A perfect crime plotted by two brothers that goes wrong . Philip-Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke.
RETROSPECTIVE: Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut Ridley Scott, US, 1982/2007; 118m Warner Brothers
Calle Santa Fe Carmen Castillo, France, 2007; 163m Autobiographical remembrance of life as a revolutionary in Chile.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Julian Schnabel, France/U.S., 2007; 112m Miramax Adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiographical story about coping with paralysis.
SPECIAL EVENT Fados Carlos Saura, Spain/Portugal, 2007; 92m Documentary of the song form. Another panel in Saura's musical series.
The Flight of the Red Balloon Hou Hsiao-hsien, France, 2007; 113m IFC First Take A homage to the French children's classic with Juliette Binoche as the mother of a lonely boy who spends his days with a Chinese au pair.
A Girl Cut In Two Claude Chabrol, France, 2007; 115m Two men (Benoit Maginel, Francois Berleand) compete for the affections of a TV weather girl (Ludivine Sagnier)
Go Go Tales Abel Ferrara, Italy/US, 2007; 96m Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Sylvia Miles and Asia Argento struggle to keep a New York strip joint going before Times Square was sanitized.
RETROSPECTIVE Hamlet Sven Gade & Heinz Schall, Germany, 1920-21; 110m Print Courtesy of the German Film Institute (Deutsche Filminstitut) Piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin Danish classic in which a woman plays Hamlet.
I Just Didn’t Do It Masayuki Suo, Japan, 2007; 143m False indictment of a man for groping a girl on a train.
I’m Not There Todd Haynes, US, 2007; 136m The Weinstein Company Impressionistic Bob Dylan biography with Dylan played alternately by Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw.
In the City of Sylvia Jose Luis Guerin, Spain/France, 2007; 90m A young man sketching in a café pursues a lost love.
RETROSPECTIVE The Iron Horse John Ford, US, 1924; 132m 20th Century Fox About the building of the transcontinental railway.
The Last Mistress Catherine Breillat, France, 2007; 114m IFC First Take Amorous scandal surrounding a marriage in the reign of Louis Philippe.
RETROSPECTIVE Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl, US, 1945; 110m Noir classic of a manipulative woman (Gene Tierney), a favorite of Pedro Almodovar.
The Man From London Béla Tarr, Hungary/France/Germany, 2007; 132m A man discovers a suitcase full of banknotes. Based on a Georges Simenon novel.
Margot at the Wedding Noah Baumbach, US, 2007; 93m Paramount Vantage Sibling rivalry at a family gathering in Connecticut, with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh as sisters.
Married Life Ira Sachs, USA, 2007; 90m A "four-hand roundelay" set in the Pacific Northwest in the Forties, based on a British crime novelist's book. With Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan.
Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project John Landis, US, 2007; 90m A documentary abut the abusive comic.
The Orphanage Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, 100m Picturehouse A supernatural thriller that turns darker.
SPECIAL EVENT The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965 Murray Lerner, US, 2007; 80m Portraits of Bob Dylan going through a transitional period from chipper to darker using Lerner's footage from the time.
Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant, US, 2007; 85m IFC First Take Memories and experiences of a skateboarder involved in an accidental murder.
Redacted Brian DePalma, US, 2007; 90m Magnolia Fictionalized story of an American solider involved in an atrocity in Iraq.
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon Eric Rohmer, France, 2007; 109m Rezo Films Rohmer, now 87, adapts Honoré d’Urfé’s 17th century pastoral romance.
Secret Sunshine Lee Chang-dong, Korea, 2007; 142m Complex story of a widow and her young son who relocate to the country.
Silent Light Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, 2007; 142m In Plautdietsch, about the Mennonite community in Norther Mexico, a tale of love and betrayal based on Carl Dreyer's Ordet.
SPECIAL EVENT Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream Peter Bogdanovich, US, 2007; 238m A thoroughgoing history of the band.
RETROSPECTIVE Underworld Josef von Sternberg, US, 1927; 80m Accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra Pioneering effort of the gangster genre.
Useless Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong, 2007; 80m A far-reaching documentary about clothing that examines in a free-form way what we wear and what we are.
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